{"id":39895,"date":"2014-04-28T11:33:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T18:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=39895"},"modified":"2014-04-28T11:33:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T18:33:30","slug":"how-attacks-on-reproductive-rights-disproportionately-affect-women-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/04\/28\/how-attacks-on-reproductive-rights-disproportionately-affect-women-of-color\/","title":{"rendered":"How Attacks on Reproductive Rights Disproportionately Affect Women of Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140428Uprising\/2014_04_28_abortion.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Loretta Ross <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140428Uprising\/2014_04_28_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Host Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/reproductive_rights.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Republican controlled states across the US are whittling away the landmark Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade which enshrined a woman&#8217;s right to an abortion. On Friday the Florida State Senate approved a bill which would require doctors to perform a medical exam to determine a fetus&#8217; viability before allowing an abortion thereby outlawing abortions possibly earlier than the 20th week of pregnancy. <\/p>\n<p>Twenty week mid-pregnancy abortion bans have been instituted in a number of states including Alabama, Arkansas and Louisiana. In Mississippi, Governor Phil Bryant signed a bill last week banning abortions at 20 weeks of gestational age with no exceptions for rape or incest. And Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry has gone a step further by not only banning abortions after 20 weeks but also requiring that any doctor performing an abortion have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the clinic, a requirement which is near impossible in a State where most of the hospitals are religiously affiliated. Texas, the second largest state in the country now has only 5 abortion clinics.<\/p>\n<p>And, laws which grant fetuses full constitutional rights are also on the rise. In Tennessee, Governor Bill Haslam is expected to sign a bill allowing the state to file criminal charges against pregnant women if they&#8217;ve taken illegal drugs which have resulted in a miscarriage, stillbirth or a newborn with symptoms of drug withdrawal. Mothers could potentially face jail times of up to 15 years if the bill grants personhood to a fetus.<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Loretta Ross, former Coordinator of SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican controlled states across the US are whittling away the landmark Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade which enshrined a woman&#8217;s right to an abortion. On Friday the Florida State Senate approved a bill which would require doctors to perform a medical exam to determine a fetus&#8217; viability before allowing an abortion thereby outlawing abortions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39895","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=39895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39902,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39895\/revisions\/39902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}