S1E35 / What’s Essential Health Care in a Pandemic? / Cecile Richards & Kersha Diebel

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KFF Health News and Just Human Productions

Science, #Coronavirus, Health & Fitness, #Smallpox, Documentary, #Covid19, #Sarscov2, #Eradication, Life Sciences, Society & Culture, #Covid, Medicine

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

"...the pandemic has simply highlighted for some people that hypocrisy, where politicians use so-called medical reasons, protecting women's health, as an excuse for what are really political goals, which is to end access to safe and legal abortion writ large." -Cecile Richards The COVID-19 pandemic has had profound effects on women's’ access to abortion services and reproductive health. In some states, abortion was categorized as elective surgery, and procedures were suspended. In today’s episode, we hear from Cecile Richards, the former president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Kersha Deibel, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio, and an abortion provider. They discuss the barriers to reproductive health access raised by COVID-19, the disparities this causes, and the impacts on women and healthcare providers. Nominations for the 2020 People's Choice Podcast Awards opened on July 1st. To show your support, please go to podcastawards.com and nominate us in the People’s Choice and Health categories. This podcast was created by Just Human Productions. We're powered and distributed by Simplecast. We're supported, in part, by listeners like you. #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #COVID #coronavirus

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sonia Baradwa. I'm an intern working with Just Human Productions on Epidemic.
0:07.0	Nominations for the 2020 People's Choice Podcast Awards opened on July 1st. To show your support, please go to podcast awards.com and
0:15.3	nominate us in the People's Choice and Health categories. That's podcast awards
0:20.0	dot com. Thanks. I'm Dr. Saline G the great work everyone is doing across the state of Ohio.
0:56.5	This has really been a time when people have truly come together.
1:00.4	Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has won a lot of praise for taking swift action to limit the spread of coronavirus.
1:07.0	Distance is probably the most important.
1:10.0	We're in some facial covering if you're out in public is certainly good practice.
1:15.8	The virus is as I said still very very much out there.
1:20.3	He announced that the state would be under a stay-at-home order until early April.
1:25.2	The order included something else that was common in the early days of the pandemic, a ban on all
1:31.0	non-essential health procedures.
1:33.5	And they had a very clear list of things
1:36.7	that could continue.
1:38.5	This is Dr. Catherine Romanos,
1:40.4	a family doctor based in Ohio.
1:43.0	Catherine was listening closely that day and every day after trying to understand how the
1:47.6	band would impact her line of work.
1:49.9	I practice mostly abortion care in Ohio.
1:53.4	She listened as a Department of Health official
1:55.8	detailed four categories of care permitted under the ban.
2:00.0	She relaxed slightly because...
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