Listening to the ACIP today reminds me of the Michelle Obama quote, “I have been at probably every powerful table that you can think of... They are not that smart.”

“I have never personally witnessed more dangerous misinformation presented at a putative scientific meeting in my entire life.” @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social

I stopped by the @liberalcurrents.com Half the Answer podcast to talk about Charlie Kirk, Ezra Klein, free speech and the power of independent media. Full episode here: www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

The COVID-19 workgroup finally put their recommendations - the ones that ACIP will vote on - up. The operative part - what's in ACIP's power - is that anyone can only get the vaccine under shared clinical decision making, and they essentially recommend against it for most people under 65. 1/2

This chart better reflects the reality of reproductive coercion. Sure, it's a simplification; it's still what they're after.

… and again this is why so many deeply experienced journalists have started their own pubs outside mainstream media.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Wow, brilliantly and precisely put. This is the first time writing on the assassination of CK has made any sense to me.

I’ve spent the last hour trying to put the SC S.B. 323 proposed language to ban birth control into an easy to understand visual flow chart. I asked my husband if it made sense and he said no. Fine. Then he proposed this simple chart instead, which, yes, is actually correct.

Kelli Nowers, Executive Director of AWAKE and sponsor behind Tennessee’s Fertility Treatment and Contraceptive Protection Act responds to anti-abortion extremists’ plan to undo the legislation.

Appreciate @jessicavalenti.bsky.social lifting up my story on the audio uncovered from anti-abortion folks in TN, and consistently waving a red flag about the conflation of birth control and abortion. It's coming to your state next.

In my latest for @nashvillebanner.bsky.social I cover the real-world implication of all the intentional confusion around Covid vaccines. It’s the same anti-science, anti-autonomy strategy as the attack on repro rights. nashvillebanner.com/2025/09/15/c...

Online misinformation putting women off contraceptive pill, study finds www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The Trump admin is finally saying it out loud: they believe birth control is abortion. In deleted audio anti-abortion OBGYN Omar Hamada echoed the same false claim about Plan B. Read more and hear the audio at TNReproNews.com #tnrepronews #abortionrights #birthcontrol #tnleg #ivf #contraception

The film was incredibly powerful and so was the discussion afterward, led by @rachelwells1.bsky.social and @lauraandreson4tn.bsky.social, women who are working hard to advocate for reproductive healthcare access in Tennessee. Please watch this film and then get involved! www.voices-the-movie.com

Last night I was honored to introduce the first ever documentary screening at an @eastnashtivists.bsky.social meeting. Thanks to @amwadoctors.bsky.social for helping folks screen Voices: Our Stories Before Roe v Wade. #WomenInMedicineMonth #AMWA2025 #AMWA #MedSky #ReproSky

Sorry, not sorry but there will be media attention. You will not come for our rights without us talking about it and fighting back. Hear the rest of the audio at TNReproNews.com and sign up to get the latest in your inbox. #tnleg #repro #reproductiverights #tnrepronews

Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.

Exclusive from TN Repro News: The morning after Gov. Bill Lee signed protections for contraception and IVF, Tennessee’s top anti-abortion leaders jumped on a now-deleted X Space to plot its repeal. In their own words, IVF creates “excess waste.” wellsrachelm.substack.com/p/deleted-au...

HUGE WIN!!!! E. Jean Carroll just scored $83.3 MILLION against President Poopypants!!!! AND the court said ABSOLUTELY THE FUCK NO to his “presidential immunity” excuse. That’s right, the lies, the attacks, the “should be sold in fiction” take—all officially REJECTED.

From the mind of our newest TN gubernatorial candidate. #tnleg #reproductivehealth #reprorights

something that drives me nuts is how legacy media will write that "scholars question legality" of a trump administration action when there is not a shred of evidence that it is in fact legal. it leaves room for the federal government to manufacture a legal justification when literally none exists.

I report from inside a post-Roe state where my work isn’t just news; it’s about how policy shapes lives. Read my conversation with legal analyst Joyce Vance on Civil Discourse: where grief, journalism, and reproductive rights collide. #independentjournalism open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

“Those of us that practice in rural settings, we’re going to be here,” he said. “We’ll do it, regardless of what our resources. But there’s also the realization that we feel like the orchestra on the Titanic.” Read my latest @nashvillebanner.bsky.social nashvillebanner.com/2025/08/12/t...

Bigotry doesn’t always present as a Unite the Right rally or violence in our nation’s capital. Sometimes, it comes with a demure smile and a sweet, “It’s just my personal belief.” Special thanks to @rachelwells1.bsky.social My latest for @msmagazine.com #medsky msmagazine.com/2025/08/09/w...

Now more than ever the connection between fertility treatment and criminal abortion is being tightened. Pay close attention in the months and years ahead. substack.com/@wellsrachel...

ICYMI: Arkansas is threatening two websites for simply telling people where they can find abortion pills, which raises First Amendment concerns, as @maryrziegler.bsky.social told @autonomynews.co. She said the point might be to create a chilling effect

Just went on a bender and quickly recapped what the Snowflake / frozen baby adoption / IVF religious underbelly is all about. Please share widely. It's terrifying and happening underneath our feet. wellsrachelm.substack.com/p/the-five-a...

The Snowflakes program is a Christian-based effort to 'birth' every stored embryo, claiming they are "frozen children." There's a deep, unregulated underbelly to IVF that needs to be brought to light. I hope this story encourages reporters to dig in. It's WILD and disturbing. #ivf #tnrepronews

The story about the oldest embryo resulting in live birth this week goes deeper than you can imagine. I've been covering this story for nearly a year. Stay tuned for more. #tnrepronews #reprorights #ivf #reproductiverights #fertilityjourney www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/29/1...

New from Hastings Center — a leading bioethics institute: “Tennessee’s Medical Ethics Defense Act… is a distortion of conscientious objection. There is no justifiable medical reason to withhold prenatal care from an unmarried person.” 📖 Read the full piece: thehastingscenter.org/tennessees-i...

“To have a conscientious objection, it has to be grounded in conscience. It's not supposed to be something that's just based on bias or prejudice,” she said. wellsrachelm.substack.com/p/how-medica...

It’s not every day your work is shared by a former Secretary of State…

A Tennessee woman was denied prenatal care by her doctor because she is "unwed." Let's be clear: the Republican agenda is not pro-life or pro-family. If it were, pregnant women wouldn't be forced to flee their home states to get basic prenatal care.

I've received support from conservative Republicans, middle-aged men in deep red states, doctors outside the U.S., and people trying to educate family members with different views. We are more united than they want us to think.

Thank you to Diana Leyva at The Tennessean for covering this story and crediting my original reporting. Happy to see more mainstream coverage of this unbelievable story. #reproductiverights #tnrepronews #reprorights www.tennessean.com/story/news/h...

You can watch her full remarks at Abortion, Every Day, or read her interview with @rachelwells1.bsky.social at TN Repro News: wellsrachelm.substack.com/p/pregnant-w...

Feminists and abortion rights activists warned that this would happen, and now here we are: A Tennessee woman has been denied prenatal care because she’s unmarried. The woman—who hasn’t shared her name—spoke about her experience at a town hall last week.

It’s so scary to see local control, continually wrestled away in favor of state and federal goals.

To those doubting my journalistic integrity, let me be abundantly clear. If this reporting isn't satisfactory for your newsroom or personal edification, you are on the wrong side of history.

If you aren’t already following @rachelwells1.bsky.social, who reports on reproductive health from Tennessee & scooped the story about the woman who was denied care for a pregnancy because she was unmarried, you’ll want to follow her immediately!

Read my original reporting on the pregnant mother in Tennessee who was denied prenatal care for being unmarried, now republished in @nashvillebanner.bsky.social nashvillebanner.com/2025/07/20/d... #tnleg #reprorights #womenshealth

Can you please help me get this story out? Please share, email, text, Signal, sky write, snail mail everyone you know. This is the first, but it won’t be the last. wellsrachelm.substack.com/p/pregnant-w...

Nice hustle by Banner contributor @rachelwells1.bsky.social on this interview with the mother

Appreciate the support from the @nashvillebanner.bsky.social. This story is unreal. And yet, it's real.

If you see this story shared without credit, do me a huge favor and let folks know it was first reported here at TN Repro News. wellsrachelm.substack.com/p/pregnant-w... Thanks for supporting independent journalism. 🤎

“The fear for me is if something happens, I can’t guarantee that the provider I see is going to value my life over the life of this fetus,” she said. “And while we do very, very much want this baby, I have one here already who very, very much relies on me.” wellsrachelm.substack.com/p/pregnant-w...

Big thanks to @dailykos.com for sharing and crediting my original reporting on the Tennessee woman denied prenatal care for being unmarried. #reprorights #reproductivehealth #tennessee www.dailykos.com/story/2025/7...