Audrey Hayworth

Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

More to come as it moves to the floor and the Senate, but in a field where we don’t have a lot of good days and wins, today was a great day and a win.

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So it was a full circle moment and incredibly special today when I sat at the table to testify with both Morgan and Vanessa for this bill. I’m not an emotional person, but I was today. I shed a lot of tears of gratitude today!

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That part of my story — that I had been trafficked and that my grandparents had taken photographs and made videos — I kept so close to my chest that I can count on both hands the people that knew. Vanessa LaFleur, a close friend, was one of those that knew.

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Almost three years ago, I sat in an FBI office because child sexual abuse material of me had been found. Even though I’ve been in this field for a long time, it was surreal I was sitting there with my friend Morgan Lamandre, who acted as my attorney that day.

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Something profound happened today — a piece of legislation (HB268) introduced today by Rep. LaFleur in the Criminal Justice committee was amended and named after me.

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Let me tell y’all something that makes me sick — every single time someone talks about a minor being pregnant, I have yet to see someone acknowledge that a child can’t consent to sex. Why is no one talking about her being raped?!

Grateful to @deecherrywriter.bsky.social for interviewing me for this story.

Current Records Custodian, Under the Louisiana Public Records Act § 44:1 et seq., I am requesting copies of public records that include: All communications (including text/voice messages, emails, complete email chains, calendar invitations, and attachments thereto) and all text message threads/conversations between any of the specified parties regarding the search items requested below: Internal Individuals: 1. Sen Pressly External Individuals: 1. Benjamin (may be styled as Ben) Clapper of LA Right to Life 2. Anyone else communicating on behalf of LA Right to Life Legislative Instrument: 1. SB276 of the 2024 regular session Please search between January 8, 2024 to the date the search is initiated. Please search all locations and systems likely to have responsive records, regardless of format, medium, or physical characteristics. For instance, if the request seeks “communications,” please search all locations likely to contain communications, including relevant hard-copy files, correspondence files, appropriate locations on hard drives and shared drives, emails, text messages or other direct messaging systems (such as iMessage, WhatsApp, Signal, or Twitter direct messages), voicemail messages, instant messaging systems such as Lync or ICQ, and shared messages systems such as Slack.

Mr. Cherry: Attached please find an invoice for the documents you requested. The search produced 109 pages responsive to your request. Of that number, 85 pages were privileged. The Senator declined to waive his privilege. The invoice represents 24 pages of documents which are responsive to your request. Once payment is received, we will send the documents to you.

According to a secretly recorded conversation between Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and journalist Lauren Windsor, LARTL is responsible for writing legislation for the state. A screenshot obtained from an anonymous source shows LARTL Executive Director Benjamin Clapper in a group message with several lawmakers in 2022. Clapper wanted to discuss changes to the abortion law with at least Rep. Laurie Schlegel, Rep. Sharon Hewitt, and Sen. Katrina Jackson, though other lawmakers were in the group chat. Also present in the group chat was someone named Gene Mills, which may be Director Gene Mills of the Louisiana Family Forum, though his messages were redacted.

I love when I request needed public info, like communications between a state Senator and an anti-abortion lobbyist, and I'm only allowed to see 24 of 109 documents.

What are they talking about that I can't see?👀 Are they writing more of our anti-abortion policies? (see third pic; my reporting)

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

I think it's important to never lose sight of the fact that there is nothing organic about the anti-trans legislation.

It's all a part of a large pys-op by Christian Nationalist groups.

There was actually backlash to early anti-trans bills🧵
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Marco Rubio's new acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, ladies and gentlemen.

Yesterday, payroll. Today, communication.

This is pretty much textbook how you do a coup.

Those salutes were EXACTLY what you think they were.

The only word I have that fits today: FUCK.

In case you missed this stunt one of our Louisiana congressmen pulled this week, read the full resolution here: www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr...

It should be noted that PWHC’s are anti-abortion and against birth control.

I don’t have any more words than I did this morning when I woke up to the gutting news but I will say this to the people in Baton Rouge/Nola — why are you popping fireworks right now? You were raised better than that. Have some respect.

Blood donation needs surge after mass casualty event in New Orleans The Blood Center of New Orleans is urgently calling for blood donations after a mass casualty event on New Year's Day left 10 dead and 35 injured, depleting local blood supplies.

The Blood Center of New Orleans is asking for blood donations in the wake of the Bourbon Street attack.

Details from @emilywoodruff.bsky.social

www.nola.com/news/crime_p...

My annual day after Christmas post: Epiphany (January 6) is the proper day to take the tree down. AND if you live in the land of king cakes — king cakes are not to be devoured prior to this date!

P.S. The knife stays in the box.

European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.

"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"

‘We learned the hard way’: Samoa remembers a deadly measles outbreak and a visit from RFK Jr A few months before the outbreak in 2019, Kennedy travelled to Samoa and met with anti-vaccine figures, contributing to what health experts claim was a ‘significant disinformation campaign’

In the small island country of Samoa, lives have been forever altered by an outbreak of Measles in 2019 that caused at least 83 deaths and 1,867 hospitalizations, mostly of babies and young children.

RFK, Jr. went there to help peddle his vaccine conspiracy. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

In case you've been told and believe otherwise:

A miscarriage IS an abortion.

Medical textbooks, medical records, and medical billing all list a miscarriage as a “spontaneous abortion."

I’m not sure it’s more patience, but I’ve had to learn how to pace myself. It’s a marathon, not a sprint!

Audrey Hayworth told the two girls’ stories to the Louisiana House of Representatives Administration of Criminal Justice committee in 2023, hoping to have rape and incest exceptions added to the current abortion law. And while doing so, a man carrying a Bible and a rosary stood to the side of the table spouting Bible verses.

I'd also like to say thank you very much to @audreyhayworth.bsky.social for corresponding with me for this story. She's a good person to follow, if you are pro-reproductive rights!

And also, I'd like to add she has far more patience than I ever will. lol

Thank you!

I can’t believe I have to type this, but being intoxicated doesn’t excuse raping someone.

Meanwhile if a survivor was intoxicated, she’d be blamed for putting herself in that position.

Even today as I type this, there is quite literally, not one person other than Morgan Lamandre or organization other than STAR I would have trusted to be by my side when I was the person sitting in the FBI office after CSAM was found of me being trafficked.

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I am an emotionally healthy and happy individual who has personally benefited from VAWA (Violence Against Women Act).

Even after being in the field of Violence Against Women for twenty-five years, I needed the services of star.ngo, which is funded by VAWA.

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In case any of you didn't know or realize this: if confirmed, Matt Gaetz will be over the Office of Violence Against Women.

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I’m feeling optimistic about this new space…other than manually entering all the people I followed from the bad place.