Words From Working Years at Planned Parenthood
This week’s guest is Kirsten Dees, MSW. Kirsten’s life and health coaching is described in her title The Healthy Feminist. She’s on a mission to support smart progressive women feel great inside and out. In this role Kirsten has much to add to our podcast community, and she also worked Planned Parenthood as a fundraiser for 10 years.
Visit her website at: https://www.kirstendeescoaching.com/
Show Notes:
3:39 Kirsten’s introduction
4:42 “Grew up with a strong feminist lens”- mom OBGYN nurse practitioner
5:48 “School sex education is not really cuting it for most of us”
6:02 “Women can not achieve their dreams, achieve their professional dreams, achieve they education dreams, just be the people they want to be without access to good birth control and the full range of reproductive services including abortion”
7:20 age 5ish “Why would somebody make someone have a baby if they didn’t want to have a baby?”
8:06 The Handmaid’s Tale
9:19 What led Kirten to fundraising at Planned Parenthood
10:30 Boston clinic violence
13:19 The first time Kirsten saw my work was speaking on the LCS stage to “not the most left leaning audience”- hehe
14:45 The point was not to please the audience it was to share the story and the drive
15:33 Kirsten’s transition to healthy living
18:12 Kara Loewentheil Advanced Coaching Feminist Certification, The F*ck It Diet
20:23 “What is the number one reason a woman has an abortion?... They want to be a better mom.” Why is it so taboo?
22:37 “It has become so clear that this is not about women’s health and safety, this is not about the children, this is about controlling women” TikTok wisdom If a fetus is a baby
24:36 The adoption argument
25:38 The ‘wait til marriage’ argument- over 90% of people are having sex before marriage
27:03 Legislative and physical attacks on Planned Parenthood
27:32 “people who care about abortion rally”
28:51 book- The Common Secret
30:28 The people in the work, especially the passionate people
32:35 Memory of leaving the building while the clinic was closed and witnessing a teen’s experience
33:40 “When you are in need of reproductive care, it can’t wait?”
34:29 “Any reason is medically necessary” mentally or emotionally; all reasons are good reasons to have an abortion “your reason is a good reason”
37:34 talking about raw vulnerable stuff opens space for beautiful work
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