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Part 1
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We begin with the Supreme Court’s rulings today striking down a key section of DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, that will now allow gay married couples to receive federal benefits, and a ruling denying proponents of California’s Prop 8 an appeal, clearing the way for gay marriage in the Golden State. Jane Schacter, a Professor of Law at Stanford University and an expert on sexual orientation law, joins us to discuss today’s rulings. |
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Part 3
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Then finally, with the recent passage of a bill in the House restricting abortions and last night’s filibuster in the Texas State House to block the implementation of a bill that would have effectively shut down all abortion clinics in Texas, feminist activist Frances Kissling joins us. She writes a weekly column at Salon.com and blogs at religiondispatches.org and we discuss the renewed war on women’s reproductive rights that Republicans are waging at both the state and federal levels and Texas Senator Wendy Davis’s successful eleven hour stand in pink running shoes, against one of the toughest anti-abortion efforts in the country.
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