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Carrie N Baker
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Smith College Professor, Ms magazine writer and contributing editor, WHMP host of Feminist Futures.
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Even under abortion bans, people are finding safe, legal care. Telehealth and shield laws are becoming a crucial infrastructure for reproductive autonomy in the U.S.
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Abortion Continues to Increase in 2025 as Telehealth Expands, Especially in States with Bans and Restrictions
The latest #WeCount report finds that abortion access is growing as patients turn to telehealth abortion pills and shield law providers.
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January 3, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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The average monthly number of abortions has risen from 79,600 in 2022 to 98,800 in 2025--a 24 percent increase in just three years. And telehealth abortion increased 61 percent over the last year. @msmagazine.com @plancpills.bsky.social
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Abortion Continues to Increase in 2025 as Telehealth Expands, Especially in States with Bans and Restrictions
The latest #WeCount report finds that abortion access is growing as patients turn to telehealth abortion pills and shield law providers.
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December 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Global telehealth abortion provider Women Help Women is now producing its own combipack of one mife and eight miso tablets, and says they will start serving the US if the FDA restricts access to telehealth abortion. @msmagazine.com @plancpills.bsky.social
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A Global Telehealth First: Women Help Women Begins Producing Abortion Pill Combipack
The feminist telehealth provider Women Help Women cuts out pharma middlemen to make its new mifepristone-misprostol abortion pill combo pack.
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December 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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The Pitt, Ginny & Georgia, All’s Fair – how did this year’s biggest TV shows tackle abortion? We tracked this year’s hits and misses in our Abortion Onscreen report. www.ansirh.org/research/res...
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December 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Last week, SCOTUS heard arguments in a case involving faith-based pregnancy centers. In this @pbsnews.org segment, @carrienbaker.bsky.social explains how these centers operate, why patients can be misled, and why their lack of medical licensing and privacy protections raise serious concerns.
Rise of crisis pregnancy centers highlights shift in anti-abortion movement
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December 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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N.Y. Archdiocese Will Negotiate Sex-Abuse Settlement for 1,300 Accusers www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/n...
N.Y. Archdiocese Will Negotiate Sex-Abuse Settlement for 1,300 Accusers
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December 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Facing potential FDA rollbacks, US-based abortion seekers can count on global telehealth provider "Abortion Pills in Private," which is pledging uninterrupted access to abortion pills for Americans. @plancpills.bsky.social
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International Telehealth Provider ‘Abortion Pills in Private’ Ready to Ramp Up if FDA Restricts Mifepristone
International Telehealth Provider ‘Abortion Pills in Private’ Ready to Ramp Up if FDA, Trump or Kennedy Restrict Mifepristone
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December 9, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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"Even if they make telemedicine illegal, even if they ban mifepristone, even if there’s a national abortion ban, we’re still going to be having abortions and helping each other have abortions. Fundamentally, it is unstoppable." @shoutyourabortion.bsky.social
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Shout Your Abortion Short Films Seek to Normalize Keeping Abortion Pills at Home: ‘You Always Have Options’
Shout Your Abortion's new campaign are short, powerful films that demystify abortion pills and encourage women and girls to keep them on hand.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Today the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case about whether antiabortion crisis pregnancy centers can block government oversight of their dishonest and dangerous practices targeted toward pregnant women and girls. Watch this PBS NewsHour segment to learn more!
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Rise of crisis pregnancy centers highlights shift in anti-abortion movement
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case involving faith-based pregnancy centers in New Jersey. The organization is hoping to block the state from investigating whether they misled women into b...
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December 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Rise of crisis pregnancy centers highlights shift in anti-abortion movement
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case involving faith-based pregnancy centers in New Jersey. The organization is hoping to block the state from investigating whether they misled women into b...
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December 2, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Giving thanks for Deb Haaland! @dailyhampgazette.bsky.social @msmagazine.com
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Columnist Carrie N. Baker: Giving thanks for Deb Haaland, a visionary Indigenous leader - Daily Hampshire Gazette
In these dire political times, as corrupt leaders in Washington fuel backlash politics and undermine basic rights, Deb Haaland’s campaign for governor of New Mexico offers a powerful counterpoint. Haa...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Rouge Doulas are a global network of abortion doulas supporting self-managed abortion. @msmagazine.com
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Inside the Global Network of Abortion Doulas Supporting Self-Managed Care
Rouge Doulas is building a global network of trained abortion doulas who offer free support for people self-managing abortions with pills.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Hear from Smith College Professor @carrienbaker.bsky.social targeted for her outspokenness on repro rights, the forced-birth landscape in the US right now, and how we can fight from abroad to save abortion access.

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November 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Here's an interview I did with Venny Ala-Siurua the executive director of global online abortion service Women on Web, now serving people in the U.S. They will become a key avenue of abortion pill access if Trump restricts mife. @plancpills.bsky.social @msmagazine.com
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November 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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'We're just falling off the cliff': Smith College professor warns of erosion of women's rights under Project 2025 - Greenfield Recorder
Smith College professor Carrie Baker discussed the Trump Administration's progress on Project 2025, a "misogynist manifesto" aimed at dismantling civil rights infrastructure and promoting conservative...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Michigan’s pregnancy-exclusion law forces life support on pregnant women by denying incapacitated pregnant patients the right to refuse life-sustaining treatment. Advocates are now challenging that law! @msmagazine.com
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Repro Groups Sue Michigan Over Law Denying Pregnant Women Control of Their Bodies in End-of-Life Decisions
Repro Groups Sue Michigan advance directive pregnancy exception Law Denying Pregnant Women Control of Their Bodies in End-of-Life Decisions
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November 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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A New York judge’s ruling reaffirms the strength of state shield laws and draws a clear line against Texas’ attempt to export its abortion ban beyond its borders. @msmagazine.com

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Foiled in Scheme to Extend Texas Abortion Ban to New York
New York Attorney General Letitia James v. Texas Attorney General to Extend Texas Abortion Ban to New York Doctor Dr. Margaret Carpenter
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November 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE, the federal agency behind mass deportation and surveillance of immigrant communities. Cancel your Spotify subscription. #DontStreamFascism app.sosha.ai/s/R1WNp0Ub
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November 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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The Trump administration’s assault on reproductive health relies on disinformation. States must fight back with facts. @msmagazine.com @pplm.org @reproequitynow.bsky.social
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November 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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The decision by a federal trial court in Hawaii restores evidence to the center and demands access be considered, so that safety data, not politics, sets the rules. @msmagazine.com @pplmvotes.org @ppfa.org @plancpills.bsky.social
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Judge Rules FDA Abortion Pill Restrictions Unlawful, Citing Political Interference
The decision by a federal trial court in Hawaii: Judge Rules FDA Abortion Pill Restrictions Unlawful, Citing Political Interference
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November 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Despite growing legal threats to the accessibility of abortion pills, national networks of volunteers are working to distribute the medication, discretely and without cost to patients. @msmagazine.com @plancpills.bsky.social
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'Mife No Matter What': Community Abortion Providers Pledge to Continue Sharing Free Abortion Pills, Even if FDA Imposes Restrictions
'Mife No Matter What': Community Abortion Providers Pledge to Continue Sharing Free Abortion Pills, Even if FDA Imposes Restrictions
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November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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With misinformation mounting and access to care eroding, we need bold, creative action to confront the Trump administration’s dangerous onslaught against women’s reproductive health — just as states have joined forces to counter its vaccine disinformation. 
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Columnist Carrie N. Baker and Colleen Lynch: Calling for bold responses to MAGA medical disinformation - Daily Hampshire Gazette
At a Sept. 22 press conference, Donald Trump declared that pregnant women should not take acetaminophen — the active ingredient in Tylenol, baselessly claiming that the over-the-counter medication tak...
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October 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Why is The New York Times uncritically parroting anti-abortion talking points? @newyorktimeshaiku.bsky.social es @msmagazine.com e
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The New York Times’ Recent 'Abortion Pollution' Story Serves the Antiabortion Agenda
The New York Times’ Recent 'Abortion Pollution' Story Serves Students for Life of America (SFLA)'s Antiabortion Agenda
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October 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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I'm worried about the safety of women and girls in the U.S. @msmagazine.com
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America Is an Increasingly Dangerous Place for Women and Girls
America is dangerous for women and girls because our leaders choose to make it so. The Trump administration has already begun blocking access to abortion and Medicaid coverage for reproductive health,...
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October 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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On the 25th anniversary of FDA approval of mifepristone, reproductive rights supporters are celebrating the creative, determined and courageous advocates who brought this medication to market. @msmagazine.com
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Twenty-Five Years of Mifepristone: How Activists Brought the Abortion Pill to America and Changed Reproductive Health Forever
25 Years of RU-486: How Activists Brought the Abortion Pill Mifepristone to America and Changed Reproductive Health Forever
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September 26, 2025 at 12:04 AM