The ThinkND Podcast

The topics covered in these podcasts are wide ranging and value based. The only downside is that the recording is spotty - volume goes up and down and there are blips in the narrative. As a result I have to rewind and try to listen again. I don’t want to miss any of the discussions.

Ostermann is described as “a political scientist who studies state capacity, law and regulatory compliance,” but she has also placed much energy in recent years to promoting abortion and to denigrating those who oppose it. A mere listing of just some of her essays and op-eds—most written in collaboration with her one-time colleague Tamara Kay—published in the last five years gives a rather sickening sense of her views: “Medical fraud at crisis pregnancy centers should make us rethink policy”; “Banning abortion pill mifepristone would be a terrible policy choice and violate human rights”; “Abortion, racism and guns: How white supremacy unites the right”; “Forced pregnancy and childbirth are violence against women—and also terrible health policy.”