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NATAL

Part Four: The Abortion Stories We Need

NATAL

Martina Abrahams Ilunga

Birthing Podcast, Documentary, Maternal Mortality, Black Podcast, Birth Justice, Lgbtq Pregnancy, Health Policy, Queer Pregnancy, Black Maternal Health, Infant Mortality, Trans Birthing, Infant Morbidity, Personal Journals, Black Birthing, Black Pregnancy, Lgtbq Birthing, Prenatal Podcast, Queer Birthing, Trans Pregnancy, Pregnancy Podcast, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Black Infertility, Maternal Health, Perinatal Health, Reproductive Justice, Black Health Policy

4.6622 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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0:00.0

I am writing from the future in hope that you shift your strategies before it's too late to win. Something that it seems should be so simple

0:24.3

what it is to inhabit the dreams bequeathed to us by visioners who fought so we could rest, so we could

0:34.2

dance, so we could love, so we could be unencumbered by a pregnancy we do not want,

0:42.5

or the weight of others' expectations.

0:48.7

We are riding ourselves into the future, into the vast blackness of the unknown, glittering with stardust,

0:58.7

creating and imagining and constructing our futures does not discard our origins, but is instead

1:06.4

fueled by where we have been, who we have been.

1:11.6

We are simultaneously who we have always been and who we have always imagined ourselves to be.

1:21.6

I'm Ash Williams and you're listening to Natal.

1:28.9

Welcome back. You're listening to Natal.

1:42.1

I'm Martina Abraham's Ilunga.

1:47.1

And I'm Gabrielle Horton, and here we are at the end of another season. It's been such a great one, too.

1:54.7

It really has. And even though season three is coming to an end, it feels like we're at a new beginning,

2:01.9

you know, like we're just getting started again.

2:04.5

It does. It feels like the ramp up is just starting.

2:07.7

What's been a highlight for you, though?

2:09.8

Ooh, I think a highlight for me is just the sacrifice of service that all of our guests

2:15.6

have personified in every episode.

2:18.0

You know, they've really been a guiding light for me recently.

2:21.0

I am very online, and it's easy to fall into despair when you are knee-deep in Twitter discourse.

2:27.8

But Natal always brings me back to reality, back to what's happening on the ground, and back to what people are doing. It remind me that

2:36.6

this is really what's happening, delivering care, organizing and mobilizing resources,

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