Visits and planned parenthood clinic, believed to be the first time a president or Vice President has probably toward an abortion clinic. We will speak with the head of the Reproductive Rights Group in minnesota and with professor Michele Goodwin, author of policing the womb invisible women and the criminalization of motherhood. Then students at Hebrew University in jerusalem protest the suspension of a palestinian professor. We will be joined by professor shalhoubkevorkian, whose suspension came after she said israel is committing genocide in gaza. And we will speak with israeli author maya wind, author of, towers of ivory and steel how israeli universities deny palestinian freedom. Wind was jailed 15 years ago for refusing to serve in the israeli army. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Israeli forces killed at least 29 people in gaza thursday in at two separate attacks as they waited for humanitarian
Visits and planned parenthood clinic, believed to be the first time a president or Vice President has probably toward an abortion clinic. We will speak with the head of the Reproductive Rights Group in minnesota and with professor Michele Goodwin, author of policing the womb invisible women and the criminalization of motherhood. Then students at Hebrew University in jerusalem protest the suspension of a palestinian professor. We will be joined by professor shalhoubkevorkian, whose suspension came after she said israel is committing genocide in gaza. And we will speak with israeli author maya wind, author of, towers of ivory and steel how israeli universities deny palestinian freedom. Wind was jailed 15 years ago for refusing to serve in the israeli army. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Israeli forces killed at least 29 people in gaza thursday in at two separate attacks as they waited for humanitarian
Thanks for having me. That is all in on this thursday night. Good evening, alex. Amazing, were talking about the word contraception as something thats being litigated in the United States of america. Were going to have more on that later on our show as well. Thank you, my friend. And thank you for joining me this hour. Today we got the news that Donald Trumps one criminal case, the one criminal case that was likely to go to trial before the november election, may be delayed. Manhattan District Attorney alvin brags Hush Money Case was set to go to trial on march 25th, less than two weeks from today, but now that date is in question. Now, trumps legal strategy in all of his cases has been to push them off as long as possible, preferably until the month of nevuary. But todays delay is not coming from trump, or at least not directly. Today d. A. Braggs office consented to a 30day delay in the start of trial, but not because d. A. Bragg needs another month. Theres a new trove of records tha
19th century to the present. Its also som hard to lecture about now because its i as as professor lawson said in one of the main historians of this stuff, and im also living through it with all of you. So its a strange time to be discussing this as history when its also very much real life. So i think now often when we think ofro and we think of them in the context of criminalization and criminal laws, but thats a relatively recent phenomenon. So if you go back far enough and theres a spute about this that was reflected by the supreme in the Supreme Courts decision in 2022 in dobbs versus jackson, Womens Health organization, the majority led by Justice Samuel alito suggested that in the United States to some degree, another abortion had always been a■u crime. Any point in pregnancy, he might have said or might have believed something similar about contraception. But the reality was that for much of United States history, either passing or implementing criminal laws regarding reproduc
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