Hacking the Uterus 2.0

Why Oh Why

Andrea Silenzi

Personal Journals, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The inexpensive reproductive healthcare coverage offered by the Affordable Care Act may soon be a distant memory. On today's show, we speak with a woman fresh off her own IUD insertion procedure to see how she's adjusting. Then, we revisit a classic episode from Why Oh Why's years as a baby podcast. Travel back with us to January 2014, as your host prepares for her own IUD insertion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Panoply.
0:03.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:08.6	I recently had the fun of chatting with one of our listeners, Audrey in Austin, Texas.
0:15.7	It was right after her appointment to get an IUD.
0:19.6	It's our 24-hour anniversary right now.
0:22.6	How much are you bleeding right now?
0:24.4	Are we talking about my heart or like physically bleeding?
0:26.9	Because I'm so very sad about what happened in the election.
0:31.0	And the election is the reason she went in for that appointment.
0:34.0	She works for a religious nonprofit and had to take out a second insurance card
0:38.0	just to cover her reproductive health care.
0:40.0	That's free right now under the Affordable Care Act, but if the Trump administration
0:44.4	follows through with their plans, Earth control could become prohibitively expensive.
0:50.3	I don't have that money. I don't have an extra $ bucks a month and I'm not ready to go without either so I just kind of grab the bull by the horns and made the decision to invest in my long-term health.
1:04.0	Hence, the IUD.
1:06.0	I signed up for this five-year commitment to me and my little Marina,
1:10.0	and I don't know, it makes me feel better to think of her like a friend rather than this
1:15.0	like foreign body that's picking up residents in my uterus.
1:18.0	And she knows you really well.
1:20.0	She knows me inside and out.
1:25.0	This is YAWI. I'm Andrea Stilezi.
1:30.0	Some of you may know that this show is a reboot.
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