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Welcome back to the nocturness, Postro America.

I'm Dr. Allie Block.

I was in the middle taking care of patients in the ICU.

And the question of abortion has been returned to the states.

As soon as I heard it, I continued on with doing the work.

But obviously, I didn't realize the effect it actually had taken on me until one of my colleagues said,

did I do something to upset you? Are you okay because you're acting in a manner that you normally don't act?

And I didn't realize it was that apparent on my face.

I remember thinking, how could you not be this angry?

How could you not know this is what I'm actually angry about?

And I had to say to my colleague, it was a really nice male position I work with. It's not you at all.

It's a fact that we just lost rights as women. And he looked at me. I think he understood what

is talking about, but he didn't really know what to say about it.

Nobody else seemed to be talking about this, the nurses, respiratory therapists, or the physicians,

the isolation of it with looking back, and I think it made me even more angry. Like, how are we not stopping everything to just acknowledge it for a minute and say,

oh my God, how do we prepare this and how do we approach this?

Or how do we acknowledge it?

We just weren't.

When I first heard this story from Venetia, I was struck by how different her experience

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