The ACIP vote was tied 6-6 for requiring everyone to get a prescription for the COVID19 vaccine. The chair broke the tie by voting NO. Prescriptions will NOT be required.

Meta should allow users to share vital information about reproductive care. The company must also ensure that users are provided with clear information about how their policies are being applied and how to appeal seemingly wrongful decisions. eff.org/deeplinks/2...

@ossoff.senate.gov wife is an OB-GYN practicing in Georgia, and I deeply appreciate his effort to bring attention to such a critical issue.

$50B for rural health sounds like a win—until you realize it’s a Band-Aid on $900B in cuts. Closures are already mounting, from labor & delivery wards to entire hospitals. Rural America is being left without care. substack.com/home/post/p-...

It’s a CSPAN kind of morning. Truly mind blowing that we are revisiting conversations about vaccine safety and efficacy.

House Republican leadership has walked away from negotiations and are now threatening a shutdown by trying to jam through a funding bill on their terms alone. If there’s a shutdown—that’s a Republican shutdown.

@eff.org @apnews.com Working to uncover censorship in abortion care online. Well done Pinsof et al.

Thank you @eff.org for highlighting my experience navigating censorship and abortion education online. More than ever, it is critical to get evidence-based education to people who need it most. Forever shout out to @plancpills.bsky.social

The UN has affirmed sexual & reproductive health as human rights for the first time—while South Carolina advances one of the strictest abortion bans in the U.S. Read more in this week’s newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/reprojus...

Tonight! Tonight! Tonight! @msmagazine.com

UPDATE: according to @thehill.com “There was a miscommunication with international staff and no destruction has yet happened but we are reviewing the matter,” a USAID spokesperson said in a statement on Friday.

“Documents show that several international organizations offered to buy or accept a donation of the contraceptives. The government would have incurred no costs or might have even been able to recoup taxpayer funds under those scenarios.”

At a recent Reclaim Choice FL event, we strategized about ending funding to Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) and wrote letters to state medical providers urging clinicians to join a letter of medical solidarity against these deceptive practices. Community action is always the best remedy to fear.

Florida: Ends school vaccine mandates and the Florida Surgeon General says “Who am I to tell you what your child should put in their body?” Also Florida: Has had a six-week abortion ban since 2024. So it's okay to make kids sick but not okay to let women control their own bodies?

It’s Giving Comstock Act: TX HB 7 just passed the Senate and House and is on the way to the Gov to be signed into law. This bill allows private individuals to sue anyone who manufactures, distributes, or mails abortion-inducing medication into Texas.

Axios ranked what most likely will be the focus- post Congressional Recess. For the health policy wonks and those interested in pharmaceutical benefit manager reform, I recommend checking out the article: www.axios.com/pro/health-c...

Behind the ERA battle: Big Business feared equality would cost billions in wages and workplace protections.

Congress is back—and on day one, the FY26 spending fights are already setting up setbacks for women and public health.

Advocacy networks in the Southeast are expanding care like never before. They are merging, collaborating, and creating new models of support from pregnancy to postpartum. reprojustice.substack.com/p/something-...

It is Women’s Equality Day. The day we honor the 19th Amendment, reflect on the progress we've made, and recognize the work still ahead. We must fight for the future our daughters and granddaughters deserve.

Don’t miss out!

It was because of a Mississippi law (Gestational Age Act of 2018) that caused Roe V. Wade to be overturned. This is preventable.

Medicaid covers half of births in Kentucky. This is about saving kids' lives and mothers' lives. I was proud to stand with KDP and Dr. Ana’Necia Williams yesterday to share the story of my twins, who spent 99 days in the NICU when they were born.

If it passes, the general public can sue doctors who prescribe abortion pills for at least $100,000, without any connection to the pregnant person or doctor

June 2025, under Purl vs HHS, we saw a TX judge vacate protecting reproductive health data from being used against them in civil/ criminal investigations. This is the hill I will die on, your data is not safe. Delete period tracking apps etc.

@psabortionfund.bsky.social has always been an incredible organization for people to access medical care in South Carolina. I have genuinely loved seeing them expand their capabilities since Jan. & unfortunately, seen the need for their growth sky rocket.

Gov. Healey (MA) signed the strongest abortion protections in the country earlier this month.

More state leaders should be communicating how Medicaid cuts are impacting peoples’ lives right now - before the 2026 deadline takes place. Nice work @govandybeshear.bsky.social

Accessing reproductive health data – without the user’s consent – happens all the time, by data brokers, police, and other bad actors. That’s why we need a federal standard – like the My Body, My Data Act – to end this.

New post: I’m tracking how federal changes to food, care, and clean air policy intersect—and what that means for maternal health. These systems don’t operate in silos, and neither should our responses.

Access to contraception is what allows people to plan when, if, and how they want to start families. Contraception gives women the ability to live life on their own terms.

Tun in to hear my friend, Dr. Kimi Chernoby (JD/MD), in her interview with NPR regarding “How the Trump Administration is rolling back access to birth control in the U.S.” Dr. Chernoby, since the overturning of Roe, has been at the forefront of addressing everything at risk for reproductive care

Encouraging news: The Gates Foundation is investing $2.5B into women’s health R&D through 2030. It’s a welcome step toward closing long-overlooked gaps.

Reproductive health data shared via SDKs. Meta found liable under CA privacy law. This case signals a critical inflection point for AI, health tech, and digital ethics: How do we ensure patient consent and privacy in non-HIPAA environments? www.fiercehealthcare.com/digital-heal...

“ACOG is one of a few medical associations vocally pushing back against President Trump and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s health policy shifts.” www.axios.com/2025/08/01/o...

Today’s Senate HELP Committee hearing on health care affordability focused largely on transparency and cost control—but overlooked a critical dimension: patient outcomes and system transformation. In this breakdown, I explore what was said—and what still needs to be part of the conversation.

Men4Choice is accepting applications for their remote, fall fellowship. Application Deadline is 9/12. Use the link below for the application: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

60 years ago today, Medicaid and Medicare transformed health care in America. Today, the GOP is rolling back access to care to pad the pockets of the wealthy few. We won't stand by while they make care less affordable and our families less healthy. You deserve better.

A federal judge shut down the Trump administration's latest attack on Planned Parenthood. Judge Indira Talwani ruled that Medicaid patients can continue to get care at all Planned Parenthood clinics, safeguarding essential healthcare for millions of low-income Americans - at least for now.

The policy cycle moves fast, but not everything deserves equal attention. I pulled together the developments from last week that I believe matter most—especially for reproductive rights, health equity, and tech reprojustice.substack.com/p/policy-wat...

The @American Public Health Association (APHA) Women’s Caucus is hosting a 3 part series to discuss the impact of policy and regulatory changes as well as future impacts from the reconciliation bill.

The U.S. is incinerating nearly $10M in unused contraceptives—implants, pills, and IUDs—stuck in a Belgian warehouse since Trump froze foreign aid.

Today, I’m reintroducing this platform with a sharpened focus. Still rooted in reproductive justice and rural health, but now with deeper integration of how technology and policy are reshaping access—and accountability.

⚡ KFF’s @lauriesobel.bsky.social explains what’s happening in a case brought by Planned Parenthood challenging the ban on federal Medicaid payments to certain abortion providers. #QuickTake on.kff.org/3H2nFOR

Sure, everything is on fire but on the bright side I saw free period products in a library. #endperiodpoverty

If you aren’t following along with the series “Looking Back, Moving Forward” by @carmenriosss.bsky.social You are missing out. This content has filled a gap I didn’t even know I had.

Your daily reminder Mifepristone and Misoprostol are *safe* and *effective*

Today, July 21: A federal judge is deciding whether to extend the nationwide injunction blocking the “One Big Beautiful Bill” defunding Planned Parenthood. At stake is whether Medicaid funding cuts—framed as retaliation for protected speech—can proceed across all states.

New Weekly Series is Live: policy updates, tech innovations, and reads on reproductive justice. This week’s picks include AI in obstetrics, data transparency, and legal trends in abortion access.

New data: 155,000 people traveled out of state for abortion care in 2024. Since Dobbs, state bans have had sweeping, detrimental effects on the US #AbortionAccess landscape. No one should be forced to leave their state for essential abortion care. More: gu.tt/3G1Wtzn