Ali Block
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886 appearances
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1 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard Oct 2023
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Even the culture and attitudes around abortion at the school have become a consideration.
Anastasia Anasanwu is currently on the threshold of the critical jump between medical school and residency.
Anastasia grew up in a very conservative Southern family that went to church twice a week.
Her mom was once proudly arrested for protesting outside an abortion clinic.
Abortion was a dirty word in her household growing up, she told us.
But when Anastasia went to college in New York, everything changed.
She began to question the belief she'd been raised with, and by the end, what she wanted more than anything else was to be an abortion provider.
When she was applying to medical school, she was already living in Missouri and volunteering as an abortion clinic escort, helping patients get past protesters and inside the building.
Despite the protesters, Missouri seemed like an okay place to learn how to be an abortion provider.
So when Anastasia started med school at the University of Missouri, a couple hours away from St.
Louis, she was hopeful.
Like she told us about this one time, the student group was putting on an abortion clinic documentary.
They would show a screening and then afterwards there would be a discussion.
Now Anastasia is considering where to go for residency training, and experiences like this loom large in her decision-making process.
If anesthesia were to stay at her current program in central Missouri, she'd not only be navigating the cultural stigma around abortion training, but she'd also need to leave to get technical training in a less restricted state.
So she talked to her advisor, Dr.
Bavit Kumar, one of the voices we heard in episode two.
And so under the guidance of Dr.
Kumar, Anastasia has decided to apply only to programs in states where they have abortion training easily available.
So for Anastasia, whose top priority is to become an abortion provider no matter what it takes, leaving a restricted place like Missouri is the decision that makes the most sense.
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