Women’s History Month
I was born in 1982 on the day before Roe v. Wade’s 9th Anniversary. I’ve never lived in an America where it wasn’t possible for a woman to choose safe and legal abortion. I’ve heard stories of what it was like before 1973, but to me it seemed more like a fairytale from the Dark Ages than the reality of a few decades ago. In honor of Women’s History Month, I sat down with Mary Ann. Mary Ann was a nurse in a critical care unit before 1973. She saw and tried to save women dying from illegal and unsafe abortion. In this podcast, she shares with us what that was like and her hopes for the future of women’s health. We also spoke to Rachel Benson Gold about reproductive health care in America. In that conversation, she discussed where we need to go from here. We included that portion of the conversation here as a reminder of what we can do to avoid repeating the pain of our past.
