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Here in black and white is the Florida proposal to ban doctors from even *talking* to teenagers about birth control without their parents' permission. It has passed three subcommittees We covered this bill in the @autonomynews.co weekly roundup: www.autonomynews.co/trump-judge-...

Relevant to this soft-glam fascist's comments today, there's a bill in Florida to ban prescribing birth control to minors—or even giving teens information about it—without parental consent. It's called HB 173 The attacks on contraception are, and have been, in motion

Today, a Trump-appointed judge will consider whether to end telemedicine prescriptions of mifepristone nationwide. Plus, state legislatures are back in session and pushing a host of anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ+ bills. That and more in yesterday's @autonomynews.co roundup:

Ending telemedicine prescriptions of abortion pills nationwide will harm so many people—including those who don't want to have their abusers' children. We included this shocking but not surprising story in the @autonomynews.co weekly roundup: www.autonomynews.co/trump-judge-...

Far-right activists are in court today trying to restrict access to abortion pills by claiming women are coerced into taking them. So it's worth reading about a male plaintiff in a separate Jonathan Mitchell case: Jerry Rodriguez's girlfriend told police he strangled her 8 times. 2x convicted abuser

A judge will hear arguments Tuesday on whether to halt telemedicine prescriptions of the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide. Telehealth abortions made up 27% of all abortions in 2025 and have helped people access care in states with bans. The law firm that helped end Roe v. Wade is involved:

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Did you know that Texas Tech recently canceled an abortion provider’s speech because of a TPUSA campaign? Medical students in the state say this censorship harms not only their education, but their patients’ health:

Today, we have an op-ed from Texas leaders of @msfchoice.bsky.social, who say Texas Tech’s recent decision to cancel a talk by third-trimester abortion provider @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social in response to a Turning Point USA pressure campaign goes beyond censorship:

The Trump administration is sending all pregnant migrant girls to the same group shelter in South Texas, 21 state Attorneys General asked a judge to restrict abortion pills nationwide, plus a flurry of state news and attacks on queer people in our weekly roundup:

They've both been in jail since Monday. "State police said that a grand jury indicted the couple in late January for concealing the birth of an infant and reckless homicide, a charge used in situations where someone 'reckless[ly] causes the death of another person.'"

worth noting that police arrested a woman *and her husband* this week for reckless homicide related to a miscarriage. Yes, men: fetal personhood affects you too

It's alarming that a long-standing birth control method is facing new barriers. Regulatory measures should facilitate, not obstruct, access to effective contraception. Safeguarding patient safety and access must go hand in hand, not conflict. @autonomynews.co @garnethenderson.com bit.ly/46857Gq

Both women were criminalized after they sought medical care, one for a miscarriage and one for self-managed abortion. Prosecutions like this often stem from a person’s handling of remains after a miscarriage or stillbirth, such as when someone miscarries on a toilet or buries remains. Read more:

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These two Kentucky cases follow known criminalization patterns, per @pregnancyjust.bsky.social data. *arrests after seeking medical care *charges for handling of fetal remains using laws meant for other purposes *people criminalized are disproportionately low income

On Monday, state police arrested another woman and her husband for "reckless homicide" related to a November 2024 miscarriage. The state hasn't released the estimated gestational age of the fetus and it won't give us the autopsy report. This detail could matter for the homicide charge:

Prosecutors indicted the first woman in early January for fetal homicide despite an explicit exception for people who end their own pregnancies. Dropped the charge but still pursuing three others. Self-managed abortion is only explicitly banned in one state but cops use other laws to arrest people

The Louisiana lawsuit is one of three active cases against the FDA that could result in judges restricting access to mifepristone nationwise. We're covering them all at the worker-owned @autonomynews.co:

JUST IN: Republican Attorneys General of 21 states asked a judge to end telehealth prescriptions of abortion pills nationwide claiming FDA rules mean they can't enforce their restrictions/bans. Hearing in Louisiana case against FDA is scheduled for 2/24 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The maker of Nexplanon has about six months to inform AND recertify all of its prescribers. Glad a Bank of America analyst asked this on an earnings call, because the company didn't respond to @garnethenderson.com's multiple requests for comment

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Here’s the answer from Nexplanon maker Organon’s head of research and development in response to an investor question about the new FDA regulations, called a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS). Full transcript is here: www.fool.com/earnings/cal...

On an earnings call yesterday, the maker of birth control implant Nexplanon told investors it’s confident that newly heightened FDA regulations on its device won’t cause any bottlenecks. But most providers I contacted for this story (and have heard from since) didn’t even know about the new rules.

Out of over 20,000 FDA-approved drugs, only 73 have active REMS—additional requirements that can make medication harder to get. So it raised flags when the FDA put a REMS on Nexplanon, a birth control device available since 2011. Read more from @garnethenderson.com at @autonomynews.co

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The biggest barriers to reproductive healthcare often sound inane and boring, which helps them fly under the radar. Behind this snooze of a regulatory change is a long history of paternalism at the FDA, including and perhaps especially under Democratic administrations, in fact:

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Don't sleep on this wonky-sounding story. An expert told Garnet this birth control news is "troubling" and asked “What else is this going to be applied to going forward? Is every reproductive health product going to be subject to this layer of scrutiny?"

NEW: The FDA recently approved the contraceptive implant Nexplanon for use up to five years (instead of three). But it also placed the device under a REMS protocol, a special layer of regulation that could affect access. Many providers did not yet know about the REMS when I contacted them.

The FDA recently approved the birth control implant Nexplanon for use up to five years, instead of three. But to providers' surprise, it also placed the device under a special monitoring protocol called REMS, which is infamous for the way it has limited access to medication abortion.

Anyway, support independent media like @autonomynews.co—the first worker-owned reproductive rights and justice publication—founded by me and @garnethenderson.com. Our work will never paywalled and we are powered by paid subscriptions, tip jar gifts, and tax-deductible donations:

Other outlets had reported some of the allegations against former PPSE interim CEO Mairo Akposé, but @susanrinkunas.com uncovered new details, including that Akposé wanted to halt abortions. PPSE's board had cleared Akposé of wrongdoing, but she stepped down not long after we published this story 👀

NEW: Six former employees of the embattled Planned Parenthood Southeast affiliate filed EEOC complaints alleging retaliation and discrimination in their firings. (EEOC complaints required before lawsuits) www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/iemf0... My @autonomynews.co story on the interim CEO who fired them:

Thank you to @autonomynews.co for highlighting my article re pharmacists having a more free for all for dispensing certain medications used in abortion. As a chronically ill person, scared also for others on methotrexate at this very moment.

There was so much news last week, including the little-noticed nixing of a rule that required pharmacies to carry and dispense misoprostol and methotrexate. More in our roundup:

In its own strategic plan, which I obtained because it was submitted with grant applications, Georgia Wellness Group identifies "inability to provide more OBGYN services without a physician willing to provide services" as an organizational weakness.

This arrangement, called a nurse protocol, was mysteriously terminated after one of my sources submitted a public records request about it.

What I *was* able to verify is that, according to the medical board's own records, a nurse practitioner at Georgia Wellness Group was registered as being supervised by that same retired physician with the expired license. This would be a violation of state law.

The licensing issues in a nutshell: First, according to allegations from a former medical director, the medical director of Georgia Wellness Group as of summer 2025 was a retired doctor with an expired license. For the record, I couldn't verify this allegation.