Ruth Apolonia Zamoyta

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BREAKING: Texas Midwife Arrested on Felony Abortion Charges This is Texas’ first post-Dobbs criminal abortion case

A midwife has been arrested on felony abortion charges in Texas. She faces up to 20 years in prison. jessica.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

Georgia's health department found 89% of maternal deaths were preventable.

Republican's solution? They fired every member of committee that dared to publish report.

They don't care if pregnant women die — Only that the statistics are kept secret.

Maternal Mortality Comm. collects & reports data.

Risks of state abortion reporting mandates outweigh the benefits, an advocacy group says An advocacy group says it's time for states to stop requiring abortion providers to file reports for every abortion.

Sadly this is the right thing to do: stop reporting on abortion. Soon i hope we get to a point where there is no violence against women, no stigma on abortion, and the lawmakers who want to oppress women are no longer a threat apnews.com/article/abor...

When pregnancy turned to miscarriage, woman says Georgia's abortion laws delayed the care she needed Avery Davis Bell suffered a second-trimester miscarriage. While she lay bleeding in a hospital bed, she had to wait for life-saving care, she said.

#womensstories www.usatoday.com/story/news/h...

Georgia Won’t Say Who’s Now Serving on Its Maternal Mortality Committee After Dismissing All Members Last Year Before ProPublica’s reporting on the deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller, the names of committee members had been publicly released. Now, Georgia says releasing the identities would be a violatio...

www.propublica.org/article/geor...

Women tell stories of their abortions for Idaho’s Pro-Voice Project We talk with PVP founder Jen Jackson Quintano and another woman who has told her story publicly, Desi Ballis.

Kudos to this initiative amplifying stories of abortion www.opb.org/article/2025...

The future of procedural abortion in Wyoming is in doubt after Gordon signs bill A bill requiring clinics providing procedural abortions to be licensed as ambulatory surgical centers was signed by Gov. Mark Gordon on Feb. 27. The legislation would likely cause the closure of the o...

Yesterday, Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon signed a targeted regulation of abortion provider (TRAP) law that would force the closure of the state's only procedural abortion clinic. The clinic, @wellspringhealth.bsky.social, is suing to block the law: www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/politics-gov...

Helpline callers confused if abortion is legal and want to know how to get pills, advocates say • Alabama Reflector As the Trump administration removes abortion information, nonprofit abortion-access websites and helplines continue to connect pregnant people with resources.

Via @sofiaresnick.bsky.social: In a growing vacuum of information, nonprofit abortion-access websites and helplines continue to connect pregnant people with resources.

ProPublica Wins Polk Award for Medical Reporting ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

CONGRATULATIONS to @propublica.org's Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser, Cassandra Jaramillo & Stacy Kranitz on their Polk award for uncovering preventable deaths of women denied routine treatment for pregnancy complications as a consequence of the 2022 SCOTUS ruling enabling state abortion bans.

Collage of women who contributed to the ESA & NASA Solar Orbiter mission

💫🎉 Behind every successful ESA space mission, there's a woman. Behind the ESA & NASA Solar Orbiter mission, there are more than a hundred of them!

Join us in celebrating them today, on international day of women and girls in science!
#WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
🔭🧪

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Minnesota child care was already in crisis — before the threat of a federal freeze Minnesota child care is in crisis — and that’s even before the threat of a federal freeze in funding.  As a director of a child care center, I nurture relationships with other early childhood leaders ...

The untenability of the child care paradigm. And its imminent collapse under the Republicans. It’s the children who pay the price.

Idaho Becomes Sixth State to Consider Murder Charges for Abortion Patients 2.7.25

Indiana, South Carolina, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Texas, now …

Trump’s Already Gone Back on His Promise To Leave Abortion to States - KFF Health News On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump said the power to make abortion policies “has been returned to the states.” In his first two weeks in office, he’s already gone further to restrict aborti...

The Republican President’s anti-abortion executive actions thus far.

Republicans move to repeal lead limits imposed by Biden-era rules US government would be prohibited from ever mandating lead pipe replacement or lowering lead limits in water

Trump and the GOP are trying to repeal a Biden admin rule that requires lead water pipes to be replaced.

Tens of millions of people, including children, would continue to have contaminated drinking water if the rules are revoked.

So the GOP is the party of lead poisoning now?

Conservatives want to increase birth rates. These moms are terrified to have more kids. • Idaho Capital Sun The national fertility rate — the total number of live births per 1,000 women of reproductive age — declined in the U.S. in the last decade.

Read the whole thing really interesting

Opill® extends mission of breaking down birth control barriers with launch of multi-state college tour and expansion of partnerships

Today, Opill® launched an educational college campus tour and the next phase of its multiyear partnership with the #WNBA with a goal of expanding reproductive health education and access to birth control resources.
#Opill

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In its simplest terms, the apparent demise of #USAID is the result of the world's richest man ending a program that helps millions of poor people. You don't need a Ph.D. in moral theology to see why this is an evil. You can just read Jesus's parables on the rich and the poor.

the groundhog woke up and killed himself :/

🛑CANCELLED—“Research on Women’s Health” funding website of the NIH.

The Supreme Court Could Gut Access to Birth Control This Year Opinion | With Trump back in the Oval Office, access to contraception is, sadly, not something that people can bank on anymore.

www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

CORTEZ MASTRO: A pregnant woman with a life-threatening bleed goes to the ER and her doctor determines she needs an emergency abortion. She's in a state where abortion is banned. You would agree that federal law protects her right to that emergency care, correct

RFK Jr: Uh, I don't know

Over 100 Texas Children Forced to Leave the State for Abortion 1.28.25

The title says it all. Subscribe to Abortion Every Day.

As Trump returns, state lawmakers pursue bills that would treat abortion as homicide Red state legislators have also introduced a slew of bills targeting abortion pills and minors’ access to the procedure

PLEASE see my pinned thread and REPOST REPOST REPOST. This is gaining ground and we have to fight back!! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Mississippi lawmaker introduces 'Contraception Begins at Erection Act' The bill, which is unlikely to pass, would make it unlawful for “a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”

This makes total sense www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Iraqi lawmakers pass a bill that critics say legalizes child marriage Iraq’s parliament has passed three divisive laws including amendments to the country’s personal status law that opponents say would in effect legalize child marriage.

. “Iraqi law currently sets 18 as the minimum age of marriage in most cases. The changes passed Tuesday would let clerics rule according to their interpretation of Islamic law, which some interpret to allow marriage of girls in their early teens — or as young as 9 under the Jaafari school….”

Honoring Service: Cecile Richards This morning, Cecile Richards, who fought for the rights of American women as the president of Planned Parenthood, passed away.

RIP Cecile Richards, former president of Planned Parenthood and a hero for women open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

A “Horrendous” Alaska Sexual Assault Case, Delayed for a Decade Four different judges have agreed to delay the trial more than 70 times in total. We pieced together a timeline of the delays using audio recordings and logs from every hearing.

“The case was one of the most horrendous that two Alaska Superior Court judges said they had encountered in their long careers on the bench. The victim suffered internal injuries that required surgery and the use of a bag for her digestive system.” projects.propublica.org/alaska-sex-a...

With lawsuits and legislation, Texas GOP takes aim at abortion pills More than 2,800 Texans are getting abortion pills through the mail from out-of-state every month, prompting a lawsuit and legislation seeking to end the practice. by Eleanor Klibanoff , for Texas ...

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...