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Hey, this is Alexis Haines and welcome to Recovering from Reality,

where I illuminate the messy and magical path of coming home to yourself.

Whether you're on the road to recovery, seeking self-care techniques for surviving the

capitalist machine, or just need a moment to remember that you're not alone in your loneliness,

we're serving up the ultimate truth. Your challenges don't define you, how you deal with them does.

So are you ready to recover from reality?

People present with a full range and variety of beliefs around their bodies and pregnancy and

come to us for care with whole lives that involve families and their careers and their hopes

and dreams and aspirations that we know nothing about. And so as providers, all we need to focus on

is providing compassionate care, whatever that looks like, whether it be helping the patient

continue a pregnancy or helping a patient seek abortion care. At the end of the day, politicians

need to stay out of my exam room because they don't know what's best. In fact, the patient knows

what's best for them. That was a quick clip from this week's episode with Dr. Mira Shah

when Planned Parenthood first reached out to me and asked if Dr. Shah could come on my podcast.

My answer was obviously yes. We know that it won't come to politics. I am more left-leaning,

but this issue shouldn't be about politics. It shouldn't be about left-right or center.

This is about reproductive justice and about women's health care and the health care of all people

with uteruses for that matter. And as someone who has had to make lots of really tough decisions when

it came to her reproductive health care, sometimes choosing to end the pregnancy, sometimes having to have a DNC

even though I didn't want one, right? Because my baby didn't have a heartbeat and I wasn't passing it

on its own. And also choosing to continue with a super high-risk pregnancy that lots of women would

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