Syd Casey is a street medic, a doula, and a nursing assistant at an NYC reproductive health clinic that provides abortions and other services, such as STD testings, medical screenings and vasectomies.

Syd is also a witch retaining the old knowledge of self managed abortions. We talk about how the witch hunts of Medieval Europe and Colonial US led to the exclusion of women from most formalized medical training until the late 1860s, with exception to performing reproductive health procedures deemed too icky for doctors.

We also talk about cishet men taking on responsibility by getting vasectomies and volunteering as clinic escorts, and how we all can defend abortion services, how to keep and gain access to free abortion on demand today whether that be by forcing the state's hand or becoming ungovernable and stateless.

Resources mentioned:

Women on Web: womenonweb.org

abortionpill.org

plancpills.org

National Network of Abortion Funds: abortionfunds.com

Reclaiming Our Ancient Wisdom: Herbal Abortion Procedures and Practice for Midwives and Herbalists – by Catherine Marie Jeunet

Witches, Midwives & Nurses: A History of Women Healers – by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English (audio format by Resonance Audio)
https://resonanceaudiodistro.org/2017/12/18/witches-midwives-nurses-audiozine/

Spooky News You Can Use segment: Jesus Malverde got two federal drug acquittals in Kentucky.
https://amp.courier-journal.com/amp/3692114002

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