“State abortion restrictions put in place during the last two decades have resulted in more women dying during or after childbirth, leading to about 16 additional deaths a year across the states that became more stringent, new research finds.” www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

The pro life crowd real silent about all the children that have been detained.

As a civil rights lawyer, I don’t think cases alleging discrimination against Jews or Israelis should be subjected to a special, narrow discrimination test that applies only to them. I wrote about this problem here: www.tabletmag.com/sections/new...

can’t not hear and see:

Webinar with Jewish Labor Committee starting today at noon ET: Join JCPA CEO @amyspitalnick and labor attorney Joanne Goldstein for a conversation on defending democracy, strengthening unions, and pushing back against efforts to divide our communities. Register: thejcpa-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Looking forward to watching this — catch it on @pbs.org www.pbs.org/show/black-a... #BlackandJewishAmerica

Tomorrow will mark a month since Cecil has seen her children. She is still detained in Louisiana and does not know what will happen to her.

First big abortion plotline of 2026 -- on #TellMeLies (spoiler alert) Diana has an abortion, freeing herself (she hopes) from the manipulative control of her ex, Stephen. www.ansirh.org/research/abo...

Can't help tracking the conversation on #HeatedRivalry and how tv represents autistic people - here's what the research says, fwiw. TV portrayals are often negative / inaccurate / stereotypical, with autistic characters having little agency journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article. Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.

A new report from ANSIRH & @newamerica.org analyzes the last 10 years of TV & film. Although viewers are eager for more realistic abortion depictions, data shows they are often oversimplified, treated as one-offs, or unrepresentative of people’s lived experiences. www.newamerica.org/better-life-...

New research from me & @newamerica.org! Audiences crave more realistic, holistic depictions of abortion on screen that TV and film have not been delivering. www.newamerica.org/better-life-...

"Neither of these mothers could get the care she needed. When the emergency arrived, it was too late. " Heartbreaking and infuriating. www.propublica.org/article/high...

How can my immigration status affect abortion access? A guide from @ineedana.bsky.social for noncitizens and our communities: www.ineedana.com/blog/how-can...

For those of you waking up to news that someone burned the synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi, here's a link to donate to fire recovery efforts.

Proud of all this kickass work from my @ansirh.bsky.social colleagues! myemail.constantcontact.com/ANSIRH-s-Yea...

Highly recommend consistently volunteering to read Torah at your shul so you can’t just doomscroll for eternity, you have studying to do!

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco track how abortion comes up on television. They say the trends from 2025 are concerning. n.pr/4oQlr52

Jewish groups are circulating the hebrew names of the injured for the traditional prayers for healing. Just got sent these: * Reuven Ben Manya * Chaya Mushka bas Shterna Sara * Feivel Eliezer ben Dobra Bella * Arsan ben Amelia * Yaakov Dov ben Pnina * Yaakov ben Ethel * Moshe Yonatan ben Tziporah

Baruch Dayan HaEmet. We’re horrified to wake up to the news of an antisemitic shooting in Sydney that killed 11 people. Our hearts go out to the Sydney Jewish community.

Are you ok? Is your family ok? Was anyone there? Is our local Chanukah event public? Do we have security? Should we still go? What do we tell the kids? Do we tell the kids anything? How do we keep them safe? Should we do a private Chanukah instead? Should we light the menorah in the window, still?

Waking up to news of another antisemitic mass shooting, this time at a Hanukkah event in Australia. I’m heartbroken and angry and I don’t know how many other ways to say it: antisemitism is a crisis that is threatening Jews, every single one of us, and the core of our society.

Thanks for writing about our research, @npr.org! www.npr.org/2025/12/13/n...

Characters are considering having abortions, but fewer than ever are actually having abortions, and when they do, it’s often a lonely experience. What’s going on? Read our new analysis of abortion depictions on TV in 2025: www.ansirh.org/research/res...

Instead of responding to our current abortion access crisis with bold, visionary abortion plotlines, what we’re seeing on TV, at least this year, is a return to troubling tropes of the past that link abortion with shame, stigma, and even death.

The Pitt, Ginny & Georgia, All’s Fair – how did this year’s biggest TV shows tackle abortion? We tracked this year’s hits and misses in our Abortion Onscreen report. www.ansirh.org/research/res...

IT'S HERE! Our research on how TV tackled abortion in 2025. Some notable findings: 📺 only 37% of shows featured a character who actually had an abortion, down past years 📺 the return of several troubling themes, notably the association of abortion w/shame & death www.ansirh.org/research/res...

Maccabeats are still out here with Chanukah bops, excellent #kpopdemonhunter one this year open.spotify.com/track/2ZSrm7...

New data! Shield laws helped nearly 15,000 people each month get abortion care, per the latest @societyfp.bsky.social #WeCount report. societyfp.org/research/wec...

"Legal restrictions [on abortion], uncertainty and a climate of fear resulted in logistical challenges, challenges to professional practice standards, and moral distress. " www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📺📺📺📺📺 watch this space! Sharing out abortion onscreen in 2025 analysis tomorrow 12/11! 🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬

"This cross-sectional study of 650 Native lands, with an estimated 950,991 female residents of reproductive age, nearly half of Native lands were over 90 minutes from an abortion facility before Dobbs, and the proportion increased after the decision." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Important new research from @kff.org: about 40% of US adults say that they're unsure about the safety of medication abortion. www.kff.org/public-opini... This is part of why the way abortion is portrayed on TV and film matters -- people need new ways to access accurate information about abortion!

Today is World AIDS Day. AIDS has killed 44 million people globally. Over the years, we've learned that silence and stigma are huge contributors. Yet, the State Department sent an email to employees stating “The US Government will not be commemorating World AIDS Day this year.” Silence = Death

Working on my analysis of abortion plotlines on TV in 2025 — whew, lots of new trends to report. Stay tuned!

Brrief abortion storyline on #AllsFair (which seems to be just as bad, if not worse, than the reviews say it is); another plotline in which a character tries to use one someone's past abortion to shame her. Similar to (but not as dramatic as) Hunting Wives. www.ansirh.org/research/abo...

Love to find an abortion plotline I'd never heard of before and add it to our database. TBH the stars of this soap opera with a truly unfortunate abortion plotline are the adorable kids in the kindergarten class, plus the theme song, a total bop. www.ansirh.org/research/abo...

Learning about and reading Maimonides for the first time. This man is like the Jewish Alexander Hamilton. Maybe I need to write a musical??

“Naomi ends up being the heart of the family, and the story. Because keeping a family functioning, and intact, might require being pushy, controlling, critical, and frankly, difficult.” Thank you @sarahmseltzer.bsky.social! lilith.org/2025/10/the-...

"To improve the health of the nation’s parents, Congress should make paid family leave available nationwide through a federal law that complements states’ efforts," Wells writes in this @theprogressivemag.bsky.social op-ed. Read Wells' full piece. ⤵️

"Transgender and nonbinary people faced fewer barriers to medication abortion when they get care through telehealth." rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/10/23/t...

I still can’t believe the living hostages are home and am having trouble, like, functioning in daily life. Just me?

ברוך מתיר אסורים

So interesting to hear Shonda Rhimes talk about what it took to get Olivia Pope's abortion and Cristina Yang's abortion onscreen. When I interviewd 46 tv writers/showrunners, they echoed these experiences & frustrations (more below). www.usmagazine.com/entertainmen...

I hesitate to say, but I am hoping against hope we can say בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה, יְיָ אֱלֹהֵינוּ, מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, שֶׁהֶחֱיָנוּ וְקִיְּמָנוּ וְהִגִּיעָנוּ לַזְּמַן הַזֶּה. May the war really be over, may the hostages really come home, may the suffering in Gaza really end, may the healing finally finally begin. #ZmanSimchateinu

After two years it is so hard to believe anything. And yet if you care about Israelis and Palestinians having any semblance of a future, there’s no choice but to hope and pray this moves forward.

Zman simchateinu? Hopefully. Chag sameach 🌿🍋

Abortion bans hurt everyone. Abortion bans and restrictions create cascading effects that extend far beyond reproductive health care, compromising the quality and effectiveness of medical care across reproductive and non-reproductive specialties.

Q1 I am really drawn to and taken with this image of God as a nursing mother. Very different from the stereotype of the fire and brimstone God. #parshachat