Tasha Fierce: Do They Care About You Outside This Moment?

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02/07/17 • 11 min

Tasha Fierce is a feminist writer and student of sociology. She's always been pro-choice, and when she chose to terminate an unwanted pregnancy she says she felt no shame — until she came face-to-face with anti-choice protesters outside the clinic.

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Jessica Mason Pieklo: Can Someone Else's Religion Legally Dictate Your Healthcare?

The previous two episodes of CHOICE/LESS featured stories of people denied care at Catholic hospitals because the hospitals claimed their treatment would violate the church's ethical and religious directives.

Evan and Mindy's stories are not particularly uncommon. One in six hospital beds in the United States are controlled by the Catholic Church, and that number is growing. For many Americans, Catholic hospitals are their only reasonable options for care, and because many Catholic hospitals don't have religious-sounding names, patients may not even know they're at a religiously affiliated institution.

So when do the church's rights trump the patient's rights? In this episode of CHOICE/LESS, Rewire's Vice President of Law and the Courts, Jessica Mason Pieklo, helps answer that by discussing religious imposition laws and how they apply to health care.

Learn more: https://rewire.news/legislative-tracker/law-topic/religious-imposition-laws/

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Cherisse Scott: So Why Am I Here?

Fourteen years ago, Cherisse Scott was a singer finishing a national tour. The career she'd worked so hard for all her life was about to blossom. Then an unplanned pregnancy and a trip to what she thought was an abortion clinic changed all of that.

Today, she's a nationally recognized reproductive justice activist. She's taken on anti-choice billboards and works with faith groups to bring comprehensive sex education to Tennessee schools in place of the currently mandated abstinence-focused programs. Listen to her story on this episode of CHOICE/LESS.