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rePROs Fight BackThe Global Gag Rule’s Harm Has Persisted for 40 YearsThe Global Gag Rule (GGR) prevents foreign non-governmental organizations that receive U.S. foreign assistance funds from providing, advocating for, counseling on, or referring for abortion services—and has successfully done so for 40 years. Beirne Roose-Snyder, Senior Director at the Preclusion Project, and Bergen Cooper, Senior Research Advisor at the Preclusion Project and Chief Operating Officer with the Torchlight Collective, sit down to talk with us about the history of this destructive policy, its long and heart-wrenching impacts, and what the future of the GGR might look like. The GGR, introduced in 1984 by Pre...2024-10-0134 min
rePROs Fight BackWant to Stay Hopeful in the Ongoing Fight for Repro? These Leaders Share Their InspirationThis week, we are doing things a little differently! We hear from advocates, medical providers, leaders, and researchers, who tell us about their strategies, reflections, hopes, and joys during the ongoing fight for sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice.Guests featured in this episode include: Jennie Wetter, Director of rePROs Fight BackDr. Monica McLemore, Professor of Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing at the University of Washington and Director of the Manning Price Spratlen Center for Anti-Racism and Equity in NursingDr. Diane Horvath2024-07-1629 min
A Shot in the Arm PodcastOur Bodies, Our Rights, Our Choices.This International Women’s Day, we’re sharing the mic with Frontline AIDS. Yvette Raphael reflects on the challenges and setbacks girls and women face around the world in 2024, in a hard hitting conversation with Frontline AIDS’ Yumnah Hattas, Toyin Chukwudozie Executive Director of Nigeria’s Education As A Vaccine, and Beirne Roose-Snyder, Senior Director of the Preclusion Project. https://frontlineaids.orghttps://www.evanigeria.orghttps://apha.org.zahttps://www.thepreclusionproject.orghttps://www.unaids.org/enhttps://www.state.gov/pepfarhttp...2024-03-0851 min
rePROs Fight BackProject 2025 is a Road Map to a Conservative United States. Here’s What You Need to Know.Politicizing independent institutions, spreading misinformation, aggrandizing and consolidating executive power, weakening checks and balances, quashing criticism and dissent, marginalizing and restricting rights of specific communities, corrupting election, and stoking violence are patterns right out of authoritarian playbook. These patterns are written all over Project 2025, an initiative out of the Heritage Foundation. Beirne Roose-Snyder, Senior Policy Fellow at the Council for Global Equality, sits down to talk with us about Project 2025—what is it, how it seeks to shape America, and what it means for LGBTQI+ rights and sexual and reproductive health and rights.Project 2025 is a...2024-02-0652 min
rePROs Fight BackA Human Rights Crisis: Uganda's New Anti-LGBTQ+ LawAt the end of May, Uganda’s president signed into law a piece of legislation that criminalizes the LGBTQI+ community it includes that death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality,” creates new crimes around “promotion of homosexuality,” and 10 years in prison for attempted same-sex conduct. Ophelia Kemigisha, human rights lawyer and feminist activist from Uganda, and Beirne Roose-Snyder, Senior Policy Fellow for the Council for Global Equality, sit down to talk with us about Uganda’s new anti-LGBTQI+ law and what human rights advocates can do to work against it. Many evangelical, c...2023-06-2057 min
Between The Pages14. Sexual Health, Rights, and Justice Priorities with Beirne Roose-Snyder*Content Warning*: Mention and some detail on unsafe abortions from 29:38 to 31:00We have a new presidential administration (!!!), so let’s get INTO IT on all things sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice with Beirne Roose-Snyder, Director of Public Policy at the Center for Health And Gender Equity (CHANGE). Beirne is a brilliant thinker and strategist on reproductive rights policy, and she and Caitlin discuss everything from the awful rollbacks of human rights under the Trump administration to the priorities of reproductive health and rights for the Biden administration. 2021-01-2148 min
rePROs Fight BackWait…Trump is Expanding the Global Gag Rule Again?The Global Gag Rule has interfered with HIV prevention and contraceptive access and has increased unintended pregnancy and abortion rates. The Trump administration has engaged in unprecedented expansion of this rule, endangering the health and lives of millions around the world and is looking to further expand who the gag rule applies to. Beirne Roose-Snyder, Director of Public Policy at the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) talks to us about the continuation of these harmful expansions even though 70 percent of Americans oppose the Global Gag Rule. For more information, check out Boom! Lawyered: https://rewirenewsgroup.c...2020-10-2035 min
rePROs Fight BackDecriminalization as a Public Health IssueCriminalization drives stigma, harms public health, and violates human rights. The imposition of criminal penalties exist across the U.S. and around the world, and it creates barriers to adequate and comprehensive health care for many populations. Beirne Roose-Snyder from the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) and Preston Mitchum from Advocates for Youth sit down with us to discuss how criminalization negatively impacts access to multiple types of care for the most vulnerable in our society. For more information, check out Boom! Lawyered: https://rewirenewsgroup.com/boom-lawyered/ Support the sh...2019-04-0954 min