TUESDAY ON “MATERNALLY YOURS”
MATERNALLY YOURS
Tuesday / Jan. 31st
6:00 to 7:00 PM
Join The Conversation as Ryan and Laura discuss the rights of pregnant imprisoned women and bill recently introduced in the Florida Senate to protect pregnant inmates. Joining the Collective in the studio will be criminal trial attorney Adam Tebrugge, and local advocate for womens’ and immigrants’ rights, Jeanette Ocasio. We will be joined by phone by Florida State Senator Arthenia Joyner, author of S.B. 524 (The Restraint of Incarcerated Pregnant Women Act), and Rebecca Brodie, a legal advocate, author, and instructor of legal studies in Massachusetts, who planned to shackle herself in labor in December 2011 to protest shackling pregnant inmates during childbirth. Also calling in will be Janice Banther, founder and executive director of the Pinellas County based prison doula and childbirth education program, Birth Behind Bars.
For more information, please contact the hostesses of Maternally Yours at MaternallyYoursRadio@gmail.com, or on our facebook page at facebook.com/maternallyyours. Our programs are available via podcast atmaternallyyoursradio.podomatic.com.
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