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GRITtv: Jay Smooth: The Hyde Amendment
Jay Smooth of Ill Doctrine teamed up with the Center for Reproductive Rights and several of our favorite bloggers and activists to bring you this video on the Hyde Amendment, its restrictions for women's rights, and how Stupak and Nelson would restruct those rights even further. Think about it: if they don't want their tax dollars spent on abortion, what don't YOU want your tax dollars spent on?
Email this pageGRITtv: Jan. 25, 2010
Is allowing more Haitian adoptions good policy? We ask David M. Smolin, professor of law at Samford University, Dawn Davenport and Phil Bertelsen, himself an transracial adoptee and award-winning filmmaker, and the director of Outside Looking In, a documentary about transracial adopton. Jay Smooth of Ill Doctrine teamed up with the Center for Reproductive Rights to bring you a video on the Hyde Amendment, its restrictions for women's rights, and how Stupak and Nelson would restruct those rights even further. Brave New Films repeats its call for a clear exit strategy in this latest clip from the Rethink Afghanistan series. Melissa Harris-Lacewell offers clarification -- and consolation -- on the latest Supreme Ct. decision. Green for All is holding a month-long multimedia competition to showcase the best video, song and visual art of the movement for an inclusive green economy. Submit your entry to The Dream Reborn story contest -- and send it our way!
GRITtv: Center for Reproductive Rights
A short clip from a documentary film on the Center for Reproductive Rights featured on GRITtv with Laura Flanders "Got Docs" segment.
GRITtv: Journey of an Abortion Doctor: Dr. Susan Wicklund
A recent report from the Center for Reproductive Rights reveals that abortion doctors and clinics face continued threats, assaults, and harassment. Are doctors under siege? Dr. Susan Wicklund, author of This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctori, on the political climate after the death of Dr. George Tiller and why she's speaking out.
GRITtv: Abortion Providers Face Uncertain Future
Just one month after the death of Dr. George Tiller, the Center for Reproductive Rights released a chilling report that shows abortion providers and their clinics are under siege. A four-month investigation in six states revealed that death threats, break ins, and assaults continue to impede women's access to clinics. Rather than use Tiller's death to make the case that doctors and their patients should be protected, the federal government has done very little. So how should those who believe in a woman's right to have an abortion respond?
