Republican states claim zero abortions. A red-state doctor calls that “ludicrous”
It’s not just statistically unlikely, it runs counter to the reality emergency abortion care is sometimes necessary Read more at Salon
Infant deaths continue to rise as more abortion bans are put in place, studies find
The overturn of Roe v. Wade with the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision has paved the way for legislation across the country to restrict reproductive health care. A pair of new studies shows the fallout of restrictive reproductive healthcare policies: More babies were born in states that enacted abortion bans between 2021 and 2023, and infant mortality … Read more
Texas judge fines New York doctor for mailing abortion pills to patient in Texas
Judge Bryan Gantt orders doctor to stop prescribing and sending pills to state, setting up challenge to ‘shield laws’ Read more at The Guardian
“What the Lord established”: Elon Musk is camouflaging a Christian nationalist takeover
If Bondi bites, as legal experts Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo explained at Rewire News, that opens the door for a broad Christian nationalist agenda outlined in Project 2025 to terrorize people for providing birth control, sex toys, or even sex education materials. The document argues that prosecutors can revive the Comstock Act, a … Read more
Elon Musk brought his 4-year-old to the Oval Office. It wasn’t just a photo op.
Pronatalism requires that people who are able to carry pregnancies — mostly women — be pregnant for large periods of time. These pregnancies can have a major impact on women’s participation in the workforce and economic mobility. “Part of the language around pronatalism is language about gender roles, and the expectations of pronatalism is very … Read more
Racial gap widened in deaths among US mothers around childbirth in 2023
Black women in the US died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher than white women around the time of childbirth in 2023, as maternal mortality fell below pre-pandemic levels overall but racial gaps widened, according to federal health data released Wednesday. In 2021 and 2022, the maternal death rate for Black women was about … Read more
Elon Musk’s war on Head Start childhood education exposes how “pro-natalists” are really anti-woman
When it comes down to brass tacks, “natalists” like Musk seem only interested in raising birth rates in the most inhumane way possible, by force. Musk loves to bleat lies about how birth control is dangerous, which is an unsubtle pretext to take it away, perhaps by likely Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy, chosen … Read more
Senate confirms Project 2025 architect to head OMB
“What was in Project 2025 that made it so widely hated across the political spectrum? A few things: firing civil servants, weaponizing the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, unleashing force onto protestors, and targeting political opponents, restricting abortion nationwide, ripping retirement and health care benefits from seniors, dismantling public education,” Sen. … Read more
Cuny graduate school rolls back pregnant students’ protections after Trump letter
Under the new rules at Cuny’s Graduate Center, employees are no longer required to provide pregnant students with the contact info for the coordinator tasked with ensuring that the school abides by Title IX, a 1972 law that prohibits sex discrimination in the thousands of educational programs that receive funding from the US government. Employees … Read more
Meta accused of ‘bowing’ to Trump by making abortion content harder to find
Senator Ruben Gallego has accused social media giant Meta of “presumptively bowing” to the Trump administration by making abortion-related content more difficult to find. Read more at The Guardian