Lauryn King, PhD

The resurrection of the fetal personhood frame may indicate that President Trump as a figurehead has inspired, enabled, or stoked a return to the harsher, more violent days of the pro-life movement’s past.

We Need to Talk About ICE and Anti-Abortion Centers These groups prey on immigrant women and collect their data. It's not hard to imagine what happens next.

Crisis pregnancy centers have long served as the surveillance apparatus of the anti-abortion movement. With both CPCs, which have always preyed on immigrant women, and ICE increasingly awash with gov. funding, I wrote about the rising threats to immigrant communities & how everything is connected:

Policymakers and social movements use framing to convey meaning and persuade their audiences. Understanding these frames is becoming increasingly important in today’s era of short-form media and algorithms.

Infant mortality got worse after Roe reversal. Experts are investigating. A study in JAMA Pediatrics says hundreds more babies died than expected in the year and a half after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

“The people who are most marginalized are the ones being forced to carry pregnancies to term — those who are the poorest, with the least access to information"

More about the Dobbs decision and infant mortality in the @washingtonpost.com yesterday. #MedSky #ReproSky

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New vaccine for pregnant women protects babies from serious lung infection, study shows Vaccination of pregnant women has been linked to a drop in newborns being admitted to hospital with a serious lung infection, research suggests.

“Researchers found the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine, introduced across the UK in late summer 2024, led to a 72% reduction in babies hospitalized with the virus if mothers were vaccinated.”
#RSV #Vaccines 🧪 #MedSiy #ReproSky
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While at least one Title X grantee has recently had their funding restored and a judge has temporarily blocked the Medicaid defunding, legal challenges that will determine the fate of federal family planning funding continue to play out.

President Trump and his administration have again targeted Planned Parenthood and other reproductive healthcare providers, pausing Title X funding for nearly one in five grantees and attempting to strip Planned Parenthood and other providers of federal Medicaid funding. #reprosky

Our new study found that people in states with bans are more than twice as likely to have abortions later in pregnancy.

“Banning abortion doesn’t eliminate the need, it just forces people to travel farther and wait longer,” explains ANSIRH researcher Diana Greene Foster.

Looking forward to discussing the Trump administration's prior attempt to Defund Planned Parenthood, how the administration uses the framing of "protecting women" to strip rights from people of all genders, the impact of healthcare politicization on providers, and more! #reprosky

Adolescent and Young Adult Perspectives on Contraception Post-Dobbs: “The Next Closest Step to Having Control Over My Own Body” Adolescents and young adults (AYAs) face unique barriers to contraceptive care that may be exacerbated by the June 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision that removed federal prote...

From our new pub in Women's Health Issues: limited changes in contraceptive use post-Dobbs despite adolescent and young adult expressions of urgency and fear, feelings of lost agency, and concerns over access may reflect continued (or worsened) barriers to contraceptive access post-Dobbs. #reprosky

White text on a lilac background says, Gender equality is key to reproductive agency & bodily autonomy. Lime text highlights: new research shows higher education levels, income and life expectancy for women are linked to lower undesired pregnancy rates.

#May28 is International Day of Action for Women’s Health: Our new research shows that where women have greater education and income, undesired pregnancy rates are lower.

Learn more in our article @bmj.com Global Health: gu.tt/4jU4wfL

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.
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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 young adults’ use of and perceptions about tubal sterilization and vasectomy after the leaked Dobbs opinion in May 2022. Using national-level medical claims data from IQVIA, we conducted difference-in-differences analyses of tubal sterilizations and vasectomies by age and state policy; using open-text survey responses from national MyVoice surveys in 2022 and 2023, we thematically analyzed young adults’ perspectives. Tubal sterilization and vasectomy visits increased after May 2022 among participants ages 19–26. Difference-in-differences analyses found significant increases in tubal sterilization and vasectomy visits in states deemed likely to ban abortion. Survey responses highlight fear of loss of bodily autonomy and changes to pregnancy plans after Dobbs. Young adults increasingly obtained permanent contraception post-Dobbs, especially in states deemed likely to ban abortion, and they continue to face challenges to their bodily autonomy, whether they feel pressured to seek permanent contraception because of abortion policy restrictions or whether they desire permanent contraception but experience barriers obtaining it.

New study! We found increases in tubal sterilizations & vasectomies among ages 19-26 post Dobbs decision leak, esp. in states likely to ban abortion, using claims data. Survey participants were concerned w/ bodily autonomy & access to contraception + abortion. www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10....

Surge in Americans getting sterilizations given states’ abortion laws Interest in tubal ligations and vasectomies has skyrocketed in the past two years, according to research and health-care providers.

Coverage of our recent study in Health Affairs illustrating significant increases in tubal ligations and vasectomies in states likely to ban abortion care, particularly among younger folks. #reprosky

1 in 4 pregnancies ends in a miscarriage.
Miscarriages, also known as spontaneous abortions, are common and not the fault of the mother.
This order will make it difficult for women to search for care during their pregnancy, endangering their lives. This isn't pro-life.

#reprosky #publichealth

🗣️ Personhood is NOT “a strategy to ban abortion.” It is a strategy to *redefine the relationship between pregnancy-capable bodies and the state*

And it is WORKING because Repro lawyers and advocates are so myopically focused on abortion!