I got an email from a listener recently.

My name is Pratima Gupta.

Pratima is an OBGYN in San Francisco.

I do everything from pap smears to delivering babies to providing abortions.

This woman, Pratima, she delivers babies and terminates pregnancies, which are two

things that may seem like complete opposites.

But the truth is, they're part of one big continuum.

I can't tell you how often I'm talking to moms, and while they're telling me about

their child, they also feel the need to tell me about an abortion that they had.

The termination and the birth are all part of the same story.

So it totally makes sense to have one doctor who does both.

But it turns out, this job combination, it's really rare.

It's interesting how people just label you as the abortion doctor.

This is the longest shortest time I'm Hillary Frank.

In today's episode, we will hear what it's like to be one of the few doctors who help women

through births and abortions.

Pratima's father was an obstetrician.

He worked long hours, of course.

And if one of his patients went into labor, his schedule could turn on a dime.

When Pratima was a kid, she'd be out with him at the mall or something.

And his beaper would go off.

He'd have to rush over to the hospital to deliver a baby with Pratima in tow.

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