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May 10, 2022

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provides free, expert legal support

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Colorful M + A Hotline graphic that shows the screen of smartphone with a text messaging conversation. The caption of the graphic says, “Do you need support self-managing your miscarriage or abortion? Anonymously text or call the Miscarriage and Abortion Hotline at 833-246-2632.” The sent message on the phone screen reads “Hi, I have questions about my abortion pills and I’m not sure who to ask.” The reply from the M+A Hotline says, “Hi, I am an abortion provider, and I am happy to answer any questions you have.”

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ANSIRH

@ANSIRH

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A huge win for reproductive science and an even bigger win for people of all ages! We're celebrating this moment with so many orgs, advocates, and experts who made this happen! 🎉🥳🙏 #FreeThePill

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The New York Times

@nytimes

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Breaking News: An FDA advisory panel found that the benefits of making a birth control pill available over the counter outweighed the risks. The agency is expected to decide this summer whether to allow nonprescription sales of an oral contraceptive. nyti.ms/42uQ9Gv

A card reads: "Breaking: FDA Advisers Say Benefits of Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill Outweigh Risks. The unanimous vote is a significant step in the decades-long push to make oral contraception obtainable over the counter in the U.S."

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Prison Policy Init.

@PrisonPolicy

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NEW REPORT: The # of people in prison & jail doesn’t even begin to capture the reach of the criminal justice system in the US. We provide a more complete picture by including the # of people under probation/parole - systems that often replicate prison conditions in the community.

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Rewire News Group

@RewireNewsGroup

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BREAKING: An FDA advisory committee has voted UNANIMOUSLY to recommend that the FDA approve Opill, a progestin-only birth control pill, for over-the-counter use. If approved, Opill will be the first OTC oral contraceptive pill in the U.S.

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Robin Marty

@robinmarty

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So Alabama's really going to vote on whether a pregnant person should go to jail for murder if they don't produce a live birth. legislature.state.al.us/pdf/Searchable But hey! The pregnant person can't be prosecuted over miscarriage due to physical or sexual assault from a partner. Generous.

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Same. I received no counseling whatsoever for my birth control pills from my clinician or pharmacist, despite them being very different from the BC pills I had taken for 5 years prior. It was fine. I just…read the label like I have to do with all my other meds. #FreeThePill

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Garnet Henderson

@garnethenderson

This is a huge takeaway for me from today’s hearings. The FDA seems to think people are getting super detailed screening and counseling from their doctors when choosing contraceptive methods. Frankly, that has not been my experience in our medical system with ANY medication. twitter.com/rewirenewsgrou…

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I use a progesterone-only birth control pill like that being considered for OTC use by the

@US_FDA

—and I love it! There’s no reason it shouldn’t be OTC. There are almost no contraindications & the only side effect was a couple weeks of annoying but harmless spotting. #FreeThePill

Nicole Moore

@thehotnessgrrrl

They seek to protect their billion dollar business from the legal risks of mailing mife to out of state patients who are in desperate need of care but are lawyered up to the gills to fight claims of racism, antisemitism, and retaliation by at least 4 former staffers including me.

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The New Yorker

@NewYorker

Planned Parenthood seeks to protect itself from legal risks—but at what cost to patients and independent abortion providers? nyer.cm/1Xmp5R3

ACLU

@ACLU

🚨 Congress is attempting to pass three bills that would chill free speech, decimate our right to digital privacy, and destroy the internet as we know it. Here’s what you need to know.

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Palmetto State Abortion Fund

@PSAbortionFund

High priority patient needing our assistance ASAP —> DonorBox.org/support-the-fu

Palmetto State Abortion Fund

@PSAbortionFund

Donate to Palmetto State Abortion Fund | Palmetto State Abortion Fund (Powered by Donorbox)

donorbox.org

Abortion care in South Carolina is still legal but, as always, is in danger until it is protected, federally, and in our state. How Much Does an Abortion Cost?Depending on the clinic, a medication...

Joan Alker

@JoanAlker1

NEW: Arkansas has just released data on Medicaid terminations for 1st 2 months. 40% losing coverage are kids - very big 18% parents 39% expansion group A whopping 85% are procedural denials. This is exactly what we have feared.😢

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emily wilder

@vv1lder

announcing another bombardment of gaza like it’s some incoming netflix release is absolutely dumbfounding levels of psychopathy

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Israel Defense Forces

@IDF

The IDF has just announced the beginning of Operation Shield and Arrow. Follow for updates in real-time.

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Liza Fuentes

@Fuentes_Liza

The FDA considers first birth control pill without a prescription

Have a listen to this story with ⁦

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@DrDGrossman

⁩ on FDA’s meeting to consider the application for an OTC contraceptive pill. This is so exciting!!! A game changer.

npr.org

The Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether to allow a birth control pill to be sold over the counter for the first time. An advisory committee opens a two-day hearing Tuesday.

Renee Bracey Sherman

@RBraceySherman

"But Planned Parenthood didn’t just refrain from participating in the lawsuit that Gender Justice filed, I was told: it tried to sabotage it." This is not the only proactive measure (or activists, orgs, campaigns) PP sabotaged. Love to everyone who spoke out for this piece.

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Eyal Press

@EyalPress

Is Planned Parenthood too cautious and too corporate -- forcing independent providers to take the biggest risks in the struggle for abortion rights? My report in this week's issue of @NewYorker. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/

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Yuh-Line Niou

@yuhline

This is too much. He just turned six. It was his birthday. And now he is an orphan. He doesn’t even have his little brother anymore. My God.

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BNO News

@BNONews

Family killed in the Texas mall shooting identified as Cindy Cho, Kyu Cho and their 3-year-old son, James Cho. Their other child, William, just turned 6 and is the only survivor. They were going to the mall to exchange clothes he received for his birthday

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And that’s not to say harm reduction isn’t incredibly powerful. Obviously, less harm is better. But ultimately, preventable suffering continues en masse when this is our only PH strategy, and that shouldn’t be acceptable to anyone.

Eric Reinhart

@_Eric_Reinhart

The frequency with which even progressive public health officials talk and think about public health as primarily a matter of healthcare and biosurveillance, while erasing the crucial need for direct non-medical preventive services, is endlessly infuriating to me.

Exactly. The hardest part of Public Health (as an ideal) for me is that it is not and will never be achievable under white supremacist capitalism. That’s the root of every PH issue. Until we disrupt that system & build something new from the ashes, PH can only be harm reduction.

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Eric Reinhart

@_Eric_Reinhart

The core of public health is not clinical care. It's about systems of lay everyday care via housing, food, income, and everyday social contact and support via non-professional community support workers that prevent need for clinical care. We don't have that. We need to built it.

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Garnet Henderson

@garnethenderson

This is, for those keeping track, now the fourth mifepristone-related lawsuit filed in federal court

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Whole Woman's Health

@WholeWomans

Hi. Abortion providers here. We’re suing the FDA, along with @WWHAlliance @trustwomen @BlueMtnClinic and All Families Healthcare. Our patients deserve better than constant chaos, confusion, and back and forth so we’re doing whatever it takes to protect them.

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SisterSong

@SisterSong_WOC

The Florida reproductive rights movement's ballot initiative campaign, "Floridians Protecting Freedom", is launching to protect access to abortion and ensure our personal medical decisions are ours and ours alone to make. WOO HOO!

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Frontera Fund

@LaFronteraFund

Those of us along the border are facing violent acts that increase with the rise of hateful rhetoric about immigration and our region. #txlege legislation #NotoHB7 & #NotoHB20 promote violence against immigrants

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Steve Lookner

@lookner

7 dead, 4 to 6 hospitalized after car runs over people outside of shelter for migrants and homeless in Brownsville, Texas. Police say "it is looking more and more like an intentional act." valleycentral.com/news/local-new

Atlanta Community Press Collective

@atlanta_press

Atlanta City Council members have frequently said there's little they can do to #StopCopCity. Documents received through an Open Records Request, however, show that the Council will have to vote in the near future to spend up to $33.5 million taxpayer dollars on the facility.

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I Could’ve Just Sat On In With Massa

@WrittenByHanna

I wish people viewed poverty as violent and not the impoverished

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Ashley(she/her)

@oohgoodness

Help after house loss, organized by Ashley Jacobs

We realized there are some little things we are going to need to buy that the insurance company can’t help with in the immediate. If you can we appreciate everything.

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Hey y’all. On 5/6 we lost our house due to an unknown house fire. We are realizing slowly that th… Ashley Jacobs needs your support for Help after house loss

Don't post about crimes

@KateRoseBee

Seeing videos and photos of carnage doesn’t help anything. Republicans would wear a button with a photo of a kid with their face shot off on their jacket lapels instead of the AR-15 pins if they thought it would keep them from getting primaried.

‘Too greedy’: mass walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ fees

“Elsevier preys on the academic community, claiming huge profits while adding little value to science.”

theguardian.com

Entire board resigns over actions of academic publisher whose profit margins outstrip even Google and Amazon

Mikey

@marquisele

Roby Bhattacharyya is also @roby@mstdn.science

Yes, she did a great job. Unfortunately, the job was ‘help the government kill tons of people through non-response, public minimization, and promotion of ableist and eugenicist talking points in the media and online”. Fucking clown.

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@roby_bhatt

Rochelle is a personal mentor (so I'm biased) & one of the most impressive, hyper-competent people I've ever met. Many #onhere disagreed with one policy or another since she's led the CDC; I have too. Just know that if you think you'd have done a better job, I think you're wrong.

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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD

@EpiEllie

Masks Work. Distorting Science to Dispute the Evidence Doesn’t

This article does a nice job of explaining why evidence-based medicine is not the gold standard for public health research. Evidence-based medicine was established to reduce reliance on doctor’s “gut-feelings”. If we want science, we need epidemiology.

scientificamerican.com

New mask studies relying on a medical paradigm do not erase decades of engineering and occupational science that show they work

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Genevieve

@atgenevieve

This is the woman who filibustered the entire legislative session to stop anti-trans legislation. It’s not a moderate thing — she explicitly identifies as left — it’s that the democratic party is, in her words, “ideologically bankrupt”.

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Lincoln Journal Star

@JournalStarNews

One of Nebraska’s most high-profile Democrats has left the party. “The parties are not the future,” Sen. Megan Hunt said. bit.ly/SenHunt

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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD

@EpiEllie

Apparently there’s been discourse on the HPV vaccine? This is a vaccine I have been funded to research, and I can tell you the only bad thing about the HPV vaccine is that we didn’t invent it sooner. HPV vaccine is a game-changer for preventing cervical cancer. It saves lives.

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Whew. Sometimes I forget just how violent and conducive to fascism that liberalism is.

Decorum Disassembly - mas.to/@decorummanager

@DecorumManager

Walensky spent most of the last 3 years working from home & sending her kids to a school that received multimillion $ ventilation upgrades other schools didn’t She cut isolation time to 5 days, then got sick and vanished for 17. Said it was “mild” Over 700,000 died on her watch

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@Ash_Bash23

Trans justice and abortion are inextricably linked.

Dorothy Roberts

@DorothyERoberts

Who was Jordan Neely? Friends recall ‘sweet kid,’ talented performer killed in subway chokehold.

“Larry Malcolm Smith, Jr. said he got to know Neely in foster care roughly a decade ago & considered him a big brother who shared the money he made dancing so that the other kids could afford food or a haircut.” The foster system also abandoned him.

gothamist.com

Friends, family and outreach workers remember a talented dancer and performer devastated as a teen by the murder of his mother.

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y’all absolutely do NOT read before regurgitating 1970s ass DNC talking points & it really makes me lose faith in the possibility of us ever ending authoritarianism when it’s Fascists vs. Diet Fascists™️ & yall just say anything you heard on CNN so this is getting muted & closed

That’s one thing WH & Congress Dems have been great at — convincing people who always vote but don’t fully understand policymaking that Dems have tried really hard but it’s just those danged Republicans! WHPA has been toted out for show every year since 2013. This play is old.

Wild how every bluemaga with their panties in a twist replies with a perfect example of Dems knowing nothing about abortion policy beyond Roe. It’s almost like they’re parroting the messaging of a party that didn’t care about abortion beyond fundraising & elections for 49 years.

Diane Horvath, MD, MPH

@GynAndTonic

This thread is full of disinformation. Get your HPV vax & vax your kids because cervical cancer is one of the most brutal ways to die. If you’ve never seen it happen, I promise that you cannot possible imagine how utterly devastating it is.

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Allison Krug MPH

@KrugAlli

Apr 28

Apparently everyone is talking about HPV vaccine right now. This is a complex question, and I have a couple thoughts this morning. 1. Kids have 4x as many vaccines today as we did when we were in high school. I just checked my shot record. It had DTP, Polio, MMR on it in 1987.

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In the late 1980s, vaccines protected kids against 8 diseases and had more than 3,000 antigens. The vaccines that kids get today are more advanced. They protect against 14 diseases and only contain around 150 antigens - their antigen exposure is far less. cdc.gov/vaccines/paren… healthychildren.org/English/safety…

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