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Community Networks Sharing Free Abortion Pills Expand to States Where Abortion Is Legal but Out of Reach Community Networks Sharing Free Abortion Pills Expand to States Where Abortion Is Legal but Out of Reach

Underground community networks sharing free abortion pills are playing an increasingly important role in providing access not only in states bans and restrictions but also in states where abortion is legal but still inaccessible. Read my latest at @msmagazine.com
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Mifepristone Manufacturers Move to Block GOP Lawsuit Seeking Nationwide Telehealth Abortion Ban Mifepristone manufacturers Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro ask a court to dismiss a Republican-led lawsuit to ban telehealth abortion.

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Trump, Don’t Ban Mifepristone Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is trying to use the same tactics to attack mifepristone as he did with Tylenol, both commonly used and safe medications. [1] Sign your name now to tell the Food...

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Thanks to @scholars.org for helping scholars get their work out into the public! @smithcollege.bsky.social @emorywgss.bsky.social @emoryuniversity.bsky.social @msmagazine.com

Columnist Carrie N. Baker: Trump's attack on Minnesota is steeped in misogyny - Daily Hampshire Gazette After ICE officer Jonathan Ross fired three gunshots at point-blank range at Renee Good as she was trying to drive away from him, he called her a “f—ing b-tch!” Ross’s contempt for Good was a dramatic...

While Renee Good’s execution is among the most brutal manifestations of misogyny enabled by the Trump administration, ICE’s very presence in Minneapolis is rooted in misogyny.
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Mifepristone Could Treat Endometriosis, Some Cancers, Depression and Chronic Illness—If Politics Didn’t Interfere Across a range of conditions that disproportionately affect women, research into mifepristone's potential has been slowed, defunded or blocked altogether. Nowhere is that clearer than in the treatment...

Antiabortion politics are delaying the development of mifepristone for treatment of some of the most common and debilitating conditions affecting women, including endometriosis, cancer, depression and chronic fatique syndrome. @msmagazine.com
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'The Moral Property of Women': Mifepristone, Fibroids and the Stakes of Suppressed Science Mifepristone is more than just an abortion pill. From fibroids to miscarriage care, its medical promise has been sacrificed to ideology.

The antiabortion movement has blocked the development of mifepristone for treatment of fibroids, leaving millions of women in pain, leading to infertility and unncessary hysterectomies, for decades. Demand clinical studies on mifepristone for fibroids! @msmagazine.com
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What Crisis Pregnancy Centers Can Tell Us about Today’s Anti-Abortion Movement with Carrie Baker Podcast Episode · Body & State · 01/09/2026 · 32m

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Abortion Continues to Increase in 2025 as Telehealth Expands, Especially in States with Bans and Restrictions The latest #WeCount report finds that abortion access is growing as patients turn to telehealth abortion pills and shield law providers.

Even under abortion bans, people are finding safe, legal care. Telehealth and shield laws are becoming a crucial infrastructure for reproductive autonomy in the U.S.
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Abortion Continues to Increase in 2025 as Telehealth Expands, Especially in States with Bans and Restrictions The latest #WeCount report finds that abortion access is growing as patients turn to telehealth abortion pills and shield law providers.

The average monthly number of abortions has risen from 79,600 in 2022 to 98,800 in 2025--a 24 percent increase in just three years. And telehealth abortion increased 61 percent over the last year. @msmagazine.com @plancpills.bsky.social
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A Global Telehealth First: Women Help Women Begins Producing Abortion Pill Combipack The feminist telehealth provider Women Help Women cuts out pharma middlemen to make its new mifepristone-misprostol abortion pill combo pack.

Global telehealth abortion provider Women Help Women is now producing its own combipack of one mife and eight miso tablets, and says they will start serving the US if the FDA restricts access to telehealth abortion. @msmagazine.com @plancpills.bsky.social
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The Pitt, Ginny & Georgia, All’s Fair – how did this year’s biggest TV shows tackle abortion? We tracked this year’s hits and misses in our Abortion Onscreen report. www.ansirh.org/research/res...

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Rise of crisis pregnancy centers highlights shift in anti-abortion movement

Last week, SCOTUS heard arguments in a case involving faith-based pregnancy centers. In this @pbsnews.org segment, @carrienbaker.bsky.social explains how these centers operate, why patients can be misled, and why their lack of medical licensing and privacy protections raise serious concerns.

N.Y. Archdiocese Will Negotiate Sex-Abuse Settlement for 1,300 Accusers

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International Telehealth Provider ‘Abortion Pills in Private’ Ready to Ramp Up if FDA Restricts Mifepristone International Telehealth Provider ‘Abortion Pills in Private’ Ready to Ramp Up if FDA, Trump or Kennedy Restrict Mifepristone

Facing potential FDA rollbacks, US-based abortion seekers can count on global telehealth provider "Abortion Pills in Private," which is pledging uninterrupted access to abortion pills for Americans. @plancpills.bsky.social
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Shout Your Abortion Short Films Seek to Normalize Keeping Abortion Pills at Home: ‘You Always Have Options’ Shout Your Abortion's new campaign are short, powerful films that demystify abortion pills and encourage women and girls to keep them on hand.

"Even if they make telemedicine illegal, even if they ban mifepristone, even if there’s a national abortion ban, we’re still going to be having abortions and helping each other have abortions. Fundamentally, it is unstoppable." @shoutyourabortion.bsky.social
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Rise of crisis pregnancy centers highlights shift in anti-abortion movement The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case involving faith-based pregnancy centers in New Jersey. The organization is hoping to block the state from investigating whether they misled women into b...

Today the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case about whether antiabortion crisis pregnancy centers can block government oversight of their dishonest and dangerous practices targeted toward pregnant women and girls. Watch this PBS NewsHour segment to learn more!
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Hana’s Story: Tricked and Traumatized by a Fake Abortion Clinic Hana’s story reveals many of the standard tactics used by fake abortion clinics to mislead and coerce pregnant women away from healthcare.

Here’s Hana’s full story: msmagazine.com/2022/05/04/f...

Rise of crisis pregnancy centers highlights shift in anti-abortion movement The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case involving faith-based pregnancy centers in New Jersey. The organization is hoping to block the state from investigating whether they misled women into b...

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Columnist Carrie N. Baker: Giving thanks for Deb Haaland, a visionary Indigenous leader - Daily Hampshire Gazette In these dire political times, as corrupt leaders in Washington fuel backlash politics and undermine basic rights, Deb Haaland’s campaign for governor of New Mexico offers a powerful counterpoint. Haa...

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Columnist Carrie N. Baker: Giving thanks for Deb Haaland, a visionary Indigenous leader - Daily Hampshire Gazette In these dire political times, as corrupt leaders in Washington fuel backlash politics and undermine basic rights, Deb Haaland’s campaign for governor of New Mexico offers a powerful counterpoint. Haa...

Giving thanks for Deb Haaland! @dailyhampgazette.bsky.social @msmagazine.com
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Rouge Doulas are a global network of abortion doulas supporting self-managed abortion. @msmagazine.com
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Hear from Smith College Professor @carrienbaker.bsky.social targeted for her outspokenness on repro rights, the forced-birth landscape in the US right now, and how we can fight from abroad to save abortion access.

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Here's an interview I did with Venny Ala-Siurua the executive director of global online abortion service Women on Web, now serving people in the U.S. They will become a key avenue of abortion pill access if Trump restricts mife. @plancpills.bsky.social @msmagazine.com
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'We're just falling off the cliff': Smith College professor warns of erosion of women's rights under Project 2025 - Greenfield Recorder Smith College professor Carrie Baker discussed the Trump Administration's progress on Project 2025, a "misogynist manifesto" aimed at dismantling civil rights infrastructure and promoting conservative...

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Repro Groups Sue Michigan Over Law Denying Pregnant Women Control of Their Bodies in End-of-Life Decisions Repro Groups Sue Michigan advance directive pregnancy exception Law Denying Pregnant Women Control of Their Bodies in End-of-Life Decisions

Michigan’s pregnancy-exclusion law forces life support on pregnant women by denying incapacitated pregnant patients the right to refuse life-sustaining treatment. Advocates are now challenging that law! @msmagazine.com
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Foiled in Scheme to Extend Texas Abortion Ban to New York New York Attorney General Letitia James v. Texas Attorney General to Extend Texas Abortion Ban to New York Doctor Dr. Margaret Carpenter

A New York judge’s ruling reaffirms the strength of state shield laws and draws a clear line against Texas’ attempt to export its abortion ban beyond its borders. @msmagazine.com

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Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify

Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE, the federal agency behind mass deportation and surveillance of immigrant communities. Cancel your Spotify subscription. #DontStreamFascism app.sosha.ai/s/R1WNp0Ub

The Trump administration’s assault on reproductive health relies on disinformation. States must fight back with facts. @msmagazine.com @pplm.org @reproequitynow.bsky.social
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