Bodily Autonomy

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This week, we feature two stories about women forced to make tough choices about their health. This episode is hosted by Sarah Austin Jenness.

Host: Sarah Austin Jenness

Storytellers:

Robin Utz

Jill Chenault

If you are interested in more stories that spotlight these issues – through the experiences of those who lived them – visit themoth.org for an extended playlist.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Moth Podcast. For 25 years, the Moth has elevated personal stories to showcase
0:10.6	the complexity of the human experience, to champion empathy, and to invite conversation.
0:17.7	As we wait for a ruling from the Supreme Court over the state of Roe v Wade, we at the Moth
0:23.7	produced this special podcast episode to shine the light on the depth and humanity of the issue,
0:29.9	and remind us that the decisions about our bodies are deeply personal. Moth stories are true,
0:36.6	personal stories. They're always about agency and choice. The right to have autonomy over your
0:43.6	story, voice, and body are paramount to the work we do. Today we have two stories for you about
0:50.1	bodily independence and health care. Listen with an open heart and an open mind as you do with all
0:56.6	Moth stories, and you just might find that these stories will help you process the discussions you
1:01.9	might be having with friends and loved ones. Our first story is from Robin Uts. She told this at a
1:09.0	Moth main stage in Boston where the theme was Give Me Liberty. Here's Robin live at the Moth.
1:25.8	I was pretty sure about my husband right off the bat. When I met him, I loved how he talked
1:32.7	about the things that he loved so much. He would have me come over to his apartment and we'd
1:39.5	watch Soul Train YouTube clips until late in the evening and he would look at me with these adoring
1:45.2	eyes and say, it's the happiest place on earth. And I was like, it really is. It took me no time to
1:55.3	know I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him. And it took pretty much no time to realize I
2:00.7	wanted to have a child with him. And the happily ever after has been easy. We're still as in love
2:07.2	today as we've ever been. But the child part has not been so easy. It was after four years of trying,
2:18.7	two rounds of in vitro, three frozen transfers from those in vitros and a miscarriage that we finally
2:26.2	got pregnant with our daughter, Grace Pearl. And we were just ecstatic. The pregnancy went like a breeze.
2:39.8	And before we knew it, we were at the anatomy scan, which happens a little over halfway through
2:44.9	the pregnancy. And I could not wait. I wanted that profile shot. You know, you get the little
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