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We just updated our best-selling Bad Stork design to pop on darker colors like black, navy, maroon, and forest green. Check out new shirts and black totes:
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November 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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We just added five holiday ornaments to our merch store! Get a jump on your gifting or decorating 🌲🎁
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graphic showing five holiday ornaments on a blue background with the Autonomy News logo at bottom center. Ornaments from left to right: Just "abortion" ornament https://www.bonfire.com/just-abortion-ornament/ Bad stork ornament (Victorian woman swinging a parasol at a stork trying to bring her a baby) https://www.bonfire.com/bad-stork-ornament/ All Comstocks Are Bastards ornament (Anthony Comstock) https://www.bonfire.com/all-comstocks-are-bastards-ornament/ Cursive abortion ornament https://www.bonfire.com/cursive-abortion-ornament/ Say the word abortion ornament https://www.bonfire.com/say-the-word-abortion-ornament/
November 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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We were first on the story that Planned Parenthood was considering letting its affiliates halt abortion care in response to federal attacks, first to report when one affiliate did just that, and even created a resource to help people figure out what care is still available at their local affiliate.
screenshot: In fact, we’ve been first on a long list of stories: the controversy embroiling a new abortion care OBGYN subspecialty, a mysterious survey sent to OBGYNs by an anti-abortion group, an apparently fake abortion practical support service, and the wild $100 million counterclaim in a highly publicized wrongful death lawsuit over abortion pills. Most recently, in a collaboration with Mother Jones, we reported on exclusive audio recordings from a crisis pregnancy center conference, breaking down what behind-closed-doors conversations reveal about the anti-abortion movement’s strategy. We’ve scooped the New York Times, and our reporting has been cited by The Guardian, Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine, Crooked Media’s Hysteria podcast, and even in a federal court case.
November 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Someone with great taste recently bought this version of our "say the word abortion" shirt
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October 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Someone with great taste recently bought this version of our Just "abortion" hat
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October 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Someone with great taste recently bought this version of our All Comstocks Are Bastards shirt:
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Photo of a dark gray long sleeve t-shirt. The design is a photo of Victorian prude Anthony Comstock and over his eyes is a green square that reads "ACAB" for All Comstocks Are Bastards. The Autonomy News logo is at the bottom right in green
October 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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A person with great taste just bought this version of our Bad Stork shirt:
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October 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Options for pills have exploded since the site's last update in 2020. Visitors to redesigned state pages now see provider data presented in rows and columns for easier comparison, and a Medicaid coverage filter shows services that provide abortion pills for free.
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screenshot from Plan C pills Illinois state page: Visitors will now see provider data presented in rows and columns, rather than separate boxes, so they can easily compare services. [rows for four pill providers and data shown include service name, price, delivery time, and pregnancy gestation and ages served] Users have more filtering options, too: They can sort by interaction type (i.e., whether or not a video visit is required), weeks of pregnancy, ages served, and languages spoken. An existing filter allows visitors to select providers that offer pills for future use, known as “advance provision.” screenshot from Plan C pills Illinois state page: It lists 32 results from 3 provider types. below "filter results" is a special callout for Medicaid coverage in a light green box that reads: “Concerned about cost? Illinois Medicaid provides free abortion care for all low-income pregnant people who live in Illinois regardless of immigration status. Show X Illinois Medicaid providers only.” From story: Another existing filter shows providers that accept Medicaid. That’s now enhanced with a box above the results that reads: “Concerned about cost? [X state] Medicaid provides free abortion care for all low-income pregnant people who live in [X state] regardless of immigration status. Show [X state] Medicaid providers only.” Plan C felt this callout was necessary because some people are paying for pills they could get for free.
October 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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October 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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October 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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The South Carolina bill is really scary stuff. A Senate committee will consider the bill on Wednesday
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Personhood watch A very scary total abortion ban, which would classify abortion as homicide, will be heard by a South Carolina Senate committee on Wednesday. If the bill is enacted, people who have abortions could be charged with murder. Alarmingly, the bill contains an explicit exception for contraception—but defines contraception as “the prevention of fertilization of an ovum by a sperm.” A “contraceptive” is specifically defined as “a drug, device, or chemical that prevents conception.” Currently, drugs and devices that prevent the implantation of a fertilized egg are also considered contraceptives under state law, but this bill would remove that part of the definition, seemingly elevating the status of fertilized eggs under law. As we recently explained, contraceptives like IUDs and the morning-after pill don’t generally work by preventing implantation—but conservatives often claim they do. This redefinition suggests that South Carolina Republicans may be itching to target these forms of birth control by claiming they cause abortion, echoing recent rhetoric from the Trump administration.
September 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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September 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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A Republican House member introduced a federal informed consent bill that would require counseling on a crackpot theory known as abortion pill “reversal.”

Watch this space for more on APR 👀
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A Republican House member has introduced a federal informed consent bill that would require providers of medication abortions to tell their patients that it may be possible to reverse the effects of mifepristone if they change their mind. This crackpot theory is known as abortion pill “reversal” (APR)—and there is no good scientific evidence to support it. Rep. August Pfluger (TX-11) calls his proposal the “The Second Chance at Life Act” and it’s supported by groups including SBA, National Right to Life Committee, and Students for Life Action. The legislation is unlikely to become law as it would need 60 votes in the Senate in order to pass, but it is nonetheless alarming to see the GOP rally behind this experimental protocol. Autonomy News has been working on a big story about APR, so look out for that in the coming weeks.
September 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Mother Jones Cooprider is seeking $100 million in damages, but pledges in his counterclaim to donate any proceeds to the Wounded Warrior Project. Watts and two other attorneys said they are working on the case pro bono. This article was republished from Autonomy News, a worker-owned publication covering reproductive rights and justice. Sign up for a free or paid subscription, and follow them on Instagram, TikTok, and Bluesky.
September 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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August 29, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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[Screenshot of the website Autonomy News where the background color is black and the logo is lime green. Most Text is white with lime green and bright blue accents.] [Blue banner at top of webpage] Welcome to Autonomy News! Learn more about us. Autonomy News ABOUT / SUPPORT US / TIP JAR [photo of a person holding a box of mifepristone in their left hand] ABORTION Texas Woman Files Wrongful Death Suit, Alleges Man Slipped Abortion Pills in Her Drink Jonathan Mitchell is representing a woman suing both her male partner and Aid Access…
August 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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screenshot from Hysteria show page: In This Episode This week, New York Governor Kathy Hochul stood with the Texas Democrats in their fight against corrupt Republican gerrymandering. Today, she joins Hysteria to talk about fighting fire with fire, her own redistricting plans for New York, and how her state is handling Trump 2.0. Erin and Alyssa also discuss Trump’s atrocious plans to build a White House ballroom, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Nancy Mace’s latest pick-me BS, and a roundup of new reproductive rights threats around the country. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast. Experts Raise Concerns Over Trump’s White House Ballroom Renovation Plans (NY Times 8/3) Nancy Mace Announces Run for Governor of South Carolina (NY Time 8/4) Miss United States Files Restraining Order Against GOP Rep. Cory Mills (Drop Site 8/5) Marjorie Taylor Greene says Republican party has lost touch with its base (The Guardian 8/4) **Arkansas AG Threatens to Sue Sites for Providing Info About Abortion Pills (Autonomy News 11/2)** Idaho’s OBGYNs Are Jumping Ship (Jezebel 8/1) Trump moves to bar nearly all abortions at Veterans Affairs hospitals (WaPo 8/4) OB-GYN group won’t take federal funds over Trump policies (Axios 8/1) Trump’s cynical bait-and-switch on IVF (CNN 8/4)
August 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Thank you to @eringloriaryan.bsky.social and Alyssa Mastromonaco for talking about our story on the Arkansas AG sending cease-and-desist letters to abortion pill information sites Plan C and Mayday Health. We made the Hysteria show notes 😎
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August 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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screenshot: Republican Attorneys General Take Aim at Interstate Sale of Abortion Pills The Republican attorney general of Arkansas, Tim Griffin, is threatening to sue websites that provide information about medication abortion, part of a broader GOP effort to threaten the accessibility of abortion pills across state lines, Susan Rinkunas reports at Autonomy News.
August 6, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Bad moon rising:
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Screenshot The Trump administration reversed Biden-era legal guidance that allowed federal funding to be used to pay for abortion-related travel, but not the abortion itself. After the 2022 Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, Joe Biden's Health Department took the view that paying for travel associated with abortion didn't violate the Hyde Amendment ban on funding abortion. That interpretation was backed up by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) in the Justice Department, but Trump's C.C now says its predecessors were wrong. This is bad on its own, and it's another reminder that OLC could rescind guidance on the Comstock Act, which conservatives want Trump to weaponize to ban abortion pills if not all abortions nationwide.
July 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Planned Parenthood Federation of America continues to say there are no plans to drop abortion care nationwide, but they also admit that affiliates make the ultimate choice
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Screenshot from the New York Times with part of a sentence highlighted: Planned Parenthood Federation of America has vowed to continue providing abortions, even in states where funding would be jeopardized by doing so. That said, it is up to the affiliates, which operate independently from the national organization and are responsible for their own budgets, to evaluate how the bill could affect them and decide how to respond if Congress blocks federal funding. Medicaid funding accounts for large portions of the operating budgets of many affiliates, and discussions for some of them will be based on how to keep operating without it. Angela Vasquez-Giroux, a national spokeswoman for Planned Parer thood Federation of America, said that **the national office would never recommend that affiliates stop performing abortions. But the national organization "does not direct the actions of an affiliate,"** she added. "Our governance structure does not allow for that, by design." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/us/politics/planned-parenthood-abortions-senate-medicaid-funding.html
July 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Hours after Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling on Planned Parenthood, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals breathed new life into a “whistleblower” suit that could bankrupt the national umbrella organization.

It's one of many active threats to the abortion ecosystem:
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screenshot from Autonomy News about a case currently before the Fifth Circuit court of appeals: In United States ex rel. Doe v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Alex Doe accuses Planned Parenthood of violating the federal False Claims Act by improperly billing Texas Medicaid for $17 million in non-abortion services provided during yearslong litigation over whether it could remain in the program. The suit, later joined by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, seeks $1.8 billion in penalties. In February, a three-judge panel said PPFA was immune from the suit, but then the anonymous plaintiff asked for a hearing before the full court and that request was approved. Doe filed the suit in 2021 in Amarillo, Texas, where Planned Parenthood doesn’t have a single clinic, but where he was guaranteed to draw anti-abortion Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk. Who is this savvy litigant? Both KFF Health News and The Guardian revealed Alex Doe to be David Daleiden, the anti-abortion activist who in 2015 falsely accused Planned Parenthood of profiting from the sale of fetal tissue for scientific research. Daleiden’s organization, the Center for Medical Progress, released deceptively edited sting videos that resulted in several fruitless investigations of Planned Parenthood, though they did lead states, including Texas and South Carolina, to kick the healthcare provider out of Medicaid. Now, he’s weaponizing the Texas Medicaid policy change to try to shut down multiple Planned Parenthood affiliates, and perhaps the entire organization.
July 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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This story is now on our Instagram if folks would like to share it over there:
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Photo of Instagram post of this story by autonomy news. the headline is: Planned Parenthood may allow affiliates to drop abortion care to avoid “defunding”
June 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Planned Parenthood does not name us on Instagram, but vaguely refers to reports of a plan to halt abortion care as "outright lies spread by abortion opponents."

They have not denied our reporting about waivers for affiliates and our source is not an abortion opponent.
A screenshot of an Instagram post from Planned Parenthood. The image shows a Threads post from Alexis McGill Johnson, which says: "Let me be perfectly clear: there is not now, and has never been, a plan to stop providing abortion care in the hopes of preserving federal funding. Providing abortion care everywhere it’s still legal is not up for negotiation – period." The caption says: "Anything that suggests the contrary are outright lies spread by abortion opponents to cause confusion and chaos for the patients and communities that rely on Planned Parenthood health centers for care. Planned Parenthood health centers will continue to proudly provide the full range of health care – including abortion – no matter what."
June 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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