I'm Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Year of Pologamy podcast.

I'm your host Lindsay and this is part two of our little mini series on women's reproductive health in Mormonism.

So if you are just tuning in, you want to go to episode one.

I'll link it here.

But make sure you hear that one first so you can hear the context of our conversation.

I'm going to lead you into the conversation with scholars Christina Rosetti and Sarah Brains.

Sarah Brains is a midwife, and Christina Rosetti is a fellow studying Mormonism. She's a Catholic girl studying the Mormon faith.

And so we're going to be talking part two of women's fertility and Mormon sexuality.

So you were walking us into the 1860s, Sarah, is there anything else you want to say on early Mormonism and reproduction before we move on?

I just want to reiterate what that Christina mentioned off of the recording is that women, that midwives were called to this calling. It was a it was a

call they were set apart and their Patty sessions she was not only set apart by Joseph Smith to be

midwife but she was also then set apart by Hebrew C, Kimball and Brigham Young in 1847 for the specific job of healing women

and for taking care of women in their medical needs. So she received several,

several callings and setting apart and ordinations to care for the women of the church.

And that it was a very, it was an honored role in the 1800s. And I

have personally felt that there not be that much of an honoring of that legacy today.

Just want to put that in there. Yeah, no, I absolutely agree with that. And I think it has roots in, we talk about this, but in some ways, women had a lot more autonomy than they do now in the church once it's been streamlined.

And I think we see that in all aspects of women's spaces, right?

Like, their spheres, how they interact with one another is now completely different.

It's sort of, what's the word I want?

Correlated.

I hate to be cliche, but it is.

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