Ali Block

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The Nocturnists · Two abortion providers grapple with their post-Roe reality · 9 Oct 2023 podcast

These are the few that have managed to get here.

That's a good question.

Nikki, you want to take it first?

And for me, I was always interested in reproductive health and reproductive rights just from the way I grew up.

I grew up in a very liberal family in New York City and supporting those causes was always kind of part of the water in my family that we were all drinking.

And um then when I went to medical school and decided to go into family medicine for my specialty, I knew that I wanted to stay really broad and continue.

Continue with reproductive, comprehensive reproductive health care as part of my practice.

So I matched into a residency program in Santa Rosa in Sonoma County in California that has a wonderful abortion training program and got trained up there.

And then when I graduated from residency, took a faculty job at another residency program in Northern California where I continued the work both providing abortion care to patients and also teaching the next generation of abortion providers.

For me, I finished medical school in 2011.

So again, abortion was really baked into my residency program.

So I started providing then, um, but then as an attending when I graduated in twenty fourteen.

So it's been almost ten years.

Yeah, I really like the way that Nikki talks about it in our post row America series of the Nocturna.

She talks about how she's sort of felt like chicken little running around for years and years.

And I think that I to some extent felt that way too.

I mean, I was in a much more protected bubble, obviously living in California all that time.

But I would go to these same conferences probably that Nikki was going to, where everybody, I mean, especially after the Trump election, where everybody thought the writing's on the wall.

Roe is, you know, coming down and then especially with all the Supreme Court appointments that Trump got, it seemed very clear.

And everybody not in the family planning community

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