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This week, on Interchange, host Alycin Bektesh speaks with Catherine O'Conner,the Vice President of Public Policy for Planned Parenthood of Indiana about the role of reproductive rights in the 2012 election. In the 40 years since Roe v. Wade, a shift in women’s rights has been brought to late through the rhetoric of the 2012 election, as access to birth control becomes a central talking point for both presidential candidates and media personalities. This year the Catholic Church has fought against the Affordable Care Act’s provisions for health coverage, including access to birth control, and Rush Limbaugh called a American college student who is on birth control a slut. So many years after the initial passage of a woman’s right to choose, is this the election year that women’s votes will determine the nations next president?
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This week, on Interchange, host Alycin Bektesh speaks with Catherine O'Conner,the Vice President of Public Policy for Planned Parenthood of Indiana about the role of reproductive rights in the 2012 election. In the 40 years since Roe v. Wade, a shift in women’s rights has been brought to late through the rhetoric of the 2012 election, as access to birth control becomes a central talking point for both presidential candidates and media personalities. This year the Catholic Church has fought against the Affordable Care Act’s provisions for health coverage, including access to birth control, and Rush Limbaugh called a American college student who is on birth control a slut. So many years after the initial passage of a woman’s right to choose, is this the election year that women’s votes will determine the nations next president?
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