Melissa Goodman

Today, the Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy at UCLA School of Law released a new report, The Promise of Reproductive Freedom Amendments: An Analysis of State Constitutional Protections and Their Impact. Read the report here: law.ucla.edu/sites/defaul...

Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy Reproductive Health Researchers Comment Letter to FDA On August 27th, 2025, UCLA Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy (CRHLP) and Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) at UCSF submitted a letter on behalf of more than 260 rese...

Today we submitted a letter with @uclarepropolicy.bsky.social to the FDA signed by over 200 scientists.

The short version? Medication abortion is safe. Time to drop the junk science and move on. law.ucla.edu/reproductive...

Today we and our colleagues at @‪ansirh.bsky.social‬ submitted a letter to the FDA for over 260 researchers affirming the 25-year safety record of mifepristone and urging the FDA not to restrict abortion pill access based on junk science. Read the letter here: law.ucla.edu/sites/defaul...

Check out a new policy brief out today that I co-authored!

An easy way to take some action.

Today focus activism on getting Musk out of your sensitive records & the bias-based erasure of people and knowledge. Here’s the list of words that get fed funded science grants & articles pulled. Note anything about women, people of color, LGBTQ people and disabled people. Just beginning

For Dems in AD51: voting is open until Feb 23. Pin comes in the mail and then vote online. I’d be honored if you would vote for me & my Progressive Slate. We care deeply about economic justice, housing affordability, racial justice, repro justice, LGBTQ, and progressive systemic change.

Altadena’s Black residents disproportionally hit by Eaton fire, UCLA study says

Never been so excited for rain in LA! Help with fires and toxins, hooray!

Trump signs executive orders proclaiming there are only two biological sexes, halting diversity programs White House officials grouped both orders under the Trump administration’s wider “restoring sanity” agenda.

Sending ❤️ to my trans & non-binary friends. EOs can't erase who a person is but can cause enormous harm. To cis friends who care about repro: please put equal energy to the wider battle for gender justice. It's all about gender roles/stereotypes & bodily autonomy. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration to block the president’s attempt to end birthright citizenship.

An executive order does not have the power to override the Constitution.

SMC Fire Relief

VOLUNTEERS STILL NEEDED: Later this week, Santa Monica College is hosting 3-day food & clothing distribution event. Volunteers are still needed to prepare/sort items (1/20-1/21) and to help distribute items (1/22, 1/23, 1/24). #SMCares #LAFires

Sign up: www.signupgenius.com/go/10C084AA8...

Tomorrow I will focus on service (re LA fires) and joy (hosting kid play date indoor minigolf) and MLK Jr.’s vision for racial and economic justice (work). I choose not to focus attn tomorrow on DC. I choose the next 4 years to be about community and building strategy for real change

Supreme Court To Hear Challenge To Law That Inhibits Work Of Humanitarian Organizations | American Civil Liberties Union ACLU Filed Brief On Behalf Of Carter Center And Other Organizations Supporting Challenge To Vague "Material Support" Law...

Jimmy Carter was a positive force in the world. Long ago I had the privilege of authoring an amicus brief on behalf of the Carter Center & other humanitarian orgs negatively impacted by broad & vague material support to terrorism laws. Appreciated this leadership. www.aclu.org/press-releas...

Despite ProPublica reporting on the deaths of three Texans as a result of the state’s abortion ban, Texas has opted (www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...) not to investigate pregnancy-related deaths for 2022 and 2023, skipping over the years following the state’s strict abortion ban.

Hope you can join us Monday for this very timely and rare bringing together of prosecutor and on-gyn voices.

Please share with those who might be interested in being the first research director at a new and exciting think tank and research center devoted to long term reproductive rights and wider justice change! Applications due December 11th!

Thanksgiving vibes.

This list is worth a read. Seriously.

📣We're hiring a Research Director! CRHLP is seeking a passionate researcher to serve as its 1st Research Director. Play a vital role in shaping the vision, managing, & executing research work & partnerships with repro health researchers nationwide!
recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09919

Appreciate coverage here of reality that challenges that are coming from federal policy or actions even if protective states like CA. We need very strong state laws but they cannot save us from all impacts here