Ease.

To feel light and to live a life with peace of mind.

Knowing that I am loved and supported as I am.

All my needs met, sovereign over my body,

our beautiful, blooming bodies have needs and desires.

They are natural and they are human.

This is Tatiana Ali and you're listening to Natal. Welcome back to Nadel. I'm Gabrielle. That was award-winning actress and black

maternal health advocate Tatyana Ali.

She was reciting a passage from Hole, a narrative by the visioners for abortion freedom.

When I first read Hole, I remember thinking, I could have really used something like this when I had my own abortion over a decade ago.

As a young black girl and a recent college grad in a new city,

that time in my life was transformative in a lot of ways.

But mostly because my abortion really changed how I started to think about care.

I remember having to wait until I could take time off of work,

how I traveled far away,

the loneliness of recovery that lingered weeks, months after.

It was hard to know where to go,

who to tell, and where to find support.

Yeah, I got the care I paid for, sure, but anything to fill in the

gaps, anything more, whole, that felt like asking for too much, honestly. According to a May

2024 report from the National Partnership for Women and Families, nearly 2.7 million black women who live in states with abortion bans or restrictions face economic insecurity.

It's the missed work days and wages, the transportation and possible overnight stay, the meals, the child care, the cost of the abortion itself, it all starts

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