What We Must Do NOW to Save Reproductive Freedom with Kathryn Kolbert & Julie Kay

On Health for Women

Aviva Romm

Arts, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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The new medicine for women is here—I’m back with a new season full of taboo-busting conversations about all things women’s health. As a woman in her wisdom years, I’m bringing together the four decades of work I’ve done as a midwife, herbalist, and MD, to share tools, knowledge, ideas, and insights with you all. Today’s episode could not have come at a more pressing time in history with the recent decision by the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. I am joined by Kathryn Kolbert and Julie Kay, the authors of Controlling Women: What We Must Do NOW to Save Reproductive Freedom, for a critical conversation surrounding reproductive rights, abortion activism, and the American judicial system. Kolbert and Kay have together dedicated decades of their careers to litigating, lobbying, and plotting for the expansion of abortion rights. In the words of Joan Baez, "Action is the antidote to despair." We discuss: Why abortion became a potent and polarized political issue How the overturning of Roe affects maternal care and decisional autonomy The significant physical and emotional risks associated with lack of access to abortions How you can become active in making change at a personal and local level Thank you so much for taking the time to tune in to your body, yourself, and this podcast! Please share the love by sending this to someone in your life who could benefit from the kinds of things we talk about in this space. Make sure to follow me on Instagram @dr.avivaromm and go to avivaromm.com to join the conversation. Purchase a copy of Controlling Women: What We Must Do NOW to Save Reproductive Freedom here.

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0:00.0	So when you elect somebody who is pro-choice and will support the right to choose abortion,
0:10.4	you're probably also electing somebody who's going to be for common sense gun control
0:15.7	and who might be for greater access to child care or who might be, you know, for reducing
0:23.4	the high cost of drugs, all kinds of issues do turn on kind of the philosophies of legislators.
0:31.6	And I think the most important thing is for us to understand that the only way we win going
0:37.8	forward is to establish political power among those who believe as we do.
0:43.9	You're absolutely right in talking about the chill that this is causing on medical providers.
0:48.7	You know, I talk in the book about a patient, I represented in the 90s who in Louisiana
0:55.8	who had cardiomyopathy and life-threatening heart condition became pregnant.
1:00.2	Her cardio team would not refer her for an abortion because they said her life was at risk,
1:05.0	but it wasn't at a greater than 50 percent chance of dying.
1:11.7	From this stuff, your mother never told you to the stuff your doctor never learned.
1:15.8	On health is what happens when a midwife, plus a Yale-trained MD,
1:19.9	shares about all things women's health.
1:22.2	From periods to menopause, sex to reproductive health politics, motherhood to mental health,
1:27.8	joined me for taboo busting conversations that demystify and destigmatize our bodies,
1:33.4	all while bridging the gap between conventional medicine and wellness.
1:37.0	Along the way, we'll be exploring the science and wisdom of how our bodies work,
1:41.3	what makes us well, what gets in the way, and how we can live our best lives on our terms.
1:47.1	When it comes to women's health and well-being, there's nothing we won't talk about.
1:50.9	The new medicine for women is here. I'm Dr. Revivaram, welcome to the podcast.
2:04.2	For those of you who are new to my podcast, welcome.
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