Ali Block

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

And so I think I sort of created this illusion for myself.

that I was actually preparing for it.

But, you know, just because you say that you know that a hard thing is coming doesn't mean that you're actually emotionally prepared for that hard thing.

So um I was not surprised, but I was still really, really sad is kind of what I would say.

I've been really surprised to hear from I mean, Nikki's talking about the provider side, people that didn't know.

Also tons of patients, you know, people things that I've been reading, or friends or colleagues, or family who say

I didn't really know that I had an abortion.

Like I didn't think of myself as getting an abortion because, you know, Nikki's describing these specific cases where we sort of, again, because of the stigma, don't even use the word.

And we don't want to make people feel bad that they're getting an abortion when it's for a quote unquote good reason.

And so I think

Um I have been surprised, yes, how how many people kind of I've been surprised how many people were surprised.

That's one place to start.

And then I've been pleasantly surprised

at how much it's really galvanized the left and the movement and the the pro-choice sentiment among, you know, people everywhere.

So for example, Kansas had a ballot measure last summer that I was following closely because of the clinic where I work in Kansas.

And everybody sort of thought it was gonna be a nail biter.

And it wasn't.

It was a landslide in favor of abortion care.

And so I think, you know, on to some extent, maybe that's a failure of the pro-choice movement that it took people losing their rights to understand what their rights were in the first place, but now they lost them and now they understand and now they're mobilizing.

So I would say that that is a pleasant surprise.

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