Melissa Goodman
@melissagoodman.bsky.social
Lawyer & policy expert managing a national think tank & research center on repro rights, health, and justice (Center on Reproductive Health, Law & Policy @UCLA Law). Abortion. Economic justice. Family building/IVF. Mom to child & dog, yoga enthusiast.
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Today, the Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy at UCLA School of Law released a new report, The Promise of Reproductive Freedom Amendments: An Analysis of State Constitutional Protections and Their Impact. Read the report here: law.ucla.edu/sites/defaul...
September 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Today, the Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy at UCLA School of Law released a new report, The Promise of Reproductive Freedom Amendments: An Analysis of State Constitutional Protections and Their Impact. Read the report here: law.ucla.edu/sites/defaul...
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Today we submitted a letter with @uclarepropolicy.bsky.social to the FDA signed by over 200 scientists.
The short version? Medication abortion is safe. Time to drop the junk science and move on. law.ucla.edu/reproductive...
The short version? Medication abortion is safe. Time to drop the junk science and move on. law.ucla.edu/reproductive...
Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy Reproductive Health Researchers Comment Letter to FDA
On August 27th, 2025, UCLA Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy (CRHLP) and Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) at UCSF submitted a letter on behalf of more than 260 rese...
law.ucla.edu
August 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Today we submitted a letter with @uclarepropolicy.bsky.social to the FDA signed by over 200 scientists.
The short version? Medication abortion is safe. Time to drop the junk science and move on. law.ucla.edu/reproductive...
The short version? Medication abortion is safe. Time to drop the junk science and move on. law.ucla.edu/reproductive...
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Today we and our colleagues at @ansirh.bsky.social submitted a letter to the FDA for over 260 researchers affirming the 25-year safety record of mifepristone and urging the FDA not to restrict abortion pill access based on junk science. Read the letter here: law.ucla.edu/sites/defaul...
August 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Today we and our colleagues at @ansirh.bsky.social submitted a letter to the FDA for over 260 researchers affirming the 25-year safety record of mifepristone and urging the FDA not to restrict abortion pill access based on junk science. Read the letter here: law.ucla.edu/sites/defaul...
Check out a new policy brief out today that I co-authored!
‼️ Exciting News from CRHLP ‼️
We’re thrilled to announce the release of a new policy brief highlighting the growing momentum for a transformative approach: Unconditional Cash Transfers (UCTs) for Pregnant and Newly Parenting People. The brief can be accessed at this link: bit.ly/UTCBrief
We’re thrilled to announce the release of a new policy brief highlighting the growing momentum for a transformative approach: Unconditional Cash Transfers (UCTs) for Pregnant and Newly Parenting People. The brief can be accessed at this link: bit.ly/UTCBrief
February 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Check out a new policy brief out today that I co-authored!
An easy way to take some action.
February 11, 2025 at 2:07 AM
An easy way to take some action.
Today focus activism on getting Musk out of your sensitive records & the bias-based erasure of people and knowledge. Here’s the list of words that get fed funded science grants & articles pulled. Note anything about women, people of color, LGBTQ people and disabled people. Just beginning
February 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Today focus activism on getting Musk out of your sensitive records & the bias-based erasure of people and knowledge. Here’s the list of words that get fed funded science grants & articles pulled. Note anything about women, people of color, LGBTQ people and disabled people. Just beginning
For Dems in AD51: voting is open until Feb 23. Pin comes in the mail and then vote online. I’d be honored if you would vote for me & my Progressive Slate. We care deeply about economic justice, housing affordability, racial justice, repro justice, LGBTQ, and progressive systemic change.
February 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
For Dems in AD51: voting is open until Feb 23. Pin comes in the mail and then vote online. I’d be honored if you would vote for me & my Progressive Slate. We care deeply about economic justice, housing affordability, racial justice, repro justice, LGBTQ, and progressive systemic change.
Altadena’s Black residents disproportionally hit by Eaton fire, UCLA study says
January 29, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Altadena’s Black residents disproportionally hit by Eaton fire, UCLA study says
Never been so excited for rain in LA! Help with fires and toxins, hooray!
January 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Never been so excited for rain in LA! Help with fires and toxins, hooray!
Sending ❤️ to my trans & non-binary friends. EOs can't erase who a person is but can cause enormous harm. To cis friends who care about repro: please put equal energy to the wider battle for gender justice. It's all about gender roles/stereotypes & bodily autonomy. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...
Trump signs executive orders proclaiming there are only two biological sexes, halting diversity programs
White House officials grouped both orders under the Trump administration’s wider “restoring sanity” agenda.
www.nbcnews.com
January 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Sending ❤️ to my trans & non-binary friends. EOs can't erase who a person is but can cause enormous harm. To cis friends who care about repro: please put equal energy to the wider battle for gender justice. It's all about gender roles/stereotypes & bodily autonomy. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...
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BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration to block the president’s attempt to end birthright citizenship.
An executive order does not have the power to override the Constitution.
An executive order does not have the power to override the Constitution.
January 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration to block the president’s attempt to end birthright citizenship.
An executive order does not have the power to override the Constitution.
An executive order does not have the power to override the Constitution.
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VOLUNTEERS STILL NEEDED: Later this week, Santa Monica College is hosting 3-day food & clothing distribution event. Volunteers are still needed to prepare/sort items (1/20-1/21) and to help distribute items (1/22, 1/23, 1/24). #SMCares #LAFires
Sign up: www.signupgenius.com/go/10C084AA8...
Sign up: www.signupgenius.com/go/10C084AA8...
January 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
VOLUNTEERS STILL NEEDED: Later this week, Santa Monica College is hosting 3-day food & clothing distribution event. Volunteers are still needed to prepare/sort items (1/20-1/21) and to help distribute items (1/22, 1/23, 1/24). #SMCares #LAFires
Sign up: www.signupgenius.com/go/10C084AA8...
Sign up: www.signupgenius.com/go/10C084AA8...
Tomorrow I will focus on service (re LA fires) and joy (hosting kid play date indoor minigolf) and MLK Jr.’s vision for racial and economic justice (work). I choose not to focus attn tomorrow on DC. I choose the next 4 years to be about community and building strategy for real change
January 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Tomorrow I will focus on service (re LA fires) and joy (hosting kid play date indoor minigolf) and MLK Jr.’s vision for racial and economic justice (work). I choose not to focus attn tomorrow on DC. I choose the next 4 years to be about community and building strategy for real change
Jimmy Carter was a positive force in the world. Long ago I had the privilege of authoring an amicus brief on behalf of the Carter Center & other humanitarian orgs negatively impacted by broad & vague material support to terrorism laws. Appreciated this leadership. www.aclu.org/press-releas...
Supreme Court To Hear Challenge To Law That Inhibits Work Of Humanitarian Organizations | American Civil Liberties Union
ACLU Filed Brief On Behalf Of Carter Center And Other Organizations Supporting Challenge To Vague "Material Support" Law...
www.aclu.org
December 30, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Jimmy Carter was a positive force in the world. Long ago I had the privilege of authoring an amicus brief on behalf of the Carter Center & other humanitarian orgs negatively impacted by broad & vague material support to terrorism laws. Appreciated this leadership. www.aclu.org/press-releas...
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Despite ProPublica reporting on the deaths of three Texans as a result of the state’s abortion ban, Texas has opted (www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...) not to investigate pregnancy-related deaths for 2022 and 2023, skipping over the years following the state’s strict abortion ban.
December 6, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Despite ProPublica reporting on the deaths of three Texans as a result of the state’s abortion ban, Texas has opted (www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...) not to investigate pregnancy-related deaths for 2022 and 2023, skipping over the years following the state’s strict abortion ban.
Hope you can join us Monday for this very timely and rare bringing together of prosecutor and on-gyn voices.
On December 9th CRHLP will be hosting a webinar discussion that brings together voices of prosecutor associations, ob-gyn associations, & advocates to discuss widespread opposition to pregnancy criminalization across different professions. View this thread to see information on the panel's speakers!
December 5, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Hope you can join us Monday for this very timely and rare bringing together of prosecutor and on-gyn voices.
Please share with those who might be interested in being the first research director at a new and exciting think tank and research center devoted to long term reproductive rights and wider justice change! Applications due December 11th!
🔔 The deadline to apply to be our new Research Director is in nine days! 🔔
Apply today to join our team & play a vital role in building the vision, expanding, managing, and executing the Center's research work!
Apply today to join our team & play a vital role in building the vision, expanding, managing, and executing the Center's research work!
📣We're hiring a Research Director! CRHLP is seeking a passionate researcher to serve as its 1st Research Director. Play a vital role in shaping the vision, managing, & executing research work & partnerships with repro health researchers nationwide!
recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09919
recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09919
December 2, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Please share with those who might be interested in being the first research director at a new and exciting think tank and research center devoted to long term reproductive rights and wider justice change! Applications due December 11th!
Thanksgiving vibes.
November 29, 2024 at 4:01 AM
Thanksgiving vibes.
This list is worth a read. Seriously.
Coping in an age of surveillance and chaos is going to take a new level of fight and commitment and resolve. Some survival thoughts -
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2024 at 3:48 PM
This list is worth a read. Seriously.
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📣We're hiring a Research Director! CRHLP is seeking a passionate researcher to serve as its 1st Research Director. Play a vital role in shaping the vision, managing, & executing research work & partnerships with repro health researchers nationwide!
recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09919
recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09919
November 20, 2024 at 7:24 PM
📣We're hiring a Research Director! CRHLP is seeking a passionate researcher to serve as its 1st Research Director. Play a vital role in shaping the vision, managing, & executing research work & partnerships with repro health researchers nationwide!
recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09919
recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09919
Appreciate coverage here of reality that challenges that are coming from federal policy or actions even if protective states like CA. We need very strong state laws but they cannot save us from all impacts here
CRHLP’s Executive Director @melissagoodman.bsky.social is featured in The Sacramento Bee's article analyzing the new Trump Admin’s likely impact on state policies.
The article highlights how federal actions could severely impact access, even in states with robust protections like California.
The article highlights how federal actions could severely impact access, even in states with robust protections like California.
November 19, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Appreciate coverage here of reality that challenges that are coming from federal policy or actions even if protective states like CA. We need very strong state laws but they cannot save us from all impacts here