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Sending love to anyone navigating difficult holiday table conversations this week!! 💌 In this episode, Erin Matson of @reproaction.bsky.social shares strategies for having hard conversations, knowing when to engage, and building up your boundaries during confrontations and questions #podcast

In this episode, hear from Ashley Kurzweil and Sarah Coombs at the National Partnership for Women and Families about the forces behind rising rural hospital and L&D closures and the community impact of losing local maternal care: www.reprosfightback.com/episodes-blo... #podcast

It took 22 years for Kate Helen Downey’s severe menstrual pain to be recognized as a symptom of endometriosis. Host and producer of the #podcast CRAMPED, Kate sat down with us earlier this year to share her story and encourage us all to talk openly about period pain:

Abortion later in pregnancy is often misunderstood & heavily targeted through both policy & stigma. ICYMI, Erika Christensen @rhavote.bsky.social, Jenn Chalifoux, & Dr. Diana Greene Foster sat down with us to share their personal stories & why access to later abortion will always be needed.

What does “fetal personhood” mean and how does it expand state power over pregnant people? In this recent #podcast, Karen Thompson at @pregnancyjust.bsky.social and Garin Marschall at @patientforward.bsky.social talk with us about viability, state involvement in pregnancies, and criminalization.

“All flourishing is mutual.” In her book Braiding Sweetgrass, Potawatomi botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer echoes the teachings of pecan trees, who grow and thrive as a collective. Mutual aid affirms that every being is a gift and that our deepest strength and power live in community care

"By making huge cuts to health care, undermining protections for care workers and attacking early education programs, the Trump administration is pushing forward a series of regressive policies that, one by one, fulfill its true agenda, outlined in the anti-woman, anti-family Project 2025 playbook."

"Feminist Foreign Policy is a policy framework that is challenging traditional understandings of foreign policy." This week, Jill Montilla and Spogmay Ahmed of the FFP Collaborative talk with us about building a Feminist Foreign Policy that disrupts colonial, racist, patriarchal power structures.

The road to abortion care is not as smooth sailing as it should be, but abortion funds can help! Support Ohio's statewide abortion fund here: https://secure.everyaction.com/-ModKl7fBkibpmxOryElDw2

“Coupled with accounts of patients who are delaying or avoiding essential prenatal and birthing care, experts worry pregnant people who feel targeted by [ICE raids], and their developing fetuses, will face more complications before, during, and after birth.” Cameron Oakes via @rewirenewsgroup.com:

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

In the latest #podcast episode, Jill Montilla and Spogmay Ahmed of the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative talk with us about building a feminist foreign policy that disrupts colonial, racist, patriarchal, male-dominated power structures. www.reprosfightback.com/episodes-blo...

Systemic ableism and racism intersect to create barriers to reproductive rights in health care, education, and the child welfare system. Learn more in our reports, created with the National Partnership for Women & Families: nationalpartnership.org/report/acces...

🚨New Resource Alert🚨 #FreeThePill and @nhelp.bsky.social just launched our state OTC coverage toolkit—a guide for state advocates to advance legislation for insurance coverage of over-the-counter (OTC) contraceptives with NO prescription or cost-sharing requirements. 💊

🚨 New Episode 🚨 This week on @reprosfightback.bsky.social I talk to Jill Montilla & Spogmay Ahmed w/ the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative about what a feminist foreign policy looks like and building a world that disrupts colonial, racist, patriarchal, male-dominated power structures. #podcast

This week on rePROs Fight Back, Jill Montilla and Spogmay Ahmed of the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative talk with @jennieindc.bsky.social about building a feminist foreign policy that disrupts colonial, racist, patriarchal, male-dominated power structures. #podcast

@nwlc.org found that in counties with four overlapping resource "deserts," where access to abortion care, pregnancy care, broadband, & food access is severely limited or nonexistent, Black women make up 14.9% of the population, over twice their national share. This is structural racism by design.

Medicaid is a lifeline for rural maternal care, covering nearly half of births. Yet the GOP budget bill is designed to widen "maternity care deserts," forcing rural hospitals, clinics, and L&D units to close. Women and birthing people in rural communities need access to care close to home.

Because of medical racism in the U.S., Black women are disproportionately affected by preeclampsia, a pregnancy complication characterized by dangerously high blood pressure. PA-based maternal-fetal medicine specialist Dr. Carmen Proctor is using evidence-based screening to identify risk sooner:

This week on rePROs, we're joined by Ashley Kurzweil and Sarah Coombs from @npwf.bsky.social, who discuss the forces behind rising rural hospital and L&D closures and the community impact of losing local maternal care. #podcast

"Relief is possible when pain is taken seriously, not dismissed as an unavoidable harm of pregnancy." —Julie Vignato, Assistant Professor of Nursing at the University of Iowa

Impending Medicaid cuts, the GOP megabill’s 'defunding' of Planned Parenthood, and frozen Title X grants are fueling rural hospital and L&D unit closures. This week on rePROs Fight Back, Ashley Kurzweil and Sarah Coombs at @npwf.bsky.social talk with us about the future of rural care:

Today is International #HumanRightsDay and the last day of #16DaysofActivism against Gender-Based Violence. To mark it, here’s a thread of podcast episodes and briefs that lay bare some of the human rights violations facing women and girls worldwide and pathways to justice 🧵

This week on rePROs Fight Back, we're joined by Ashley Kurzweil and Sarah Coombs from @npwf.bsky.social, who discuss the forces behind rising rural hospital and L&D closures and the community impact of losing local maternal care.

🚨 New Episode 🚨 This week on @reprosfightback.bsky.social I talk to Ashley Kurzweil and Sarah Coombs at the @npwf.bsky.social on the threats facing rural hospitals especially their Labor & Delivery units & what these threats will mean to the patients who rely on rural hospitals. #podcast

Impending Medicaid cuts, the GOP megabill’s 'defunding' of Planned Parenthood, and frozen #TitleX grant funding are fueling rural health clinic closures. This week, Ashley Kurzweil and Sarah Coombs at NPWF talk with us about the future of rural hospitals and clinics and the patients they care for.

Reproductive health care is a disability justice issue. Check out four papers on disability and reproductive rights created with the National Partnership for Women & Families here: nationalpartnership.org/report/acces...

ICYMI yesterday: Sign up for a new, paid annual subscription between now and December 31 and receive a free, signed copy of @gretchensisson.bsky.social’s book Relinquished! www.autonomynews.co#/portal/

In rePROs Fight Back's new policy brief, Senior Fellow Preston D. Mitchum offers an analysis of the Trump administration's assault on diversity, equity, and inclusion & why DEI is the blueprint for survival for communities pushed to the margins by institutional oppression: tinyurl.com/DEIIsNotATrend

"In the Trump 2.0 era, the reproductive justice framework is more important than ever, Ross and Fried argue in their new book, Abortion and Reproductive Justice: An Essential Guide for Resistance." www.motherjones.com/politics/202... @motherjones.com Get your copy 📚➡️ www.ucpress.edu/books/aborti...

Indie clinics partner with abortion funds, train future providers, and challenge harmful laws. They help patients navigate confusing policies and long travel distances. Communities need clinics, and clinics need support. Read the full report: communitiesneedclinics.org

At the same time, providers remain committed. At least 60 new independent clinics have opened since 2022, responding to gaps created by bans.

Independent clinics serve as community anchors offering compassionate care even as threats and financial strain grow. Since 2022, 100 independent clinics have closed or stopped providing abortion care. Closures are concentrated in the South and Midwest.

We just released the 2025 Communities Need Clinics report. Findings show once again how essential indie abortion clinics are to access in the U.S. #IndiesProvide the majority of abortions & operate the most clinics in states w/ the harshest restrictions. They also provide most later abortion care.

Across the country, incarcerated women, trans and nonbinary people are punished for having periods. Formerly incarcerated people have reported male correctional staff and supervisors being oblivious to how menstruation works. https://bit.ly/48RIOq2

"Presidents come and go. But people stay. Movements stay. Our responsibility to each other stays. DEI is not a trend to be tested or paused; it is a commitment to be upheld, refined, and defended." —Preston Mitchum, Senior Fellow, in rePROs' new policy brief. Read it here: tinyurl.com/DEIIsNotATrend

💌🛍️ An MSFC chapter partnered with an out-of-state clinic to create post-abortion care packages for patients traveling home after an abortion. Read the new blog to learn how your chapter can host a reproductive health care packaging event on campus: msfc.org/event-spotli... #reproductivehealth

Everyone deserves reproductive freedom, and we're expanding access to comprehensive reproductive health education so that future providers are trained to expand reproductive healthcare. 💜

Texas abortion funds @fronterafundrgv @fundtexaschoice @lilithfund @janesdueprocess @teafund refuse to be intimidated by HB7. We will continue to find every possible way to legally support Texans seeking the health care they need and deserve, wherever they must go to access it.

This holiday season, treat your loved ones to rePROs mugs and totes so they can proudly rep their commitment to reproductive rights 🎁💜❄️ www.bonfire.com/store/repros...

15 days after giving birth, as she recovered from a C-section & her daughter lay in the NICU, Nayra Guzmán was detained. She’s one of many harmed by the Trump admin's removal of DHS limits on arresting pregnant & postpartum immigrants, a reprehensible policy endangering vulnerable parents & babies.

Bundles of gratitude to the 26 folks who had rePROs Fight Back as a top podcast on Spotify in 2025 and to everyone who has listened this year!!! We are so honored that you took the time in your weeks to tune in and hope the podcast has been an informative and empowering resource 🌻⋆⁺₊✧

BREAKING: The Supreme Court ruled to allow Texas to proceed with using a racially discriminatory voting map. Voters of color deserve to be heard – not silenced.

@shoutyourabortion.bsky.social teamed up with director Na Forest Lim to create a series of short films that normalize keeping abortion pills at home and direct folks to YouAlwaysHaveOptions.com. SYA, Plan C and the Hydra Mutual Aid Fund are bringing the PSAs to primetime television in Michigan’s UP🫶

Nothing says Midwestern like funding abortion under a foot of snow ❄️☃️ 💸 secure.everyaction.com/-ModKl7fBkib... ((someone come dig us out))

In rePROs Fight Back's new policy brief, Senior Fellow Preston D. Mitchum offers an analysis of the Trump administration's assault on diversity, equity, and inclusion & why DEI is the blueprint for survival for communities pushed to the margins by institutional oppression: tinyurl.com/DEIIsNotATrend

Don't miss rePROs' latest reprisal of our fan-favorite series, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Hero Origin Stories! This week, hear how three SRHR heroes began their work in this field. New @reprosfightback.bsky.social now streaming on Apple, Google, Stitcher, Spotify, & Pandora: