[Lwvcnmtopics] Tribute to Carol Tucker Trelease on KUNM's women's program today

[Michelle Meaders]

I’m listening to Women's Focus, a very informative radio program that’s on KUNM 89.9 FM every Saturday from noon to 2 pm.  A little before 12:45 pm Susan Loubet started an interview with former State Senator Janis Paster about Carol and Planned Parenthood.  Part of it was about how modest she was about her accomplishments there.  

They mentioned some problems with the State funding agency in the 80’s which led to the funding agency director going to prison. I was on the local PP board at the time, when we voted to ditch the Title X Federal funding, which had been over 90% of the funding for the agency.  There had been very little other fundraising, which had to be geared up quickly. The upside was that when the first Domestic Gag Rule was put in by Reagan in 1988, this Planned Parenthood wasn’t affected, because they didn’t get any of that money.  They still get hardly anything from it, so the current Gag Rule doesn’t affect them much. (Planned Parenthoods all over the country have refused Title X money under Trump because of the restrictions on even referring for abortions.)  Diane Goldfarb was on the board more recently, and probably knows more about their current status.)

I wish we had known Susan was doing this – we could have added to it.  Maybe there will be another chance to do a fuller tribute to Carol next year when we can gather again.  I was disappointed that her memorial service was just a standard Episcopal Service for the Dead, with no opportunity for family or friends to say anything about her.  (Maybe there was something I missed – there was an 8-page Order of Service that went with it.)

If you want to listen to this interview, KUNM archives all their programs on their website for two weeks. It is in 15-minute segments, so you want Saturday Dec. 26, 12:45-1pm.  It may have started at the end of the previous segment.

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Michelle Meaders


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