The North Carolina Senate passed a bill Monday that would block Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funds. NC has the most clinics in the provider's regional affiliate, and the legislation essentially duplicates the federal "defunding" provision. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/medi...

Even though roughly half of Black children in the US grow up in 2-parent households, social scientists have largely ignored these families for decades. I talked with @christinajcross.bsky.social about her new book—and what her research means for debates about marriage kids and inequality

New: Jonathan Mitchell has subpoenaed a University of Texas researcher to get information about Aid Access founder Rebecca Gomperts. Suggests he hasn't been able to serve Gomperts with federal lawsuit over alleged abortion pills in hot chocolate storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Rural hospitals are less likely to offer obstetric services after they’ve been acquired by a larger health system, leading to mixed outcomes for mothers and babies, according to new research, Stateline reports. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/09/16/r...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Breaking: A federal appeals court just cleared the way for President Trump's administration to implement a provision of his recently enacted tax and spending bill that would deprive Planned Parenthood of Medicaid funding. www.reuters.com/world/court-...

Gov. Jeff Landry's administration has failed to make sure anti-abortion pregnancy centers who receive state funds are complying with a 2024 state law that puts restrictions on how the money can be used. #lalege lailluminator.com/2025/09/09/p...

The Center for Reproductive Rights sued the Trump admin on Friday over how it came to the decision to review the abortion pill. The timing between a Republican-backed junk science report and the FDA’s decision to review mifepristone “suggests political interference.”

👀 NEW: The group behind Project 2025 wants a "Manhattan Project" for more babies. We have the Heritage Foundation's closely-held draft paper taking a hard turn into "pronatalism." It pitches ripping up economic policy to induce straight, married couples to have more children. Gift link ⤵️

ICYMI

Take it from me: The best way to show X critics that BlueSky has the juice is to click on this link to the Alabama Reflector 10,000 times. alabamareflector.com

Friday news dump from @sofiaresnick.bsky.social: The fed’s “defund” provision targeted at Planned Parenthood is still blocked as the lawsuit unfolds. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/judg...

A Salvadoran restaurant around the corner from my house is closing down because of the occupation by federal forces. My local city council member is urging people not to order delivery because so many drivers are being seized.

Just received this statement from Lisa Cook: "President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022."

From @acvollers.bsky.social: Republican support for in vitro fertilization, after surging in the wake of a 2024 Alabama Supreme Court decision that threatened the procedure, may be splintering as President Donald Trump retreats from his IVF promises. stateline.org/2025/08/25/a...

We've had a lot of repro news from @statesnewsroom.com pop lately. An Alaska medical board recommended restricting abortion later in pregnancy, Colorado lawmakers passed a bill funding Planned Parenthood clinics and Virginia's governor is investigating a school district over abortion allegations.

After claims that Fairfax school officials helped girls get abortions, state police are investigating as the issue stokes some voters' concerns about public schools encroaching on parental rights, against the backdrop of Virginia's high stakes governor's race. virginiamercury.com/2025/08/25/f...

Alaska medical board seeks to restrict abortion, transgender medical care, reports James Brooks, @alaska.bsky.social, of @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/2025/08/22/a...

ICYMI: Colorado Legislature passes bill to fund Medicaid reimbursements for Planned Parenthood

“The fact that they're holding Costa Rica as a carrot and using Uganda as a stick to try to coerce him to plead guilty to a crime is such clear evidence that they're weaponizing the immigration system in a matter that is completely unconstitutional." via @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social + Will Ford

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was released today pending trial on human smuggling charges in Tennessee. His wrongful deportation to a Salvadoran prison brought scrutiny of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown tactics. @anitawadhwani.bsky.social reports:

A U.N.-backed food security group has issued a dire warning: famine has officially now taken hold in northern Gaza and is expected to spread in the coming months.

Workers under cover of night removed a rainbow crosswalk outside of the former Pulse nightclub, apparently as part of state and federal transportation officials’ aim to wipe “political banners” from public roadways. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/21/r...

Not mother…”There’s still a lot to be said and I’m just self-centered enough to believe I’m someone, who needs to be heard. So I’m not done.”

Here's the deal: Trump campaigned on “saving” Social Security & said during an appearance in the Oval Office that Republicans would keep the program going. But neither Trump, nor GOP leaders who control Congress, have any plan. They will need Dem votes, too. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/happ...

So if me and my partner don't raise our income by 35% by the time we want to have a baby, all we need to do is move to the beach — specifically Onslow County, NC, which has the highest birth rate in the nation — and join the military. Bet.

“My nurse will tell you that I am fitting people in before, during, and after (hours) all the time, which isn’t fair to my family, it’s not fair to my nurse, and I don’t know if it’s fair to the public for them to never feel like this is a problem." My latest on Idaho's OB-GYN crisis:

The second half of this article really gets at some of the maternal health studies that were targeted by NIH cuts.

Just in: A South Texas woman who was unlawfully arrested and charged w/ murder for having a medication abortion in 2022 faced "gross abuse of power" from Starr County officials who have also sought to evade accountability, a new filing from @aclutx.bsky.social claims: www.aclu.org/cases/gonzal...

As JD Vance heads to Indiana today: Why congressional redistricting is blowing up across the US this summer www.newsfromthestates.com/article/why-...

Wait I'm screaming cause I got a quick weave last fall. Ahead of the curve.

A new West Virginia law overturns a long-standing mandate that medical professionals treat newborns’ eyes with an ointment meant to prevent pink eye or potentially blindness if the baby comes into contact with bacteria in the birthing canal, reports @amelianews.bsky.social.

Being a Southerner is having a day in late summer where the high is the 80s, the low is in the 60s, it’s partly cloudy, and you think to yourself, “feels like fall’s coming.”

Veterans' access to abortion care is already limited. Now the Trump administration wants to ban nearly all abortions from being performed at VA medical centers, @kelciemmorris.bsky.social reports. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...

Two new Louisiana abortion restriction laws took effect Friday, allowing Louisianians to sue out-of-state providers of abortion-inducing medications. #lalege #lagov

ACOG, the country’s largest organization of OB-GYN providers, announced that it will stop accepting funds from the Trump administration.

‘Whites-only’ group draws bipartisan rebuke over potential move to Missouri

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting "will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations." cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

NC lawmakers override Stein’s vetoes, as key House Democrats defect ncnewsline.com/2025/07/29/n... Coverage by @galenb.bsky.social and @lbonner.bsky.social #ncpol #ncga

Let me bless the TL

Jeans/genes is a common play on words used in ads and women’s magazines. Is everybody OK?

STORY:

The State Department confirmed its plans to burn nearly $10 million worth of contraception — birth control pills, implants and IUDs, but condoms are excluded. A spokesperson called the stockpile "abortifacient birth control commodities," which is false. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

BREAKING: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the acting clerk of Ulster County over his repeated refusal to file a summary judgment and court summons against a New York doctor who mailed abortion pills to a Texas patient.

BOSTON (AP) — Judge blocks Trump administration's efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and orders that it keep getting Medicaid funds.

By now you may have heard a Texas man is suing a California doctor over abortion pills, the first test of reproductive health shield laws in federal courts. I wrote about the case, the stakes and various efforts to stop the flow of abortion medication. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/texa...

South Carolina’s two Planned Parenthood clinics can no longer accept Medicaid health insurance for non-abortion health care services. via @scdailygazette.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/medi...

Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”

A new column, this one on Republican bootstrap mythology and why zooming out on policy — nationally and in New Hampshire — is more important than ever. With thanks to @elishabrown.bsky.social and @darrickhamilton.bsky.social for the prompt. #NHPolitics

What happened to "eliminating waste"? The Trump administration is set to burn $10 million worth of birth control previously intended for global aid. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...