The Overturn of Roe v. Wade with Dr. Lani Tal, OBGYN and Dr. Leilah Zahedi-Spung, OBGYN
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I talk with Dr. Lani Tal, OBGYN with special training in Complex Contraception and Abortion Care, and Dr. Leilah Zahedi-Spung, OBGYN and Maternal Medicine Physician about the recent overturn of Roe v. Wade. We unpack exactly how and why this devastating legal decision happened, Lani and Leilah’s reactions and experiences in the immediate aftermath, and what their work looks like now in a post Roe-v.-Wade-overturned world. They share the reality of how this will affect disenfranchised women seeking abortions, explain why every abortion is lifesaving, give advice on how to discuss these issues with anti-choice individuals, and much more.
Key Takeaway / Points:
- The overturn of Roe v. Wade and how we got here
- How disenfranchised women (women of color, poor women, victims of abuse, women with mental health issues) are at risk with this change
- Leilah’s perspective as a person of color and concerns about where this leads us as a country
- The reality now for women seeking abortions in abortion-restrictive states
- How this affects ectopic pregnancies, miscarriages, and the IVF community
- What we can all do to help and act (vote, vote, vote)
- Advice on how to discuss these issues with anti-choice individuals
- An overview of the Turnaway Study and its findings
Links I mention in this episode:
Purchase the Turnaway Study Lani mentions here
The foundations that they recommend donating to are National Abortion Federation, Patient Forward, Abortion Funds
An article regarding IVF and the overturn of Roe v. Wade that Lani sent me after recording: “Infertility Patients and Doctors Fear Abortion Bans Could Restrict I.V.F” by the New York Times
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Freckle Foodie fam. Today's episode is a bit unlike normal context, I guess. I am moving around |
| 0:08.9 | our schedule to make sure that this episode is released as quickly as possible because I think it is |
| 0:14.1 | timely as ever and important as ever and honestly probably the most important episode I've ever |
| 0:22.2 | recorded and published in the three, four years of podcasting. As you all know, I am very pro |
| 0:31.2 | choice and have spoken a lot about the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade and the |
| 0:39.0 | implications it has on me as a female and other people with universities and how |
| 0:44.5 | downright absurd, I think this decision was and just the terrifying feeling I have, a feeling |
| 0:51.9 | helpless and scared for our future and I wanted to bring on people with an expertise in this |
| 0:59.8 | field to share context of what happened, what this actually looks like from a medical standpoint, |
| 1:06.5 | what our future holds, what we can do, really just lay it all out there and as I mentioned in the |
| 1:14.0 | beginning of this episode, my older sister's very good friend since high school who has been a |
| 1:19.2 | part of my life since I was I guess 11 or 12 is a doctor focused in family planning and I asked |
| 1:27.7 | her to come on and so this episode is with Lonnie Tall and Leila Spong. They are both doctors focused |
| 1:34.8 | in this field and really in my opinion give us a inside look into what the fuck just happened |
| 1:43.5 | and what we can do and what this implies and what our future looks like and everything in between. |
| 1:51.6 | I also got a lot of your listener questions and so we get to those at the end of the episode. |
| 1:56.6 | I want to call out that I was having some technical difficulties with Zoom while we were recording |
| 2:02.9 | so the audio quality is not up to my personal standards which is not ideal but I think this |
| 2:10.1 | conversation is so important to have and worth sharing that I am letting my ego go and my like |
| 2:16.8 | need for perfectionism and doing the best with what we have so thank you in advance for understanding |
| 2:23.7 | that obviously this isn't the type of audio quality I want for all episodes in the future so just |
| 2:28.4 | please remember that we're trying it's just sometimes you got to make do with what you have |
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