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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I never thought Wichita would become such a big part of my life, somewhere I probably couldn't have pointed to on a map before I visited.
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But after I got the skills I needed, I kept going back as one of the clinic providers.
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Each time I returned, the staff was facing some fresh new crisis.
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First SB8, then the Oklahoma ban, then Dobbs.
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Patients from hundreds of miles away were streaming to Wichita, and the clinic was scrambling to accommodate the rush.
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Today you'll join me on one of my bi-monthly trips to Kansas.
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We'll take you inside the clinic so you can see firsthand what happens when a small-town clinic suddenly has to absorb the reproductive health needs for a vast swath of the country.
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this is Doctor Christina Bourne.
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We used to work together in California and she was my original connection to trust women.
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Christina says the job looks pretty different now than she thought it would when she first got offered the position back in twenty twenty one.
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clinic?
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Through SBAID and Dobbs, Christina was the only doctor working at Trust Women that lived in Wichita full-time.
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Most of the nurses and support staff are local like her, but the physicians who actually perform the abortions mostly fly in from out of state.
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It can be hard to find local providers with the skills and willingness to provide abortions in more conservative states like Kansas.
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So it's common for clinics in places like this to fly in doctors for a few days at a time to staff the clinics, doctors like me.
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This makes Christina's role as medical director pivotal.
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If a patient comes in with a placenta I'm concerned about, I call Christina.
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She's the only one who knows how to coordinate with the local imaging center for an urgent formal ultrasound, so we can offer the patient a procedure that day.
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Things don't work in Kansas the way they do back home.
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So Christina's expertise makes her the linchpin for flying doctors that trust women.
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