What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Can the Internet Rescue Abortion Access?
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🗓️ 6 May 2022
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The pandemic changed the way abortion care could be provided online. So what happens now?
Guest: Dr. Mai Fleming, family medicine physician and Fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health.
Host: Lizzie O'Leary
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| 0:00.0 | I guess first, do you want to just introduce yourself and tell me what you do? |
| 0:10.4 | Sure. |
| 0:11.4 | My name is Dr. My Fleming. |
| 0:14.3 | I'm a family medicine physician at the University of California, San Francisco, at a telehealth |
| 0:20.6 | company called Haging, and I'm a fellow with physicians for reproductive health. |
| 0:26.0 | I called up Dr. Fleming after the draft opinion overturning Roe v Wade leaked from the Supreme |
| 0:31.0 | Court, a draft opinion that appears to have the votes. |
| 0:35.2 | In some ways, Fleming was expecting this, but it didn't make it easier to hear. |
| 0:40.9 | It still was very upsetting to see the words that were written by Justice Alito while folks |
| 0:50.5 | who have been working in reproductive health and access have been talking about this for |
| 0:55.9 | a long time. |
| 0:56.9 | I'm hoping that the shock of this for not just us, but for everybody really brings this issue |
| 1:05.7 | into the mainstream. |
| 1:08.1 | In her practice in San Francisco, Fleming provides all kinds of medical care, including abortion. |
| 1:13.9 | She also does something else. |
| 1:17.1 | I also provide telehealth medication abortion across five different states where I'm licensed |
| 1:22.3 | to practice medicine through a company called Haging, and I'm doing so to help broaden access |
| 1:27.1 | to care beyond my geographic bubble. |
| 1:31.5 | Today on the show, a conversation with a doctor who helps facilitate abortion via the internet. |
| 1:37.3 | The pandemic changed the way abortion care could be provided online, so what happens now? |
| 1:43.9 | I'm Lizio Leary, and you're listening to WhatNextTBD, a show about technology, power, |
| 1:49.3 | and how the future will be determined. |
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