Amy Littlefield

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Who Killed Roe v. Wade? Inside Amy Littlefield’s Investigation Into the Fall of Abortion Rights In Killers of Roe, journalist Amy Littlefield traces the Hyde Amendment, parental consent laws, Operation Rescue, and decades of conservative strategy that gradually dismantled abortion rights.

Thanks so much @codymcdevitt.bsky.social for this thoughtful breakdown of Killers of Roe, out everywhere books are sold on March 10!

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"The kind of classic payoff in a murder mystery is it’s always the suspect you were least paying attention to."

Who Killed Roe v. Wade? Inside Amy Littlefield’s Investigation Into the Fall of Abortion Rights In Killers of Roe, journalist Amy Littlefield traces the Hyde Amendment, parental consent laws, Operation Rescue, and decades of conservative strategy that gradually dismantled abortion rights.

Thanks so much @codymcdevitt.bsky.social for this thoughtful breakdown of Killers of Roe, out everywhere books are sold on March 10!

reprorights.substack.com/p/who-killed...

"The kind of classic payoff in a murder mystery is it’s always the suspect you were least paying attention to."

A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured - The American Prospect ICE is not required to report any use-of-force incidents against the public. So The American Prospect created our own running tally.

We updated our record of people immigration agents have killed or caused to die since Trump took office in January 2025.

As of today, agents have killed at least 28 people in the field and 48 people in custody.

Taxpayer dollars flood pregnancy centers. Oversight hasn't followed. Editor's note: This is the first report in an ongoing series.The patient came in with a belly full of blood, Dr. Leilah Zahedi-Spung recalled. Her pregnancy was ectopic, no longer viable, and could ha...

My god: The patient came in with a belly full of blood, Dr. Leilah Zahedi-Spung recalled. Her pregnancy was ectopic—no longer viable—and could have killed her if left untreated. But when she went to a mobile pregnancy help center offering free care in an RV she was told the pregnancy could be saved.

Excerpt from the article that says: In Missouri, state Rep. Warwick opposed a colleague’s suggestion to require the centers to report how they spend their donations in a tax credit program, saying he wanted to limit bureaucracy. He said in a February 2025 legislative hearing that the tax credit keeps the state from having to “verify what programs work.” “I don’t think they’re funded enough to be able to mishandle their money,” he told States Newsroom in December. “At least not the ones I’m familiar with.” Warwick proposed raising the tax credit for pregnancy center donations from 70% to 100% in 2025, meaning someone donating to a pregnancy center could reduce their state tax bill by the exact amount donated. The credits that Missourians redeemed shot up from about $2 million to an average of more than $7 million per year after lawmakers removed a cap on credits in 2021, according to a fiscal note attached to Warwick’s bill. State officials estimated a 100% tax credit just for pregnancy center donations would cost the state more than $10.7 million in the first year.

In Missouri, the lawmaker who has led the way on a tax credit program for CPCs (in addition to state and federal funding they receive) said the centers aren't funded enough to be able to mishandle their money, so oversight isn't necessary.

An excerpt from the article that reads: When Florida passed a six-week abortion ban in 2023, legislators simultaneously increased state funding for crisis pregnancy centers by 455% — from $4.5 million to $25 million. The following legislative session, they added another $4.5 million. The funds go to the Florida Pregnancy Care Network, which manages contracts with more than 100 crisis pregnancy centers across the state. The organization is required to report the amount and types of services provided and the expenditures to the governor and state legislature once a year. But it is not required to make any noncompliance findings public.

In Florida, support has increased fourfold for a network of 100 pregnancy centers — but if any of their expenditures are noncompliant, there is no requirement to make any findings publicly available.

Indiana's support for CPCs doubled in two years, while more rural hospitals and clinics that provide comprehensive reproductive health care close their doors because of a lack of funds.

If you read NOTHING else today, or this week, READ THIS!

Outstanding reporting 👏👏👏

I'll be in conversation with @renee.bsky.social @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social @gretchensisson.bsky.social and @tinavasquez.bsky.social on Saturday, March 7 at 1:45PM at the #AWP26 Conference & Bookfair for a panel titled Writing Abortion: What Stories Can Accomplish When Rights Are Taken Away

Updated w/ more details.

Medicaid covers nearly 1.2 million kids and adults in Minnesota, more than half of whom are nursing home residents, per KFF.

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

god help me, the details of this story

‘MAHA Moms’ Are Actually Having To Do More Work The Make America Healthy Again movement has created a coalition of mothers who believe they're the the sole person responsible for keeping their children healthy and safe.

“The MAHA movement... affirms again and again this idea of what a good mother looks like. But it also breaks with more traditional roles because these women hold significant amounts of power," says @drkatiegaddini.bsky.social in this Q&A with @alannavagianos.bsky.social in @huffpost.com. ⤵️

The Poison Pill in the Mifepristone Lawsuit That Could Trigger a National Abortion Ban In their push for a nationwide abortion ban, anti-abortion groups and Republican officials alike seem to be embracing the idea of giving the Comstock Act new life.

Resuscitating Comstock was a goal of Project 2025 and anti-abortion activists claim they can use it as a nationwide ban on medication abortion—and perhaps all abortions.

Jonathan Mitchell to @amylittlefield.bsky.social in 2023: “I want to get Comstock to the Supreme Court as quickly as possible”

The judge sounded skeptical of Louisiana's argument that ending telehealth prescriptions for abortion pills would end demand for them. Logical, and a key element to establish standing: if court can't remedy your injury, you can't sue

read @lailluminator.com:
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screenshot from Autonomy News Extremism The San Francisco Chronicle reports that anti-abortion legal activist Jonathan Mitchell found yet another male abuser to challenge access to abortion pills. His client Jerry Rodriguez is a Texas man who filed a July 2025 lawsuit against a California physician for prescribing medication abortion to his girlfriend. The lawsuit is an attempt to take down the state’s “shield law,” which protects clinicians who prescribe abortion pills across state lines. The Chronicle reports that Rodriguez was convicted of assaulting a woman in 2006 and threatening to kill another in 2009. The woman Rodriguez claims used the abortion pills told police in October 2024 that he punched and choked her and had “strangled her 8 times” over the previous five months. In 2023, Mitchell represented another Texas man named Marcus Silva who sued three of his estranged wife’s friends for allegedly helping her access abortion pills. Silva was verbally and emotionally abusive and threatened to release sex tapes of his wife unless she did his laundry and said he’d drop the case if she had sex with him. The parties settled the case days before it was set to go to trial.

Ending telemedicine prescriptions of abortion pills nationwide will harm so many people—including those who don't want to have their abusers' children.

We included this shocking but not surprising story in the @autonomynews.co weekly roundup:
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Today, a Trump-appointed judge will consider whether to end telemedicine prescriptions of mifepristone nationwide.

Plus, state legislatures are back in session and pushing a host of anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ+ bills. That and more in yesterday's @autonomynews.co roundup:

Bethany Christian Services Is Fostering Migrant Kids. It Also Has a History of Coercive Adoptions. Media outlets have largely overlooked the troubling record of Bethany, a well-connected powerhouse of the anti-choice movement, even as reporters have interviewed the agency’s leaders on the plight of...

They've been doing this for YEARS.

this kid was spirited away to a "short-term residency program" owned by Bethany Christian Services, an evangelical adoption agency connected to Betsy DeVos

Join us for a conversation on Killers of Roe featuring Amy Littlefield, The Nation's abortion access correspondent, and Regina Mahone, Nation senior editor, about how the right to abortion was lost and what can be done about it.

Delighted to share that I'll be in conversation with the brilliant @byreginamahone.bsky.social for this @thenation.com event on March 12 at 12 pm ET on Killers of Roe!

Come hear about the complex characters and hidden motives behind the death of Roe.

Register: www.thenation.com/events/kille...

What the Pro-Choice Movement Can Learn From Those Who Overturned “Roe” The anti-abortion movement was methodical and radical at the same time. The abortion-rights movement must be too.

In my first adapted excerpt of Killers of Roe, I reflect on @irincarmon.bsky.social's reporting on Planned Parenthood's "good-girl problem" and what the abortion rights movement can learn from history...and from its enemies.

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“I’ve thought a lot of them not just as parents individually or as aspirations professionally,” Mamdani told me, “but in terms of what a marriage can look like, pursuing your professional dreams and being able to raise a family all at once.”"

Breaking: Democrats resoundingly defend red district in Louisiana, denying GOP its first pickup Republicans have yet to flip a single legislative seat since Trump's return

The GOP just had its best chance to finally flip a legislative seat in Trump 2.0. Democrats had other ideas.

Chasity Martinez just won a rural Trump+13 in the Louisiana House in a 24-point landslide—an overperformance of 37 points.

Our complete writeup on this remarkable outcome -->

Finding the Publishing World in the Epstein Files I did not make good use of my time this past weekend. I could have been doing something fulfilling like doomscrolling or playing an inane game on my phone, but instead I became an armchair detectiv…

I wrote about the Epstein Files and the (incredibly unhealthy) need to monitor, to bear witness. lithub.com/finding-the-...

Childcare Providers Around the Country Are Being Targeted by Vigilante Surveillance In response to bogus allegations of fraud in Minnesota, strangers are filming them, knocking on their doors, demanding to be let in. It’s scaring parents and costing providers.

After Trump elevated a video with unfounded claims of fraud in Somali-American run childcares and used it as context for the ICE occupation of Minnesota, childcare providers around the country have been subject to vigilante harassment and surveillance www.thenation.com/article/soci...

“We can’t stop here; this is bat country.” Sips coffee, yawns, rubs eyes. “Oh no actually that’s not a bat that’s the dirty underwear my kid left on the lampshade.”

I peeked at my early reader reviews for Killers of Roe and one of them refers to it as “gonzo journalism at its best” and damned if I’m not walking around feeling like the feminist mom version of Hunter S. Thompson.

Jesus fucking Christ

A Day for Gaza Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.

We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.