One woman’s story of delays and denials of care reveals how anti-abortion individuals and policies lead to substandard care for pregnant people—and provides a window into our post-Roe future.

This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Reproductive Rights Reporting Fund. A written version of the story appears online and in print in The Nation: “What This Later-Abortion Story Tells Us About a Post-Roe Future.”

Guests:

• Kristyn Smith, We Testify abortion storyteller

• Caroline Kitchener, political reporter for The Washington Post (Byron Calhoun says abortion is never necessary to save a mother’s life. He’s the only high-risk OB/GYN in central West Virginia.)

• Dr. Matthew Reeves, founder and executive director of Dupont Clinic

• Dr. Debra Stulberg, associate professor of family medicine at the University of Chicago Medicine and director of the Reproductive Health Outcomes and Disparities Research Group

Music by Lily Sloane, logo by Kate Ryan. Photo courtesy Smith.