(to the polls) Understanding Why IVF is at Risk with Sen. Erin Maye Quade

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🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Join Minnesota State Senator Erin Maye Quade for the 4th episode of our voter education series - Made It Out (to the polls)! This episode's discussion centers around reproductive healthcare with a focus on IVF - and understanding why it's at risk today. Senator Quade explains the Alabama court ruling that has had ripples across the country. This conversation also addresses gender affirming care bans, the anti-abortion movement's long term plan, and also includes fun cameos to explain political concepts including: Cammie and Taryn Arnold Scott and Queer Sex Therapist Casey Tanner! Follow our guest @erinmayequade and follow LPAC @teamLPAC. Make a donation to LPAC at https://www.teamlpac.com or make a donation to Erin at https://erinmayequade.com SHOP OUR "LESBIANS FOR KAMALA" MERCH! https://www.madeitoutpodcast.com/category/all-products We want Made It Out (to the polls) to be a safe, collaborative and engaged space where we can all discuss so we invite conversation in the comments but, as always, we ask that you do so with care. This series is a collaborative project between Made It Out Media and LPAC, and was produced by Mathilde Jourdan, Jacqueline Toboni and Michelle Atwood. The episode was edited by Mathilde Jourdan with cameos edited by Amber Rivera. Thank you for watching!! For all other inquiries, please email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey all, welcome back to Made It Out to the Polls, our voter education series in collaboration with
0:04.7	Alpac.
0:05.7	Matild and I flew to Minnesota after attending the DNC to sit down with Aaron May Quaid,
0:11.0	who's a Minnesota State Senator and a reproductive justice advocate.
0:15.9	And we talked about why IVF is at risk today, as well as other forms of reproductive health
0:20.7	care and freedoms. To explain the difference between IUI and
0:25.4	I. V. Here are the hosts of Staying Up Podcasts, Tammy and Taren,
0:29.3	podcasting. Since my wife and I here are big old lesbians, we can't just make babies the old-fashioned way.
0:36.8	But that doesn't mean we can't make them at all.
0:38.8	It just means that we must turn to science to help us using conception methods like IUI and IVF.
0:43.7	Let's start with IUI.
0:45.0	IUI is more hotly known as intrauterine
0:47.5	and it's the less invasive method of the two,
0:51.3	where sperm is collected, then inserted directly into the uterus near the time of ovulation,
0:55.3	think turkey-based her, with the hopes of making an embryo that grows into a cuteie little baby.
1:00.0	IVF in vitro fertilization is a more involved process that we know all too well because we're
1:05.2	currently going through it.
1:06.7	During IVF, doctors help you stimulate your ovaries with shots,
1:09.7	shots, shots, shots, shots, typically for 8 to 14 days to produce as many eggs as possible.
1:16.5	When you're fully cooked, your eggs are retrieved from the ovaries,
1:19.2	then fertilized with donor sperm in the lab
1:21.0	to create embryos.
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