Ali Block
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886 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard Oct 2023
Ali Block’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She was getting to spend more time with her patients than she ever had before, train residents, which she loved, and work four days a week, which gave her time to be around as her daughter entered preschool and her son took his first steps.
The neighbors in their small town warmly embraced them, and after two years of pandemic and 11 years of medical training, Layla felt like she was finally living again.
Meanwhile, the anti-abortion machine was churning away.
That December of 2021, Layla got tapped to speak on behalf of the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine against SB8, the newly proposed Texas law that would ban abortion after six weeks.
She spoke to the crowd from the steps of the Supreme Court, testifying on how dangerous she believed the ban would be to pregnant people throughout Texas.
Looking out at the crowd, she said it hit her for the first time.
If this could happen in Texas, could it happen everywhere?
It took a few months, but finally Layla gave in and started a conversation.
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Layla wasn't the only one scrambling to figure out what this would mean.
Like many states across the country, Tennessee had a slew of restrictive abortion laws that had been passed pre-Dobbs, but had been prevented from going into effect by Roe.
Now those laws were all suddenly made legal, but state courts around the country were scrambling to figure out which of the laws they could implement.
Ultimately, Layla didn't really feel like she had a choice.
As a young abortion provider in the most restrictive state in the country, there was too much to lose if she stayed.
The abortion landscape in Tennessee was in shambles.
Many providers left, and the providers who remained faced the strictest laws in the country.
No abortions.
No exceptions.
Not even to save the life of the mother.
Even terminating an ectopic pregnancy left a clinician vulnerable to be charged with a felony.
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