Kimya Forouzan
@kimyaf.bsky.social
Proud Iranian-American. Reproductive rights lawyer. Volunteer abortion doula & advocate for immigrants. Opinions are mine; no legal advice. She/Her.
Today, all eyes are on #SouthCarolina, as legislators consider the most extreme and cruel abortion ban in the country: S323.
It’s a total ban with virtually no exceptions. People who have an abortion would be charged with murder, facing up to 30 years in prison.
It’s a total ban with virtually no exceptions. People who have an abortion would be charged with murder, facing up to 30 years in prison.
November 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Today, all eyes are on #SouthCarolina, as legislators consider the most extreme and cruel abortion ban in the country: S323.
It’s a total ban with virtually no exceptions. People who have an abortion would be charged with murder, facing up to 30 years in prison.
It’s a total ban with virtually no exceptions. People who have an abortion would be charged with murder, facing up to 30 years in prison.
Reposted by Kimya Forouzan
New analysis: Guttmacher experts Anna Bernstein, @kimyaf.bsky.social & @emmas-e.bsky.social examine how the anti-abortion campaign against state shield laws is part of longstanding efforts to ban abortion nationwide and criminalize patients and providers. gu.tt/3HTgU2t
October 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
New analysis: Guttmacher experts Anna Bernstein, @kimyaf.bsky.social & @emmas-e.bsky.social examine how the anti-abortion campaign against state shield laws is part of longstanding efforts to ban abortion nationwide and criminalize patients and providers. gu.tt/3HTgU2t
Shield laws have become a lifeline for abortion patients and providers in the US post-Dobbs, which is precisely why conservative policymakers are turning to the courts, Congress, and state legislatures to attack this critical method of care. 🧵
www.guttmacher.org/2025/09/atta...
www.guttmacher.org/2025/09/atta...
Attacks on Shield Laws Are the Next Step in Criminalizing Abortion Care
www.guttmacher.org
September 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Shield laws have become a lifeline for abortion patients and providers in the US post-Dobbs, which is precisely why conservative policymakers are turning to the courts, Congress, and state legislatures to attack this critical method of care. 🧵
www.guttmacher.org/2025/09/atta...
www.guttmacher.org/2025/09/atta...
The bills in Texas’ special session represent a coordinated effort to further restrict medication abortion through civil penalties, criminalization and surveillance.
Anti-abortion policymakers want to criminalize people rather than ensuring they can access basic health care.
Anti-abortion policymakers want to criminalize people rather than ensuring they can access basic health care.
August 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The bills in Texas’ special session represent a coordinated effort to further restrict medication abortion through civil penalties, criminalization and surveillance.
Anti-abortion policymakers want to criminalize people rather than ensuring they can access basic health care.
Anti-abortion policymakers want to criminalize people rather than ensuring they can access basic health care.
LABOR Loves Cool J
LL Cool J said that he will not perform at Wawa Welcome America in Philadelphia on July 4th because of union strike
“There is absolutely no way I can perform across a picket line”
“There is absolutely no way I can perform across a picket line”
LL COOL J drops out of Wawa Welcome America concert because of union strike
LL COOL J said that he is not going to perform at Wawa Welcome America on July 4th in light of the AFSCME District Council 33 strike in Philadelphia.
www.nbcphiladelphia.com
July 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
LABOR Loves Cool J
Reposted by Kimya Forouzan
The most commonly-cited "moderate" positions here are 1) requiring all female athletes from kindergarten through college be subjected to sex testing and 2) replace the best medical judgment of your family pediatrician with Bill Maher's opening monologue
Also, how is "leave trans people alone and let them live their lives as they have for decades" not the "moderate" position here? Whenever people call for "moderating" on trans issues, they're calling for actively oppressing trans people, actively restricting trans lives.
May 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The most commonly-cited "moderate" positions here are 1) requiring all female athletes from kindergarten through college be subjected to sex testing and 2) replace the best medical judgment of your family pediatrician with Bill Maher's opening monologue
Reposted by Kimya Forouzan
Guttmacher's new data show that 71% of abortions in Kansas were provided to out-of-state patients in 2024. Our Principal State Policy Adviser @kimyaf.bsky.social spoke w/ @npr.org about shifts curtailing abortion access in the South & Southeast, making states like KS critical for care. gu.tt/42sLK89
Out-of-state patients drove Kansas abortion numbers up in 2024, study finds
Expanded clinic capacity and an influx of people traveling from other states fueled the increase in abortions, according to researchers.
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April 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Guttmacher's new data show that 71% of abortions in Kansas were provided to out-of-state patients in 2024. Our Principal State Policy Adviser @kimyaf.bsky.social spoke w/ @npr.org about shifts curtailing abortion access in the South & Southeast, making states like KS critical for care. gu.tt/42sLK89
I don’t believe Alito was not actually misreading “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding” at focus in Mahmoud v. Taylor as the character being against gay marriage; very much a purposefully oblivious line of questioning so he could argue the book “promotes” gay marriage from the bench
April 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I don’t believe Alito was not actually misreading “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding” at focus in Mahmoud v. Taylor as the character being against gay marriage; very much a purposefully oblivious line of questioning so he could argue the book “promotes” gay marriage from the bench
Reposted by Kimya Forouzan
We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.
March 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
Truly one of the most terrifying weeks to exist as a person of color in America; feels truly dystopian to just be going forth at our jobs like everything is normal
March 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Truly one of the most terrifying weeks to exist as a person of color in America; feels truly dystopian to just be going forth at our jobs like everything is normal
Reposted by Kimya Forouzan
just profoundly disturbed by the kidnapping and disappearing of people right off the streets of this country. hard to think about much else—and there’s so much else.
March 27, 2025 at 3:56 AM
just profoundly disturbed by the kidnapping and disappearing of people right off the streets of this country. hard to think about much else—and there’s so much else.
Not the biggest deal in the world, but it’s kinda wild how with the greater attention to the various holidays minority groups celebrate, nobody ever considers Norooz. I somehow always have things scheduled on the holidays and like more work and responsibilities than usual on my one main holiday lol
March 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Not the biggest deal in the world, but it’s kinda wild how with the greater attention to the various holidays minority groups celebrate, nobody ever considers Norooz. I somehow always have things scheduled on the holidays and like more work and responsibilities than usual on my one main holiday lol
Not to be overly dramatic given the state of the world, but the (even greater) push to return to office led by the Trump admin, but validated by workplaces over the years, is such a bummer. People were getting precious time w/ their kids, the ability to go see family in other states more easily
March 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Not to be overly dramatic given the state of the world, but the (even greater) push to return to office led by the Trump admin, but validated by workplaces over the years, is such a bummer. People were getting precious time w/ their kids, the ability to go see family in other states more easily
Struggling with the fact that everyone talks about the need to stand up to fascist forces in our country, but we’ve also built a hierarchical society where people are deeply afraid to stand up to *anyone* in their lives, even in very minor ways
March 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Struggling with the fact that everyone talks about the need to stand up to fascist forces in our country, but we’ve also built a hierarchical society where people are deeply afraid to stand up to *anyone* in their lives, even in very minor ways
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Here’s me in Salon talking about the horrific agenda to criminalize and punish pregnant people, anti-abortion lawmakers ignoring their constituents, and my own careful optimism. Love to be beside @guttmacher.org
@kimyaf.bsky.social & @pregnancyjust.bsky.social
www.salon.com/2025/02/27/i...
@kimyaf.bsky.social & @pregnancyjust.bsky.social
www.salon.com/2025/02/27/i...
In red states, GOP lawmakers revive an "incredibly regressive" push to treat abortion as murder
In more than 10 states, Republican lawmakers have proposed treating people who obtain abortions as murderers
www.salon.com
February 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Here’s me in Salon talking about the horrific agenda to criminalize and punish pregnant people, anti-abortion lawmakers ignoring their constituents, and my own careful optimism. Love to be beside @guttmacher.org
@kimyaf.bsky.social & @pregnancyjust.bsky.social
www.salon.com/2025/02/27/i...
@kimyaf.bsky.social & @pregnancyjust.bsky.social
www.salon.com/2025/02/27/i...
It actually gives me so much comfort in life that we are all beginners in so many fields. We’ve only tried a small fraction of what’s out there. There’s so much we can still try for the first time, so much life out there
February 26, 2025 at 1:57 AM
It actually gives me so much comfort in life that we are all beginners in so many fields. We’ve only tried a small fraction of what’s out there. There’s so much we can still try for the first time, so much life out there
I really do believe that connecting to each other and community and civil society is a major way to combat the loss of democratic values in this country, but our society is so built against that. Nothing that hasn’t been said before, but we’re forced to live for individualism & work
February 21, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I really do believe that connecting to each other and community and civil society is a major way to combat the loss of democratic values in this country, but our society is so built against that. Nothing that hasn’t been said before, but we’re forced to live for individualism & work
Honestly hate when people are like in my hometown this much snow wasn’t a big deal. Like yeah your home town had more advanced snow infrastructure, it wasn’t the people being better lol, you will fall on black ice in any state love
January 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Honestly hate when people are like in my hometown this much snow wasn’t a big deal. Like yeah your home town had more advanced snow infrastructure, it wasn’t the people being better lol, you will fall on black ice in any state love
Having time off between Christmas and new years feels truly like a necessity as opposed to a perk, and also feels like a drop in the bucket to relieve all of the ongoing stress everyone deals with
December 28, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Having time off between Christmas and new years feels truly like a necessity as opposed to a perk, and also feels like a drop in the bucket to relieve all of the ongoing stress everyone deals with
Super proud of our work on @guttmacher.org’s state policy team! Read our year end state policy trends report here: www.guttmacher.org/2024/12/stat...
State Policy Trends 2024: Anti-Abortion Policymakers Redouble Attacks on Bodily Autonomy
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December 18, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Super proud of our work on @guttmacher.org’s state policy team! Read our year end state policy trends report here: www.guttmacher.org/2024/12/stat...
Up First’s Sunday Story re: people being denied SSI claims is so important. Representing clients fighting for those benefits was truly one of the (many at this point) times when the cruelty of this country was laid so bare to me
December 8, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Up First’s Sunday Story re: people being denied SSI claims is so important. Representing clients fighting for those benefits was truly one of the (many at this point) times when the cruelty of this country was laid so bare to me
It makes me so sad how sexist people have been in their comments since I’ve gotten engaged 🙃 do you guys hear yourselves omg
November 27, 2024 at 11:05 PM
It makes me so sad how sexist people have been in their comments since I’ve gotten engaged 🙃 do you guys hear yourselves omg
As a life long Dancing With the Stars fan, I’m laughing so much about how the show used to be popular among 60 year olds but recently got popular among young people. Literally me. I’m both 60+ and 20 years old
November 24, 2024 at 8:43 PM
As a life long Dancing With the Stars fan, I’m laughing so much about how the show used to be popular among 60 year olds but recently got popular among young people. Literally me. I’m both 60+ and 20 years old
As a Pennsylvanian, I was never a fan of Bob Casey, but man what a heartbreak to have a republican senator
November 22, 2024 at 12:32 AM
As a Pennsylvanian, I was never a fan of Bob Casey, but man what a heartbreak to have a republican senator
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What can you say anymore? These appointments are pretty much exactly what the campaign promised they'd be, and people voted for them. A government run by people who broke their brains on facebook
To state the very obvious, this would put an avowed anti-vaxxer in charge of vaccines, allowing him to thwart the development and approval of life-saving shots. It's almost too horrific to fathom—a potential death sentence for our families and children. It's lethal. www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
Trump expected to select Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead HHS
The choice will roil many public health experts after his years of touting debunked claims that vaccines cause autism.
www.politico.com
November 14, 2024 at 8:43 PM
What can you say anymore? These appointments are pretty much exactly what the campaign promised they'd be, and people voted for them. A government run by people who broke their brains on facebook