🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 thank you @womenslawproject.bsky.social and everyone who made this happen!

Attacks on Gender-Affirming Care & Abortion This paper will explore the overlapping connection of these two realms when analyzing restrictions on both abortion and gender affirming care and how these strategies have fueled a growing surge of at...

"The similarities that arise from the areas of 'parental rights' and criminalization/state surveillance demonstrate that the overlap between attacks on abortion and gender-affirming care go much further than the overarching concept of attacks on bodily autonomy." www.thetaskforce.org/resources/ge...

I thought maybe I was too harsh but then I saw how anti abortion people are clocking this show as a win

Thank you for this, Erin! Love that you mentioned Margo considering (and not having) an abortion, and how challenging and yes, life-breaking motherhood is (I also have young kids).

I study abortion on tv & film, and shared how it fits with trends in abortion depictions. bsky.app/profile/step...

The show is obviously anchored in Margo parenting and the struggles she faces along the way. Just wish it didn’t come at the cost of stigmatizing abortion.

What did you think?

The show explores important questions about motherhood & family, especially related to class & economic stability. Yet the characters who bring up abortion are portrayed as insensitive, leveling judgment and shame at Margo. Abortion is unthinkable for Margo and associated with unlikable characters.

Averted abortions happened more commonly in the 1990s, & we’re seeing a resurgence. The message: it’s ok to consider abortion, but the “right” decision is to parent.

In this show, Margo faces condemnation for deciding to parent – she’s a resilient hero who didn’t take the “easy” way out.

Every character (and person) should make the pregnancy decision that is right for them, and receive the support they need. What’s detrimental is that this plotline falls into a growing contemporary trend of averted abortions: characters who briefly consider but never have abortions.

In this new show on Apple TV, Margo has an affair with her college professor, gets pregnant, and briefly considers an abortion before deciding to carry her pregnancy to term.

Everyone in Margo’s life assumes that she will have an abortion, and are shocked by her decision to parent.

A still of two women on a couch: an older white mom and a young white woman laying her head in her lap with the text SPOILER ALERT: ABORTION ON MARGO’S GOT MONEY TROUBLES overlayed in white

Can we talk about #MargosGotMoneyTroubles and the (spoiler alert) averted abortion storyline because….you know I’ve got thoughts.

I really don’t logically understand how every year on my kids’ birthdays my body freaks out - hips sore, uterus crampy. I know the body knows the score and all that but you’d think after 8+ years it would forget!

“Me and God, We're Good”: Abortion Morality and Protestant Women Having Abortions in the South This study examines how 84 Protestant women in the South understand the morality of their abortion decisions, offering a nuanced perspective on the complex relationship between religion and abortion ...

"Given the extent to which religion has been hijacked to tell a narrow story about abortion, documenting the stories of religious people having abortions offers a deep source of moral wisdom & an important corrective in public narratives about abortion." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The vibe I bring to Friday night is Torah study in my Shane Hollander jersey #JewishLoons

Illusion of intimacy, exactly. And I’m sure the more people feel that illusion as real, the more they absorb the messages of the show.

Yes, and like social media platforms the landscape is infinite and the metrics (especially re: engagement) are even more obscure. The overlap for me is when TV producers make podcasts about their shows and put clips on social media. So much to analyze / understand!

Such great points (both about streaming/binging vs broadcast and about parasocial relationships with social media influencers). I wonder the same about podcast hosts, who also feel like friends but obviously are not.

Putting Pregnancy, Abortion, and Care into Context on Screen

Did you know that a majority of TV and film viewers across ALL genres support legal abortion, and want to see more realistic abortion stories onscreen? We collaborated with @betterlifelab.bsky.social, exploring the ways abortion is depicted onscreen and the more complex stories audiences want.

The Growing Evidence Base for Over-the-Counter Medication Abortion Medication abortion using mifepristone and misoprostol is a safe and highly effective regimen that now accounts for nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the US.1 As access to clinic-based abortion ca...

Medication abortion can and should be provided over-the-counter. Research continues to find that it's safe, effective, & acceptable to patients. Bring on the abortion pill vending machines, please! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

If anti-Jewish hate goes unchecked, it will probably be deployed against other marginalized groups next | Opinion Surging antisemitic animus ripples across our entire democracy.

“The violence and messaging are targeting not just Jewish safety but Jewish citizenship. They send a message: No barricade will guarantee Jews their full and free exercise of rights as Americans…we fear they will next be deployed against other marginalized groups.” www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

Outstanding LGBTQ Stories Are Winning Audiences — Hollywood Is Leaving Money on the Table | Guest Column GLAAD's senior director of Entertainment Research & Analysis points to hits like "Heated Rivalry," "Stranger Things," "Pluribus" and more.

From GLAAD's Senior Director of Entertainment Research & Analysis: Outstanding LGBTQ stories are winning audiences and Hollywood is leaving money on the table.

(via @thewrap.com)

Wow, lightbulb moment for (autistic) me about books and reading - thank you.

White and green text on a navy blue background reads, "Findings from our Monthly Abortion Provision Study: In 2025, there were 1,126,000 clinician-provided abortions in the United States."

New data from our Monthly Abortion Provision Study show that there were 1,126,000 US clinician-provided abortions in 2025. While interstate travel for care decreased, abortion via telehealth to people in states with total bans increased significantly.

Learn more: https://gu.tt/47Vm3R7

Kerry Washington: Power, Perfection & Olivia Pope YouTube video by Call Her Daddy

Usually when I ask people if they've ever seen a show with an abortion storyline, chances are they'll mention Olivia Pope on Scandal. So cool to hear Kerry Washington on Call Her Daddy talking about the experience of filming it, and her own abortion story too: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRn6...

The Left Makes an Exception for "The Jews" Why universal principles suddenly become negotiable when the subject turns to Zionism, Israel, and antisemitism

"My point is not that Jews deserve a unique exemption from political critique. It is that Jews should not be the exception to anti-racist principles." Thank you, @bulldogshadow.bsky.social

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Dolores Huerta. Illustration by Alleanna Harris.

Dolores Huerta. 🫶🏾 (I originally did this illustration about seven years ago, but I recently updated it.) #illustration

JCPA Statement: “While we continue to learn more about today’s attack on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, we should make no mistake: the Jewish community is living in an environment of real fear right now and each of these incidents only compound our concerns. “We have become far too accustomed to the frantic calls and texts in the aftermath of news like this — checking in on loved ones and praying that injuries are limited. “We appreciate the response of local, state, and federal authorities and synagogue security, and are grateful that nobody has been hurt at this time — but this should serve as yet another reminder that we need a whole-of-government and society response to address hate, violence, and extremism. “Our democracy is not truly inclusive unless Jews — and all communities — can live, pray, and work free from fear and violence. This moment demands real solidarity across communities to build a society in which all of us are truly safe.”

Our response to the news from Temple Israel in Michigan:

Majority of Americans Continue to Say Abortion Should Be Legal in All or Most Cases | Pew Research Center A 60% majority of U.S. adults say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. This share is down slightly from the last few years.

A majority of Americans continue to say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, and in recent years, the public has become more likely to say obtaining an abortion in their area would be difficult. New from @pewresearch.org:

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Marsha’s Is Here To Stay Philadelphia queer bar owner responds after alleged anonymous complaints prompt police inspection.

WHY did over 20 police officers enter Philadelphia's first queer women's sports bar? My sister reports on this for @autostraddle.bsky.social: www.autostraddle.com/marshas-is-h...

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Light brown background with text about how historical dramas portray abortion providers, with two iPads with stills from two shows

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A list of what we’d like to see more of in terms of onscreen representation of abortion provision

This is how we #celebrateabortionproviders at Abortion Onscreen - by sharing analysis of how tv has represented abortion provision across genres, and what we'd love to see more of on our shows. Sending love, strength, and appreciation to all abortion providers, from clinic staff to clinicians.

Seeking Abortion Care Across State Lines After the Dobbs Decision This qualitative study investigates the experiences of people traveling from states with abortion restrictions or bans after the US Supreme Court Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision t...

"Every day since the Dobbs decision, pregnant people have undergone financially, physically, and psychologically strenuous journeys for basic health care." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...