Feminist Sleeper Cell

It is a gigglefest at the LPJ Clubhouse this week thanks to all the crackpottery going on in the repro world. Lizz, Sharron and Ashley are horrified over the resurgence of the Hobby Lobby brouhaha and explain scenarios that could happen if we keep letting corporations deny healthcare to their employees on religious grounds. Next, we laugh our asses off over Geoff Botkin’s hatred of Dumbledore and Frozen. Thanks to Kevin Swanson and Dave Buehner, conservative radio hosts in Colorado, the ladies have a free-for-all dissecting some illogical musings over the two different types of feminists. Lastly, we bring you the hilarity that is Josh Feuerstein’s Starbucks cup rant-- Spoiler Alert: coffee is bitter because of abortion!

It is a gigglefest at the LPJ Clubhouse this week thanks to all the crackpottery going on in the repro world. Lizz, Sharron and Ashley are horrified over the resurgence of the Hobby Lobby brouhaha and explain scenarios that could happen if we keep letting corporations deny healthcare to their employees on religious grounds. Next, we laugh our asses off over Geoff Botkin’s hatred of Dumbledore and Frozen. Thanks to Kevin Swanson and Dave Buehner, conservative radio hosts in Colorado, the ladies have a free-for-all dissecting some illogical musings over the two different types of feminists. Lastly, we bring you the hilarity that is Josh Feuerstein’s Starbucks cup rant-- Spoiler Alert: coffee is bitter because of abortion!

Lady Parts Justice revels in the hilarity that is the new Ben Carson radio rap advertisement and also discusses some troubling news and local election results from the past week. Lizz dissects Carly Fiorina’s most recent lies about Planned Parenthood to Ashley and Sharron’s amusement. The second act comes from Lizz, Ashley, and Leah as they share real stories of people who have been affected by restrictive abortion laws in their states.

This week on Repro Madness, LPJ poses the question: Why is it the right-wing “family values” politicians and influencers who always get caught in the most salacious scandals? They claim to have a moral authority and hold other people up to a standard that they themselves can’t uphold. The LPJ team recapped some classic hypocrites as well as some new ones that have come to our attention! As firm believers in sex positivity, we are calling out the harmful d-bags and telling them to keep their politics out of our bedrooms. Listen in to this hilarious convo to hear about how Ashley thinks she should have been a sex worker, why we disapprove of Tyga and Kylie and how we define a “feminist sex scandal!”

Watching these congressional hearings getting you down? We at LPJ took one for the team and watched the most recent hearing to defund Planned Parenthood so you don’t have to. Listen and laugh along as we hash out the insanity and set the record straight.

Lady Parts Justice skypes with Carafem, a clinic in Maryland that is squashing stigma by speaking frankly about the abortion services they provide.

What is a debate without a watch party?! Members of the Lady Parts Justice New York crew gathered at the Clubhouse, ordered in Ethiopian food, and watched the Republican debauchery unfold. As you can imagine, they had a lot to say… listen and join them in the mockery that is modern day politics!

We found the perfect bioethicist for Lady Parts Justice! Her name is Elizabeth Yuko. She’s a feminist, specializes in Reproductive Ethics, and often shares her wisdom with a sense of humor. In fact, she even uses The Golden Girls as an analogy to teach bioethics to people who may not normally be that interested in the subject. LPJ had the pleasure of hosting her at the clubhouse to discuss why the public shouldn’t buy into the fake sting operation targeting Planned Parenthood. Then, in true #FlashbackFriday style, we time warp to last week when the team was down in Montgomery, Alabama. While there, Lizz and Ashley got the chance to chat with renowned reproductive rights journalist, Robin Marty, and hear all about her experiences covering the week-long Operation Save America anti-abortion rally/hate-fest. Robin also shares insights about the anti-abortion movement’s strengths and weaknesses as well as what it’s like to have a professional rapport with the people who are trying to cut off access to safe and legal abortion. A fascinating and brilliant journalist, and co-author of Crow After Roe, Robin is a great resource and we at Lady Parts Justice are so excited to bring her voice to your earbuds!

The Lady Parts Justice team is back in New York after over a week down south and boy do they have some stories to tell! A visit to the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, aka the “Mississippi Pink House,” the last abortion clinic in the state, leaves the team in awe of the clinic escorts who tirelessly defend their patients against harassment and protesters. The Pink House Defenders have bravely taken on the task of guarding their clinic against relentless assaults, and Ashley explains how they have inspired her own work as an escort. They also discuss the mass protest that descended on Alabama abortion clinic Reproductive Health Services of Montgomery during their trip. The protesters were aggressive and their rhetoric was inflammatory and dangerous. Listen to the team discuss their interactions with “the antis” and how it’s changed the way they understand the assault on reproductive rights in this country. Additionally, Lizz breaks down how presidential candidate Scott Walker has been creepily obsessed with fighting against a woman’s right to choose for decades.

This week, Lady Parts Justice comes to you from Montgomery, Alabama. In the midst of providing support to the clinics in Mississippi and Alabama, the BS undercover video that distorts and perverts Planned Parenthood’s fetal tissue donation program hit the airwaves. We at LPJ have a lot of feelings about all of it.

We’re upset about the heinous attack on lifesaving research, the short term memory of re-fighting this fight about fetal tissue research, and feel very strongly that as supporters of abortion rights, Planned Parenthood, independent clinics, and fetal tissue research, we must stand with the doctor being set up in this video.

This is a provocative conversation with Dr Sacheen an abortion provider, Wendy Robinson, director of Voice of Choice, Michelle Colon, clinic defender from Jackson Women’s Health Organization aka “The Pink House” the last remaining clinic in Mississippi and Ashley, Sharon, Jordana and yours truly from LPJ.

It is a an intense, emotional, heartbreaking, fun and important conversation to have as people who support abortion rights, fetal tissue research and the truth.

Hopefully you will listen and have this conversation with your friends and family.