TW: This episode features discussion of abortion.

The U.S.-based journalist and author of Doing HarmMaya Dusenbery chats to journalist Rosie Taylor about why women often get second-rate medical care, the loss of birth information that used to be passed down through generations of women, and how social media is helping empower us with vital knowledge about our health. Maya also shares her own experience of abortion and discusses why the controversy around the issue is leaving women without practical information about how it works and how they'll feel afterwards.

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If you're based in the UK and would like impartial advice and counselling on abortion, you can contact the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS).

On the Mother Bodies podcast, Rosie is on a mission to find out why postnatal health is still so overlooked and to uncover the biases and inequalities which mean women so often don’t get the care, support or treatment they need after having a baby. She speaks to fascinating guests about their personal stories of recovery after birth, how the politics of postnatal health affects us all - and the big ideas which could change mothers' lives for the better.

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