Talking About Abortion with Dr. Meera Shah
Girls Gotta Eat
Ashley Hesseltine
4.6 • 29.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2020
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, we're discussing abortion with Dr. Meera Shah, a family medicine physician who provides abortion care and the recent author of You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion (September 1 release). Meera provides us with information and facts regarding the abortion process and how it varies from state to state, and we discuss stigmas surrounding this area of reproductive health, why some women choose not to share their stories, barriers to access and marginalized groups that are affected the most, abortion rights and the political climate, and more. While we express our pro-choice stance, this episode is based on factual information and does not criticize those with pro-life beliefs.
Before we bring in our guest, we're discussing (and spilling some tea on) a former guest who's been at the top of the pop culture headlines lately, Dale Moss, giving a Brennan update, sharing some listeners' sex tips, and Ashley threatens to FaceTime Rayna's man-who's-not-her-man to have a word. Hope you enjoy!
Go to YoureTheOnlyOneIveTold.com for more info on Dr. Meera Shah and to pre-order the book.
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| 0:00.0 | What I also found was that when an individual shared their story with me afterwards, |
| 0:03.8 | many people would say, wow, like, you're the only one I've told, or I haven't told many people this, |
| 0:09.6 | and it felt really nice to share that. |
| 0:11.8 | Hi guys! Welcome back to another episode of Girls Gotta Eat. Welcome back and fuck you, Brennan! |
| 0:33.6 | We're not gonna say that anymore. You guys bombed us with these nose masks. |
| 0:36.3 | People validated us. There was four almost like cool Brennan, no one was that. |
| 0:42.3 | You didn't read deep enough. You did not, I read everyone. You caught me. |
| 0:47.4 | We really listened to an old episode recently and we'll get to why. |
| 0:51.9 | Just spoiler alert, it's Dale Moss. Dale Moss is in the news and he's a former guest. |
| 0:55.1 | We're gonna spill all the tea we have on Dale coming in hot. But in that episode, |
| 1:00.5 | your dad came up. You said something about your dad and I go, oh my god, this is the first time |
| 1:04.1 | we brought up your dad in that episode. Because we always use talk about your mom. |
| 1:07.8 | Oh yeah, because she was like the star of the podcast for me to listen to that and say, |
| 1:11.4 | oh my god, we never talk about your dad when literally all we've done recently is talk about your |
| 1:14.2 | dad. It was a very funny thing to hear. I remember that episode so well because I was like, |
| 1:18.4 | oh, I have a dad. I'm surprised I have a dad. Because my mom was like the third host of this podcast. |
| 1:23.8 | And then also, it was like, I never had a mom again. We never talked about my mom ever again. |
| 1:28.0 | All right, guys, really quick up top, we just want to say this episode is about abortion. |
| 1:37.3 | We just want to let you know that it is a episode filled with a lot of factual information, |
| 1:43.1 | statistics. We have a doctor. She is a new author named Marisha. And we stuck to a lot of facts. |
| 1:48.9 | We talk about some things politically. But it's really more of discussing abortion as opposed to |
| 1:55.8 | a lot of emotion and opinion surrounding it. So I think you guys know where we stand and we'll |
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