Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement,

and a former health commissioner here in Baltimore.

Our goal is to bring evidence and experience

to illuminate critical public health issues.

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Today, June 24th, 2022, our topic is the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

I speak to Dr. Reagan-McDonnell-Moseley, an obstetrician gynecologist, and the CEO of Power to

decide, a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit

organization that, and I'm quoting here, works to ensure all people have the power to decide

if, when, and under what circumstances to get pregnant and have a child.

Let's listen.

Dr. Reagan, McDonald-Moseley, thanks so much for joining me so quickly after the Supreme Court's decision in the Dobbs case.

Thank you so much for having me.

I really can't think of anyone I'd rather talk to about this decision, given your

work in this area.

Could you give our audience a little bit of a background to your career?

Sure. I'm an obstetrician gynecologist with a background in complex family planning training.

But I think the interesting thing to note is that I actually became a doctor, in part to provide abortion care.

As a young college student, I had the opportunity

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