So Far From Care
This week Latino USA shares an episode from the podcast "So Far From Care," produced by Marfa Public Radio.\xa0
Living in a small town in West Texas can feel magical. And part of that magic is how isolated we are: hours and hours down a desert highway from everything else. But when it comes to accessing reproductive healthcare, that remoteness can also be terrifying.
In the Big Bend, the idea of \u201cchoice\u201d was complicated long before Roe v. Wade was overturned. Out here, you can\u2019t legally get an abortion \u2014 but as recently as last year, depending on the day of the week, you also couldn\u2019t have a baby in a delivery room.
So Far From Care is a podcast about those contradictions. It\u2019s about how people decide when, how, or if to become parents \u2014 close to the border and far from the hospital, where you have a literal village to help you raise a child but daycare can be impossible to find.
These are stories about isolation that\u2019s not just physical \u2014 all the challenges we deal with in silence. But also, about how a place without options can become the site of community and care.
You can subscribe to the podcast here.\xa0