One of the senators who supports the bill said it was the first piece of legislation that he had come across that was both prolife and prochoice. Lets talk about what the right to try malls are. Guest its all about when having your life hangs in the balance its about giving you the right to try to save your life by accessing experimental investigation medicines but before they receive the final green light and the reason that he calls it both prolife and prochoice is because you have a choice of and instead of the right to die law you have not only the option to hasten your death is to try to fight to live and prolong your life. Host you immediately dive into what it has to do with your personal life and i want to read a passage quickly from your book you write about your uncle. There are now multiple treatments with very high k. Rates. It was my fathers only brother and i distinctly remember my dad saying that i was growing up that he died just months before a new treatment was approv
Lots for u. S. News and report about a year ago. At the time only five states had passed right to try laos. Now it it has climbed to 24 states. Pretty quickly, and one year one of the senators, who supports this bill said it was the first piece of legislator he had come across those both prolife and prochoice. Lets just talk about what right to trial laws are. What right to try laws are is all about when your life hangs in the balance, when you have a terminal illness it is without giving you the right to try to fight to save your life by using experimental medicines while the understudy with the fda but before they receive that these final green light. The reason he calls that prolife and prochoice is because you have a choice as to whether or not you want to try some of these investigational medicines. It is prolife because instead of right to die laws we have not only the option to hasten your death but actually fight to live and prolong your life. In your book you talk about the Go
With you today to talk about your new book and i feel like we should start at the very beginning, which is the title. Plenty ladylike, which i want to ask you where you came up with that . Seems like it has a little irony embedded in it. It has a little of your trademark attitude. What were you thinking with that title . Guest and a little humor. I want people to know that this is a book that will make them laugh or at least smile hard in several different places. Its an interesting thing that happened in my life, and about the eighth grade i had a teacher i love. She took me aside and told me i need i need to quit speaking up so much in class. The boys were not going to like me and it was not ladylike. It really impacted me. I was hurt. Then, many years later in 2012, after my first debate with todd akin, he told the press after the debate that i was not very ladylike. So those two incidents kind of reaffirmed in my mind that i have to communicate to other young women that it is plent
Right now we want to introduce you to gerald posner, author of several books, his most recent is this one for, god spankers, history of money and power at the vatican. His published by simon schuster. Who is god spankers . Who are . Who are. They change every 20 years or so. The one person who runs the vatican bank is the pope. The only shareholder of the vatican bank. They hire laminar in the details of the internets of money, but the person, the people responsible for the finances of the vatican are the same people who run the religion. How big is the vatican bank to allow, how much money does it hold and who has access . Sort of reverse order. Who has access is a small group of people. By its charter was created in world war ii and is only been around for 70 years. The onlythe only people that are supposed to have access are citizens of vatican city , lets sores and catholic charities. In practice it has been manhandled and misuse for years. That aside, who hasaside, who has control
Heart throb and an actor he was. And according to his sister margaret who wrote this book, the entertainer. Quite a guy, and it was quite a family, and his brother, steve, is also a real interesting guy who is a fantastic documentarist, video maker, was well known for doing the frontline series and also to the baby boomers he was known as gilbert. Gilbert on leave it to beaver, yeah. Yes. We were a sitcom family. [laughter] so david is a journalist, he worked during the heyday for craw daddy concern. Wow, thats yeah . Deep digging. I remember who remembers crawdaddy here . The great rock and roll magazine. Rolling stone, you probably know rolling stone. And as editor at mother jones which is still going, doing really well. And i interviewed david for this book, the devils chessboard, and was at the examiner. And then he was one of the first people to sort of say, oh, my god, the internet exists. Maybe we can do journalism on it, and he started salon. Com. Which is still going and is st