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This week on CounterSpin: The Trump administration has announced rules further controlling the reproductive healthcare that women reliant on federally funded family planning programs can receive. Corporate media are reporting it as a story about abortion, but proponents of such measures would tell you their designs are much, much bigger. We’ll talk about this latest attack on women’s rights—and its context—with Kinsey Hasstedt, senior policy manager at the Guttmacher Institute.
Transcript: ‘This Is Really an Effort to Undermine People’s Access to Birth Control’
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Also on the show: There’s nothing new about corporate media owners sacrificing the quality of journalism for profit, but it still feels like turning a new corner when a hometown paper like the Denver Post is taken over by a hedge fund that calls itself a specialist in making money off “distress.” We’ll hear about the protests at the Post and other papers owned by Alden Global Capital, from Corey Hutchins, journalist for the Colorado Independent and Columbia Journalism Review.
Transcript: ‘Their Hedge Fund Wants These Massive Profits’
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And Janine Jackson takes a quick look back at recent press, including Facebook‘s dubious partnership and the Washington Post‘s definition of the “far left.”
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You can bet every DINO candidate will support women’s reproductive rights.
This is how they do it. They get you to focus “over there” while you ignore the cadidate’s real character. Some of those ‘reproductive rights supporting Democrats’ probably voted to deregulate the banks.
That is the very reason for making reproductive rights into a political football—so the electorate can be manipulated. The same could be said for guns and other hot button issues.