"Hundreds of studies using decades of data have conclusively shown that #mifepristone is safe, but Kennedy is following the anti-abortion playbook by regularly raising unfounded concerns in order to decrease #abortion access." Our latest #RFKJr Whopper of the Week: https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whopper-week-rfk-jrs-bogus-attacks-mifepristone-threaten-abortion-access

"Hundreds of studies using decades of data have conclusively shown that #mifepristone is safe, but Kennedy is following the anti-abortion playbook by regularly raising unfounded concerns in order to decrease #abortion access." Our latest #RFKJr Whopper of the Week: https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whopper-week-rfk-jrs-bogus-attacks-mifepristone-threaten-abortion-access

"For the first time since Texas criminalized abortion, the state’s medical regulator is instructing doctors on when they can legally terminate a pregnancy to protect the life of the patient — guidance physicians have long sought as women died and doctors feared imprisonment for intervening."

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-medical-board-abortion-training-doctors via @ProPublica

#healthcare #ReproHealth #pregnancy #abortion #physicians #texas

"For the first time since Texas criminalized abortion, the state’s medical regulator is instructing doctors on when they can legally terminate a pregnancy to protect the life of the patient — guidance physicians have long sought as women died and doctors feared imprisonment for intervening."

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-medical-board-abortion-training-doctors via @ProPublica

#healthcare #ReproHealth #pregnancy #abortion #physicians #texas

oh hey, another Ghost + Outpost publication (not substack!)

https://www.autonomynews.co/

"Autonomy News is a new worker-owned reproductive rights and justice publication co-founded by Garnet Henderson and Susan Rinkunas, featuring original reporting and sharp analysis that applies a human rights framework to issues including abortion, contraception, and gender-affirming care.

Garnet and Susan are among the most trusted reporters on this beat in the U.S. Combined, they have more than two decades’ experience, plus unparalleled sourcing and strong points of view. Their writing has appeared in The Nation, ELLE, The Guardian, and The New Republic, and more. They first met at VICE, where Susan edited Garnet’s work."

#Ghost #Outpost #Substack #Abortion #WorkerOwnedMedia

oh hey, another Ghost + Outpost publication (not substack!)

https://www.autonomynews.co/

"Autonomy News is a new worker-owned reproductive rights and justice publication co-founded by Garnet Henderson and Susan Rinkunas, featuring original reporting and sharp analysis that applies a human rights framework to issues including abortion, contraception, and gender-affirming care.

Garnet and Susan are among the most trusted reporters on this beat in the U.S. Combined, they have more than two decades’ experience, plus unparalleled sourcing and strong points of view. Their writing has appeared in The Nation, ELLE, The Guardian, and The New Republic, and more. They first met at VICE, where Susan edited Garnet’s work."

#Ghost #Outpost #Substack #Abortion #WorkerOwnedMedia

New training from a Texas regulator about when doctors can legally terminate a pregnancy comes nearly five years after the state passed its abortion ban in 2021.

Experts contend the guidance can’t capture all complications that arise in pregnancy.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-medical-board-abortion-training-doctors?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #Abortion #Women #Health #Healthcare #Medicine #Law

“We do not need to cover our eyes and pretend not to see what this logic leads to. It is not an accident that Republicans have over and over again blocked laws against child marriage. It is not an accident that Republicans made it their mission for decades to ban abortion.

A core plank of Republican politics is that women exist to bear children for men.”

4/4

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-talk-about-pedocon-theory/

#GOPWarOnWomen #Epstein #Trump #Evangelicals #ChristianNationalism #Abortion #Women

“We do not need to cover our eyes and pretend not to see what this logic leads to. It is not an accident that Republicans have over and over again blocked laws against child marriage. It is not an accident that Republicans made it their mission for decades to ban abortion.

A core plank of Republican politics is that women exist to bear children for men.”

4/4

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-talk-about-pedocon-theory/

#GOPWarOnWomen #Epstein #Trump #Evangelicals #ChristianNationalism #Abortion #Women

New training from a Texas regulator about when doctors can legally terminate a pregnancy comes nearly five years after the state passed its abortion ban in 2021.

Experts contend the guidance can’t capture all complications that arise in pregnancy.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-medical-board-abortion-training-doctors?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #Abortion #Women #Health #Healthcare #Medicine #Law

"A Galveston County man has filed a lawsuit against a California doctor he accuses of providing abortion-inducing pills to his partner, leveraging for the first time a new Texas law that allows private citizens to sue abortion providers for up to $100,000."

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/02/texas-california-abortion-pill-lawsuit-bounty-hunter-law-hb-7/

#healthcare #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #pregnancy #abortion #courts #texas #txlege #families #privacy #freedom

"A Galveston County man has filed a lawsuit against a California doctor he accuses of providing abortion-inducing pills to his partner, leveraging for the first time a new Texas law that allows private citizens to sue abortion providers for up to $100,000."

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/02/texas-california-abortion-pill-lawsuit-bounty-hunter-law-hb-7/

#healthcare #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #pregnancy #abortion #courts #texas #txlege #families #privacy #freedom