Biden's Winter COVID Plan; How Do Supervised Injection Sites Work?; How Some Democrats Have 'Betrayed' Roe v. Wade; How to Respond to Meddling Family Members
The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 6, 2021
Coming up on today's show:
- As we head into our second winter of the pandemic, Dylan Scott, senior correspondent covering health care at Vox, discusses President Biden's new plan for the omicron variant, vaccinations, testing and more.
- New York City is preparing to open the country's overdose prevention centers, also known as supervised injection sites, where people can use drugs under the medical supervision. Sam Rivera, the executive director of OnPoint NYC, and Sarah Evans, former manager of Vancouver’s Insite, North America’s first supervised injection space, and current director of the Open Society Foundations’ International Harm Reduction Development program, explain how the sites work, and how they fit into the community.
- Rebecca Traister, writer at New York Magazine and author of Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger (Simon & Schuster, 2018), discusses how the current Supreme Court case is just the latest in a decades-long weakening of Roe v. Wade, with Democratic leadership partially to blame.
- As families gather to celebrate the holidays, many singles and unmarried couples might face questions from family members about their relationship status. Katherine Hertlein, relationship therapist and professor in the couple and family therapy program at University of Nevada School of Medicine, discusses how to respond to their intrusive questions.
Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.
