Comprehensive healthcare includes abortion care

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Comprehensive healthcare includes abortion care
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In this podcast, I interview a panel of three abortion care specialists: Jessica Dieseldorff is a nurse practitioner and Senior Program Manager of Abortion Services at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte. Dr. Laetitia Oderman graduated from the University of California Davis School of Medicine who provides comprehensive OBGYN healthcare for people in Santa Cruz, including abortion in the first and second trimester. Dr. Jen Hastings is a Family Physician and Assistant Clinical Professor at the UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine and is engaged in research on Trans and Gender Expansive Reproductive Justice issues.

Our subject is how abortion care serves as an integral part of healthcare for women. You can’t simply remove it and not have severe downstream consequences. Those consequences for women’s health are known: if Roe is overturned by the Supreme Court, women in around half of the states in this country will will be less healthy and die at a higher rate. Their doctors will be afraid of or even enjoined from telling women the best choices they can make for their health. Educators will be afraid to help young women understand their bodies. The dedicated people who work in clinics that provide abortions while also caring for the health of the entire person will be silenced or put out of business.

I feel strongly that everyone in a democracy needs to understand the downstream effects of their choices. Politics is not separate from us; it determines many facets of our lives. Every person in this country who votes for an anti-choice politician is supporting the choice to lower the quality of comprehensive healthcare for women. They should understand that that’s the choice they’re making, even if they think it’s a worthwhile tradeoff. 

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