Issues for Your Tissues

Conservatives are coming for all of your reproductive healthcare, ladies. Jessica Mason Pieklo of Rewire [RHRealityCheck] shares more legal analysis with me. Read more of her analysis on this.

Mary Tuma, health reporter form the Austin Chronicle joined me to talk about the HB2 case's oral arguments before SCOTUS. It's also the second week of the KOOP Spring Membership Drive, so you'll hear a lot of activity in, on, and from our community radio station.

It's another #ElectionDay Issues for Your Tissues with W. Joe Deshotel, Communications Director for the Travis County Democratic Party. It's also the first show of the KOOP Spring Membership Drive, so you'll hear us talk about all kinds of civic duty and community support.

Editorial on TRAP law effects and the situation Texas women are in after multiple legislative sessions of conservative chicanery. While I play a whole John Oliver video in this episode, I cannot include its content in here. You can watch it here.

Jessica Mason Pieklo of RHRealityCheck joins me to talk about a Scalia-less SCOTUS and potential nominees only days after the Justice's timely passing. This greatly impacts HB2 case and others on the docket affecting women's health.

If you're using Tinder to hook up, or even just meet people and really watch Netflix, check out the Healthvana app in the Safety part of the menu. It can help you find an STI clinic nearby and get yourself tested. Knowing your status is the #1 way to protect your reproductive health. Many STIs are asymptomatic in women. This makes it especially important to do your own testing. Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, MPH joined me to talk about the Helathvana app. He is a public health superstar. I suggest you listen to him.

Laramie Gorbett of TAASA and 1 Billion Rising joined me to talk about VDAY celebrations in Austin, TX. Starting with VDAY at City Hall Sunday, February 14, VDAY goes through the month of February.

This week Alda Santana sexual health educator and coordinator of the City's peer sexual health educators program joined me to talk about sex education as a necessary component of reproductive justice. neither can exist without the other.

This week Amanda Williams of the Lilith Fund for Reproductive Equity and Genevieve Cato of NARAL Pro-Choice Texas joined me this week to talk about the first 43 years of Roe v. Wade, SCOTUS, HB2, and the future of bodily autonomy for women in the U.S.

Tina Hester, Executive Director of Jane's Due Process joined me to talk about the implementation of HB 3994 which further restricts judicial bypass access for teens seeking abortion. Now their request can be put off for 5 days at which point it is essentially denied. Time is of the essence for teens who statistically get their pregnancies diagnosed later and have even fewer resources to meet the 20 week ban and get to one of the remaining clinics in the state.