Content warning: This episode contains candid discussion of stillbirth, pregnancy loss, and abortion. Please take care of yourself as you listen.  

Pregnancy loss and the fight for reproductive care are topics too many people are navigating alone and in an increasingly complicated legal landscape. In this episode, Dr. Jennifer Lincoln is joined by Ana Lepe Vick, communications director and co-founder of Push for Empowered Pregnancy, and mother who lost her son Owen to stillbirth, and Amanda Zurawski, reproductive rights advocate and plaintiff in the landmark Zurawski v. Texas case, who was denied a medically necessary abortion in Texas and nearly died waiting for care she was legally entitled to receive.  

We Talk About…  

• Why "life of the mother" exceptions don't work the way people think, and why the language of abortion laws leaves doctors afraid to act  
• New research showing stillbirth is more common than previously understood, affecting 1 in 150 births  
• What it means that 36% of U.S. counties are maternal care deserts  
• Giving people tools to feel empowered rather than paralyzed by worry, and why normalizing these conversations matters  
• Why pregnancy is too complicated to legislate, and what 80% of Americans actually believe about who should be making these decisions  
• How to memorialize and remember a baby after stillbirth and what to research about your hospital and doctors before heading in  

Episode Links & Resources:    

Zurawski v. Texas (documentary)  

Griffin Cares Foundation  

PUSH for Empowered Pregnancy 

Short Film "Stillness is an Illness" 

Follow Ana Lepe Vick & Amanda Zurawski  

Ana Lepe Vick's Instagram: @stillmyson  

Amanda Zurawski’s Instagram: @ace.is.wild  

Push for Empowered Pregnancy: @pushpregnancy  

Order The Birth Book: An OB-GYN's Guide to Demystifying Labor and Delivery here!    

Follow your host @drjenniferlincoln   

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