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This week on CounterSpin: The same day’s news can include a story noting anti-abortion anger as an element in the “domestic extremism” the FBI is tracking. And one in which Joe Biden’s press secretary answers a question about the policy that denies US funding for foreign groups that perform abortions (or “counsel, refer or advocate” for abortion) by reminding reporters that Biden “attends church regularly.” And an obituary of anti-choice agitator Joseph Shiedler—a “funny,” “self-deprecating” guy, whose harassment of women at clinics the New York Times describes as “finding women who were considering abortions and persuading them not to follow through.” Amid all that, a book review tosses off a reference to the post–World War II period as a time when ”surprise pregnancies were an obstacle to a better life,” and abortion was “taboo.” We’ll talk about actual realities of present-day abortion with Kimberly Inez McGuire, executive director of the group URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity.
Transcript: ‘We Need to Talk About Abortion as Necessary Healthcare and a Social Good’
Also on the show: After California’s Proposition 22 allowed app-based companies like his to skirt basic labor laws, the head of DoorDash declared the company was “looking ahead and across the country, ready to champion new benefits structures,” and they “look forward to partnering with workers, policymakers, community groups…to make this a reality.”
A glimpse of what that partnering looks like: Albertsons grocery, after months of calling its workers “first responders,” made what execs called a “strategic decision” to fire their unionized deliverers and contract their work out to apps including, well huh, DoorDash. We’ll talk about defending workers in the digital economy with Open Society economic inequality fellow Bama Athreya, who also hosts the podcast The Gig.
Transcript: ‘To Fight Back, Workers Are Going to Need Access to Data Rights’
Abortion is a choice young woman think they have to make for various and different reasons. Even if it’s not the only or best choice because the mom has to live the rest of her life knowing what she did she took her child’s life abortion must remain legal so that it can be done as safely as possible. Clinics must be regulated and inspected to ensure safety. The medical professionals that work in the clinics must be properly educated and trained. If not you will have butchered up miscarriages that might be more costly and not only just take the baby but may also cause the mother to die. You may think so what that’s what she deserves until it’s your daughter or best friend, you may think it’s what she deserves until it’s her that dies along with the baby then you won’t.