Part 7: Providing Abortions during COVID-19

Adrienne Crawford, a nurse midwife, shares what it's like to provide medication abortions on the front lines of COVID-19. In this episode, Adrienne invites us into the ways midwives can support people who want medication abortions, and how the pandemic is impacting pregnancy decision-making and reinforcing disparities in reproductive health.

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• Feminist Women’s Health Center

• Margaret Charles Smith & Linda Janet Holmes: “Listen to Me Good” 

• Ina May Gaskin: “Spiritual Midwifery

• Choices Clinic, in Memphis TN

• National Abortion Federation

• Adrienne Crawford: “Pregnant in the Time of COVID.”

• Liam Stack: “ A Brief History of Deadly Attacks on Abortion Providers” — NYT coverage of the era Adrienne describes at the beginning of the episode, when abortion providers and clinics were under violent attacks from anti-choice activists.

• Sasha-Ann Simons: “‘Save Black Women’: D.C. Gets To Work Addressing Pregnancy-Related Deaths”

• American College of Nurse-Midwives: “Midwives as Abortion Providers.”

• Reproductive Health Access Project: “No Touch Medication Abortion Protocol.”

• Compilation of words and ideas