{"id":106102,"date":"2022-12-21T20:09:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T20:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=106102"},"modified":"2022-12-21T20:09:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T20:09:59","slug":"in-north-carolina-more-people-are-training-to-support-patients-through-an-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=106102","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;In North Carolina, more people are training to support patients through an abortion&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wunc.org\/2022-12-19\/in-north-carolina-more-people-are-training-to-support-patients-through-an-abortion\" target=\"_blank\">WUNC<\/a>: &#8220;Overman is one of around 40 practicing abortion doulas in North Carolina, according to an estimate from local abortion rights groups \u2014 a number that could soon grow. North Carolina groups that train doulas say they&#8217;ve seen an uptick in people wanting to become abortion doulas in the months since\u00a0<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>\u00a0was overturned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every three months,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolinaabortionfund.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Carolina Abortion Fund<\/a>&nbsp;offers free online classes for aspiring abortion doulas. Those sessions used to have 20 signups at most, according to board member Kat Lewis. Now they have 40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s word of mouth. It&#8217;s people sharing &#8216;This is how I got through my abortion or miscarriage experience with the help of a doula.&#8217; And someone being like, &#8216;That&#8217;s amazing. I need that. Or I wanna become that,&#8221; Lewis says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Demand for training has also surged at the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/mtnabortiondoula.co\/about\" target=\"_blank\">Mountain Area Abortion Doula Collective<\/a>\u00a0in western North Carolina, which started in 2019. Ash Williams leads the free, four-week doula training and includes talks on gender-inclusive language and the history of medical racism. The course also includes ways to support clients struggling with homelessness or domestic violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WUNC: &#8220;Overman is one of around 40 practicing abortion doulas in North Carolina, according to an estimate from local abortion rights groups \u2014 a number that could soon grow. North Carolina groups that train doulas say they&#8217;ve seen an uptick in people wanting to become abortion doulas in the months since\u00a0Roe v. Wade\u00a0was overturned. Every&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106103,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106102\/revisions\/106103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}