CHOICE
A Girl Talk throwback episode! This show was recorded live at The Hideout in Chicago on January 24th, 2017.

As we expected, our Republican-led Congress is already hard at work not at creating jobs or figuring out WTF they’ll do when they take healthcare away from 30 million people, but defunding Planned Parenthood and destroying access to women’s health care. Cool!

In recent months, we’ve been talking a lot about what we can do in the next four years to support immigrants and people of color, to speak out against injustice and get more involved politically. This month, we’re talking about the very real and very terrifying threat to reproductive rights in a GOP-run Washington. What can they really do, what will it mean for women, and how can we fight back? We’ll address these questions and more.
OUR GUESTS
MARTHA SCOTT
Martha Scott was a member of iconic feminist group The Jane Collective, officially known as the Abortion Counseling Service of Women’s Liberation. The underground service operated in Chicago from 1969 to 1973, at a time when abortion was illegal in the United States. The collective was started to address the increasing number of unsafe abortions being performed by untrained providers who often had no medical experience at all. Since illegal abortions were not only dangerous but very expensive, the founding members of the collective believed that they could provide women with safer and more affordable access to abortions. The collective disbanded after Roe v. Wade made abortion legal throughout the United States in 1973.

AILEEN KIM
Aileen co-chairs Personal PAC's Future Voices Council, a group of women and men under 40 who are committed to electing pro-choice candidates in Illinois, and serves on the boards of CAN TV and the Albany Park Community Center.

Aileen is an Associate with Civitas Public Affairs Group, a values-based bipartisan firm that delivers winning advocacy and public affairs campaigns that touch on some of the most pressing political and public policy issues of our day. Her current portfolio of work includes clients focused on reproductive justice, women's rights, the environment, and consumer protection.

Prior to joining Civitas, Aileen served as District Director for Illinois State Representative John D'Amico where she was responsible for providing constituent services as well as furthering the Representative's transportation safety focused legislative agenda. Prior to that, Aileen worked as a producer for ABC News' affiliate news service in Chicago where she covered politics, national economic issues, and breaking news.

DIANA ARELLANO
Diana is a reproductive justice advocate with a background in community health and global women’s rights. For the past five years, Diana has worked in maternal and child health, comprehensive sexual health education and reproductive rights. She is currently the Manager of Community Engagement at Planned Parenthood of Illinois and a board member of the Chicago Abortion Fund, where she works to mobilize people around reproductive justice issues and policies. Diana loves to work on transforming people’s attitudes and beliefs about abortion. She has trained over 150 people on effective messaging tactics on abortion care and access and implemented a statewide training strategy for PPIL. She also chairs Chicago Semillas, a committee that supports Fondo Semillas- an organization based in Mexico City that provides grants to women-led organizations in Mexico.

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