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Showing videos filed under: eesha pandit
Sady Doyle & Eesha Pandit: On the Offensive over Abortion
February 4, 2011"We've been playing defense too long," says Sady Doyle, founder of Tigerbeatdown.com and one of the architects of a new Twitter campaign to pressure Congress to shut down a new bill in the House that would further limit women's access to abortion. The #dearjohn campaign, along with other actions, helped convince Republican Chris Smith that he should take controversial language around "forcible" rape out of the bill, but the activists aren't backing down.Raina Fahmy, #DearJohn & Abortion Law, and Thomas Frank
February 3, 2011"I want my kids to be proud of their country," says Raina Fahmy, of Egypt. "I don't want them feeling that living here is at best a compromise and at worst a sacrifice." Images of violence from today's protests were all over the news, but Raina, on the phone from Cairo, tells us that she felt very safe at the protests, and explains to us why it matters for her to go out and join them, and to bring her family along.Ayn Rand, The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan, and Republicans
May 28, 2010Even before the ascension to public consciousness of a right-wing libertarian named Rand, Ayn Rand has been a hot topic of conversation. From threats from the right to "Go Galt" after Rand's Atlas Shrugged hero to the downfall of Alan Greenspan, the fingerprints of the novelist/philosopher/heroine of freemarketeers everywhere have been all over the last couple of years in U.S. politics. Just what was it about Ayn Rand that attracted so many followers, and what is it about her books that keeps them flying off the shelves?Ayn Rand: The Right's Gateway Drug
May 28, 2010Even before the ascension to public consciousness of a right-wing libertarian named Rand, Ayn Rand has been a hot topic of conversation. From threats from the right to "Go Galt" after Rand's Atlas Shrugged hero to the downfall of Alan Greenspan, the fingerprints of the novelist/philosopher/heroine of freemarketeers everywhere have been all over the last couple of years in U.S. politics. Just what was it about Ayn Rand that attracted so many followers, and what is it about her books that keeps them flying off the shelves?Eesha Pandit: New Restrictions on Women
April 16, 2010In the wake of health care reform, new attempts to restrict women's access to abortion services have surged. Nebraska has passed a new law that criminalizes abortions after 20 weeks of gestation on the basis of "fetal pain," and another that forces women to undergo mental health examination before obtaining an abortion at all.Eesha Pandit, The Week In News, and the Tea Party
April 15, 2010In the wake of health care reform, new attempts to restrict women's access to abortion services have surged. Nebraska has passed a new law that criminalizes abortions after 20 weeks of gestation on the basis of "fetal pain," and another that forces women to undergo mental health examination before obtaining an abortion at all.Week in Review: Stupak Amendment Step Back For Women
November 15, 2009The Stupak-Pitts amendment to the health care bill passed in the House on Saturday represents a huge step backward for women's rights advocates, limiting abortion access in unprecedented ways.Compromise On Women's Backs Again
November 11, 2009The passage of the Stupak-Pitts amendment came as a shock to many prochoice activists and writers, but it's not a secret that "pro-lifers" would like to roll back the right to abortion at any chance they get. Now that the amendment is in the House bill, progressives have to fight twice as hard to make sure it stays out of the final bill, and with some of the allies we've got, that's going to be an uphill slog--after all, Rep. Stupak is a Democrat.Compromise on Women's Backs, Sarah and Emily Kunstler, and the Middle East
November 10, 2009The health care bill passing the house with a public option should've been cause for celebration, but the Stupak-Pitts amendment came as a shock to many prochoice activists and writers. It's not a secret that "pro-lifers" would like to roll back the right to abortion at any chance they get, but most of us didn't think that we'd see a move like this supported by 64 Democrats.Week in Review: Women's Health Crisis Affects us All
October 24, 2009Along with Irasema Garza, president of Legal Momentum, Eesha Pandit of Raising Women's Voices For The Health Care We Need, and Dr. David Himmelstein, co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program, Smith joined Laura on Monday to talk about the rampant inequalities in the existing health care system and to debate whether the proposed reforms in Congress go far enough.
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