Abortion and Miscarriage Support with Zachi Brewster

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

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Health & Fitness, Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 651 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Hannah is joined by Zachi Brewster, who is an abortion doula and sex educator. Zachi discusses her miscarriage and abortion experience, and also her work supporting others through an abortion. Her and Hannah talk about the impact COVID has had on abortions, and reproductive health and sex education in general. Finally, Hannah and Zachi discuss the importance of activism and advocacy around abortion access and support, and how abortions are over regulated and over politicised.

CW: abortion, miscarriage

MORE ABOUT GUEST:
Zachi is a Black, queer, abortion doula and sex and pleasure educator. She recently created Dopo, a community platform providing honest and inclusive abortion care and education. In short, she supports individuals through transitional experiences and builds communities around our shared stories. Her work aligns with her personal mission to improve reproductive and sexual health services for all.

Zachi's Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/zaz.brw/
Dopo: https://www.instagram.com/doposupport/

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0:00.0	That's happened in last year.
0:01.2	That's like the biggest upgrade, I think, in abortion care in England since 1967.
0:07.8	Wow.
0:08.3	Which is huge.
0:09.6	It's absolutely huge.
0:10.8	And if you think that that change happened in for telemedical abortion happened in March.
0:16.7	And by June, I think half or just over half of all abortions were happening at home.
0:27.3	Welcome to Doing It with me, Hannah Whitten, where we talk all things, sex, relationships, dating and our bodies.
0:38.9	Hi folks, welcome back to doing it.
0:41.6	Before we get into today's episode, I wanted to mention some relevant things to the topics
0:46.5	we discuss here that have been happening in the UK recently and some small but important
0:52.5	actionable things that you can do right now to help.
0:55.6	And just FYI, I recorded these intros about a week before the episode goes live.
1:00.8	So I'm sorry if this isn't super up to date.
1:03.3	And feel free to share more resources and actions with us on social media.
1:07.5	I know we have people from all over the world listening,
1:12.7	but in the UK, the murder of Sarah Everard has been in the headlines. She was walking home one evening when she disappeared,
1:17.9	and a police officer has been arrested, accused of her kidnap and murder. This is horrifying in
1:23.7	itself, and women all over the UK, including myself, are feeling really shaken.
1:28.3	And then there was the actions of the police at the vigil in Clap and Common and now the government are trying to pass the police crime, sentencing and court's bill,
1:37.3	which will give the police more power to squash protests and create tighter restrictions on protests.
1:42.3	Never mind the fact that Clapin Common was a vigil, not a protest.
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