Ali Block

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

thought that they were we were kind of hysterical, I think.

I mean, really thought like, that's nuts, you know, you guys are obsessed with abortion and this is all you think about and talk about it.

So of course you think that this is the case.

But again, what Nikki was saying, you know, running around feeling like chicken little and then of course the sky fell.

I think for me again I'm

So I was so naive and so protected in this California bubble.

So I think that for providers like me who mostly work in coastal blue states, we sort of get the credit for being abortion providers, but really are not doing anywhere near the amount of sort of emotional labor that goes into being an abortion provider in a red state.

I mean, basically, whenever I introduce myself to new people.

the entire time that I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, if I mentioned that that I was an abortion provider, that was suddenly like the most amazing, interesting new thing about me.

And I have a feeling that that is not Nikki's experience when she meets new people in Tennessee.

what were your immediate responses?

I was in my house in San Francisco.

Um going from one child's bedtime routine to the next child's bedtime routine, walking up the stairs, looking at my phone in that, you know, 30 seconds that I had between that, as I tend to do.

And I saw it come in on my phone as a ping.

And I just remember sort of like grabbing the banister and hyperventilating and, you know, weeping, and then also, you know, putting it away and putting my phone in my pocket because ultimately

Ultimately I still had to put my one year old to bed.

And then there were a lot of text messages and a lot of emails that happened over the next few hours, you know, with our whole community.

It's just um I think what struck me the most, and again, what came through in those sort of text chains throughout the rest of the evening was I was quite surprised.

At how devastated I was because of what we've said already, I thought I was preparing myself, right?

For years I was telling anybody who would listen, Ro is getting overturned, Ro is getting overturned.

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