We had a great conversation with Dr Daniel Grossman of @ansirh.bsky.social on this week’s episode of @outlawedthepodcast.bsky.social about the science and safety of mifepristone. Get the facts here!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

New season coming next week! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:

They think women suffering in pregnancy, birth and postpartum is good, literally.

We’re at $1,200 / $10,000 needed! Keep sharing because tomorrow morning, we’re getting her out of jail.

Martin County's only hospital was forced to close in 2023, mere months before North Carolina finally expanded Medicaid. Its closure punched a huge hole in rural healthcare down East - the closest hospital is now in Greenville (40 mins away). www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/u...

Story-telling and narrative are key “…this suggests that when trust in government is so low, the only way to move people’s views on a given policy is to explicitly tell them about their impact on specific families.” HT @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Journalists often ask for my thoughts on the contemporary US pronatalist movement. My assessment is based on my expertise and training as a social demographer, and my own research on childbearing behaviors at the individual and aggregate levels. Strap in, b/c I've got a lot to say. 1/

NEW: More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”

The president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. Susan J. Kressly, said "creation of federal immunization policy is ‘no longer a credible process.’”

While N.C. law allows abortions when a patient’s life or health is in danger, the federal guidance offered clearer protections. Without it, doctors may be less sure about what’s allowed—and hesitate to act in emergencies.

🧵 At this time it's super important to make sure people have accurate information around abortion. So I've been sharing a thread with a number of resources that I'll continue to re-share to ensure the information is getting out to all who need it.

see, the thing *i’m* genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines

The FDA commissioner says that the decision of whether a pregnant woman should get a Covid vaccine should come down to a conversation with their doctor — not a recommendation by the federal government.

Thinking of this @propublica.org reporting today about stillbirths of unvaccinated parents during the Delta wave, before CDC had explicitly recommended COVID vaccines for pregnant people and the damage the virus did to the placentas. www.propublica.org/article/covi...

Incredible article about abortion later in pregnancy. Check out this powerful interview with Jenni Villavicencio in episode 7: Tension of opposites. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Stirring and beautiful piece on the people repro groups leave behind by supporting viability limits on abortion. So-called “compromises” lead to forced births, like that of a California woman turned away after raising thousands and flying across the country. Read @amylittlefield.bsky.social:

BREAKING: Jefferson Griffin has conceded the N.C. Supreme Court race to Allison Riggs, ending a six-month long legal battle over the election.

Join us tomorrow to learn more about our 13th Annual 50-State Report Card. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Today a right wing “think” tank released what they are calling a study that allegedly shows a higher rate of medication abortion complications than previous peer-reviewed studies. Let us dig into this mess.

Someone said executive orders are like letters to Santa, which is my favorite way to describe them

650,000 North Carolinians now have access to affordable health care thanks to Medicaid expansion. Gutting it would rip away that essential care and harm our entire health care system. Call your federal representatives and let them know we must protect Medicaid.

52 young AmeriCorps volunteers working in Western North Carolina on Helene recovery have now been fired, due to cuts made by the Trump-Musk White House. The @americorps.bsky.social is now being dissolved nationwide by the Trump administration. spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte...

Reading the transcript of Princeton's president Eisengruber on the Daily and what a cogent, powerful, and brave defense of #academic #freedom. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...? A few highlights, but it's worth a read.

Today is a dark day for our courts and our state. The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that certain active duty military voters serving our nation must jump through hoops that other voters don’t.

North Carolina's Supreme Court ruled on Friday that tens of thousands of cast ballots challenged by the trailing candidate in November's unresolved election for a seat on the court must remain in the election count. www.wunc.org/politics/202...

True love is when you get sent stuff like this like from your spouse (a geographer) to you (a gynecologist). #nerdlove #thetysvagina #XOXO

Breaking News: The Supreme Court instructed the government to take steps to return a Salvadoran migrant it had wrongly deported to a prison in El Salvador. nyti.ms/42j7cxP

How NC voters on the Griffin List (or anyone worried about their future vote) can update their voter file Please share with everyone in NC you know triangleblogblog.com/2025/04/05/h...

📣 DC area folks! 📣 Please join us for a protest tomorrow, Sunday, April 6th, outside Peace Corps HQ to protest DOGE cuts to Peace Corps. 8:30am 1275 First Street NE Washington, DC We’ve got the support of Dan Baker, head of the NPCA, and Rep Garamendi (RPCV) (D-CA). Sign ideas below. 🌎🌍

As a North Carolinian, I am heartbroken and ashamed by what is happening to our state court system — Changing the rules of an election after it has been held like this is unconscionable.

Breaking: North Carolina Appeals Court, Over Strong Dissent, Sides with Judge Griffin in Election Contest

“I want every generation to be healthier than the last, and I’m worried we may have some real setbacks,” said Dr. Sonja Rasmussen, a professor and clinician at Johns Hopkins University. (via @19thnews.org)

🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies

We talk about this with bioethicist Katie Watson in our podcast episode “Are women people?” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

🚨 New Report 🚨 The rePROs Fight Back Report Card is out, and the results are devastating: The US receives an “F” for reproductive rights. At a time when reproductive healthcare is under attack, we need bold policy solutions to protect bodily autonomy. #RHReportCard

The state made performing abortions illegal in Texas in 2021. (via @kutnews.bsky.social)

The effects of abortion bans vary tremendously across counties and demographic groups. New @nber.org working paper with Daniel Dench and @mayrapinedat.bsky.social. [1/10] www.nber.org/papers/w33548

90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.

If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...

This is fucking awful.

REMINDER: Fully 25% of #NC11 Rep Chuck Edwards' (R) constituents are enrolled in Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Another 10% are enrolled in ACA exchange plans.

holy shit this question at the Rep. Chuck Edwards town hall 🔥🔥🔥

I just learned a lot about hippos. But most importantly, this made me laugh

"...“The effects of this censorship are going to be really wide-reaching. It’s not just stopping at transgender people. It’s going to impact all of us and impact the whole medical community and our ability to get great health care. So I think it has implications for everyone in America.”"

"One of the articles removed was a commentary about endometriosis diagnosis, which states that “it is important to note that endometriosis can occur in trans and non-genderconforming people and lack of understanding this fact could make diagnosis in these populations even more challenging..."

I will never regret the fact that the scientific community pulled together in an unprecedented way to fight COVID, bringing all our tools together despite our distance apart we collectively accomplished the once-impossible we saved lives and lost some of our own too this is a gut punch

A kickass update from Ohio State. Yesterday, 1000 students protested the university's decision to comply in advance with our would-be king's unconstitutional exec order to stop teaching about racial justice movements

As abortion bans increase maternal & infant mortality, Trump admin. shuttered the CDC's PRAMS, a program collecting maternal health data since 1988, for promoting "DEI." This racist action dismisses the realities of medical racism, which systemically & disproportionately harms Black pregnant people.