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[From the Archives of Our Bodies, Our Blog](/blog)# Discussion on Family Planning and the Stimulus Package

By Christine Cupaiuolo • March 5, 2009

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From RH Reality Check:  
  
> Today at 11 AM, join the Joy of Resistance, Multicultural Feminist Radio @ New York's WBAI (99.5 FM), for an in-depth look at how and why Family Planning was removed from President Obama's economic stimulus package and what the implications of this are for the future. [Click here to listen live at 11 AM EST.](http://e2ma.net/go/1783668633/1626523/60055998/goto:http://stream.wbai.org/)  
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> The panel will include: RH Reality Check writer/editor Jodi Jacobson, author of "[Change in Reproductive Health Policy? A Farce in Four Acts](http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2009/01/27/change-in-reproductive-health-policy)," RH Reality Check writer Cristina Page, economist and author of "[Sexonomics](http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2009/02/07/sexonomics-101)" and [How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465054897/), Loretta Ross, Founder and Director of [SisterSong: A Woman of Color Reproductive Health Collective](http://www.sistersong.net/) and Sunsara Taylor, writer for [Revolution](http://revcom.us/) newspaper and a speaker on the Christian Right and Women.

  
  
MIss it? The show will be added to WBAI's archives 10 minutes after it airs.

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