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Rachel Milkovich
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repro health policy specialist 🌻 doula 🌻
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“now i’m a west end girl”🎵
November 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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The Trump administration is set to destroy $9.7 million worth of US-purchased contraceptives rather than deliver them to women overseas, following the dismantling of foreign assistance programs carried out by USAID
US to burn $9.7 million worth of USAID-purchased contraceptives rather than deliver them to women overseas | CNN
The Trump administration is set to destroy $9.7 million worth of US-purchased contraceptives rather than deliver them to women overseas, following the dismantling of foreign assistance programs carrie...
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July 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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The US government’s plan to destroy $9.7 million worth of contraceptives is a callous waste that puts the health and lives of women and girls at risk. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/uncon...
Unconscionable: US plan to destroy $9.7 million of contraceptives
MSF condemns the decision to destroy these critical medical supplies, which will have devastating consequences for the communities where we work.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org
July 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Women are “naturally experiencing their emotions more intensely, and those are gifts. They’re not symptoms of a disease," said Roger McFillen, a doctor on an FDA panel that largely argued against pregnant women taking antidepressants.
Is the FDA about to keep pregnant women from taking antidepressants?
A panel of experts repeated what one women's health expert called "MAHA talking points."
www.motherjones.com
July 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Lawsuits from men against the doctors who provide abortions to their partners illustrate that men understand abortion bans as legal codifications of their private right to dominate and control women.
July 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Something I had missed: The State Department plans to destroy $9.7 million in family planning supplies that had been procured for USAID prior to its destruction. Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are trying to stop them.
Ranking Members Shaheen and Schatz Introduce Legislation to Prevent Lifesaving U.S. Aid from Going to Waste | United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
WASHINGTON – This week, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Brian Schatz (D-HI),...
www.foreign.senate.gov
July 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."
April 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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BREAKING: Days after a Louisiana judge ruled that the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil can proceed, thousands are holding an emergency Passover Seder at the ICE headquarters in New York City, saying: If you come for one, you face us all.
April 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Advocates say that the cumulative loss of services will be devastating for older people living with HIV, a disproportionate number of whom are LGBTQ+.

About 54 percent of people living with HIV in the United States are ages 50 and older.
Growing old with HIV is now possible. Trump’s CDC cuts threaten that progress.
Advocates say the agency's mass firings will be particularly devastating for older LGBTQ+ people living with HIV.
19thnews.org
April 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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News: Diana Greene Foster, the MacArthur-winning author of the Turnaway Study, learned her NIH grant — funding a multi-year study on Dobbs' impact — has been pulled. She was told its bc the govt won't study "gender identity."

Her work has shaped our understanding of abortion bans' consequences.
She was tracking post-Roe abortions. The government just pulled her funding.
Diana Greene Foster, who was behind the landmark Turnaway Study, wanted to study the health and economic impacts of the loss of abortion access.
19thnews.org
April 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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NEW from me: When states ban abortion, they make it harder for doctors to even learn how to perform it. Now, a small but growing number of doctors are leaving the US to learn to become abortion providers.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘A skill you need to save a life’: the US doctors traveling to Mexico for abortion training
Since Roe v Wade was overturned, a growing number of would-be abortion providers have begun to leave the country in search of an education as training in the US dwindles
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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The right keeps making clear how all our fights are connected. We need to make that clear in how we fight our fights.
February 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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To my repro folks: panic is not a strategy. Instead support the experts on the ground w/ regular monthly $$ so that they can focus on the work. I'll be upping my recurring donations and you should too. My faves:

1. @yellowfund.bsky.social
2. @wawchealth.bsky.social
3. @abortionsquad.bsky.social
a woman in a judge 's gown says where is the money
ALT: a woman in a judge 's gown says where is the money
media.tenor.com
January 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Most nonprofits that help people in domestic violence situations rely pretty heavily on the federal government. They're all worried about whether they're going to get the money they have been granted — and what comes next 19thnews.org/2025/02/trum...
Domestic violence nonprofits rocked by Trump funding freeze
Gender-based violence organizations have begun to self-edit their public-facing media out of fear they will lose federal grants essential to the provision of life-saving services.
19thnews.org
February 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.
February 4, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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The EPA plans to demote career employees and replace them with political appointees, which would give Trump administration loyalists more influence over aspects of the agency that were traditionally led by nonpartisan experts.
E.P.A. Demotes Career Employees Overseeing Science, Enforcement and More
A spokeswoman for the agency said the change was “common practice.” Others said it injects partisanship into jobs that have always been neutral.
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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What we think of NYU Langone abandoning it’s responsibility to its younger trans patients
February 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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All MMWRs since 1993* have been archived.

Thank you to our data archivists!!

You can find them here: archive.org/details/cdc-...
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) 1993-1996, 1999-2025 : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
All PDF issues of the CDC's MMWR from 1993-1996, and from 1999-2025. PDFs of 1997 and 1998 were not available at time of archival. The included MD5SUMS file...
archive.org
February 4, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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An anonymous person at the CDC just archived all the public CDC datasets as of 1/28 and uploaded it to archive.org
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
February 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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I wrote about how if we mimic the rich, if we aspire to their lives, we’ll end up isolated and lonely. Only by organizing consistently and working against these aspirations and against capitalism can we have more connected and fulfilling lives.

My latest: www.jphilll.com/p/do-we-aspi....
Do we aspire to isolation?
Unlearning the dreams of the rich
www.jphilll.com
February 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.

Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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🚨 Important reminder! 🚨

Abortion medication is safer than Viagra, penicillin, and giving birth.

Spread the good word.

edition.cnn.com/health/abort...
January 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Instagram has suppressed abortion content from Aid Access & pulled down Hey Jane ads. These are some of the most important medication abortion providers in the country.

This is shocking but it isn’t new.

We must continue to seek out abortion news and research.

Here are some accounts to follow ⬇️
January 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM