Yesterday, a federal court allowed the Trump administration's "defund" of Planned Parenthood to go into effect immediately. That means right now, patients are not able to use Medicaid to pay for care at Planned Parenthood health centers.

I’m delighted that my dear friend and outstanding scholar, @cehaupt.bsky.social will be joining Wendy Parmet to lead Northeastern’s Healtn Law Center. 👏🎉👏 I am exceedingly fortunate to have such leaders in the field as my faculty colleagues. law.northeastern.edu/haupt-named-...

Thank you, @agwilliamtong.bsky.social, for fighting for Planned Parenthood patients against this unjust action by the Trump administration. We're grateful to work alongside our state elected leaders to fight back for your health care and your rights. www.registercitizen.com/connecticut/...

The Court relies on manufactured scientific uncertainty to justify allowing state governments to flatly prohibit health care that is widely supported by mainstream consensus. The patient, their parents, and their doctors all agree to follow mainstream medical guidelines, but the state won’t let them

Sotomayor gets it right in dissent. Geduldig is constitutional trash and should not be good law in 2025. 😠

‼️TOMORROW (Wed. 6/18) at 1‼️ Come hear about the new book I’m honored to have contributed to alongside my co-authors @courtneygjoslin.bsky.social and Doug NeJaime. I’m excited to be sharing a bit about our chapter along with a group of scholars cutting across disciplines. REGISTER now to attend!

‘My duty is to call it out’: Judge accuses Trump administration of discrimination against minorities. The Reagan-appointed judge ordered the NIH to restore funds for research related to racial minorities and LGBTQ+ people. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

🚨New book alert 🚨 Check out Seminal: On Sperm, Health, & Politics (nyupress.org/978147983406...) I'm honored to have contributed a chp. w/ Doug NeJaime (@yalelawschool-yls.bsky.social) & @katiekraschel.bsky.social (@nusl.bsky.social) on The High Stakes of Gamete Regulation in a Post-Dobbs World.

Important piece by @professormutch.bsky.social

This is a politically motivated attack that uses health care access as a pawn in a broader effort to erase reproductive rights.” Outstanding and crictically important op-Ed co-authored by our PPSNE CEO, Amanda Skinner. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/23/m...

Today’s news about the bombing in Palm Springs is devastating. Violence against reproductive health providers is too familiar. reproductiverights.org/statement-on...

A terrible ruling on FDA's authority over laboratory developed tests leaves patients exposed to unnecessary risks of over- and under- treatment. With @rachelsachs.bsky.social @pzettler.bsky.social, we explain the issue, the decision, and potential consequences. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Once again - the excitement we've felt in lower courts preventing parts of the Trump agenda to go forward needs to be tempered because the Supreme Court is the apex court. And this is the Supreme Court reminding us who it is.

Hi! I’m a part of a team at Pitt that got a large grant and is looking to hire a comms person with a specific background in repro. If you or someone you know might be a good fit, please let me know!

Pregnant people living in states with abortion bans are almost twice as likely to die during pregnancy or soon after giving birth, a report released Wednesday found.

Why a reproductive justice lens explains everything.

Money keeps being mentioned for poor parents who can’t afford private schools/homeschooling…. Harris v. McRae: “financial constraints that restrict an indigent woman's ability to enjoy the full range of constitutionally protected freedom of choice are the product not of governmental restrictions”

‼️This just in: Conservative Justices care about affordability of education (and rights) unlike their stance on: ➡️ abortion (when it was a right) ➡️ civil legal counsel ➡️ voting etc. etc. etc.

SCOTUS in June: if a teacher reads the majority opinion in Obergefell to their class religious families have a right to opt out of the lesson.

The conservative justices inclination to lump anything to do with gender and marriage with sex ed - even picture books for 4-year-olds is jarring. The regressive view of all queer people as sexual deviants is oozing from these arguments.

Our son's Pre-K has the kids bring pictures of their families to help comfort them/transition to the classroom, and they share them with one another. The lawyer before SCOTUS today would say our son's classmates should be able to opt out of his time to share about our family if we shared this pic 💔

As we prepare ourselves for Justice Sam "The Only True Victim" Alito asking ridiculous questions in oral argument today, always remember he wrote this in dissent in Obergefell -- about how silenced he'll feel now that gay people can marry and how fearful he'll be for his safety. Oh poor Sam!

'After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe But Not Abortion' digs into the various strategies providers have pursued to continue offering abortions, and the ways advocates have helped people access them.

Off to a great start at @nusl.bsky.social CHPL conference on 3 years after Dobbs welcome from Dean Hackney and Prof Wendy Parmet and keynote from Prof Khiara Bridges

Tomorrow is @ppsne.bsky.social annual spring luncheon featuring @staceyabrams.com and our board’s own @realsambee.bsky.social It’s going to be a bright spot of solidarity. Will (our 4yo son) got his Flo Jo Barbie ready to attend after we talked about it at dinner tonight. She’ll see you there!

I believe this is the first post-Dobbs arrest of someone allegedly providing abortions.

I shared my thoughts on Trump's Executive Order with @nymag.com

‼️Amazing job alert! Any health care regulatory folks looking for mission focused work in this moment of existential crisis?? Dream job working with an unbelievable team at @ppsne.bsky.social jobs.lever.co/ppsne/b5d4cf...

National Condom Week is coming! ☕ Starting this Friday, swing by any of our health centers for FREE condoms (internal ones, too 😉)   ➕Join us for Volunteer Week on Wednesday 2/19, at our New Haven office to build safer sex kits and spread the love responsibly! #NationalCondomWeek #PlannedParenthood

women don't want flowers for valentines day we want: *reproductive freedom *birthright citizenship *rule of law *respect for science *research grants *a history of domestic violence to be disqualifying *this admin to stop gutting fed agencies & censoring crucial info *chocolate

One aspect of the abortion wars that always fires me up is the claim that faith is only relevant to people who oppose abortion access. Glad to see the Lawyering Project making clear that people of faith need abortion, support abortion, and provide abortions. lawyeringproject.org/our-work/202...

We need more fearless reporting like this from Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester at @propublica.org. #Trump & #Rubio are killing people. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

On the left, CDC’s page of vaccine-specific recommendations from its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) On the right, that page tonight

Don't forget what happened with the travel ban during the first Trump administration: Version 1: Clumsy, overbroad, and poorly implemented; blocked by courts; withdrawn. Version 2: Slightly less clumsy; slightly less overbroad; poorly implemented; blocked by courts; expired. Version 3: Upheld.

It's not clear what this new list of programs is, really. As Joshua notes, it includes programs OMB now claims are unaffected by the freeze. But it also includes programs OMB even previously claimed were unaffected. It looks like page 23 of the PDF includes entries for Medicare Parts A, B, and D? /1

🧵HOW (MANY) PUBLIC BENEFIT PROGRAMS WORK (what I teach my law students in reproductive justice) The Trump Administration is intentionally obfuscating the impact of its grants funding freeze by counting on many American's unfamiliarity with the structure of many public benefits programs.

The state needs to act and act now to protect reproductive care in the state. We have supportive legislative champions and executive branch officials. Now they have got to do the hard thing and deploy critical resources to sustain critical services in the state.

Thank you, @gregggonsalves.bsky.social for your voice, leadership, humanity. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

"One study estimated that if PEPFAR were to end, as many as 600,000 lives would be lost over the next decade in South Africa alone. And that nation relies on PEPFAR for only 20 [%] of its H.I.V. budget. Some poorer countries are almost entirely dependent on" PEPFAR. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...

The stories coming out of Africa over the next few months without PEPFAR are going to be gruesome. People will get sick; people will die. Someone has to tell their stories.

The brief text of the memo appears to apply extraordinarily broadly. In healthcare, it could be read to sweep in funding for Federally Qualified Health Centers, the Vaccines for Children Program, etc. It's less clear to me whether it includes Medicaid. /1 www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

No executive order can or will erase you. We see you, and we're here for you. #PlannedParenthood #PPSNE #TransCommunity #TransRights

Here's what should come next - someone bring a lawsuit raising an ERA claim. Treat it as ratified and bring a case under it (not about it).

Now up at Health Affairs, my 2024 year in review in pharma policy (IRA implementation, PBM scrutiny, the election, and more), and a look ahead to 2025 (in addition to the above, a focus on 340B and important cases involving Judges O'Connor and Kacsmaryk). www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

On the last full business day of its term, the Biden Administration has announced a record 24 million signups for the ACA marketplace and the next 15 drugs subject to Medicare price negotiation.

"I affirm what I believe and what three-fourths of the states have ratified: the 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex."  https://buff.ly/3Cd36wK #Biden #ERA

Viewpoint from Claudia Haupt and Mason Marks discusses leveraging the Federal Trade Commission to combat #AI-generated medical disinformation and protect consumers from deceptive medical advice. https://ja.ma/4ftxl08