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On this episode, we speak with Eliza Townsend, executive director of the Maine Women’s Lobby. With the election right around the corner, we discussed the importance of the federal courts and how they impact our lives. Don’t forget to vote on November 8th!
We end with “Ask Mabel” where Lindsey Piper, WHNP, answers questions about breast/chest exams!
This episode is from April 2015. Reproductive Coercion affects millions of women yet it is something we do not often hear about. In this interview, we talk with Catherine Kurr from Spruce Run-Womancare Alliance to gain a better understanding of this type of control. Included in this episode are clips from the reader’s theater performance, My Body, My Voice.
In our “Ask Mabel” segment, Terry Marley-ReRosier, WHCNP offers information on birth control options for women experiencing reproductive coercion.
On today’s episode local writer, pianist, and composer, Bundy Boit, joins us to talk about her most recent play. It is titled: An Inner Voice and is about Margaret Sanger’s fight, in the 20th century, for access to birth control information for all women. Bundy has published short stories and essays in diverse anthologies and magazines. Her original music has been performed in churches, schools and on television. She’s the author of four plays with music about 19th and 20th century women. We were thrilled to have her on Reproductive Left. In the “Ask Mabel” segment, Terry Marley-DeRosier, WHNP, answers common questions about the suction abortion procedure.
In June, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Whole Woman’s Health in the biggest abortion case in decades. On this episode, Andrea Irwin, executive director of Mabel Wadsworth Center, helps us understand what the ruling means and what implications it has for the future. In our “Ask Mabel” segment, Lindsey Piper, WHNP answers questions about birth control and annual exams!
On this episode, we re-aired the first Reproductive Left show to air on Community Radio WERU. The interview is with Posie Cowan of Blue Hill, Maine. She talks with us about discovering suffrage banners in her family’s attic. This took her on quite the adventure as she learned about her grandmother’s activism. In the “Ask Mabel” segment, Terry Marley-DeRosier, WHNP, gives us great advice on how to reduce stress.
Picture: 2015 Women’s Equality Day Rally