Kelly Gillespie (formerly Kelly Dineen)
@kellygillespie.bsky.social
Law professor at SLU Law, Center for Health Law Studies. Nurse, lawyer, bioethicist (because I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up). Posting about health law, bioethics, drug policy. Focus on bias and discrimination in health care.
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Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...
September 23, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...
Preach.
Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post.
#ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
#ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
August 29, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Preach.
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#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/
August 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The harms will reverberate for decades as kennedy/admin and crackpot theorists manipulate “science” like spoiled children insisting their hasty conclusions are actually insights.
Kennedy Sought to Fire C.D.C. Director Over Vaccine Policy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
Kennedy Sought to Fire C.D.C. Director Over Vaccine Policy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
Kennedy Sought to Fire C.D.C. Director Over Vaccine Policy
www.nytimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The harms will reverberate for decades as kennedy/admin and crackpot theorists manipulate “science” like spoiled children insisting their hasty conclusions are actually insights.
Kennedy Sought to Fire C.D.C. Director Over Vaccine Policy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
Kennedy Sought to Fire C.D.C. Director Over Vaccine Policy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
This is yet again something that is outrageous and dehumanizing and won’t age well for the people who support it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
Trump Officials Demanded Confidential Data About Transgender Children Seeking Care
www.nytimes.com
August 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
This is yet again something that is outrageous and dehumanizing and won’t age well for the people who support it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
Here we go. . . Ugh.
apnews.com/article/abor... Texas sues New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills by telemedicine
apnews.com/article/abor... Texas sues New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills by telemedicine
Texas' abortion pill lawsuit against New York doctor marks new challenge to interstate telemedicine
Texas has sued a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a Texas woman via telemedicine. It appears to be the first challenge in the U.S. to a state shield law that's intended to protect pre...
apnews.com
December 13, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Here we go. . . Ugh.
apnews.com/article/abor... Texas sues New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills by telemedicine
apnews.com/article/abor... Texas sues New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills by telemedicine
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My new book exists in print! For now just a few copies in my editor's office. The rest will ship Feb 2025. Preorder online and save 30% with discount code UCPSAVE30. If you teach an applicable course, you can also request a desk copy to help you decide on adoption: www.ucpress.edu/books/public...
December 11, 2024 at 11:40 PM
My new book exists in print! For now just a few copies in my editor's office. The rest will ship Feb 2025. Preorder online and save 30% with discount code UCPSAVE30. If you teach an applicable course, you can also request a desk copy to help you decide on adoption: www.ucpress.edu/books/public...
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@propublica.org is really fantastic y'all
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
projects.propublica.org
December 6, 2024 at 12:15 AM
@propublica.org is really fantastic y'all
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Detailed analysis of how RFK could influence vaccines as head of HHS: www.agencyiq.com/blog/the-tru...
The Trump Transition: The many ways RFK Jr. could disrupt FDA's regulation of vaccines | AgencyIQ by POLITICO
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. is President-elect DONALD TRUMP’s intended nominee to be Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. While Kennedy has p ...
www.agencyiq.com
December 6, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Detailed analysis of how RFK could influence vaccines as head of HHS: www.agencyiq.com/blog/the-tru...
What a wonderful group of bioethics scholars (including some law). Congrats!
December 6, 2024 at 2:05 PM
What a wonderful group of bioethics scholars (including some law). Congrats!
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Trans rights activists working harder than democrat representatives to preserve rights in this country.
Trans rights activists -- including Chelsea Manning -- are staging a protest in a women's bathroom in the Cannon building (a House building) next to Speaker Johnson's office.
"Trans rights are under attack! What do we do? Act up! Fight back!"
"Trans rights are under attack! What do we do? Act up! Fight back!"
December 5, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Trans rights activists working harder than democrat representatives to preserve rights in this country.
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The main response antiabortion folks have to stories like this is: "The law doesn't apply to miscarriage!" That is partly true. Texas and most states exclude "the removal of a dead fetus" from the definition of abortion. But this exclusion has utterly failed to protect miscarriage care. Here's why:
November 25, 2024 at 6:25 PM
The main response antiabortion folks have to stories like this is: "The law doesn't apply to miscarriage!" That is partly true. Texas and most states exclude "the removal of a dead fetus" from the definition of abortion. But this exclusion has utterly failed to protect miscarriage care. Here's why:
The Cruzan Court only presumed the right, without deciding, for the purpose of considering whether MO could set clear & convincing evidence standard for guardian decision to discontinue tube feedings. Post-Dobbs, state Const. right to refuse med. treatment is a great idea.
November 26, 2024 at 2:19 PM
The Cruzan Court only presumed the right, without deciding, for the purpose of considering whether MO could set clear & convincing evidence standard for guardian decision to discontinue tube feedings. Post-Dobbs, state Const. right to refuse med. treatment is a great idea.