Archived Radio Show

January 24, 2022

Original Radio Show  ID:
WSA220124

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Featuring

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1. Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz, Host of Women's Spaces

2. Gilda Gonzales, CEO of Planned Parenthood Northern California

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1. Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz on the fate of Roe v. Wade. SCOTUS seems more concerned with controlling women's bodies then for carrying for the children once born. A child dies on average one per hour in the country due to guns. Many children are homeless with their families or going to bed hungry at night. We need to change our priorities as a nation. 

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2.  Our guest Gilda Gonzales has led Planned Parenthood Northern California since 2017, which serves 19 counties north of San Francisco. Many women struggling with getting by, as indicated by 81% of the clients being enrolled in Medicaid. Gilda talks about the California Future of Abortion Council (CFAC), which was formed to identify how services would be impacted by the new state laws preventing abortions in their states and possible solutions. The Gutmacher Institute reports that 2021 was the worst year for abortion rights in half a century, with 3000% increase in restrictive laws affecting 1.4 million women. CFAC has come up with a 7-Point Blueprint of recommendations on expanding abortion care to handle the influx of out-of-state women seeking this care, which is openly supported by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and he has included this in his budget this year. See the Guest Links below for the references.

-  report by Ken Norton, Co-Producer, Women's Spaces

About our Guest: Gilda Gonzales is the CEO of Planned Parenthood Northern California (PPNorCal) since June 2017. She is the first Latina to serve as CEO of a California Planned Parenthood affiliate. Ms. Gonzales initially joined PPNorCal in February 2014 as Senior VP of External Affairs.
She has a long history of public and community serving in leadership positions which included CEO of The Unity Council - a non-profit organization in central East Oakland, legislative staff in the California State Assembly and served as Board member of the Port of Oakland Commission and Alameda County’s First 5 Commission.
Currently, she is a member of the national Planned Parenthood Federation of America Board. She has a Master’s in Public Administration from CSU East Bay and Bachelor of Science in Industrial Psychology from St. Mary’s College of California. Gilda is the receipt ant of the Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame Inductee, SF Business Times’ Influential Women “Forever Influential,” She currently lives in Oakland with her husband, Ken Wysocki, Ph.D.

Guest Links: 

www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-northern-california \

CFAC 7-Point Blueprint: Recommendations To Protect, Strengthen, And Expand Abortion Care in California.
Click to download the pdf.

 State Policy Trends 2021: The Worst Year for Abortion Rights in Almost Half a Century, by Elizabeth Nash, Guttmacher Institute

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Herstory

Our history is our strength. Check out important dates to remember in herstory at the National Women's History Alliance

January 23, 1921 (1994) – Marija Gimbutas, author, emigrated to Boston, began with Lithuanian beliefs and rituals, folklore, and ancient practices, wrote The Prehistory of Modern Europe (1956) and The Civilization of the Goddess (1994).

January 24, 1968 – Mary Lou Retton, first and only American woman to win a gold medal in the All-Around in gymnastics at the Olympics (1984) and first American woman to win a gold medal in gymnastics, first woman featured on a Wheaties cereal box.

January 25, 1896 (1987) – Helen Heffernan, strong supporter of United Nations’ education of bilingual education, recognized that children who were interned in World War II needed health and family services.

January 26, 1892 (1926) – Bessie Coleman, first African American woman in the world to fly a plane and earn an international pilot’s license.

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Announcements 

None this week

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Music Selections

The Opening and Closing Theme song The Woman in Your Life is You is done with permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin ((August 16, 1940 – May 19, 2021) Alix Dobkin death was just announced - Thank you for all you did for Lesbians to be recognized and Women to be honored. May you rest in peace. See our Interview with Alix Dobkin on 12/1/2014 at   and our Memorial to Alix Dobkin on 11/24/2021

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