Can the Internet Rescue Abortion Access?
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🗓️ 6 May 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
The pandemic changed the way abortion care could be provided online. So what happens now?
Guest: Dr. Mai Fleming, family medicine physician and Fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health.
Host: Lizzie O'Leary
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| 1:54.9 | I called up Dr. Fleming after the draft opinion of returning Roe v Wade leaked from the Supreme |
| 2:04.9 | Court, a draft opinion that appears to have the votes. In some ways, Fleming was expecting this, |
| 2:11.6 | but it didn't make it easier to hear. It still was very upsetting to see the words that were written |
| 2:20.2 | by Justice Alito while folks who have been working in reproductive health and access have been |
| 2:28.7 | talking about this for a long time. I'm hoping that the shock of this for not just us, but for |
| 2:35.8 | everybody really brings this issue into the mainstream. In her practice in San Francisco, Fleming |
| 2:43.9 | provides all kinds of medical care, including abortion. She also does something else. |
| 2:51.1 | I also provide telehealth medication abortion across five different states where I'm licensed |
| 2:56.1 | to practice medicine through a company called H.J.E.N. and I'm doing so to help broaden access to |
| 3:01.2 | care beyond my geographic bubble. Today on the show, a conversation with a doctor who helps |
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