It's Abortion Provider Appreciation Day. Thank you to all of the providers who put their safety and lives on the line to ensure we can get the care we need. You've helped me to build the life and family I have now, and there's no way to articulate the depth of my gratitude.

Happening today! jessica.substack.com/p/pro-choice...

Ok I need help from people who know LAX: is there a quick way to go between terminals 2 and 7 without having to go through security again? I have a connecting flight this afternoon and just under an hour to make it 🫠

Republicans don’t just want abortion illegal—they want it unspeakable. Recently, these supposed free speech enthusiasts got an abortion providers' speech canceled at Texas Tech claiming it would constitute “illegal activity.” So we're giving her the platform conservatives took away.

Incredible find from @rachelwells1.bsky.social: Tennessee Republicans are trying to codify fetal personhood through an AI regulation bill wellsrachelm.substack.com/p/tldr-wtf-i...

Publicly supporting women is nice, but what really matters is what men do behind closed doors. What matters is how they hold each other accountable. The men’s hockey team shouldn’t get a pass because they were in the locker room—that’s where women need their support the most.

Turning Point USA hosted an event in Alabama recently with two leading abortion 'abolitionists' - extremists who want abortion patients punished with the death penalty. Legislators in over a dozen states (and counting) have introduced their bills. This is no longer a 'fringe' movement

This isn't my newsletter's usual beat, but I had to write something jessica.substack.com/p/mens-hocke...

Can someone send this to the hockey assholes

I don't follow figure skating, so I couldn't figure out why I started sobbing while watching Alysa Liu's gold medal-winning performance. Then it dawned on me: I was watching a young woman be free.

Justice for Adriana

Meet Rep. Monty Fritts— a Tennessee lawmaker running for governor. If you’re one of the millions of American women who’s had an abortion, he thinks that you should be given the death penalty

New in Abortion, Every Day: Why are pregnancy remains being investigated by South Carolina law enforcement at all? How can 14-week fetal remains be ruled a “stillborn death”? And why are state authorities trying to determine the race of the pregnancy remains?

It wasn’t so long ago that CNN sat down for a serious conversation with these guys. One of them is Pete Hegseth’s pastor. Pretending these assholes are still ‘fringe’ is a dangerous mistake bsky.app/profile/seth...

I did a 1 year long independent study about Japanese mass incarceration a few years ago and I was surprised to learn this. Blogged a bit about the use of "concentration camps" here: www.usprisonculture.com/2013/09/26/s...

“They want our daughters and granddaughters to have zero information about their bodies and sex, no ability to protect themselves from pregnancy, limited choices for an intellectual and professional life, and—once our girls have been corralled into early marriages—few opportunities to leave.”

from the perspective of someone who might want to be president, the best time to run for the white house is now, not later. so if AOC is thinking about it — if the white house is her ambition — then her best bet is to throw her hat in the ring

I’m calling it now: Republicans will try to make hormonal birth control illegal for teenagers

I didn’t think I’d have another one these stories again for you so soon: a 21-year-old in Ohio has been arrested for her pregnancy loss.

This piece from @youngmimayer.bsky.social had me in *shambles* youngmimayer.substack.com/p/soon-yi-pr...

The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.” The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there. jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...

These cases continue to arise, reminding there’s seemingly no ‘correct’ way to dispose of pregnancy remains that will protect us from criminal investigation—not while abortion bans and fetal personhood laws exist:

Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...

We’re at the point in Trump’s America where they will criminalize any pregnancy outcome they don’t like.

South Carolina Republicans are trying to hide the fact that they're pushing legislation to test the water for abortion pills. From today's newsletter: jessica.substack.com/p/gavin-news...

This was my grandmother’s reality, my mother’s & my own. We are not going back.

We all know what happened the last time they published a plan. Ignore this at your own peril.

I'm not saying a word

The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.” The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there. jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...

1. It most definitely does not "break their hearts" to say 2. How many different ways can billionaire pro-natalist freaks make clear that they plan to subjugate women and girls by any means necessary?

they're trying to be coy about salivating over the prospect of raping women, they'll contest that but if pushed to explain, that's exactly what they would describe. forced pregnancy of any kind, by a man or by the state, is gender-based violence

If you want a sense of how bad the attacks on pro-choice speech are right now, read the latest issue of my newsletter. Prepare for a thread—because there are too many attacks to list here jessica.substack.com/p/texas-coll...

Here’s what you need to know about the FACE Act, the pro-choice law the Trump administration is using to arrest journalists like @donlemonofficial.bsky.social.

Supposed free speech enthusiasts Turning Point USA got an abortion providers' speech canceled at Texas Tech www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Just want to point out that @kylietcheung.bsky.social and I predicted on Monday that the DOJ would go after Minnesota protesters using the FACE Act. (We did *not*, however, expect them to target Don Lemon??) jessica.substack.com/p/pam-bondi-...

JD Vance hinted last week that the Trump administration wants to officially stop funding family planning abroad. Not only would that be devastating globally—but would mark another key step in attacking contraception here in the U.S. jessica.substack.com/p/jd-vance-h...

The world is pretty shitty at the moment, so here’s a video of Milo face-planting into the snow

They have no idea what “protection” really means

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Please read this dispatch from Minneapolis by @erikhane.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...

"We are out there in every place they are, showing them that every person in this city is one of our own, that there is no such thing as other people’s children, that collectively we are not afraid of staring them in the eye," @erikhane.bsky.social writes from Minneapolis.

Please know that when JD Vance says "Americans" here, he means "women." "To our fellow Americans, we say you’re never going to find great meaning in a cubicle or in front of a computer screen. But you will find great meaning if you dedicate yourself to the creation and sustenance of human life."

Was already loving this interview with Amanda Seyfried in the New Yorker when I came across this. Thx to a real one ❤️❤️ Sign up for the newsletter here if you haven’t already: jessica.substack.com

Guess what bit of legislation is back in front of South Carolina lawmakers? H. 3537, aka the Prenatal Equal Protection Act—the bill that would punish abortion patients as murderers. (Which in South Carolina could mean the death penalty.) And there's more:

Whatever state you live in, you should be keeping an eye on extremist legislators and their testing grounds—and wow wow is South Carolina giving Texas a run for their money! jessica.substack.com/p/republican...

Men don’t call a woman a fucking bitch when they’re afraid for their lives—they say it when they hate us. They say it when they’re punishing us. jessica.substack.com/p/ice-shooti...

Louisiana AG Liz Murrill seeks to extradite *another* abortion provider, accusing them of "drug dealing"/enabling a "coerced abortion"—at a time when the anti-abortion movmt is trying to frame all medication abortions as coerced. Murrill is set to testify before the Senate tmrw re: abortion pills:

I also send my kid to a school that values social justice and teaches students about current events. Do I deserve to get shot in the face, too? bsky.app/profile/nypo...

He shot her in the head, then called her a “fucking bitch.” That isn’t self defense, it’s an angry execution.