Trailer: Post-Roe America
The Nocturnists
Emily Silverman
4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the Dobbs Decision. Overnight, Americans lost the protections on abortion care that Roe vs. Wade had afforded for almost 50 years. Soon afterward, The Nocturnists began talking to abortion providers around the country. Join us for The Nocturnists: Post-Roe America – a 7-episode podcast series featuring the stories of abortion providers from Texas to Tennessee, Oklahoma to Ohio, and beyond.
Series Host: Ali Block, MD
Co-creators: Emily Silverman, MD & Ali Block, MD
Featured Contributors: April Lockley, DO; Bhavik Kumar, MD MPH; Christina Bourne, MD MPH; Emily Patel, MD; Zack Gingrich-Gaylord and other healthcare workers who wish to remain anonymous
More information at thenocturnists.com/post-roe-america
The Nocturnists: Post-Roe America series was made possible in part by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation.
The Nocturnists is supported by the California Medical Association, and people like you who have donated through our website and Patreon page.
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| 0:00.0 | On June 24th, 2022, the United States Supreme Court issued the Dobbs decision. |
| 0:08.4 | Overnight, Americans lost the protections on abortion care that Roversus Wade had afforded |
| 0:13.2 | for almost 50 years. Soon afterward, the nocturnist began talking to abortion providers around |
| 0:18.8 | the country. I was in my office and I was getting up to go see a patient and I got that alert. |
| 0:25.6 | I was like holding back tears when I walked in to go see this patient. |
| 0:29.6 | Got out of there and went back to my office and I cried. |
| 0:31.6 | In that moment, that person is looking at you like, why can't you help me? |
| 0:35.6 | They don't need to reckon with the state and this law and who passed it and who introduced it. And that's not important to them. You're a doctor, help me. The call is to the hotline just started coming in one after another, after another, after another. People were sitting in the parking lot or they were sitting in the clinic waiting room and they wanted to know what they could do. |
| 0:55.1 | It's chaos. It's chaos and confusion. |
| 0:57.1 | Sometimes we're asked, like, what do you think abortion looks like in 10 years? |
| 0:59.6 | And it's like, holy moly, out of 10 years, I'm worried about what it looks like in six months. |
| 1:05.5 | What can we learn from the providers at the heart of this crisis? |
| 1:08.5 | What kinds of choices did they face? |
| 1:10.7 | And what was the fallout for them and their communities? |
| 1:13.4 | From the award-winning healthcare storytelling podcast, The Nocturnists, comes post-Roe America, |
| 1:19.3 | a seven-episode series featuring the stories of abortion providers from Texas to Tennessee, |
| 1:24.3 | Oklahoma to Ohio, and beyond. |
| 1:26.4 | I didn't learn this in residency. |
| 1:28.2 | I didn't learn what it would be like to be a doctor in a true geopolitical crisis. |
| 1:33.9 | First episode drops September 21st. |
| 1:36.3 | See you then. |
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