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If any OBGYNS recently received a survey from an, uh, interesting sender and want to chat, @garnethenderson.com and I are all ears for @autonomynews.co:

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RFK Jr. Wants to Revolutionize a Program That Supports Childhood Immunizations. The Results Could Be Catastrophic. The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program stabilizes the nation’s childhood immunization system while paying those harmed by rare side effects. If the program topples, it could threaten access to vaccin...

NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to overhaul an obscure but vital program that underpins the nation’s childhood immunization system.

Depending on what he does, the results could be catastrophic.

By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

FDA Inspectors Again Find Dangerous Breakdowns at an Indian Factory Supplying Medications to U.S. Consumers The latest inspection comes 2 1/2 years after the agency allowed Sun Pharma to keep shipping some drugs to Americans even after banning the factory from the U.S. market because of quality problems.

NEW: The FDA found that Sun Pharma, which produces generic drugs for U.S. consumers, failed to investigate the source of bacteria found in test vials or promptly deal with damaged equipment that had caused drugs to be contaminated with metal particles.

Abortion care in the emergency department: A national survey of emergency physicians' perspectives - PubMed This national survey demonstrates that, while most emergency physicians support the provision of abortion care in this setting, they do not routinely provide this care due to a variety of factors incl...

I can’t see anything this Goth person posted, but in case helpful here’s one of the links from the article: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39988957/

Hard-Won Gains Against Sexually Transmitted Infections Could Slip Away  | Milbank Memorial Fund People of every gender, race, age, and ethnicity are affected by sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Currently, the United States is experiencing the largest epidemic of congenital syphilis since ...

"Mycoplasma genitalium (Mgen) is an old STI that we can now diagnose and treat since the first FDA test was approved in 2019, but it isn’t yet tracked by our public health surveillance systems." 1/2 www.milbank.org/2025/07/hard...

If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.

Sorry, I think I’m also blocked.

Happy Bastille day 🇫🇷

Thank you!

Instead, the show was so realistic it low-key triggered folks. The show hired multiple well-known expert consultants in Emergency Medicine and essentially packed every terrible thing that can and does happen on shift into 1, horrible, shift.

Shonda gets it right sometimes!

What’s funny about the Grey’s angle for me is how much Grey’s completely misses …the entire existence of emergency medicine as a speciality & how it fits into modern repro issues.

So not in most emergency rooms, no you can’t, not even in Minnesota.

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Proud of this one! I wrote about medication abortion in the ED and HBO’s The Pitt.

Pregnancy is a minefield when you're disabled Few OB-GYNs get disability training—and their disabled patients are far likelier to die.

Disabled people are 11 times more likely to die during labor/in the postpartum period than non-disabled people. Better education and smashing ableism is how we get out of this horrible stat.

For the past year, I’ve been looking into the topic of disability and pregnancy for @motherjones.com 🧵

Among the waste uncovered by ProPublica and @cbsnews.com: Texas reimbursed anti-abortion groups $14 each time they handed out donated goods or materials, regardless of cost.

Thus, handing out one pamphlet reaped the same payment as a pack of diapers.

(Published July 2024)

The author writes defensively around the choice to keep her pregnancy with a fetus that would suffer chronic illness, but not around the choice to force a 1-year-old baby to donate bone marrow to her brother. That's....a tell, around how we treat children and medical agency.

‘I Intend to Keep My Baby’

Buried in the middle of this essay, which on its surface is a personal and moving story about disability and family, is a family that brought a second child into the world *specifically to donate bone marrow to the first.* www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/s...

The Plot to Effectively Ban Abortion Nationwide Is Unfolding Before Our Eyes Lawmakers and activists are working to shutter clinics and restrict access to abortion pills. The end result would be catastrophic.

The budget bill that passed the Senate Tuesday is a chilling reminder that abortion could be rendered inaccessible across vast swaths of the country where it’s still legal—not because Congress passed a prohibition, but because too many clinics shuttered.

This is the impact of the Supreme Court gutting nationwide injunctions.

I wrote about the danger of handing such power to an openly eugenic administration here:
www.autonomynews.co/the-soft-eug...

Justice Sotomayor dissenting on birthright citizenship case: "The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along. Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent."

Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA’s Gamble on America’s Drugs A ProPublica investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public.

In 2022, inspectors described a “cascade of failure” at one foreign factory.

The FDA barred it from shipping drugs to the U.S. — then excused more than 20 drugs from the ban, despite risks to consumers.

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

Every word of this!

A hatchling condor on a white towel. it has downy feathers and it's head skin is kinda wrinkly

With everything LA has gone through in the last few months (and couple of years), let's celebrate the hatching of:

TEN CALIFORNIA CONDORS!!!!!!!!!

Congrats to the team at the Los Angeles Zoo!!!

This case presents an easy question: whether SB1’s ban on certain medications, applicable only if used in a manner “inconsistent with . . . sex,” contains a sex classification. Because sex determines access to the covered medications, it clearly does. Yet the majority refuses to call a spade a spade. Instead, it obfuscates a sex classification that is plain on the face of this statute, all to avoid the mere possibility that a different court could strike down SB1, or categorical healthcare bans like it. The Court’s willingness to do so here does irrevocable damage to the Equal Protection Clause and invites legislatures to engage in discrimination by hiding blatant sex classifications in plain sight. It also authorizes, without second thought, untold harm to transgender children and the parents and families who love them. Because there is no constitutional justification for that result, I dissent.

Sotomayor, dissenting, says the majority "does irrevocable damage" to the equal protection clause and "invites legislatures to engage in discrimination by hiding blatant sex classifications in plain sight." She fears the damage in Skrmetti will go well beyond gender-affirming care, and she's right.

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...

y'all can hate on liz breunig all you want but the fact remains she was an innovator. not only did she practically invent the regressive tradwife thirst trap influencer category, she sold it to left wing guys