Abortion and women’s rights have been under attack for years, but we look at the highly orchestrated effort against the freedom of choice during the Obama administration with Rolling Stone journalist Janet Reitman. The attack plan against Roe vs. Wade, latest legislation about limiting medical access to abortion, and how Republican dominated legislatures are pushing the agenda against women’s rights are discussed, and we also discuss her piece on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in this uncensored interview on Media Mayhem.

Janet Reitman is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and the author of Inside Scientology: The Story of America’s Most Secretive Religion (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, July 2011).

As a Rolling Stone writer, she spent almost a year reporting her National Magazine Award-nominated story, ”Inside Scientology,” published in March 2006, that provided the genesis for her book. Reitman also covered the war in Iraq forRolling Stone and has reported on a wide range of other topics, including: the 2013 Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev; the Bradley Manning case; Anonymous hacktivists; the failure of the US and international relief efforts in post-earthquake Haiti; the Duke lacrosse scandal; the death of American aid worker Marla Ruzicka in Baghdad; and the national childhood obesity crisis. She has also reported extensively in Africa, profiling Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, and covering conflicts in Sudan and Sierra Leone.

In addition to Rolling Stone, Reitman’s work has appeared in GQ, Men’s Journal, The New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, ESPN THE MAGAZINEand Salon among other publications. She has also appeared on National Public Radio, Anderson Cooper 360, and Countdown with Keith Olberman.