Bodies

The overturning of Roe v. Wade has severely restricted how doctors can access training in abortion care and it's already having a devastating ripple effect on patients seeking all kinds of reproductiv...

7 Jun 202341min

From This is Uncomfortable, we bring you the story of Ashleigh Griffin. She hoped the fertility industry could put her on the road to financial stability. But the decision to donate her eggs had some ...

6 Jun 202342min

Jess was overjoyed when she got pregnant. But after giving birth, her reality spiraled out of control. She didn't know it, but she had postpartum psychosis, a mental health condition that occurs after...

31 Mai 202341min

Puberty is starting younger and younger, especially estrogen-dominant puberty. We talk to three kids and one teen about extra early puberty and the funny, scary, embarrassing and joyful experiences th...

17 Mai 202332min

From the Embodied podcast, we bring you "Decided: Child-Free not Childless." Embodied host Anita Rao has interrogated many aspects of parenthood. But how about the decision to become a parent at all? ...

10 Mai 202334min

Angelina Fanous has been living with ALS for nearly a decade. She is almost fully paralyzed and losing her ability to speak. As she prepares for death, she's thinking about the story she'll leave behi...

3 Mai 202329min

No matter how hard producer Hannah Harris Green tried, there were certain areas of life where she found herself to be deficient. Until she realized that a diagnosis could help relieve her shame instea...

26 Apr 202334min

A vending machine ritual, a life-changing massage, a spiffy velvet outfit and a belly full of caterpillars. Four stories of touch. Transcript at kcrw.com/bodies.

19 Apr 202327min