This week, Ben and Esther are joined by the Beacon’s Dan Neumann to talk about gender affirming care in Maine and a bill to protect Maine medical practitioners from prosecution by other states. The bill, LD 227, is at the center of a right-wing misinformation panic that has drawn in local neo-Nazis and resulted in a bomb threat against lawmakers last week.
Esther and Ben also discuss the new $108 million surplus in state funds and how the state could use the money, and they talk through some of the highlights of Pres. Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address including his remarks on reproductive autonomy and taxing the rich.
Esther’s previous conversation with Olivia Pennington from Maine Family Planning, Julia McDonald and Aspen Ruhlin from the Mabel Wadsworth Center and Lisa Margulies from Planned Parenthood Maine, about reproductive healthcare in Maine
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