- Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n
![\"pro-life](\"http:\/\/www.priestsforlife.org\/images\/img3.jpg\")
<\/a>The Guttmacher Institute recently found that over 900 measures related to reproductive health and rights were introduced in 45 states during the first half of this year. Not surprisingly many of these were attempts to restrict access to abortion services by prohibiting health insurance plans from providing coverage for the procedures. Arizona and South Carolina this year joined 12 other states to restrict abortion coverage in insurance provided to their state\u2019s public employees. Legislation that would encourage or mandate ultra-sounds for women seeking abortions was introduced in 18 states this year. Meanwhile, in Atlanta, an anti-Choice group called Priests for Life, has organized a \u201cFreedom Rides for the Unborn\u201d campaign, invoking the language of the civil rights movement. Priests for Life has a notable spokeswoman in Alveda King, the niece of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In a statement on her group\u2019s website she writes, \u201cMy Uncle Martin had a dream that Protestants and Catholics and Gentiles and Jews would join together and sing in the age old spiritual, \u2018Free At Last\u2019.\u201d A description of the campaign\u2019s objectives says the Pro-Life movement is ready to \u201cproclaim freedom from the political oppression that tramples on human rights and denies equality before the law.\u201d Reproductive rights groups in Atlanta have come out strongly against both the premise of the anti-choice campaign as well as the appropriation of Dr. King\u2019s words and the ideals of the civil rights movement. A coalition of three reproductive rights groups has organized an event on July 24th in response to what they see as an attack on the rights of Women and Women of Color in particular. <\/p>\nGuest: Tonya Williams, Speak Justice Take Action Program Director at SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW!<\/em><\/p>\n
Find out more at www.sparkrj.org<\/a> and www.legislatethis.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Guttmacher Institute recently found that over 900 measures related to reproductive health and rights were introduced in 45 states during the first half of this year. Not surprisingly many of these were attempts to restrict access to abortion services by prohibiting health insurance plans from providing coverage for the procedures. Arizona and South Carolina […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}