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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And sure, that stuff is to be expected, but it's so much harder when you're an abortion clinic in a hostile environment.
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Honestly, after the security trainings, the constant heckling from anti abortion protesters and daily stories from the staff about how their jobs impact their personal lives, it can sometimes feel like a fluke that abortion care is still legal at all in Kansas.
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The twenty nineteen decision was made based on an arcane constitutional article written back in eighteen sixty one.
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That means that the most limiting and restrictive trap laws can't take hold in Kansas and the right to abortion remains protected for now.
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But it's also created Trust Women as an unlikely and under-resourced abortion care haven, wholly depended upon, while also antagonized and attacked by, the very community they serve.
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Against this backdrop, the Trustwomen staff have needed to figure out how to respond to an unprecedented change in how they do their work.
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As part of this process, they've needed to have some tough conversations.
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That's the security guy, Bo.
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Part of the clinic's response to Dobbs has been the policies and systems they put in place, but maybe a bigger part has been a massive internal culture shift.
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Carissa, a medical assistant at Trust Women, has been here for four and a half years and remembers intimately how things used to be.
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Over the past two years, the Trustwomen staff have been undergoing a process of radically rewriting the narrative around how an abortion clinic can run.
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They cap the number of patients they see in a day, increase the number of staff, all decisions made not by the doctors who work here or by Ashley, but by the staff themselves.
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At the heart of this culture shift is Ashley, the clinic manager.
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I can't tell you enough how different Trust Women is from any other clinic I've worked at.
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Healthcare is an incredibly hierarchical field, and abortion care is no different.
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That means in most places I've worked, the physicians are at the top of the ladder, despite the fact that we're often the ones in the room who are there the least.
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It's not uncommon for abortion providers to work one or two days a week or even per month.
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The staff, on the other hand, the nurses, the medical assistants, the front desk, the people who show up every day are expected to live by whatever decisions the physicians or higher-ups make about how the clinic should run.
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I trust women, it doesn't work that way.
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When there's a decision to be made, the staff makes it.
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