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Diane Horvath, MD, MPH

@gynandtonic.bsky.social

She/her. OB/GYN, complex family planning, menopause. Co-founder and CMO of Partners in Abortion Care in Maryland. partnersclinic.com

7,462 Followers  |  710 Following  |  80 Posts  |  Joined: 19.11.2024  |  2.1618

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Abortion drug could help reduce risk of breast cancer, group of medics says Stigma around mifepristone is stopping studies, experts in reproductive health claim in Lancet opinion piece

The same people working to limit your ability to make decisions about your own pregnancy are also working to make sure you have fewer treatment options if you get breast cancer. #ProLifeMyAss www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

15.08.2025 16:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 148    ๐Ÿ” 73    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Fundraiser for ReportOUT's Emergency Fund Help Drew Dalton raise money to support ReportOUT

One of my family members works with @reportout.bsky.social and theyโ€™re raising emergency funds to evacuate one of their volunteers facing persecution/threats for being LGBTIQ+. Please donate if you can or share: www.justgiving.com/page/reporto...

15.08.2025 16:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Abortion drug could help reduce risk of breast cancer, group of medics says Stigma around mifepristone is stopping studies, experts in reproductive health claim in Lancet opinion piece

One of about ten zillion reasons itโ€™s insulting to all of humanity that the anti-abortion movement calls itself โ€œpro-lifeโ€

15.08.2025 16:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 42    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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OBGYNs Sent โ€˜Highly Biasedโ€™ Survey By Group That Targeted Abortion Pills A group of anti-abortion doctors claims itโ€™s researching the โ€œmoral and professional complexityโ€ of abortion. Their study raises red flags following other junk science and retractions.

NEW: Last week, some OBGYNs received a strange survey via email. The email used inflammatory terms like "dismemberment" and "feticide," and the survey website suggested affiliation with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. ACOG tells Autonomy News it sent a cease and desist:

20.07.2025 12:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 118    ๐Ÿ” 61    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

No surprise that the suspect in the assassination of the Minnesota House Democratic leader and her husband and the attempted assassination of a state senator and his wife was also out to get abortion rights supporters.

Misogyny is central of fascism www.startribune.com/brooklyn-par...

14.06.2025 20:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 65    ๐Ÿ” 23    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I'm crying in the club with @garnethenderson.com after one week of Autonomy News. We're proud not to paywall our reporting. Whomst will be paid subscriber number 75??

11.06.2025 16:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

โ€œI just saw 17 million deaths from COVID vaccines in 18 monthsโ€ would be funny if this guy wasnโ€™t now the gatekeeper of all vaccines Americans can get from now on

12.06.2025 01:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 230    ๐Ÿ” 53    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Planned Parenthood CEO Says Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Offered 'Bribe' to Stop Abortions In her new memoir, Cecile Richards remembers a "wildly unsettling" meeting with Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner about the funding of Planned Parenthood

Hello, if anyone has information regarding the "defunding" PP provision in the GOP reconciliation bill, please contact me on Signal (using a non-work device) at garnethenderson.12

Link unrelated

11.06.2025 21:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Supermajority Ed Fund's summer lineup: 
6/4: We The People: Resisting Trump's attacks on immigrants
6/11: We Decide: Providers, patients, and the path ahead
6/18: We Built This: Black wealth, boycotts, & economic power
6/25: We Are Here To Stay: the future is trans and queer
7/2: We Are The Future: The next gen of representation

Supermajority Ed Fund's summer lineup: 6/4: We The People: Resisting Trump's attacks on immigrants 6/11: We Decide: Providers, patients, and the path ahead 6/18: We Built This: Black wealth, boycotts, & economic power 6/25: We Are Here To Stay: the future is trans and queer 7/2: We Are The Future: The next gen of representation

Delighted to be a part of the Supermajority Ed Fund's speaker panel on 6/11 with @bonyenleegilmore.bsky.social @msfchoice.bsky.social @sharkfu.bsky.social. Join us for a deep dive into what's happening in clinics, courtrooms, and medical school classrooms around the country. mobilize.us/s/C4U9so

07.06.2025 12:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hi! I specialize in medication toxicity. All available, real-world data has proven mifepristone is actually even safer than many over the counter medicines.

Mortality rates:

Mifepristone: 0.65/100,000
Penicillin 2/100K
Viagra 4/100K

Pregnancy in the US: 22/100,000 (some states see rates >60/100K)

05.06.2025 15:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1982    ๐Ÿ” 832    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 46    ๐Ÿ“Œ 36
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Trump announces travel ban on 12 countries and partial restrictions for 7 others Trump framed the new restrictions, which primarily target African and Asian countries, as necessary to fortify national security and combat terrorism.

Iโ€™m sick of this regime using antisemitism to justify racist policies. This travel ban is about keeping Black and brown people out which is rooted in racism. It wonโ€™t protect Jewsโ€”it fuels resentment and puts us in more danger, leading to more violence like what happened in Boulder.

05.06.2025 10:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 278    ๐Ÿ” 119    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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I think weโ€™ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE.

Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpasโ€”and the community was not having it.

Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.

04.06.2025 02:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24562    ๐Ÿ” 9915    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3276    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1979

i just subscribed for two reasons (and if you can, you should too):

1. @susanrinkunas.com and @garnethenderson.com are some of the best of the best when it comes to repro journalism and we need their work more than ever

2. it isnโ€™t on substack! you arenโ€™t supporting nazis and a shitty platform!

04.06.2025 14:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Thorough and excellent reporting by @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co about the Complex Family Planning board certification process - who it excludes, and who is placed at risk by requiring candidates to travel to TX for in-person exams.

04.06.2025 15:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is upsetting and outrageous. I brought together 18 contributors and an artist for our anthology on menopause and raised all the money to make publishing it possible. It came out in UK, Ireland & Europe in Match. Contributors were paid. I havenโ€™t received any money.

30.05.2025 11:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 155    ๐Ÿ” 76    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

โ€œThese are often children; these are people in poverty; these are people with very few resources; these are people who use drugs. If weโ€™re willing to throw the most vulnerable people under the bus as a movement, then what the hell is our movement doing?โ€ -- @gynandtonic.bsky.social

13.05.2025 19:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sheโ€™s beautiful!

13.05.2025 15:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Proud to be included in this banger of a cover story alongside some ferocious providers, advocates and PATIENTS. The guts it took for these women to be featured like this is unparalleled. The least we can do is FIGHT FOR THEM.

13.05.2025 15:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Anyone interested in promoting @partnersclinic.bsky.social can donate at this link! secure.actblue.com/donate/partn...

13.05.2025 16:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Our June issue is here! Featuring @amylittlefield.bsky.social on what it would mean to defend all abortions, @johnsemley3000.bsky.social on what happened when sports betting went legal, @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on the cult of close reading, and so much more.

13.05.2025 15:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

The best later abortion reporting Iโ€™ve ever read. Thank you @amylittlefield.bsky.social for lifting up our patients and staff in such a tender, respectful way, and for calling out the terrible political decisions that got us viability bans.

13.05.2025 19:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 46    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What Would It Mean to Defend All Abortions? Democrats love to avoid it, and Republicans love to lie about it. But later-abortion care has never been more important.

Stirring and beautiful piece on the people repro groups leave behind by supporting viability limits on abortion.

So-called โ€œcompromisesโ€ lead to forced births, like that of a California woman turned away after raising thousands and flying across the country. Read @amylittlefield.bsky.social:

13.05.2025 17:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 153    ๐Ÿ” 64    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
sceeenshot from The Nation: A 29-year-old with light skin and dark hair walks down the hall at Partners, sobbing. She flew here from California, one of the 22 states in the country that ban abortion at or around
"viability." In 2022, 67 percent of California voters backed a referendum that blocks the state from interfering in a patient's pregnancy decisions, but a state law banning most abortions after viability still stands.
So the patient in the hallway faced a grueling journey from one of the nation's bluest states.
First she had to raise close to $20,000 to pay for the abortion itself. At least 90 percent of Partners' uninsured patients cobble this funding together from abortion funds and clinic discounts. Yet by the time she made her decision, raised the money, and flew to Maryland, an ultrasound had put her well past Partners' limit.

sceeenshot from The Nation: A 29-year-old with light skin and dark hair walks down the hall at Partners, sobbing. She flew here from California, one of the 22 states in the country that ban abortion at or around "viability." In 2022, 67 percent of California voters backed a referendum that blocks the state from interfering in a patient's pregnancy decisions, but a state law banning most abortions after viability still stands. So the patient in the hallway faced a grueling journey from one of the nation's bluest states. First she had to raise close to $20,000 to pay for the abortion itself. At least 90 percent of Partners' uninsured patients cobble this funding together from abortion funds and clinic discounts. Yet by the time she made her decision, raised the money, and flew to Maryland, an ultrasound had put her well past Partners' limit.

โ€œLater abortion is banned in all but nine states and Washington DC, and performed in only a handful of clinics nationwide.โ€ Viability bans lead to stories like this, which will only become more frequent if the Trump admin restricts medication abortion for early care
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

13.05.2025 17:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What Would It Mean to Defend All Abortions? Democrats love to avoid it, and Republicans love to lie about it. But later-abortion care has never been more important.

Incredible reporting and storytelling from @amylittlefield.bsky.social on the complexities of later abortions: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

13.05.2025 18:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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What Would It Mean to Defend All Abortions? Democrats love to avoid it, and Republicans love to lie about it. But later-abortion care has never been more important.

โ€œFor Republicans, itโ€™s a coveted talking point. For Democrats, itโ€™s a liability. For Ayana, itโ€™s a chance to be the mom she wants to be.โ€ @amylittlefield.bsky.social @thenation.com

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

13.05.2025 19:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Cuts have eliminated more than a dozen US government health-tracking programs More than a dozen data-gathering programs that track deaths and disease appear to have been eliminated in the tornado of layoffs and proposed budget cuts in the Trump administrationโ€™s first 100 days.

My brilliant partner Dr. Graham Mooney is quoted in this bleak AF article about the governmentโ€™s head-in-the-sand approach to public health surveillance.

09.05.2025 01:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a woman wearing a santa hat says " stop trying to make fetch happen " ALT: a woman wearing a santa hat says " stop trying to make fetch happen "

This โ€œstudyโ€ is 100% intended to feed the right wing furor about an effective medication with a decades-long safety record. Expect to see conservative ideologues prancing around touting this bogus paper in the same way theyโ€™ve been trying to make โ€œabortion reversalโ€ happen.

29.04.2025 01:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a man says very awkward and cringy in front of a sign that says schitts creek ALT: a man says very awkward and cringy in front of a sign that says schitts creek

They know they're full of shit.

A history of peer-reviewed publication as a metric for the integrity of a CURRENT publication is like claiming that you washed your hands after you went to the bathroom up until now, so your hands will stay clean without having to wash them going forward.

29.04.2025 01:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a woman with long blonde hair is looking at the camera and says `` nice try jan '' . ALT: a woman with long blonde hair is looking at the camera and says `` nice try jan '' .

โ€ฆMembers have a history of academic research and peer-reviewed publication."

Note that they donโ€™t say that the PAPER was peer-reviewed, only that some of the people who worked on it have participated in peer-reviewed research IN THE PAST.

29.04.2025 01:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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