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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On top of this, patients are traveling farther than ever to get there, up to ten or eleven hours each way.
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Follow up appointments are no longer an easy option.
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At this point, the clinic staff operate like a finely tuned orchestra.
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And while the doctors like me and Christina are there to provide abortions and offer our clinical expertise, the conductor of this whole show is Ashley, the clinic director.
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Ashley grew up in Kansas and worked at Trustwomen from 2013 to 2016, right after the clinic first opened.
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Their office is papered floor to ceiling with pro choice posters, and on any given day, they'll be in their usual uniform, a pro abortion t-shirt and scrub pants.
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When they got offered the job as clinic director, they were living in Colorado and working at a Planned Parenthood.
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That was two months before SB eight.
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So like Christina, Ashley arrived just as things were blowing up.
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They didn't feel prepared.
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And then nine months later, Ro fell.
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And at that point, Trust Women only had six staff members, and only a few were full-time.
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It was one of two abortion clinics in Wichita, one of five in Kansas, and Kansas had suddenly become the only state among a sea of red states in which abortion was legal.
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Ashley knew they needed to jump into action immediately.
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Every patient who comes through Trust Women has to first make an appointment over the phone.
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The call center is a small room with a couple phones and two people sitting at desks answering them.
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In the corner, a kid home from school plays on an iPad.
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The lines are always busy.
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They put the rings on silent to help with the noise, but on each phone there's four red lights that constantly blink, which says there's always someone else on the other four lines.
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It's like the Reddit's constantly going.
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