Julia Strasser

Our client, Lauren Miller, needed an abortion to save her life and the life of one of her twins. But Texas’s cruel laws forced her to travel out of state at one of the most vulnerable moments of her life.

Now, she's speaking out against several proposed laws in Texas.

Today, we #CelebrateAbortionProviders by recognizing EVERYONE who keeps clinics running with care and compassion.
💗 Doctors and nurses
💗 Lawyers
💗 Organizers
💗 Doulas
💗 Clinic escorts
💗 Counselors
💗 Researchers
💗 Medical assistants
💗 Donors
💗 Security
💗 So many more!

Republican States Claim Zero Abortions. A Red-State Doctor Calls That ‘Ludicrous.’ - KFF Health News In several red states, officials say few or no abortions happened in 2023, raising alarm among researchers about the politicization of vital statistics.

People in every single state are still having abortions.

To claim that some states had ‘zero abortions’ is “so clinically dishonest,” said Ushma Upadhyay, who co-chairs #WeCount, which has tracked the number of abortions nationwide since April 2022.

Women’s health champion, beloved health policy researcher dies at 66 Susan Wood, a former faculty member at the Milken Institute School of Public Health, who garnered national attention for her stand against the Food and Drug Administration died on Jan. 17.

So many things are sad and horrible now, and I miss having voices like Susan's in the world at times like these. But this tribute to her life by the GW student newspaper is lovely and made me smile (through the tears) gwhatchet.com/2025/02/24/w...

Updated resource available from our team! Our tracker shows who's prescribing contraception across the US by state and county and by type of prescriber - OBGYN, family med physicians, NPs, and others. And our data is available on request for your own analysis!

Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

For more—and to sign— go to

saynotoethniccleansing.org

Cutting NIH indirects is about stopping “leftist agendas” at universities, not saving taxpayer $$

Proud of my institution for being a co-plaintiff on this lawsuit. www.aau.edu/newsroom/pre...

Such a big loss for the field and for those of us lucky enough to have worked with her.

Tubal Sterilization And Vasectomy Increased Among US Young Adults After The <italic>Dobbs</italic> Supreme Court Decision In 2022 | Health Affairs Journal Young adults’ access to contraception is shifting after the June 2022 United States Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision. This concurrent mixed-methods study measured yo...

Sharing our new Health Affairs study! We found increasing rates of tubal sterilizations and vasectomies among 19-26-year-olds following the Dobbs decision leak, with greater increases in states likely to ban abortion, and fear & concerns about bodily autonomy.
www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/...

New research is out today!

We interviewed 30 patients who had telehealth abortions. By reducing various logistical hurdles and the potential of stigma at a clinic, telehealth mitigates what call structural abortion stigma.

Adolescent-Centered Sexual and Reproductive Health Communication This JAMA Insights explores how clinicians can effectively communicate person-centered health care information to adolescents regarding sexual and reproductive health, contraception, and sexually tran...

YRE’s new piece in JAMA highlights evidence based strategies clinicians can use to share sexual health information with their adolescent patients! What an exciting resource to promote developmentally tailored, person centered care for teens! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Is it uncool to repost something 10 days after you saw it? Probably. But I can't stop being amused by this one.

New research from our team at the Mullan Institute: no significant changes in state-level OBGYN movement after Dobbs, but longstanding workforce challenges in states that now have abortion bans. The effects of Dobbs on the workforce - including moral injury - are huge and will take years to unfold.

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