1 - Post-Roe America: The Day Roe Fell
The Nocturnists
Emily Silverman
4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The Nocturnists: Post-Roe America opens in Orlando, at a reproductive health conference where many abortion providers were gathered on the day of the Dobbs leak. We follow a few of them home, as they scramble in the aftermath to figure out what the ruling means for their practices, their patients, and themselves.
Host & Co-creator: Ali Block, MD
Co-creator: Emily Silverman, MD
Contributors: Diane Horvath, MD MPH; Jiana Menendez, MD MPH; Nikki Zite, MD MPH
Find show notes, transcript, and more at https://thenocturnists.com/pra/1/the-day-roe-fell. Follow @thenocturnists.
The Nocturnists: Post-Roe America series was made possible in part by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation.
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| 0:00.0 | At The Nocturnus, we are careful to ensure that all stories comply with healthcare privacy laws. |
| 0:05.0 | Details may have been changed to ensure patient confidentiality. |
| 0:08.5 | All views expressed are those of the person speaking and not their employer. |
| 0:19.1 | You're listening to The Nocturnus. I'm Emily Silverman. |
| 0:23.9 | When the leak about the overturning of Roe v. Wade happened back in May 2022, we knew we had to do something at the nocturness. |
| 0:32.3 | Rarely has a single Supreme Court ruling had such a wide-ranging and immediate impact on the practice of medicine. |
| 0:38.3 | And rarely have those impacts been so dangerously misunderstood by those outside of health care. |
| 0:45.3 | So our team decided to track the fallout of Dobbs through the voices of the clinicians at the heart of it all. |
| 0:51.3 | In a project headed up by the nocturnous executive producer, Dr. Ali Block, |
| 0:56.0 | who is a practicing family medicine physician and abortion provider, |
| 1:00.0 | we started collecting stories from reproductive healthcare workers, |
| 1:04.0 | from Texas to Tennessee, from Kansas to California, and beyond. |
| 1:10.0 | What has the Dobbs' decision meant for these clinicians and their practices? From Kansas to California and beyond. |
| 1:11.0 | What has the Dobbs decision meant for these clinicians and their practices? |
| 1:15.7 | And what did these changes mean for American healthcare at large? |
| 1:21.2 | This is the nocturnous post-Roe America. Allow me to introduce you to your host, Dr. Allie Block. |
| 1:34.4 | In 2014, the year I graduated my family medicine residency and started officially performing |
| 1:43.6 | abortions on my own. |
| 1:45.3 | 87% of U.S. counties had no known abortion provider. As a young attending entering the field, |
| 1:51.5 | I saw the potential of a better future for the world of reproductive care. I had high hopes. |
| 1:57.0 | What if everyone in the country who needed an abortion was more than just allowed to get one, |
| 2:01.8 | but able to access one as well? |
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