Two abortion providers grapple with their post-Roe reality
The Nocturnists
Emily Silverman
4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Host of STAT First Opinion Podcast, Torie Bosch, interviews family medicine physicians and abortion providers Ali Block and Nikki Zite.
Physicians Alison Block and Nikki Zite knew what they were getting into when they became abortion providers early in their medical training. Family planning has long been a politicized, divisive area of medicine. And even though they knew that Roe v. Wade — the 1973 Supreme Court case that protected abortion access across the country — was being threatened, it still hit them hard when that ruling was actually overturned in June 2022.
This interview was originally released on STAT's First Opinion Podcast, October 4, 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. If you've been enjoying the Postro America series, we wanted to give you a little something extra. |
| 0:05.0 | Last week, I did an interview with Nikki Zite for the Statt First Opinion podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | If you remember, Nikki was the amazing abortion provider from Tennessee that we profiled in the first episode of the series. |
| 0:14.6 | It was a great conversation about the unintended consequences of the Dobbs decision for providers and educators like us. |
| 0:20.3 | And we thought you'd enjoy it. |
| 0:22.0 | We'll be back on Thursday with episode four of the nocturnous post-row America. |
| 0:28.5 | Every day at the Kansas Clinic where I perform abortions, I take care of pregnant people who have |
| 0:32.8 | driven 10 hours or more across state lines for their procedures. They're exhausted after moving |
| 0:37.6 | mountains to get there, taking time off work, arranging child care, gathering funds. They're |
| 0:42.8 | excessively grateful, and their gratitude makes me sad. These are the lucky ones, I think. These are |
| 0:48.3 | the few that have managed to get here. That was Ali Block, a family medicine doctor, abortion provider, writer, and co-creator and host of the podcast The Nocturnists, Post-Roe America. |
| 1:06.2 | She was reading from her recent First Opinion essay on the unintended consequences of the end of Roe v. Wade. |
| 1:11.9 | Welcome to the new season of the First Opinion podcast. |
| 1:18.4 | I'm Tori Bosch, editor of First Opinion. First Opinion is Stats platform for interesting, |
| 1:24.0 | illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, |
| 1:27.8 | written by biotech insiders, health care workers, researchers, and others. |
| 1:32.7 | Welcome, Allie and Nikki. Thank you so much for being here. |
| 1:35.8 | Thank you so much for having us. We're happy to be here. |
| 1:38.1 | So you both are or have been abortion providers, a field that, of course, comes with a great deal of baggage in many ways. |
| 1:46.3 | So what made you decide to go into this form of patient care? |
| 1:49.5 | That's a good question. |
| 1:50.4 | Nikki, you want to take it first? |
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