50 Years After Roe v. Wade: A Conversation With a Texas Abortion Provider

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🗓️ 22 January 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On January 22nd, 1973, the Supreme Court passed Roe v. Wade, a landmark decision preserving the right to abortion across the country. Today, we sit with Dr. Ghazaleh Moayedi, a board-certified OB/GYN, who’d been providing abortions for over a decade—until last summer, when the protection was repealed.

We talk about the conditions Dr. Moayedi faces as a physician in Texas (5:29), the critical reality and travel faced by patients in states where the procedure has been outlawed (13:29), and how she works to create a more nurturing and equitable space for people of color in prenatal care (19:15).

On the back-half, we walk through her remarkable story—from her early years in residency (23:43), to her tireless work throughout the pandemic (32:56), to this very moment where, in Texas, her job has become illegal to perform (37:41). As we leave, Dr. Moayedi shares her vision for the future of healthcare (41:28).

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0:00.0	Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm San Francisco, so welcome to the show. 50 years ago on January 22nd 1973 the Supreme Court passed Roe v. Wade in a landmark
0:48.4	7-2 decision. On that day the court held that the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment
0:55.0	provided a fundamental right to privacy, which protects a pregnant woman's right
1:00.0	to an abortion.
1:01.0	Or at least it did until this past summer when the court held in Dobbs
1:05.7	v Jackson's Women's Health Organization that the US Constitution does not confer a right to abortion.
1:12.9	The 63 decision, led by conservative justices, effectively undid both Roe v. Wade and Planned
1:19.7	Parenthood v. Casey.
1:22.0	In turn, sending back full power to each individual state to regulate abortion as they see fit.
1:28.8	In some states, like Texas, the writing was already on the wall. Just a year before the Dobbs decision, the local
1:35.6	legislature passed SB 8, which banned abortion at six weeks gestation and put out a bounty for
1:42.1	anyone who aided or abetted a patient seeking the procedure.
1:46.4	That law took effect on September 1st, 2021.
1:50.4	When Roe was eventually overturned on June 24th last year, Texas enacted a series of trigger laws that banned abortion outright with almost no exception, putting an incalculable amount of Texans in a precarious position,
2:05.8	one of whom is Dr. Gazala Moieti, a board certified OBGYN
2:10.9	who've been providing above-board abortions for over a decade until last summer.
2:16.2	And she often says she's a child of Iranian immigrants, a mother, a Texan, and a proud abortion provider.
2:23.5	She's also our guest today.
2:25.5	On the first half of this episode,
2:27.2	we discuss the 50-year anniversary of Roe,
2:30.3	the conditions in Texas since its repeal, and what it will take to finally secure reproductive justice in America.
2:38.0	Then on the back half we discuss some of her remarkable story,
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