Interlude: The Calling

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Martina Abrahams Ilunga

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4.6 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Alabama Birth Collective founder Jasmine Merritt on answering the call to serve.

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0:00.0	So I always knew that I wanted to either be a OBGYN, or I wanted to be a nurse practitioner.
0:20.4	It wasn't until I got off to college.
0:23.6	And I was always the go-to friend,
0:27.0	whether someone was having some reproductive issues.
0:31.4	Someone was, you know, getting an abortion.
0:34.5	They need someone to be there with them.
0:36.5	Someone found out they had an SDD, and I had to, you know, go with them.
0:40.3	So I always knew, you know, that, okay, God, like, you're showing me all of this.
0:46.1	My friends are calling me in the middle of night.
0:47.9	This is what's going on.
0:50.2	Can you run with me to the doctor or to the clinic?
0:52.6	And I'm like, what?
0:53.7	Why me? I started, to the clinic? And I'm like, what? Why me?
0:56.4	I started, you know, supporting my friends, and I wasn't even a dual event.
1:00.6	But I was a pre-med biology major, changed to a nursing major, changed to a public health major.
1:06.0	Okay, check them all.
1:07.9	Girl, all the boxes.
1:10.2	It's okay, jazz. It's all coming in and in a meeting. Yeah, so that boxes. It's okay, Jazz.
1:11.4	It's all coming in a name.
1:12.8	So, yeah, so that happened.
1:14.7	And it wasn't until one of the, one of my friends, I want to say it was like my
1:19.7	sophomore year, she found out she was pregnant.
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