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Tuesday April 27, 2004

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10:00Pro-choice Rally

Guest host: Steve Roberts

Sunday's "March for Women's Lives" attracted vast numbers. We'll talk about the status of reproductive rights and implications for this year's presidential campaign.

Guests

Marcia Greenberger, founder and co-president of the National Women's Law Center

Geneveive Wood, Family Research Council

Lydia Saad, senior editor, The Gallup Poll

11:00Jonathan Weiner: "His Brother's Keeper" (Ecco)

Guest host: Steve Roberts

Stephen Heywood was 29 when he learned he was dying of ALS - Lou Gehrig's disease. His older brother Jamie transformed himself from a mechanical into a genetic engineer in a race to cure the incurable. Pulitzer-prize winning author Jonathan Weiner tells the story of the brothers' journey to the edge of medicine.

Guests

Jonathan Weiner, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "The Beak of the Finch," "Time, Love, Memory," "Planet Earth," and "The Next One Hundred Years."

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