“If the Congress won’t act, and if somebody else won’t act, then veterans ourselves will stand up and say, ‘fine, we will act, we will fight for our country and for our people the way that we have always done,’” Lindsay Church of Minority Veterans of America, the petitioner in the suit, told me.

NEW: Minority Veterans of America, repped by @nwlc.org and @democracyforward.org, is suing the Trump administration over its ban on abortion care and counseling at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Here's the complaint:

NEW: On behalf of Minority Veterans of America & their members, we joined @democracyforward.org in suing the Trump administration over their cruel, extreme abortion ban for veterans.

❗SCOOP: The first lawsuit over the Trump administration’s abortion ban for veterans & their dependents was just filed. Minority Veterans of America says one of its members w/ chronic health issues + a history of pregnancy complications is currently being impacted. More from me at @ms.now:

NEW: 113 Republican members of Congress asked the Supreme Court to end telehealth prescriptions of the abortion drug mifepristone. They say the FDA rule change was improper *and* that it violates the federal Comstock Act www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

By all that is holy, if and when SCOTUS decides that birthright citizenship is protected in the Constitution, don't let the 3-3-3 numpties tell you this is a moderate, centrist court. Rejecting an a-textual stupid Hail Mary doesn't cash out to a push when it comes to eviscerating the VRA today.

Death, taxes, and the Supreme Court desperately trying to undo the progress of reconstruction and the civil rights movement.

Well, the Reconstruction Amendments were nice while they lasted.

"I dissent because Congress elected otherwise. I dissent because the Court betrays its duty to faithfully implement the great statute Congress wrote. I dissent because the Court’s decision will set back the foundational right Congress granted of racial equality in electoral opportunity. I dissent."

Elizabeth Banks

Table setting: More than 100 studies have found mifepristone is safe and effective. It's safer than continuing a pregnancy. The only way to claim it's unsafe is if you believe abortion is murder, which is what we're going to hear today.

Brace for nonsense: there’s a Senate hearing today that will baselessly question the safety of the abortion pill mifepristone. Expect Josh Hawley to be on his worst behavior www.youtube.com/live/M3PNge7... www.autonomynews.co/wyoming-abor... @autonomynews.co

I’m so glad to see this paper — my first solo-authored one and second from my dissertation — finally published! If you’ve heard me talk about my research in the last couple of years, you know this is the story that started it all for me, and I’m so happy to finally have it out there in the world.

My and @paytongannon.bsky.social 's latest publication on abortion access in Italy came out last week as part of the special issue of Interdisciplinary Political Studies! This article grew out of our conversations about the interviews we were each conducting in different regions of Italy. 1/

A special issue of Interdisciplinary Political Studies on reproductive rights in developed democracies has been published. It has been a pleasure to work with all the authors and my co-editors @dmpullan.bsky.social and @gmripamonti.bsky.social Read it here: siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/idps

So happy to see this special issue of Interdisciplinary Political Studies on Steps Forward and Backward on Abortion Rights in Advanced Democracies published today, coedited with @gmripamonti.bsky.social and @paytongannon.bsky.social! gendersky reprosky polisky

The 26th Annual Review of Gender and the Law is now in print. It has been a joy to serve as the Editor-in-Chief for the last year. I am so grateful to the entire staff of the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law for their hard work. Check it out here: www.law.georgetown.edu/gender-journ...

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

The Supreme Court is as powerful as it is in large part because of a reputation that it earned through fitfully at best furthering racial justice. It has diminished that reputational capital for more than a century. We should in fact respect it less because of that.

Justice Sotomayor dissenting on birthright citizenship case: "The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along. Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent."

🎉 Congratulations to @paytongannon.bsky.social and @dmpullan.bsky.social who made the Loop Best Blog 2024 shortlist for their article 'Emergency room abortions in the US: doctors’ objections trump patients’ lives'. #RoeVWade ➡️ ow.ly/2k5F50W3jR9

Honored to have been considered for this prize for my work with @paytongannon.bsky.social explaining US court decisions on abortion post-Dobbs! Highly recommend publishing quick, contemporary pieces with @ecprtheloop.bsky.social — always a great experience and great editorial team!

A little life update: I graduated law school and will join the National Women's Law Center in the fall to continue working on repro rights. I will also continue to research abortion law and policy. On that note, I published a new article on Muller v. Oregon: www.law.georgetown.edu/gender-journ...

Abortion access works in political-geographic systems: when there is regional regulation, you’ll end up with some sanctuaries, some islands, and some deserts of access — in the US, in Italy, and beyond. So glad my oldest paper with @paytongannon.bsky.social has finally made it online!

Sanctuaries, Islands, and Deserts: @paytongannon.bsky.social and @dmpullan.bsky.social propose a typology of regionalized abortion policy. Comparing the US and Italy, they analyze the impact of regional abortion access on abortion providers and patients. New MPIfG Discussion Paper: s.gwdg.de/p7Ps65

Every DC group chat is currently being renamed to "Houthis PC Small Group'

The history here is instructive: before Roe, prosecutions tended to focus on non-physicians, and disproportionately on midwives, especially those who weren't white. We see the same now--and for strategic reasons. This isn't the first prosecution Paxton could bring but the one his office chose.

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

This report is damning and terrifying. Abortion saves lives.

If you want to read about concerns regarding abortion data integrity in a country other than the US @dmpullan.bsky.social and I have a new article out in RevDem. We discuss Italy's annual abortion report and concerns about the accuracy and its delayed release. revdem.ceu.edu/2025/02/07/a...

It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

Q: Abortions are safer than _______. A. Consuming Tylenol. B. Getting your wisdom teeth out. C. Giving birth. D. All of the above. It’s D. Abortion is one of the safest outpatient procedures in the United States.

The U.S. isn’t the only country where the government withholds key public health data on abortion. @dmpullan.bsky.social and I explore concerns about Italy’s abortion data and the severe delays in its release.

The US isn't the only place where citizens are struggling to trust government data on abortion, gender, and health: Italy regularly publishes delayed data that is misleading at best about how available abortion actually is. Read more about why good public health data matters for democracy at RevDem!

Not only do they erase trans, non-binary, and intersex people with this order, but they had to lace it with a side of fetal personhood. (I assume ova are “large reproductive cells” and sperm are “small reproductive cells? Is this how they teach sex ed?)

"She left us with work that demands we keep building, refusing to stew in apathy or despair. Yes, this is hard. Yes, it will demand a lot from us. But Cecile committed her life to the idea that we could do it anyway."

Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.

Update from DC: It’s still not that cold outside.

An early contender for headline of the year…

What an extraordinary, devastating essay. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Re-upping this because lots of great new people have been added to this fantastic starter pack. If you're interested in repro legal issues, these are the folks to follow!

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Abortion is 14x safer than child birth. And abortion pills have a better safety record than Tylenol.

Now we're talking: Medication abortion is safe and effective. Time for it to be available over-the counter on all pharmacy shelves. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

An abortion researchers starter pack! Let me know if you’d like to be added. go.bsky.app/SHS3EQa

Participated in this really fascinating panel on the role of emotions and affect in social research this afternoon @ the Feminism as a Method conference at Scuola Normale Superiore. Little teaser of our tips for interviewing about abortion if you zoom in! Learning so much! @paytongannon.bsky.social

Ciao from Firenze! Excited to be visiting the Scuola Normale Superiore this week for a conference on feminism as a research method! I’m presenting new work with @paytongannon.bsky.social & Anna Crawford about techniques for conducting academic interviews about abortion! Can’t wait to meet everyone!

A sobering empirical piece in JAMA. Homicide has long been THE LEADING CAUSE of maternal/peripartum death. Here they show: * restrictions on divorce * restrictions on abortion… both correlate with pregnancy homicide (albeit differently, depending on age/race) 🛟🩺 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

In light of the election result this week, LGBTQ+ youth are more at risk than ever. The Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law is still accepting submissions for the Spring 2025 Symposium Issue. Send your submission to [email protected]

In light of the election result this week, LGBTQ+ youth are more at risk than ever. The Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law is still accepting submissions for the Spring 2025 Symposium Issue. Send your submission to [email protected]