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Cathy Perez: Fighting for Women’s Rights

Bob Gatty interviews Cathy Perez

In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v Wade, many states are now acting to virtually eliminate the ability of a woman to obtain an abortion, and some states would even prosecute healthcare providers who perform the procedure. We talk about all of that with our guest today, women’s health coach Cathy Perez.

Cathy always had a passion for health and fitness, being organized and sharing her curiosity for life to anyone who would listen.

After many years in the corporate arena, supporting others with administrative and HR tasks, Cathy became a “Health” Coach.

She’s a Certified Healthy Eating and Weight Loss Coach, a Certified Yoga Instructor (200YTT) and the 159th Worldwide Certified Konmari Organizing Consultant.

Cathy now helps women create a healthy relationship with anxiety and stress with healthy habits that she took over 20 years to learn and hone to cope with her own anxiety disorder.

Cathy is a strong advocate for women’s rights, and today we’re going to focus on reproductive justice.

Some questions we asked Cathy:

Q. What do women (others who don't identify as binary) require right now & why should the country care?

Q. What is Reproductive Justice all about?

Q. Why does Reproductive Justice matter?

Q. What can be done to support reproductive justice?

Q. As a health coach, I presume that you help your clients deal with anxiety and stress, right?

Q. Don’t questions around having an abortion cause a good deal of anxiety and stress? What’s your advice to your clients.

Q. What advice do you give women who need an abortion but live in states that prohibit the procedure.

Q, What’s your view of states that even try to ban the so-called “abortion pill?”

Q. Tell us more about your work as a health coach for women.

People can learn more at the following websites: keepabortionsafe.org or https://www.eracoalition.org/

Listen to the podcast:

View the podcast: https://youtu.be/jm2QkZ92GIo

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