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Yesterday, Senator Josh Hawley introduce legislation that would ban and withdraw mifepristone’s FDA approval.
Mifepristone is safe. Anti-abortion extremists once again attempting to control us through misinformation is not.
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Abortion providers haven’t given up for a world where people can have abortions with ease and dignity.
I hope you won’t, either.
Today, members of Congress led by @pressley.house.gov and @hirono.senate.gov introduced a resolution recognizing Abortion Provider Appreciation Day and the clinicians and staff who make abortion care possible. I’m deeply grateful their continued commitment to abortion access + providers.
Abortion providers show up because we understand what is at stake if we don’t: the freedom to make decisions about our bodies, our lives, and our futures.
As an abortion providers, I know this work doesn’t exist in isolation.
Across the country, clinic workers continue showing up for their communities—even as immigration enforcement infiltrates our neighborhoods and attacks on transgender people rise.
Since the fall of Roe, attacks on abortion haven’t stopped.
But neither have abortion providers.
@prh.org is hiring a full-time physician Reproductive Health Advocacy Fellow — someone ready to use medical expertise to take on policy, misinformation, + the systems that harm our patients.
If you’re a clinician who wants to practice medicine *and* shape it, take a look.
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Patients deserve a health care system where nurses are respected, resourced, and able to thrive. Anything less is a threat to equity, justice, and our collective well-being.
Physicians: we have an ethical obligation to stand in solidarity with nurses. Nursing is a profession worthy of resources and respect. If we can’t say that out loud, we’re not practicing justice, we’re enforcing hierarchy.
As a physician, I could not do my work without nurses. They are the first point of contact for patients, the monitors of safety, the ones who spot crises before they escalate. Undermining nurses undermines patients, trust, and the integrity of care itself.
Adding barriers to degrees, loans, and career advancement is a values statement about who the Trump administration believes deserves opportunity and mobility. And in the context of nursing degrees? They’re also letting us know who they believe deserves culturally competent care.
Nursing has long been a pathway into health care for Black, brown, immigrant, and working-class students — people whose expertise and proximity to community strengthen our health care system and patient health outcomes.
I will say this plainly: the Department of Education’s exclusion of nursing as a professional degree is a direct attack on the people who hold our health care system together, and it’s an attack shaped by race, class, and power. It is unacceptable.
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ICYMI Dept of Education will no longer considers these professional degrees:
Nursing
Public health
Social work
Physician assistant
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Audiology
Speech-language pathology
Social work
Counseling & therapy
Health Admin
A smaller health workforce makes us all sicker
Our pregnant people, our infants, our communities deserve to thrive — not just survive.
If you can, support mutual aid groups in your community.
When systems fail us, we take care of each other.
That’s how we survive.
That’s how we build a liberated future.
Despite what the Administration would have you believe, SNAP and WIC are not on the line because of trans people or immigrants. They’re on the line because the government would rather play politics than take care of us.
Lawmakers using food assistance as a bargaining chip and letting thousands of families pay the price is unfathomably cruel. This is not leadership rooted in care or community.
This isn’t an abstract policy debate — it’s systemic political violence with real consequences for public health.
When a pregnant person can’t access nutritious food, formula, or support, outcomes worsen across the board. We see harm that could and should be prevented.
Reproductive justice is also the right to live in a body unconstrained by hunger, neglect, or scarcity.
People need stability to be healthy.
They need food. These things are absolutely necessary for raising families.
I’m not interested in qualifying anyone’s “worthiness” for support based on employment, sobriety, age, or ability.
And I’m not interested in policing how people use their benefits.
Everyone deserves food, stability, and care.
Nearly 42 million Americans rely on SNAP for food stability. 6.7 million new parents depend on WIC to care for their families.
As a physician, I am deeply alarmed about what is unfolding.🧵
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Also, while implied, it also needs to be implicitly said: Not all people who get abortions are women and girls. In Canada, the rates of teen pregnancy in trans youth is same as cis girls. No data is kept on trans masc ppl which is unacceptable
Excellent point. It’s more inclusive and it is also more accurate. All the more reason to constantly examine the language we use.
My solidarity with trans people isn’t at odds with Reproductive Justice — it’s integral to it.
I will keep using inclusive language. I will keep including trans people in my work.
Our liberation is bound together.
Are you coming along?
The same forces attacking abortion access are attacking gender-affirming care — both rooted in control.
We can’t stop at abortion access. We have to dig injustice out at the root, not just when it touches our own gardens.
Abortion is health care — but it’s also about bodily autonomy, self-determination, and the right to shape our own futures.
Trans people are in a parallel, interconnected fight.
Pregnant women are people. “Pregnant people” doesn’t erase cis women’s experiences with pregnancy — it expands the frame.
It helps make all reproductive health safer and more accessible for everyone.
Many people still think of this work as “women’s rights.” They worry that saying “pregnant people” dilutes the fight for abortion access.
If that’s where you’re coming from, I hear you. And I offer this: