Leid Stories - 09/19/13

Contraception or Genocide? / Rethinking Mythical Notions of ‘Democracy’

Kwame Fosu, policy director of the Rebecca Project for Human Rights, and Dr. Randy Short, social justice minister and president of The Clergy Coalition, discuss a coalition’s efforts to stop the mass-marketing of the controversial injectable contraceptive Depo-Provera to women of color in the United States and other parts of the world without informing them of the potentially lethal effects of the drug. The issue is the focus of a hearing before the Congressional Black Caucus tomorrow.

Plus, Leid Stories concludes yesterday’as discussion on rethinking mythical notions of “democracy.”