Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG

Careers Join our dedicated team working to ensure access to comprehensive and compassionate reproductive health care for all.

@prh.org is hiring a full-time physician Reproductive Health Advocacy Fellow — someone ready to use medical expertise to take on policy, misinformation, + the systems that harm our patients.

If you’re a clinician who wants to practice medicine *and* shape it, take a look.
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Patients deserve a health care system where nurses are respected, resourced, and able to thrive. Anything less is a threat to equity, justice, and our collective well-being.

Physicians: we have an ethical obligation to stand in solidarity with nurses. Nursing is a profession worthy of resources and respect. If we can’t say that out loud, we’re not practicing justice, we’re enforcing hierarchy.

As a physician, I could not do my work without nurses. They are the first point of contact for patients, the monitors of safety, the ones who spot crises before they escalate. Undermining nurses undermines patients, trust, and the integrity of care itself.

Adding barriers to degrees, loans, and career advancement is a values statement about who the Trump administration believes deserves opportunity and mobility. And in the context of nursing degrees? They’re also letting us know who they believe deserves culturally competent care.

Nursing has long been a pathway into health care for Black, brown, immigrant, and working-class students — people whose expertise and proximity to community strengthen our health care system and patient health outcomes.

Nursing is no longer counted as a 'professional degree' by Trump admin The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it implements various changes to student loans.

I will say this plainly: the Department of Education’s exclusion of nursing as a professional degree is a direct attack on the people who hold our health care system together, and it’s an attack shaped by race, class, and power. It is unacceptable.
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ICYMI Dept of Education will no longer considers these professional degrees:

Nursing
Public health
Social work
Physician assistant
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Audiology
Speech-language pathology
Social work
Counseling & therapy
Health Admin

A smaller health workforce makes us all sicker

Our pregnant people, our infants, our communities deserve to thrive — not just survive.

If you can, support mutual aid groups in your community.

When systems fail us, we take care of each other.
That’s how we survive.
That’s how we build a liberated future.

Despite what the Administration would have you believe, SNAP and WIC are not on the line because of trans people or immigrants. They’re on the line because the government would rather play politics than take care of us.

Lawmakers using food assistance as a bargaining chip and letting thousands of families pay the price is unfathomably cruel. This is not leadership rooted in care or community.

This isn’t an abstract policy debate — it’s systemic political violence with real consequences for public health.

When a pregnant person can’t access nutritious food, formula, or support, outcomes worsen across the board. We see harm that could and should be prevented.

Reproductive justice is also the right to live in a body unconstrained by hunger, neglect, or scarcity.

People need stability to be healthy.
They need food. These things are absolutely necessary for raising families.

I’m not interested in qualifying anyone’s “worthiness” for support based on employment, sobriety, age, or ability.

And I’m not interested in policing how people use their benefits.

Everyone deserves food, stability, and care.

Nearly 42 million Americans rely on SNAP for food stability. 6.7 million new parents depend on WIC to care for their families.

As a physician, I am deeply alarmed about what is unfolding.🧵

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Also, while implied, it also needs to be implicitly said: Not all people who get abortions are women and girls. In Canada, the rates of teen pregnancy in trans youth is same as cis girls. No data is kept on trans masc ppl which is unacceptable

Excellent point. It’s more inclusive and it is also more accurate. All the more reason to constantly examine the language we use.

My solidarity with trans people isn’t at odds with Reproductive Justice — it’s integral to it.

I will keep using inclusive language. I will keep including trans people in my work.

Our liberation is bound together.
Are you coming along?

The same forces attacking abortion access are attacking gender-affirming care — both rooted in control.

We can’t stop at abortion access. We have to dig injustice out at the root, not just when it touches our own gardens.

Abortion is health care — but it’s also about bodily autonomy, self-determination, and the right to shape our own futures.

Trans people are in a parallel, interconnected fight.

Pregnant women are people. “Pregnant people” doesn’t erase cis women’s experiences with pregnancy — it expands the frame.

It helps make all reproductive health safer and more accessible for everyone.

Many people still think of this work as “women’s rights.” They worry that saying “pregnant people” dilutes the fight for abortion access.

If that’s where you’re coming from, I hear you. And I offer this:

“I was with you, until you said ‘pregnant people.’”

I get this a lot. I’m an abortion provider, and the CEO and President of an org known for abortion advocacy. Let’s talk about why I use inclusive language — and why I’m not stopping. 🧵

Resisting Federal Overreach in the Exam Room and on the Streets of DC This Hyde anniversary, Dr. Jamila Perritt reflects on the culture of fear and self-determination in the nation’s capital.

Hyde and Dornan are meant to break us. But our communities know how to survive—and how to keep fighting. We endure, we resist, we insist on justice.

Read more:

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In my piece for @thenation.com , I wrote about what this means for providers and communities: how federal control shows up in exam rooms, on our streets, and in daily life.

This is Hyde in action. It’s not theoretical — it’s lived reality. Every day, patients in DC are told their health, their choices, and their futures are subject to federal politics.

For nearly 50 years, the Hyde Amendment has been used to deny people with public insurance the ability to access abortion care.

In DC, the Dornan Amendment takes it a step further: it strips an entire city of the right to use its own funds to take care of its residents when the government fails.

We actually don’t train students but Medical Students for Choice does! check them out @msfchoice.bsky.social

Science, not politics, should guide medical care. Yet the Trump administration and RFK Jr. are spreading false claims about Tylenol that create fear and confusion for pregnant patients. Know this: The science is settled. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy.

Thank you for having me @msnbc.com.