Did mifepristone fix Canada's abortion access issues? Experts Liz Darling, Laura Schummers & TK Pritchard share data and experience to reveal why access is still "flimsy." We cover safety, global trends & the real barriers (stigma, rural care, pharmacy stocking). 🎧Listen now: tinyurl.com/nz9aus3b

Here is what we stand to lose if we let private insurers write Canada’s pharmacare plan www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... @drlschummers.bsky.social @enethery.bsky.social @thestar.com More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

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After BC added full coverage of prescribed IUDs, an additional 11,375 (+50%) people started using them. @drlschummers.bsky.social: "This really tells us that there was a substantial cost-related barrier to using contraception as a whole". www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

100 days into office and Trump is still quietly dismantling abortion and reproductive health access... even if it hasn't made headlines. “The administration wants you to think that they are not paying attention to repro… but that is completely untrue."

Why were abortion rates from 2020 to 2023 stable in Ontario, while they increased substantially in the UK and Europe? Canada’s regulatory and policy approach may be a key factor, according to the authors of a new study. @drlschummers.bsky.social www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Proud to see Harvard taking a stand, digging into deep pockets to fight for both academic integrity and for survival of higher education as we know it. Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration’s Demands www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

Since mifepristone became available at Canadian pharmacies in 2017, the percentage of medication abortions increased from 8% to 56%. Yet 6% of regions have no pharmacy, and 20% still don’t have a pharmacy that dispenses mifepristone. @drlschummers.bsky.social www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

It's time to talk about how if people really want this American experiment aka "democracy" to survive, they will need to put bodies on the line to protect the vulnerable. Otherwise, the United States will just become yet another nation ruled by kings, thugs, and cowards.

It's the #AffordableCareAct's 15th anniversary! The ACA's contraceptive coverage guarantee has helped millions of people in the US access their preferred birth control methods. Policymakers must protect the ACA from current attacks & secure its protections. gu.tt/4hJCyBO

Questions about the FDA approval of mifepristone for medication abortion (including removal of specific restrictions that limit use) are driven by anti-choice ideology, not science. lasvegassun.com/news/2025/ma...

The Trump admin quietly shuttered a CDC program used to collect data on maternal & infant health since 1988. This will severely curb the gov't's ability to monitor & address the worsening maternal health crisis since Roe fell. From @kylietcheung: www.jezebel.com/as-abortion-...

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!? Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one! #standupforscience2025

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

Republicans for much of 2024: "How DARE you call our candidate Mr Trump a fascist?" *President* Trump in 2025:

Well said, as always, @gregggonsalves.bsky.social Continue to share scientific knowledge, & defend #PublicHealth. And oppose this contagion of ignorance & cruelty with all of your might. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...

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New Jersey is stockpiling abortion pills 💊 & pushing to eliminate out-of-pocket costs—because abortion is healthcare. No matter what happens federally, safe & effective options remain. @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social

We’re done here. Right?

Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

I have a confession . . . I was an “overhead cost”. I was a beaker washer, agar plate pourer, research secretary. I was paid by “overhead cost” fees. Loved it. Those “overhead cost” jobs allowed this rural kid to become a physician. Please tag how #OverheadCostJob impact u.

Conservative state legislators aim to put a new amendment on the ballot that would ban abortion except for in emergencies, when a fetus has abnormalities, or in cases of rape or incest, but only if a police report is filed and within a 12-week limit. By @jeremykohler.bsky.social

The goal here is not reform but destruction. Think it makes no sense? It doesn’t. Authoritarians want to bring universities to their knees. This is how to do it. www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/n...

Will universities finally speak up now? Or are they still "working behind the scenes" Texted with many academic colleagues last night, the consensus is, if these cuts hold, many of us can no longer have a career in academia. This will spur mass exodus. www.science.org/content/arti...

Shame on @hhmi.bsky.social. Disgusting.

Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"

I just voted NO on RFK Jr. to lead HHS. None of his empty promises could undo the harm his past statements have already had on people’s health. He’s a flip-flopper, a conspiracy peddler, and a danger to our country. He’s driven by self-interest, not by protecting Americans.

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

Senator Raphael Warnock ahead of the vote on RFK Jr. for HHS Secretary: "I simply do not trust him to oversee the CDC. He's unqualified, and I dare say that everybody here knows it." BOOM! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

This is horrifying.

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines. The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds. It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

Let's all say it out loud. These people are fascists & this is a fascist take-over of the United States. You can couch your words more carefully, but the speed and ferocity of what is happening now is part-and-parcel of a coup. The GOP in Congress has surrendered. The Dems are out of their depth. 1/

PAA and the Association of Population Centers express alarm about recent events in which federal agencies have been purging scientific and statistical data from publicly available portals and websites. Read our full statement: www.populationassociation.org/blogs/paa-we...

“Agency staff were also sent an email Friday directing them to contact scientific journals to pull back manuscripts that had been accepted, but not yet published, that did not comply with the executive order on gender ideology” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Practical self-defense tip: when folks say "do your own research" about vaccines (for example), what they often mean is "go google studies, conducted using methods you are not trained to rigorously evaluate, that you can then use to reinforce your existing beliefs via a lot of confirmation bias."

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

I legitimately don't understand how much more blatant people can get.

If you don't know the history of science, before Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch & John Snow in the 19th century, people thought diseases were caused by "bad air" or "miasma." @aetiology.bsky.social documents how #RFKJr. is bringing back miasma theory in the 21st. It's beyond insane and dangerous. 1/

This difference-in-difference in study found “robust evidence that PEPFAR has been associated with a decline in all-cause adult mortality in the African countries where it operated most intensively”: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... There’s something WILDLY ironic about this study…. 1/2

BREAKING: Trump is pardoning nearly 2 dozen protesters convicted for breaking into and blockading abortion clinics -- a move some groups fear will embolden them and other anti-abortion demonstrators in the future www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

More of this, please. "Dr. Rebecca Gomperts announced preliminary results of a large clinical trial in Moldova showing that a 50 mg dose of mifepristone is very effective as a weekly contraceptive pill." msmagazine.com/2025/01/07/m...

Does Canada need universal contraception coverage (outlined in federal pharmacare bill C64)? Our findings from BC indicate yes! Contraception use (especially the most effective IUD/implants) increased substantially when B.C. made all contraception available at no cost. Read about our findings here:

Does Canada need universal contraception coverage (outlined in federal pharmacare bill C64)? Our findings from BC indicate yes! Contraception use (especially the most effective IUD/implants) increased substantially when B.C. made all contraception available at no cost. Read about our findings here:

"President-Elect" Elon Musk and Former President Donald Trump want to shut down the government. Nothing like a couple billionaires wreaking havoc on working families right before the holidays.

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...

She served the US & the US almost killed her. Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was denied military insurance coverage for an emergency abortion to treat her miscarriage—her fetus had no heartbeat & she qualified. Tricare held out while she bled out. She made it, not everyone will. https://buff.ly/4isZ97z