Abdul’s Picks:

Before Roe: The Physicians’ Crusade —  Throughline, May 19

“[In] this episode, they trace the rise of the anti-abortion movement to, frankly, a particular set of doctors who recognized that the rise of midwives and some of the services that midwives provided were a threat to the income of physicians. … And I just felt like they did a great job peeling back the onion in a way that put a puzzle piece into my thinking. I was like, ‘Oh yeah, of course that was.’ And they just did it masterfully.”

The Heartbreak And Cost of Losing A Baby In America —  Consider This from NPR, Sept. 27

“They tell the story … about couples who’d lost their infant children and then were left with hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills. … People regularly go through this experience of losing a child at a higher rate than almost any other high income country in the world, but when they do, unlike in those other countries where this happens less often, they are then hounded by health care corporations who see them as just a dollar sign. … And they did an amazing job in the in the episode of telling a series of stories and interviewing these parents. And you can just hear it in their voices. This sort of sadness, complicated by frustration, complicated by anger.”