New from me: A 2024 study about military abortion access from Ibis Reproductive Health was supposed to be like the one from 2019 that had 323 participants.
They could only find 3 this time around.
I interviewed two veterans about how women's issues that were once hushed are now going silent.
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A controversial rule enacted last year that denies federal Medicaid funding to abortion providers is likely to expire this summer, despite anti-abortion pressure on Republicans to renew it, @sofiaresnick.bsky.social reports.
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For @motherjones.com: I take a look at the many anti-abortion Texas-based lawsuits that target abortion pills and why they keep relying on plaintiffs later revealed to be problematic and "abusive."
“These cases range from messy to downright wild,” says law professor @maryrziegler.bsky.social
What does it say that Black women can dot our is and cross our ts and still be killed in the same homes as our children, by our partners, in homes with picket fences, and the world will ask:
"But how did you not know? Why didn't you choose better?" What a remarkable display of apathy.
Chemotherapy and surgery were long assumed to be dangerous for the fetus, but the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine now says that cancer treatment should not be withheld just because a patient is pregnant. @cameronoakes.bsky.social on this new, potentially life-saving change to medical guidance:
The author of South Dakota's new law redefining abortion said he underestimated how difficult it would be to codify in law exactly when pregnancy termination is medically necessary: stateline.org/2026/04/13/a...
Six years ago I got to speak to Astronaut Victor Glover about him being the first Black astronaut to be part of an extended crew on the International Space Station. Pretty cool to now see him a part of the #Artemis II crew 🧑🏾🚀 www.nytimes.com/2020/11/15/s...
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Two Durham elementary students detained by ICE, deported to Honduras within 48 hours ncnewsline.com/2026/04/09/t... #ncpol #ICE
From Anna Claire Vollers: Republican lawmakers in GOP-led states have pushed for state takeovers of police departments and other local agencies in Democratic cities with significant Black populations.
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NEW: Two women just joined the lawsuit seeking to overturn Arkansas' abortion ban. One had an ectopic pregnancy and was sent away by three emergency rooms in two states and another—refreshingly—didn't want to be pregnant. Both forced to go to Kansas. First case since Dobbs showing broad harm of bans
I love this framing bc even well-meaning, reasonable people believe that type 2 diabetes can be reversed through food choices.
2.5 million Americans lost food aid in months after passage of GOP megabill, @centeronbudget.bsky.social study finds. Story for @statesnewsroom.com
Moon Joy NASA ID: art002e013367 (April 7, 2026) – The Artemis II crew – (clockwise from left) Mission Specialist Christina Koch, Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen, Commander Reid Wiseman, and Pilot Victor Glover – take time out for a group hug inside the Orion spacecraft on their way home. Following a swing around the far side of the Moon on April 6, 2026, the crew exited the lunar sphere of influence (the point at which the Moon's gravity has a stronger pull on Orion than the Earth's) on April 7, and are headed back to Earth for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on April 10. The crew was selected in April 2023, and have been training together for their mission for the past three years.
Copy, Moon Joy 🥹
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Zendaya's character in THE DRAMA had a Harper's Magazine shirt so that should've been an automatic red flag to Rob.
Related: Alma Thomas, Snoopy Sees Earth Wrapped in Sunset, 1970
Families in Tehran are taping up their windows and sleeping together in rooms away from the glass. Their buildings have already been shaken by nightly explosions from the most sustained bombing in the capital since the eight years of the Iran-Iraq war. Some are rushing to buy generators, concerned that new attacks could cause critical services like electricity and water to unravel. The bombings and threats have left many Iranians living in fear not only of their own government, which killed thousands of people in a crackdown on protesters early this year, but their would-be American rescuers, who pledged at the beginning of the war to create the conditions for their government to fall. A 43-year-old woman living in Tehran and undergoing treatment for breast cancer said she worried what intensified attacks on infrastructure could mean for her healthcare.
We are terrorizing an entire country.
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SUPERSIZING IMMIGRANT DETENTION: Trump administration plans $39 billion to consolidate 34 facilities for detention--including 8 mega-sites of refurbished warehouses to hold as many as 10,000 people each @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social for @statesnewsroom.com DC
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BREAKING: The White House today proposed eliminating the Title X family planning program.
A few hours later, the health dept quietly released guidance that would shift the focus of the program millions of low-income people rely on away from contraception and toward "family formation."
Birth workers and repro advocates told @nhassanein.bsky.social that mobile midwifery clinics can help fill gaps in access to maternal health care.
Abortion-homicide bills, despite their broad unpopularity, will not go away. But even without these harsh criminal laws on the books, some women face murder charges for their pregnancy outcomes, including for suspicion of taking abortion pills: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/unpo...
New from me: Several states now have laws preventing governments from regulating crisis pregnancy centers. In Oklahoma, if a prohibited type of regulation was attempted, a center could sue for at least $10,000.
It’s based on model legislation from the Alliance Defending Freedom.
Kudos to @alicemiranda.bsky.social for being all over the back-and-forth between safety net Title X providers and Trump 2.0: www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
HHS is issuing Title X grants to family planning clinics this week after temporarily freezing funds to recipients last year and giving them one week to apply for this year’s pot of money. Providers said they haven't received the $ yet, but it can take a while to show up on the feds' grant site.
Real quote from Trump: "We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We have 50 states. We have all these other people. We're fighting wars, we can't take care of daycare. You got to let a state take care of daycare, and they should pay for it, too. They should pay."
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As states impose new limits on reproductive health care, they lose providers, who look elsewhere to practice. @elishabrown.bsky.social of the @statesnewsroom.com reproductive rights & health care team reports.
A new study shows applications to medical residency programs in states with abortion bans declined across the board after Dobbs. I spoke with OB-GYNs about what it was like training in Kentucky and Texas and whether that informs where they practice medicine. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/repr...
