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Republicans demand tougher abortion restrictions to extend Obamacare funds Democrats say that’s a nonstarter, arguing there are already limits on abortion access. The dispute could torpedo a deal, leading to higher health insurance premiums for millions.

They were never going to negotiate in good faith.

They were never going to negotiate in good faith.

They were never going to negotiate in good faith.

Also, they clearly want a nationwide abortion ban.

Dems should have held the line.

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In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."

The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.

And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.

Let’s be clear about what happened here: Donald Trump and congressional republicans shut down the government, and then used the most vulnerable people among us as bargaining chips so they could raise health care costs for millions of Americans.

I'm a SNAP recipient... for the last month I was tightening my belt, doing my best to eat cheaper and eating less so I'd have a little left over to help get me through when payments were cut. It was all for nothing. Fuck the dems who supported this.

Why Is Susan Collins Mixed Up in the Virginia Governor’s Race? The “pro-choice” Maine Senator used her email list to support embattled Virginia gubernatorial aspirant Winsome Earle-Sears, who has called abortion “genocide.”

NEW: Susan Collins, who claims to be pro choice, is raising money for an anti-abortion candidate who’s slated to lose the Virginia governor's race. A donor email sent on behalf of Winsome Earle-Sears comes as Collins' approval rating has plummeted to net negative 20 points. Me in @newrepublic.com:

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

Susan Collins is back at it (derogatory)

Gutting news. This is the direct result of cruel policy fueled by misogyny and abortion stigma. That our entire healthcare system is built in and on capitalism doesn't help. We all, Wisconsinites included, deserve better.

Guttmacher Scientist Submits Legal Declaration in Support of Case Brought By 22 States and DC to Challenge "Defunding" of Planned Parenthood

In support of a new case against the Trump administration's “defunding” of @ppfa.org, Guttmacher scientist @megankavanaugh.bsky.social lays out evidence on Planned Parenthood's vital role as a provider of publicly supported #ReproHealth care in the US. gu.tt/480vy2q

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...

These two hires have me—an abortion reporter—genuinely alarmed. Make of that what you will for scenario planning

the core idea that can radicalize people is so simple:

there is enough.

there is enough food to feed everyone. enough resources to house everyone. money and technology and medicine to stop the suffering of people around the globe.

once you accept that there's only one question:

why don't we?

@MichellCClark: they made healthcare a commodity, education a debt trap, and housing a speculation market-then told you that poverty is a personal failing. they privatized survival and called it freedom.

That last line hits hard

I know that this is going to be lost in the roar of big players but there are other clinics with a majority of patients who are Medicaid recipients - and this ruling opens up the avenue for states to refuse to allow us to be approved providers of care. And we have far fewer resources to weather it.

Important: SciAm has preserved the last evidence-based schedule from ACIP before experts were replaced with anti-vaxxers. You will want this for reference as the science gets buried and memory-holed.

Zohran translated his campaign materials to Yiddish, he went to seders, synagogues, explained his critique of Israel’s government’s actions over and over.

Painting him and anyone who stands for a free Palestine as antisemitic will never not be delusional and a moral stain on the Jewish community.

The suggestion of changing the MMR vaccination schedule, especially in the face of the current outbreaks, is a bellwether of what will be wrought by this fraudulent ACIP.

This is all the work of RFK Jr. and his anti-vax agenda.

The time and money that people have given to support abortion patients and providers has been immense. This can't stop now! /3

#WeCount report, April 2022 to December 2024 - Society of Family Planning Author: Society of Family Planning Published: June 23, 2025 #WeCount is a time-limited reporting effort that aims to capture national shifts in abortion volume, by state and month, following the Dobbs...

The latest abortion data from the Society of Family Planning shows that by the end of 2024, 25 percent abortions in the US were provided via telehealth.

That's up from 20 percent in their prior survey. Republicans are trying to ban telemedicine of abortion pills, if not ban the pills altogether.

Today's Skrmetti opinion is devastating to transgender children and families who live in states with cruel laws barring gender affirming care. But it is very important to recognize this opinion does not give private entities, legislatures, or the President carte blanche to discriminate! 1/x

And also reminder that the Trans Lifeline is here (877) 565-8860. translifeline.org

Planned Parenthood has done some important work, but it has long violated Paul Farmer's assessment of our responsibility: 'We do not have the luxury of being pessimistic on other people's behalf.”

Skrmetti caps off decades of movement work to rethink sex discrimination jurisprudence across the board. The goal was to ensure law could regulate based on biological difference, broadly defined --as one ADF attorney explained, to show that “one cannot deny the reality of biological sex.”

Look at how much work the Court's abortion cases do here. The majority cites Dobbs to say that regulating a medical condition/procedure isn't sex discrimination, and another abortion case, Gonzales v. Carhart, to suggest that legislatures deserve discretion when there is scientific uncertainty.

Tennessee’s law expressly classifies on the basis of sex and transgender status, so the Constitution and settled precedent require the Court to subject it to intermediate scrutiny. The majority contorts logic and precedent to say otherwise, inexplicably declaring it must uphold Tennessee’s categorical ban on lifesaving medical treatment so long as “‘any reasonably conceivable state of facts’” might justify it. Ante, at 21. Thus, the majority subjects a law that plainly discriminates on the basis of sex to mere rational-basis review. By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims. In sadness, I dissent.

Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Just, my heart is breaking for all those kids who are going to be denied access to care. 💔

the federal government issued a stop work order to the Trevor Project in its contract for the national 988 suicide prevention hotline to provide LGBTQ+ specific mental health support on the day that the Supreme Court upheld a ban on gender affirming care. kids will die because of today's events.

The killer is consistently described in the press as “a devout Christian who opposed abortion” as if that’s an essential trait of devout Christians.

Many, if not most, “devout” Christians support abortion access.

Melissa Hortman was a Catholic who taught Sunday school.

Étienne-Émile Baulieu, Who Developed the Abortion Pill, Dies at 98

RIP to this legend. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/h...

Mohsen Mahdawi is free! History was made in Vermont today. #FreeThemAll