Priorities For Freshman Ramos; Trump's New Abortion Law; A Different Kind of Family Separation; Reckoning With Michael Jackson; What's in a Measles Vaccine?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 6, 2019

Coming up on today's show:

  • Jessica Ramos, Member of the New York State Senate from the 13th district, talks about how it’s going in Albany so far as a freshman, and her progressive priorities.
  • The Trump administration's recent changes to the Title X family planning program would shift tens of millions of dollars from Planned Parenthood toward faith-based clinics. Laura McQuade, CEO at Planned Parenthood of New York City, discusses the potential consequences for New York State.
  • Beth Fertig, WNYC senior reporter covering courts and legal affairs, tells the story of a Honduran family of asylum-seekers, where an 18-year-old daughter was separated from her mother, treated as an adult and left to navigate the complex immigration without her parents.
  • Critic-at-large for the New York Times and co-host of the Still Processing podcast, Wesley Morris, who grew up a die-hard Michael Jackson fan, describes his reaction to watching the new HBO documentary which details allegations of child sexual abuse against the King of Pop, and takes listener calls.
  • For this membership drive, we will end each show with a ten minute explainer on a different topic each day. Up next, Saad Omer, vaccinologist, infectious disease epidemiologist and professor at the School of Medicine at Emory University explains how the measles vaccine works.

 

 

 

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