Imperfect Paradise presents LAist Investigates: The Unknown Mandate - Accessing Medication Abortion at California Universities

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🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Imperfect Paradise host Antonia Cereijido is joined by LAist Senior Health Reporter Jackie Fortier and Higher Education Correspondent Adolfo Guzman-Lopez to break down their investigation into why many students and faculty across California's public universities don't know that medication abortion is mandated on their campuses. This is the latest LAist Investigates episode on Imperfect Paradise that highlights reporting from our newsroom.

CONTENT WARNING: This episode includes first-hand description of an outpatient abortion procedure.

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0:00.0	Come see the new quiz show, go fact yourself, with special guests Andy Richter and fresh airs
0:05.2	Tanya Mosley.
0:06.6	It's March 23rd at the Crawford.
0:08.5	Get your tickets at LAS.com slash events. Hey, I'm Antonia Sirejido and you're listening to Imperfect Paradise, a show about hidden worlds and messy realities.
0:27.1	We are bringing you our latest, eliest investigates, a single episode deep dive into an investigation out of our
0:34.0	Laius newsroom. Today a messy story about abortion access here in
0:39.6	California, the biggest blue state. On a sunny day in November 2023,
0:51.0	Lest senior health reporter Jackie Fordier met up with Deanna Gomez at a park in Rancho Kukamanga.
0:57.0	How long do I have you for?
0:59.0	Like hour, hour and a half.
1:01.0	Oh, okay.
1:02.0	Lots of time. Deanna is 25. She has dark hair about shoulder length. She has long acrylic nails. I think they were
1:11.8	French tip and she speaks a lot with her
1:13.8	hands. So if you listen like really carefully to the audio you can hear it kind of
1:17.6	click a little bit. She's really vivacious. You look a lot younger than I anticipated. Oh yeah I thought we were like the same age until you said you graduated from 2009. No I'm 36. Oh wow. You age beautifully. Well, thank you.
1:33.0	Deanna wanted to study to become a teacher or an educator of some kind.
1:37.0	She enrolled at Cal State San Bernardino in 2022.
1:41.0	It's one of 23 schools in the California State University or CSU system, the largest
1:47.0	public university system in the country. Most CSUs, including Cal State San Bernardino, are what's called Hispanic serving institutions.
1:57.0	Colleges or universities, where 25% of undergraduates are Latino and at least half of the students are low income.
2:04.0	Cal State San Bernardino is the kind of university that attracts students who are focused
2:08.6	on getting their diploma and getting out. I think within the Cal State and University of California systems
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