seats. the next speaker. ready for the next speaker. chairperson nolan: hang on a second. is mr. reiskin out in the hall? did you see him out there? chairperson nolan: ok. we re starting again. ok, ladies and gentleman. before we start with more speakers, it has come to my attention that some people seem to think the board can take an action today. that is not possible. it all has to do with the agenda. it covers a discussion of budget priorities for the coming year. it is truly a discussion. if you are waiting for the board to say something and make a decision today, it is not going to happen. we cannot do it. it is not on the agenda. so far, we have heard 41 speakers. we certainly get the message. you are entitled to speak if you want to. what we are going to do is we will hear from five more speakers, and then we need to go into a closed session for a couple matters of litigation. then we will come back. if you want to speak to us, we will be happy to hear from
this week on to the contrary: democratic women fight back on birth control. then, the demise of mademoiselle. behind the headlines: a high school girl fakes pregnancy. hello, i m bonnie erbe. welcome to to the contrary, a discussion of news and social trends from diverse perspectives. up first, women make waves. angry for being silenced last week, house democratic leaders held their own hearing on contraception coverage late this week. the hearing featured one witness sandra fluke, a law student at georgetown university who has been lobbying her school to include contraception coverage in its student health care policy. ao this week, virginia gov. bob mcdonnell backed off on a bill that would have required women seeking abortions in the state to undergo extremely invasive medical procedures. and gop hopeful, rick santorum flip-flopped in the last republican debate, saying he does not support federal funding for birth control, when earlier in the week he said he did. c
takes a toll on you and proves how much she cared about what she was doing. so the real life person, gabby rodriguez, the washington state teen in high school, she comes from a family where teenage pregnancy was pretty much the norm. absolutely. her mom got pregnant at 14 and had seven kids. three of her daughters became pregnant as teens and two of her sons got their girlfriends pregnant as teens. so gabby was in this cycle. absolutely. it was kind of the statistics said this would also happen to her. and i think she wanted to prove a point that she was not going to become a statistic but even, you know, to go further than that, she wanted to prove that, yes, you know, being a young teen mom is very difficult. but it does not mean it s the end of the road for you. you can still accomplish your goals if you work very hard. i think she really just wanted to set it up to go, you know what, we can t just judge these situations because they do happen and we can either be helpful or
daring raid by the same people who took out usama bin laden. the mission was secretly planned for weeks and executed perfectly. john buchanan says he s very greatful to the americans. the last member of the economic team planning to cash out. tim geithner says he has no plans to stay with president obama if he s elected to a second term. in fact, he s pretty confident the president won t even ask him. geithner still confident the president will win re-election, though, despite the 8.5% unemployment rate. remember when the president first took office, it was 7.8%. throughout his term, geithner has made both democrats and republicans see red. some say he s been too harsh on the big banks while others claim he s too comfy with wall street. not clear yet who would replace him. terrifying moment in australia. watch as the country s prime minister is attacked by an angry mob. you can see 50 police officers rescuing the prime minister from a rowdy group of protesters. they were repo
undisclosed medical condition that was said to be getting much worse in captivity. she was rescued along with another aide from denmark in a daring raid by the same people who took out usama bin laden. the mission was secretly planned for weeks and executed perfectly. john buchanan says he s very greatful to the americans. the last member of the economic team planning to cash out. tim geithner says he has no plans to stay with president obama if he s elected to a second term. in fact, he s pretty confident the president won t even ask him. geithner still confident the president will win re-election, though, despite the 8.5% unemployment rate. remember when the president first took office, it was 7.8%. throughout his term, geithner has made both democrats and republicans see red. some say he s been too harsh on the big banks while others claim he s too comfy with wall street. not clear yet who would replace him. terrifying moment in australia. watch as the country s prime mini