Amy Gastelum
Amy Gastelum is Co-Producer of Mother: A Podcast. She's lived and worked in Indianapolis, New York City and Providence. Gastelum earned her Bachelor's of Science in Nursing from Indiana University in 2008. She began her nursing career at the county hospital in Indianapolis and has continued to work in underserved communities since. She has specialized in mother/baby care, primarily as a public health nurse, making home visits. In 2012 she graduated from the eight-week intensive Transom Story Workshop for radio storytelling. She has reported for PRI's The World, NPR News, Side Effects Public Media, Guernica Magazine and This Land Press. Gastelum became a mother herself in 2014.
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Purvi Patel was convicted of child neglect and feticide after she delivered an extremely preterm fetus alone in her northern Indiana home. -
The case of Purvi Patel has gotten international attention as well as support from reproductive rights groups who worry her conviction of feticide sets a precedent that enables more convictions of women for outcomes of their own pregnancies. -
Teen pregnancy rates have dropped nationally, but in the small town of Frankfort, Indiana it's still a real risk. Teen pregnancy rates in Clinton County are three times the national average. -
Lawyers for Purvi Patel, the northern Indiana woman convicted under the state's feticide law and serving a 46-year prison sentence, have filed an appeal in her case. They argue that the law was never meant to be used against pregnant women.
