Birth Care for Every Body

In The Thick

Futuro Media

News, Politics

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this rebroadcast episode from 2021, Maria welcomes Marinah Valenzuela Farrell, a Chicanx midwife and director of the Changing Woman Initiative, and Dr. Rachel Hardeman, a reproductive health equity researcher and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, for a conversation about inequities in birthing healthcare. They discuss how to ground our ideas of parenthood in inclusive frameworks and the path towards reproductive justice.

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Photo credit: AP Photo/Darren Hauck

This episode originally aired in May 2021.

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0:00.0	Hey dear listener, a quick favor.
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0:26.4	Hey, in the thick family, it's Julio here.
0:38.9	So the team's taken its summer break because, you know, you got to take a break for self-care.
0:43.1	So today, we're going to share an episode that we recorded around Mother's Day last year
0:50.9	in 2021 that focuses on maternal health and the inequities that exist in birthing care
0:58.0	for women of color and the LGBTQ community.
1:02.4	You know, since the decision from the US Supreme Court in June to overturn Roe v Wade,
1:09.0	which, you know, Roe v Wade, constitutionally protected the right to privacy and to seek abortion
1:14.2	care, but since that decision to overturn it, we have seen several states across the country
1:19.3	put in place really harsh restrictions, including some states even taking away exceptions
1:25.3	for abortion in the case of rape or incest.
1:29.5	And for states where abortion is on the ballot, we're seeing an overwhelming response to
1:35.2	protect abortion access.
1:38.2	So in early August, right, Kansas voters rejected a ballot measure that would have taken
1:44.2	away constitutional protections for abortion in the state.
1:48.2	And the margin for that was huge.
1:51.4	People that voted against that ballot measure, it was a nearly 20% margin, which is a pretty
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