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Patient Forward Giving Tuesday 2025 Secure the future of later abortion in the United States

It's Giving Tuesday season and @patientforward.bsky.social is launching a public fundraising campaign for the first time! Check it out and support our work to expand safe compassionate abortion care throughout pregnancy 🥰
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Action against injustice: How to (quickly) get started, restarted or unstuck Moving from outrage and overwhelm to action in 5 steps or less. Or your $$$ back ;)

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Personhood and Pregnancy Symposium. Hosted by: NYU Law’s Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center, Reproductive Justice Clinic, and Review of Law and Social Change; and Pregnancy Justice. Date: Friday, October 10, 2025. 9:30 AM-1:30 PM ET. RSVP: https://linktr.ee/pregnancyjust Arrows pointing to 3 boxes with each panel title: A Legal Reimagining of Pregnancy, The Impulse to Punish: An American Response to Pregnancy, Where Junk Science Meets Gender Stereotypes. Pregnancy Justice logo and NYU Law logo

Today is your LAST CHANCE to register for our Personhood and Pregnancy Symposium! We'll discuss research on fetal personhood, gender stereotypes, reproductive justice, wrongful convictions, junk science, and the post-Dobbs landscape.

Sign up by 5 pm ET: nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Access to Later Abortion Will Always be Needed — rePROs Fight Back Abortion later in pregnancy is often misunderstood and heavily targeted through both policy and stigma. Erika Christensen , co-founder of Patient Forward and later abortion patient and advocate, Jen...

In the final episode of our six-part series with @patientforward.bsky.social on abortion later in pregnancy, Erika Christensen @rhavote.bsky.social, Jenn Chalifoux, and Dr. Diana Greene Foster share their personal stories & why access to later abortion care will always be needed. #podcast

Access to Later Abortion Will Always be Needed — rePROs Fight Back Abortion later in pregnancy is often misunderstood and heavily targeted through both policy and stigma. Erika Christensen , co-founder of Patient Forward and later abortion patient and advocate, Jen...

In the final episode of our six-part series with @patientforward.bsky.social on abortion later in pregnancy, Erika Christensen @rhavote.bsky.social, Jenn Chalifoux, and Dr. Diana Greene Foster share their personal stories & why access to later abortion care will always be needed. #podcast

🚨 New Episode 🚨

This week on @reprosfightback.bsky.social we have the final episode in our 6 part series on abortion later in pregnancy with @patientforward.bsky.social. I talk to @rhavote.bsky.social, Dr. Diana Greene Foster, and Jenn Chalifoux about needing a later abortion due to late discovery

It was truly our pleasure. Thank you for uplifting the work of later abortion patients, providers, advocates and activists! 💜🙏

I am so grateful to @patientforward.bsky.social for being such an amazing partner in this 6-part series on abortion later in pregnancy.

You can now check out the entire series where ever you get your podcasts. #podcast

The Dangerous Concept of Fetal Personhood — rePROs Fight Back Fetal personhood, in short, labels a pregnancy as a person. It is the idea that anything a person is legally entitled to, a fetus is, as well. Karen Thompson , Legal Director at Pregnancy Justice and...

What does “fetal personhood” mean and how does it expand state power over pregnant people? This week, Karen Thompson at @pregnancyjust.bsky.social and Garin Marschall at @patientforward.bsky.social talk with us about viability, state involvement in pregnancies, and criminalization. #podcast

🚨 New Episode 🚨

This week on @reprosfightback.bsky.social we have the next ep in our series w/ @patientforward.bsky.social on abortion later in pregnancy. I'm talking to @garinwastaken.bsky.social at Patient Forward & @amazonatty.bsky.social w/ @pregnancyjust.bsky.social about "fetal personhood".

Anti-Criminalization Communiversity in NYC: August-November 2025 — Interrupting Criminalization Interrupting Criminalization and Women Building Up have partnered up to offer an anti-criminalization “Communiversity” series of workshops and classes, taking place in person in Brooklyn, starting mid...

We are excited to launch our anti-criminalization Communiversity in NYC this Saturday in partnership with Women Building Up! 🎊 We're offering many great workshops and classes starting this weekend and through mid-November—as well as a day for young people 14-17 in October.

In NYC? Join us!

Now is The Time to Defend All Abortions — rePROs Fight Back “Democrats love to avoid it, and Republicans love to lie about it. But later-abortion care has never been more important.” Amy Littlefield , abortion access correspondent for the Nation and author of...

Our new episode features @amylittlefield.bsky.social discussing her article for The Nation, “What Would It Mean to Defend All Abortions?,” alongside @garinwastaken.bsky.social, co-founder of @patientforward.bsky.social, who highlights the importance of protecting access to later-abortion care.

🚨 New Episode 🚨

This week on @reprosfightback.bsky.social I had a wonderful conversation with @amylittlefield.bsky.social with @thenation.com and @garinwastaken.bsky.social with @patientforward.bsky.social about why we need to defend all abortions especially abortion later in pregnancy. #podcast

Now is The Time to Defend All Abortions — rePROs Fight Back “Democrats love to avoid it, and Republicans love to lie about it. But later-abortion care has never been more important.” Amy Littlefield , abortion access correspondent for the Nation and author of...

This week, we spoke with @amylittlefield.bsky.social about her article for ‪The Nation, "What Would It Mean to Defend All Abortions?," alongside @garinwastaken.bsky.social, co-founder of @patientforward.bsky.social, to discuss the importance of protecting access to abortion care later in pregnancy.

Thanks to @reprosfightback.bsky.social and @amylittlefield.bsky.social for this wonderful conversation 💜

spot on, Lorax

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"What viability limits are saying is that...there is a moment where the pregnant person disappears in favor of a governmental interest in the child or the fetus...And that is never going to end well for the pregnant person."

Read the full interview with our Legal Director @amazonatty.bsky.social:

Please take a moment to read this @motherjones.com interview with @amazonatty.bsky.social of @pregnancyjust.bsky.social

Grateful to have our work cited in such a wonderful piece!

There's a long history of overlap between radical anti-abortion activists and white supremacist domestic terrorists. Radical anti-abortion activism has often served as a gateway to white supremacist terrorism. It can serve as the canary in the coal mine, yet it's so often ignored. A thread:

Everything You Need to Know About Abortion Later in Pregnancy — rePROs Fight Back After personal experience with severe pregnancy complications and requiring a later abortion among a labyrinth of state abortion bans, Erika Christensen and Garin Marschall  co-founded Patient...

ICYMI: Erika Christensen & Garin Marschall of @patientforward.bsky.social joined us on the pod to talk about the reasons people need abortion care later in pregnancy, the barriers they face, & why government interference in pregnancy outcomes is overwhelmingly unpopular. #AbortionIsHealthcare

Thanks for the shoutout! 🫡

a screenshot of a zoom webinar I'm on where Karen Thompson from Pregnancy Justice and Garin Marschall from Patient Forward are discussing the role of the viability line in pregnancy criminalization in the US

Watching oomf talk about the role of viability in pregnancy criminalization! Great job @amazonatty.bsky.social @garinwastaken.bsky.social @patientforward.bsky.social @pregnancyjust.bsky.social 😊