Ali Block

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The Nocturnists · 2 - Post-Roe America: The Canary · 28 Sep 2023 podcast

Here's Dahlia.

Thanks.

Welcome back to the Nocturnists, Post Row America.

I'm Dr.

Allie Block.

For a lot of people in the US, I think the day the sky officially fell for the abortion movement was the day of the Dobbs leak.

But there was another event almost a year before that wasn't as talked about, but gave those paying attention a preview of what a postro landscape would look like.

In September 2021, there was a bill in Texas that was passed called SB8, also known as the Texas Heartbeat Act.

It said, if you can detect cardiac activity, which usually happens around six weeks, a time when most people don't even know they're pregnant, performing that abortion or even aiding and abetting a patient in seeking abortion care makes you vulnerable to a lawsuit from any private citizen.

is Bava Kumar.

He's a doctor living in Houston who was providing abortions there, right when SB eight came down.

A long time, meaning the 10 months of SB8 before Dobbs.

But honestly, before that too.

We talked to a lot of Texans for this episode, and it was like talking to people who had to deal with the destruction of Godzilla before it made its way through the bigger cities.

In this episode, we're gonna hear stories from Texans and providers in neighboring states about what it was like to be on the leading edge of America's crumbling abortion rights.

To start, we're gonna go all the way back to the Texas before SV8.

And when Vovick went to medical school in West Texas in the city of Lubbock, he learned that this kind of unspoken segregation wasn't isolated to his little corner of the state.

And that included access to abortion.

So he went to New York, which was a huge breath of fresh air.

Culturally, politically, logistically, everything about providing abortion care felt easier.

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