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It's Abortion Provider Appreciation Week! With David Gunn Jr., Dr. Victoria Williams, Dr. Chris Creatura & Venny Ala-Siurua

March 13

1h 20m

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Episode Description

We are soooooooo back! It’s our FAVORITE time of the year: ABORTION PROVIDER APPRECIATION WEEK! Abortion Provider Day is on March 10th. It was started in memory of Dr. David Gunn, who was murdered by an anti-abortion extremist in 1993. As always, we choose to both honor the abortion providers who lost their lives and have been harmed by violent extremists, as well as the badass folks who continue to provide abortion care to anyone who needs it. So what better way to celebrate than for Lizz and Moji to remind y’all of ALL the ways YOU can support abortion providers on the daily! PLUS, we bring on FOUR special guests to join in the hoopla!

GUEST ROLL CALL:

David Gunn Jr., the son of Dr. David Gunn – is here to celebrate his father’s life and talk with us about the daily violence abortion clinics face and why honoring his father on Abortion Provider Appreciation Day is so important.

PLUS! Dr. Victoria Williams, New Orleans-based doctor, doula, maternal health policy advocate, and member-owner of Birthmark Doula Collective is in the house! She yaps with us on all the powerful work Birthmark Doula Collective does (including challenging Louisiana’s latest trash bill that targets abortion pills), the importance of doula reimbursement, and the Black Birth Matters Summit!

DOUBLE PLUS!! NY-based OB-GYN and abortion provider, Dr. Chris Creatura, and Executive Director of Women on Web, Venny Ala-Siurua, are here! Expect to hear all about destigmatizing abortion, what happens when the abortion seeker has to become their own abortion provider, and all of the safe access to abortion pills and abortion information that the Canada-based feminist nonprofit organization, Women on Web, offers in 180 countries.

This episode is an earful, so come and get it!

Times are heavy, but knowledge is power, y’all. We gotchu.

OPERATION SAVE ABORTION: You can still join the 10,000+ womb warriors fighting the patriarchy by clicking HERE for past Operation Save Abortion trainings, your toolkit, marching orders, and more.

HOSTS:

Lizz Winstead IG: @LizzWinstead Bluesky: @LizzWinstead.bsky.social

Moji Alawode-El IG: @Mojilocks Bluesky: @Mojilocks.bsky.social

SPECIAL GUESTS:

David Gunn Jr. IG: @davidlgunnjr

Dr. Victoria Williams IG: @VictoriaTheDoc @BirthmarkDoulas

Dr. Chris Creatura

Venny Ala-Siurua IG: @AbortionPil Bluesky: @Womenonweb.bsky.social

GUEST LINKS:

Birthmark Doula Collective Website

DONATE: Birthmark Doula Collective

Birthmark Doula’s Maternal Health Fund