Opinion | Debunking the 'Coercion' Argument in the Abortion Pill Debate Restricting mifepristone access doesn't protect women from abuse

In an #OpEd, @darakass.com, @spsaki.bsky.social, and Liz Tobin-Tyler, JD, MA, all of @brownpublichealth.bsky.social, explain what the research actually shows about reproductive coercion.

Read now: www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

For parents of children caught in school shootings, the burden is overwhelming—and the answers are painfully few. Dr. Dara Kass’ latest is a must-read.
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What Parents Can Do When Their Child Is in an Active-Shooter Lockdown This moment will come for too many of us.

My daughter spent hours in a bathroom this weekend as we waiting for the lockdown to be over.

A few lessons I learned along the way.
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What Parents Can Do When Their Child Is in an Active-Shooter Lockdown This moment will come for too many of us.

@darakass.com, a NYC emergency medicine physician whose daughter Hannah was among students sheltering at Brown on Saturday, posts at @contrariannews.org about a stark reality of American parenting:

"If your child hasn't been touched by this, at the rate we are going, they certainly will be." [1/2]

Nothing scarier!

I’ve had an incredible first week sharing my book, Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual For Keeping A Democracy with friends across the country. Next up, San Francisco. a.co/d/0GGCiHU

White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

Today, I'm chatting with @darakass.com about the impacts of the Republican health care crisis on every day people. #TrumpShutUSDown

Tune in at 12pm MST/3pm EST ⬇️

Thank you

When the System Breaks Our Hearts and Blames Us At The Same Time Emergency physicians are blamed for wait times we didn't create, mourning a patient we couldn't save, and holding together a system that's collapsing around us.

This weekend has been hard.

I tried to put into words why.

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Samesies

The FDA is putting politics in your medicine cabinet This isn't about just Tylenol and mifepristone. It’s about whether the FDA will remain a trusted arbiter of safety and e

If the FDA moves to restrict mifepristone access against the weight of decades of evidence, it will break the trust the American people have in this critical agency. How can we trust any of the FDA's decisions if it is so clearly politicized? Dr. Dara Kass gets into it
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President Clinton opens CGI 2025 by addressing the rise of political violence and the assassinations of Melissa Hortman and Charlie Kirk.

#CGI2025 @clintonglobal.bsky.social

WSJ editorial board's take on Trump and Tylenol
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An ob/gyn, a family med doc, and an ER doc sit on a stage at a women in medicine conference

Here are some heroes for today: Idaho physicians fighting for women’s health in a heartbreaking practice environment (35% of the ob/gyn workforce have left since Dobbs) after realizing that there was no cavalry coming #WIMS

‘The Pitt’ Showed What Abortion Pill Access Should Look Like The popular HBO show’s accidentally aspirational mifepristone plotline should inspire more emergency rooms to offer medication abortion.

@darakass.com at #PWIMS2025: “If you watch #ThePitt, you know America thinks you can get an abortion in the ED. The truth is you most often can’t.”

We wrote about that disconnect here: www.autonomynews.co/the-pitt-sho...

When the pitchbot punches you in the gut 👇🏻

WARNER: Do you accept the fact that 1 million Americans died from covid?

RFK Jr: I don't know how many died

W: You're the secretary of health and human services. You don't have any idea how many Americans died from covid?

RFK Jr: I don't think anybody knows that

W: How can you be that ignorant?

Thank you @jeremyfaust.bsky.social Demetre, Dan, and I ("D3") using our voices to raise the alarm for public health

Amazing right ?

I am a proud member of the "I don't care" club for health professionals who do not GAF about this administrations perceptions of their commitment to health equity and ALSO the "I do not care club" for post/perimenopausal women.

My dance card is getting full.

Proud to be signatory on this letter.

Breaking: Gunfire hits CDC campus. Staffers are sheltering in place. Little else is known.

Breaking: Gunfire hits CDC campus.
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The startup world is quietly abandoning .com domains, and the data is fascinating. We analyzed 4,000+ YCombinator & Techstars startups and found:

85% of .ai/.pro/.global startups got their exact brand match.

Startups aren't compromising.
The old "you need .com to be credible" rule? Dead.

I didn’t see this posted anywhere else but this is our warning sign.

As expected

Instead of taking steps to improve #maternalhealth we're making treatment harder. The result will be more deaths.

EMTALA Still Supports Emergency Abortion Care—No Matter What Memo You Read www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco... by @nikkivinck.bsky.social‬ @darakass.com‬ via @medpagetoday.bsky.social‬

The FDA’s ‘data guy’ should trust the data on the abortion pill FDA Commissioner Marty Makary’s pledge to reexamine the safety of medication abortion isn’t just pointless — it’s dangerous.

"Makary, who proudly calls himself a 'data guy' should have no trouble acknowledging that the science behind mifepristone is rock solid—and it hasn’t changed."

📣My new op-ed with @heyjane.com's Kiki Fredman that calls on @fda.gov to trust the data on the #abortion pill!

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Adriana Smith and the ethics of indifference Fetal personhood laws created a medical and moral tragedy.

My first piece for @thecontrarian.bsky.social

Adriana Smith and the ethics of indifference

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Is the U.S. about to be dragged into a war in the Middle East? Wendy Sherman on the Israel-Iran conflict "No one should underestimate how difficult and, in my view, how profound this decision will be by President Trump"

Is the U.S. about to be dragged into a war in the Middle East? Wendy Sherman on the Israel-Iran conflict - the single most terrifying and important explanation of what it means to go to war vs. Iran. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...