Before we jump into today's episode, I wanted to tell you about a podcast that I love and that I think can help us understand this moment in abortion care.

Hosted by Dahlia Lithwick, Slate's Amicus podcast is all about the Supreme Court and the law, but you don't have to be a constitutional lawyer to listen to it.

And actually, last week, I had the pleasure of talking with Dahlia as a guest on the show. Here's Dahlia.

Thanks, Allie.

On amicus, we have this basic guiding principle that knowledge is power and that even or perhaps

especially an opaque and lofty institution like the U.S. Supreme Court could do with more

people understanding where its decisions

come from and what those decisions can mean for the rest of us, the American public.

Because as the six to three supermajority conservative court has shown, those decisions

reach into every single corner of our lives and they reach ever further into the lives of

healthcare workers. So find us on Saturdays wherever you listen to your podcasts. It's amicus. That's

A.M.I. C.U.S. from the Latin, your friend with me, Dahlia Lithwick, looking forward to talking to you.

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You're listening to The Nocturnists post-row America.

I'm Dr. Allie Block.

It was the winter of 2022 the first time I flew out to Wichita, Kansas.

I'd been attending in California for eight years and a first trimester abortion provider for over a decade.

But I wanted to learn second trimester abortions,

both because I was moving to a new part of the country that needed second trimester providers,

and also because I knew the Dobbs decision was coming. And I worried that soon a lot of women

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