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Newswire: A Debt Deal No One Likes 8/2/11
Both the House and Senate have approved the debt-ceiling bill, just hours short of the deadline. On Monday, Health and Human Services announced that women will no longer have co-pays for birth control starting in 2013.
Email this pageGRITtv: Lynn Harris & Dr. Elizabeth Miller: Reproductive Coercion
Bristol Palin's infamous pregnancy has gone from being an example of conservative values hypocrisy to a reality TV show. Though we hear about many women who aren't educated on contraception or mysteriously "forget" to take their birth control, we rarely hear the other side: men who hoard birth control to deliberately impregnate their sexual partners. Typically, these men do not want to start a loving, young nuclear family. Instead, they want to assert their control from "leaving behind a legacy" to making sure they have as many "baby mamas" as possible to assert status within gangs. If a woman suggests birth control, she is subject to more traditional forms of domestic rage and violence. Reproductive coercion is not a new or uncommon form of abuse, it is an underreported one. Author and Nation contributor Lynn Harris and UC Davis professor, researcher, and clinician Elizabeth Miller join us to discuss how to identify and combat this form of abuse.
GRITtv: July 26 2010
New documents released by the site WikiLeaks provide an increasingly clear--and chilling--picture of the war in Afghanistan. Katrina vanden Heuvel notes that the documents, released simultaneously by The Guardian, the New York Times, and Germany's Der Spiegel, as well as in full by WikiLeaks, are an example of "asymmetrical media," allowing the public to access the raw documents as well as the parts filtered by the traditional press. In addition to the WikiLeaks revelations, Katrina joins us in studio for The Nation on GRITtv to discuss the Netroots Nation conference, JournoList and Andrew Breitbart, Elizabeth Warren, tax cuts, and new ways to cut down on Wall Street's power. With the release of the WikiLeaks "War Logs," more focus has been brought to the war in Afghanistan. But will anything change?
GRITtv: The F Word: Catholics And Choice: Difference of Opinion?
The Catholic Church's stance on reproductive choice has been unyielding; in 2004 the Pope struck out and said that pro-choice Catholic politicians (like then-Presidential candidate John Kerry) should be denied communion. Even birth control is too much for the new Pope Benedict, Now facing flagging attendance and shrinking contributions, some of that hard-lining is going soft. Given the chance to fill some empty pews by allowing conservative Anglicans into the ranks, the Catholic Church is backing off. So what about all those fights over all those years? What about all those denied a place in their faith, and most of all, those who died due to botched and politicized abortions? All those who were forced to bear children against their will, or were infected with HIV due to lies about condoms -- or no sex ed at all? Now we find out they suffered simply over a difference of opinion? One anti-choicer quoted on the topic recently celebrated -- "Anglicans are committing doctrinal suicide," he said. So maybe there's not so much openness going on as flat out pragmatics. On the other hand, RH Reality Check notes that half the worldwide members of the Anglican church live in Africa, where conservative clergy preach against condoms, homosexuality, and women's choice. Maybe it's less of a split than we'd like to think. So much for the reformation -- all Conservative Anglicans need is Bishops back. Just don't mention divorce.
