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NOW President Terry O'Neill; Open Phones To Discuss President Obama's Speech About Afghanistan
06/23/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: NOW, Terry O'Neill, Medicare for all, Social Security Administration, wages, US Supreme Court, abortion, domestic terrorism, Roe vs Wade, Walmart
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming uu we'll have open phones to discuss President Obama's speech last night about a partial withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. First, three listener comments about yesterday's interview about the pending cut in state worker's pay. Then we'll hear from the president of the National Organization for Women terry O'Neill. NOW is holding it's nationwide convention in Tampa this week. One of the topics to be covered at the convention is...
Be the first to commentOpen phones to discuss results of 2011 Legislative session
05/09/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Friday)
Tags: Florida state legislature, budget, teachers, public employees, environment, abortion
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Today we'll open the phone lines and get your comments about the state legislative session which ended early in the morning this past Saturday.
Be the first to commentState Legislature moves to restrict abortion rights in Florida
04/29/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Friday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Florida legislature, abortion, Planned Parenthood, Barbara Zdravecky
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Several measures that would limit access to abortions are making their way through the state legislature. Here to talk about the bills is Barbara A. Zdravecky, President/CEO, Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida.
4 commentsIn Tampa, pro-choice activists rally against Tallahassee anti-abortion legislation listen
04/28/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Planned Parenthood, abortion rights, 2011 legislative session, Rick Scott, ultrasound bill, Charlie Crist, abortion
Usually when you see people picketing outside Planned Parenthood, they’re protesting against abortion rights. Today the demonstrators were the organization’s supporters, and they were rallying in Tampa against six measures in the state legislature that target a woman’s ability to terminate a pregnancy.
Tampa resident Farah Stokes was in high school during the sixties, a time before Roe v. Wade. She said some of her classmates had their youth cut shor...
Be the first to commentFlorida House passes several bills placing more restrictions on abortions listen
04/27/11 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: 2011 Legislative session, abortion, women's issues
The Florida House has passed three abortion related bills and is continuing debate on several others. On mostly party-line votes, the Republican-dominated House passed a bill that would make it more difficult for a minor to get a judge’s permission to get an abortion without notifying her parents.
The House also overwhelmingly passed a bill that would forbid health care plans created through the federal health care reform law from offering coverage for abortions. It doesn’t affect federal...
Be the first to commentAudio: Florida Democrat chastised for saying "uterus" on House floor listen
04/01/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Abortion, Dean Cannon, choice, Scott Randolph, uterus, state house, Florida Legislature, labor, unions, 2011 legislative session
Whether it’s busting unions, requiring ultrasounds for women seeking abortions, or drug-testing welfare recipients, these days, GOP lawmakers in Tallahassee have been offending a lot of people. But last week, it was a Democrat in the state house who made waves. After a lengthy debate over a bill affecting public employee unions, House Speaker Dean Cannon raised a stink over an anatomic reference that Orlando Representative Scott Randolph had made.
Cannon issued a statement warning his coll...
1 commentsThe ACLU perspective on legislation being considered in Tallahassee
03/16/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Wednesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: ACLU, Danielle Prendergast, abortion, reproductive freedom, school vouchers, right to privacy
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up we'll talk about the ongoing state legislative session from the perspective of the American Civil Liberties Union. (later we'll open the phone lines.) Our guest is Danielle Prendergast, PhD who is the Director of Public Policy for the ACLU of Florida. We'll look at reproductive rights, privacy, the proposals to direct tax dollars to public schools and other legislation affecting the Bill of Rights.
Be the first to commentSupporters of Planned Parenthood protest de-funding listen
02/28/11 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Title X, Planned Parenthood, Bill Young, health care, abortion, choice
Protesters gathered Friday in front of Congressman Bill Young’s office in Seminole in support of Planned Parenthood. The protest was in response to Young’s vote to de-fund the organization.
President Obama requested $327 million in Title X money, a budget that funds agencies supporting sex education and women's healthcare. Planned Parenthood, an organization that provides affordable healthcare to both men and women has long been a recipient of that money. Supporters of de-funding Title ...
1 commentsAlan Grayson in danger of losing his seat in Congress to Daniel Webster says analyst listen
10/25/10 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Alan Grayson, Daniel Webster, federal stimulus, Iraq War, Afghanistan War, abortion, UCF
On Friday we brought you our interview with progressive member of Congress from Orlando, Alan Grayson. His Republican opponent, Daniel Webster has declined our requests for an interview. Three others are running as well.
Today, we hear about that race from Aubrey Jewett, a political science professor at the University of Central Florida.
3 comments"Well, Allen Grayson is a very liberal, ...
Planned Parenthood pleased Crist vetos ultrasound and abortion bill listen
06/11/10 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: abortion, abortion rights, Planned Parenthood, pro-choice, Women's rights
Today, Governor Charlie Crist vetoed a controversial bill that would have required women seeking an abortion to pay for an ultrasound.
On Twitter, the state’s Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink said “I commend the veto of 1143, the ultrasound bill - Governor Crist did the right thing.” U.S. Representative Kendrick Meek, State Senator Dan Gelber, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida also applauded Crist’s veto.
Barbara Zdravecky is the CEO and President of Planned Parenthood ...
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