Ali Block
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886 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard Oct 2023
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Welcome back to the Nocturinous Post Ro America.
I'm Doctor Allie Block.
When I first heard this story from Venetia, I was struck by how different her experience of the Dobbs Day was from mine.
I remember people around me were crying, making phone calls, texting.
Everyone was talking about it.
And everyone seemed to be on the same page.
But this was a big deal.
Part of that is because of where we each worked at the time.
I was in San Francisco, and Venetia was in an ICU in rural Tennessee.
But there's something else, something we've been talking about as a team that we're gonna explore in today's episode.
It's the idea of the culture of silence that surrounds abortion.
Abortion is taboo.
We don't talk about it, even in healthcare spaces.
But it can be more subtle than that.
For example, even in the San Francisco Bay Area, where it seemed everyone was on the same team.
The day the Dobbs decision went down, I remember wondering, could things have been different if we had been louder sooner?
Of course, there are so many people who have been outspoken and doing incredible work championing abortion rights.
But many more of us have been quiet.
Today we examine the culture of silence, both within the field of abortion care and beyond, in the broader world of healthcare.
What's behind the silence?
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