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Medicine Stories

73. Ending Pregnancy At Home: Holistic Abortion Options

Medicine Stories

Amber M Hill

Herbs, Health & Fitness, Ancestry, Alternativemedicine, Herbalism, Alternative Health, Dreams, Healing, Society & Culture, Psychedelics

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

From time immemorial, women and wise folk have carried the knowledge of how to manage fertility. From menstruation to contraception to birth to miscarriage to abortion, these processes and this knowing has always belonged to the people. Ending pregnancy outside the modern medical paradigm and the cold, impersonal clinic is not only possible, but there are numerous safe and effective options. Let us eliminate the need for back alley abortions, reframe pro-choice as pro-choices, and step back into our power by educating ourselves and one another on what’s possible.

IN THE INTERVIEW:

  • Some historical context (women have always ended pregnancies, but laws and attitudes around it have changed)
  • Choosing home care for pregnancy release rather than clinical care
  • Preventing pregnancy with herbs (and the one thing most people do wrong when using Queen Anne’s Lace for contraception)
  • The four ways to release pregnancy at home
  • I see a lot of people championing herbal abortion on social media, but it’s clear that they are not educated about the issues and difficulties with this method (it does not look like your dreamy earth mama one-with-nature self empowerment fantasy)
  • What a beautiful, supported pregnancy release at home can look like
  • Sometimes spirit babies come through to teach us things
  • The four essential herbal actions needed (find this chart at patreon.com/medicinestories)
  • Mifepristone and/or misoprostol (medical abortion)
  • Supportive food and herbs for the process
  • Aftercare: honoring that you are postpartum after releasing a pregnancy and focusing on rebuilding and healing
  • Supporting the liver, nervous system, and immune system
  • A woman going through this is never alone

LINKS (if listening on an app that doesn’t support embedded links, find these at https://mythicmedicine.love/podcast):

Transcript

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0:00.0

May we all continue to thrive as women, as bleeding women, as mothers, as menstruators,

0:08.5

as women that choose to end our pregnancies, as women that enter menopause and become wise old crones who then can give back

0:18.0

and tell our stories. May we just all continue to thrive and that in our knowledge and our wisdom and our beauty and our

0:25.0

power and not forget ever forget that we're not alone and that our community is

0:31.0

there and that support is always there.

0:33.2

Hi everyone, welcome to Medicine Stories

0:40.6

where we are remembering what it is to be human upon the earth. I am Amber Magnolia Hill. This is episode 73 and wow are we talking about something today that has been known to humans upon the earth since time immemorial?

0:59.7

And that is the process of choosing to not be pregnant to end a pregnancy. We have so many more

1:05.7

options today than our ancestors did. Thank goodness because as we talk about in this interview and

1:11.8

as I want to make abundantly clear from the beginning,

1:14.8

herbal abortion is hard.

1:17.6

This is a podcast that's often focused on herbalism, but I don't want to give anyone the impression that it's something

1:25.2

I am advocating for, especially not a purely herbal abortion. Obviously we need

1:37.0

alternatives now more than ever and that's what we're going to talk about today. I am doing this because last year October 2019 at age 38 with a 3 and 13 year old I had my own

1:48.6

abortion at home. I ended my pregnancy at home using a combination of herbs and

1:56.4

basically pharmaceuticals, mesoprostal, which is legal here in California

2:01.3

and which you can get your hands on even if it's illegal in your state

2:07.1

because there is a whole network of underground people helping people to end their pregnancies at home.

2:15.0

This is something I did not know, it's something most people don't know, and I feel really passionate about letting women know their options, their choices, what's available, helping you feel not alone.

2:31.0

If you're listening to this right now because you are in crisis, you're feeling alone and scared, and not knowing your choices, we're here for you.

2:38.0

This is what this episode is for, and I'm grateful that I had the experience I did last year that opened me up to this whole world.

2:47.0

And I wanted to do this podcast since then, but felt scared and intimidated and it's really vulnerable to talk about this and let me make

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