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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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'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
Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify
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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
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Columnist Carrie N. Baker: America is an increasingly dangerous place for women and girls  - Daily Hampshire Gazette
America has never been a safe place for women or girls, but our country is becoming markedly more dangerous in recent years. Approximately 41% of women in the U.S. have experienced sexual violence, ph...
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September 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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I did my radio show this morning on @WHMP on campus free speech and Charlie Kirk. Listen here: soundcloud.com/whmp/smith-p...
Smith Prof. Carrie Baker: Charlie Kirk and free speech.
9//16/25: Nhmtn School Comm member & beloved former principal Gwen Agna on schools & politics. NEPM reporter Karen Brown: her investigation of gambling in MA. A cheesy Comedy Quiz w/ Maddy Benjamin, S
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September 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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from Elisa Wells, Plan C Access Director: "The more crazy stuff that the Texas legislature does around this to try and block access, the more visible the option of pills by mail becomes."
September 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Why Attempts to Stop the Flow of Abortion Pills Into Texas Will Fail
Shield laws, telehealth providers and international networks mean Texas’ new bounty-style restrictions are unlikely to stop abortion pills.
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September 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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University Leaders Must Act: An Open Letter on the Threats Facing Critical Interdisciplinary Programs Like Women's and Gender Studies
College and University Leaders Must Act: An Open Letter on the Threats Facing Critical Interdisciplinary Programs Like Women's and Gender Studies
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September 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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The anti-abortion movement is finding yet more ways to deceive and harass pregnant women! @msmagazine.com
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Digital Deception: Beware the Rise of Fake Telehealth Abortion Clinics
antiabortion crisis pregnancy centers are rebranding as ‘telehealth providers’ to mislead and delay women seeking real care.
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September 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Some good news... @msmagazine.com
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Illinois Becomes First Midwest State to Require University Health Centers to Offer Abortion Pills
Illinois Is First Midwest State to Require College and University Health Centers to Offer Women and Students Abortion Pills and Birth Control
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September 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Young feminists rock! @dailyhampgazette.bsky.social @smithcollege.bsky.social @msmagazine.com
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Columnist Carrie Baker with Inanna Balkin: Young feminist activism in the Valley and beyond - Daily Hampshire Gazette
Have you noticed that many of the reproductive rights rallies and anti-Trump protests in Northampton over the last several years have been organized by teenagers? Marisol Pierce Bonifaz, Joey Pisani a...
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August 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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These men are terrifying! @msmagazine.com @smithcollege.bsky.social
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Trump's Pronatalist Agenda Weaponizes Motherhood to Push Women Out of Public Life
the Trump administration's pronatalist agenda weaponizes motherhood to push women out of public life and into domestic roles.
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August 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Power to the people! They will not silence us! @msmagazine.com
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Billboards, Trucks, Gas Pumps, Newspapers and Even a Boat: Mayday Health Advertises How to Access Abortion Pills Across the South and Midwest
Billboards, Trucks, Gas Pumps, Newspapers and Even a Boat: Mayday Health Advertises How to Access Abortion Pills Across the South and Midwest
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August 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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'Giving Women a Chance to Choose When the World Didn’t': Massachusetts Doctors Provide Telehealth Abortion in States with Bans
Massachusetts doctors with The MAP are defying abortion bans by telehealth abortion pills to women in abortion ban states.
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July 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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The Trump administration is attacking the field of women's and gender studies using "return on investment" arguments. They are wrong. @msmagazine.com

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Our Graduates' Successes: What the Data Tells Us About the Value of Cultural and Gender Studies Degrees
Claims that degrees in fields like gender studies are “useless” directly conflict with the government data collected on our graduates.
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July 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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and you can also find us talking through this with @carrienbaker.bsky.social in Ms earlier this month:
If Trump Restricts Mifepristone, Clinicians Are Ready to Pivot to Misoprostol-Only Abortions
For decades, clinicians relied on the gold standard of medication abortion care: a two-pill regimen. Mifepristone is taken first, followed by misoprostol 24 to 48 hours later. However, misoprostol can...
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July 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Deep gratitude to the determined and courageous Massachusetts doctors who provide telehealth abortion to people in states with abortion bans. @msmagazine.com @ppfa.org @pplmvotes.org @plancpills.bsky.social
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July 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM