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Hayley McMahon, MSPH, CPH
@mcmisoprostol.bsky.social
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Public Health Scientist Studying Abortion Disinformation | Unionized PhD at Emory | Appalachian | Reproductive Justice Follower | Abolitionist | Duke + Hopkins Alum |

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For the journalists out there who want to ensure they aren't contributing to pregnancy criminalization through their work, @ifwhenhow.bsky.social has also developed a very thorough guidance for reporting on instances of pregnancy criminalization: ifwhenhow.org/resources/gu...
Screenshot of If/When/How's "What to Know When Covering a Story of Someone Being Criminalized for How Their Pregnancy Ended" guidance for journalists. The introduction says the following: "Our research on the criminalization of self-managed abortion, and our experience working directly with clients on their criminal cases, has repeatedly shown us that police and prosecutors misrepresent cases of reproductive criminalization to media outlets. This misrepresentation can have devastating impacts on the people at the center of the story. We hope that this guidance will equip journalists with the resources needed to navigate these complicated cases in a way that can reduce harm to the person being criminalized for normal reproductive outcomes, like abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth."
November 14, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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NEW: Our latest analysis shows that top news outlets frequently vilify people criminalized for allegedly self-managing an abortion in ways that help to legitimize the policing of pregnancy and normalize far-right "fetal personhood" ideology.

Open access article ➡️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41090543/
A screenshot of the article "Constructing criminality: a thematic analysis of national news media reporting on self-managed abortion criminalisation in the United States," which was published by Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters and written by Hayley V. McMahon, Naya Pearce, Alexis J. Smith, India C. Stevenson, Grace E. Howard, Sara K. Redd and Whitney S. Rice.
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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So close! Just ~$1300 left to post her bond tomorrow (and keep @psabortionfund.bsky.social’s abortion funding line open in July — our struggles are intertwined, and the money has to come from somewhere)!

➡️ donorbox.org/legal-fees
Fundraising page showing $8693 raised toward $10,000 goal
July 12, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Folks at @psabortionfund.bsky.social are working to post her $10,000 bond tomorrow morning (7/12), but still need another ~$2800 to meet their goal: donorbox.org/legal-fees
Fundraising page showing $7220 raised toward a $10,000 goal for legal fees
July 12, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Please help support @psabortionfund.bsky.social in covering the $10,000 bail for a South Carolina woman who was recently arrested for the so-called “crime” of disposing of her own pregnancy tissue after experiencing a miscarriage: donorbox.org/legal-fees
On July 3rd police arrested a South Carolina woman who is now facing up to ten years in prison for the so-called "crime" of disposing of her own pregnancy tissue after experiencing a miscarriage. Please help Palmetto State Abortion Fund cover her $10,000 bail if you can.
July 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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This is who you’re asking to write and defend a dissertation proposal in order to advance into candidacy
April 24, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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If you would like to atone for this sin, I would recommend Elizabeth Catte’s brief but very informative rebuttal: “What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia”
Cover for the book “What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia” by Elizabeth Catte
April 23, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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This is a decent explanation!
April 23, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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We told y’all to stop buying his stupid ass hillbilly fan fic!!!!
A meme showing a row of increasingly larger dominos with the smallest one labeled “liberals’ weird obsession with Appalachian poverty porn” and the largest one labeled “Pope Francis dead at 88.”
April 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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A little tax season reminder of how anti-abortion lobbyists have spent decades strategically weaving "fetal personhood" provisions and abortion disinformation into unrelated policies to make it nearly impossible to unravel through litigation.
A screenshot from tax filing that says "Were you pregnant in 2024? Georgia allows a dependent exemption for an unborn child with a detectable heartbeat, which may occur as early as 6 weeks' gestation. Did Hayley or Bryan have any unborn dependents in 2024?"
April 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Several abortion funds across the country have now faced harassment and loss of funding for speaking in support of a #FreePalestine.

A future with #ReproductiveJustice requires global solidarity with all people suffering from violent state oppression of bodily autonomy: fundabortionnotwar.org
Artwork featuring a Palestinian keffiyeh and poppies with the text “Fund Abortion Not War”
April 15, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Many abortion clinics have weight limits for procedural abortion. Our study in @greenjrnl.bsky.social concluded that higher weight is NOT associated with the risk of procedural abortion complications & should NOT be used to deny clinic-based abortions to people with higher body weights: doi.org/nzp7
Cover image for an article published in Obstetrics & Gynecology called “Weight and Procedural Abortion Complications: A Systematic Review.”
April 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Leaked messages show a staff member at Emory University encouraging students to report their peers and instructors to ICE for speaking out against the colonization of Palestine and systematic slaughter of 200,000+ Palestinian civilians.

Info via Emory Jews Against Genocide
Flyer via Emory Jews Against Genocide with an image of leaked messages with the following text - “Leaked messages show Emory Chabad Rabbi Lipskier encouraging students to report their peers to ICE. This is horrific”
March 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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30, hurty, and barely surviving ✨☘️🎂
March 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Do not wait to find shelter once you hear a tornado coming. Identify your safest spot for sheltering and make a plan now.
Tornado sheltering guidelines from FEMA and NOAA explaining that the best option outside of special storm shelters are interior rooms or basements of well constructed buildings. Mobile homes, vehicles, highway overpasses, manufactured housing, and large open rooms like gyms or malls are poor shelters.
March 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Folks in the Southeast: It’s time to charge your devices, grab any essentials, and identify your safest spot for sheltering from tornados.

Tonight is going to be a rough one.
A map from the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center showing high levels of risk for severe weather across the southeast on the night of March 15th.
March 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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This was my very last straw today
An ad from the Federal Bureau of Prisons for hiring teachers who need training hours
February 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Denying clinic-based procedural abortion care to people with a higher body weight is not an evidence-based practice. These policies unnecessarily threaten patient health by delaying care and potentially even blocking abortion access altogether.

➡️ doi.org/nzp7
Abstract for the paper "Weight and Procedural Abortion Complications: A Systematic Review." The objective of the paper was "To systematically assess the existing empiric evidence regarding a potential relationship between higher body weight and procedural abortion complications." The conclusions of the paper were "Overall, higher body weight was not associated with an increased risk of procedural abortion complications in the included studies. The practice of referring patients undergoing procedural abortion with a higher body weight for hospital-based care is not based on recent safety evidence. On the contrary, this practice threatens the health of people with a higher body weight by potentially delaying their access to abortion care, extending their pregnancies into later gestations, and blocking their ability to access an abortion altogether."
January 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Many abortion clinics have weight limits for procedural abortion, which can be a major barrier to access.

Our new systematic review out now in Obstetrics & Gynecology shows higher weight is NOT associated with procedural abortion complications and shouldn't be used to deny clinic-based care.
A journal article in Obstetrics & Gynecology called "Weight and Procedural Abortion Complications: A Systematic Review"
January 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Also, including the publicly accessible abstract below (with alt text) for folks who just want the short version!

Weight and Procedural Abortion Complications: A Systematic Review.

Full text: doi.org/nzp7
Cover image for an article in Obstetrics & Gynecology called “Weight and Procedural Abortion Complications: A Systematic Review.” OBJECTIVE: To systematically assess the existing empiric evidence regarding a potential relationship between higher body weight and procedural abortion complications. DATA SOURCES: EMBASE, MEDLINE, CINAHL, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and Clinicaltrials.gov were searched. METHODS OF STUDY SELECTION: Our search identified 409 studies, which were uploaded to Covidence for review management; 133 duplicates were automatically removed. A team of two reviewers screened 276 studies, and a third reviewer resolved conflicts. Studies were included if they 1) consisted of peer-reviewed research published between 2010 and 2022, 2) were conducted in the United States, 3) included people with a higher body weight (body mass index [BMI] 30 or higher) in the study sample, and 4) assessed at least one outcome of procedural abortion safety stratified by a measure of body weight. TABULATION, INTEGRATION, AND RESULTS: We extracted study data using Covidence and calculated an odds ratio for each study to facilitate the synthesis of results. Six studies assessing a total of 38,960 participants were included. No studies found a significant relationship between procedural abortion complications and higher body weight overall. Subgroup analysis from one study identified a significant increase in complications specifically among participants with BMIs higher than 40 who had second-trimester abortions. All studies used a retrospective cohort design and fulfilled Newcastle–Ottawa Scale criteria to be considered good quality. Studies varied in terms of clinical settings, patient populations, gestations assessed, clinician training levels, and care protocols. CONCLUSION: Overall, higher body weight was not associated with an increased risk of procedural abortion complications in the included studies. The practice of referring patients undergoing procedural abortion with a higher body weight for hospital-based care is not based on recent safety evidence. On the contrary, this practice threatens the health of people with a higher body weight by potentially delaying their access to abortion care, extending their pregnancies into later gestations, and blocking their ability to access an abortion altogether.
January 4, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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✨NEW abortion research just dropped✨

In a new systematic review out now in Obstetrics & Gynecology, my colleagues and I found that higher body weight is NOT associated with procedural abortion complications and should NOT be used to deny clinic-based care.

➡️ doi.org/10.1097/AOG.0000000000005821
Cover image for an article in Obstetrics & Gynecology called “Weight and Procedural Abortion Complications: A Systematic Review.”
January 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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You can always visit plancpills.org/in-advance to learn more about ordering ab0rt!on p!lls in advance (often called “advance provision”)!
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO GET ABORTION PILLS IN ADVANCE? Many providers will send abortion pills before they are needed, to have on hand just in case. Available in all 50 US states and territories. You don't need to be pregnant to get abortion pills. It usually costs between $25 and $150. Some providers offer discounts, but they ask to contribute what you can to help cover costs. Help is available if and when it's time to use them - through the provider or mahotline.org. Abortion pills last for about two years when stored in a cool dry place. Depending on your location and situation, there may be legal risk. Read Plan C's FAOs or contact ReproLegalHelpline.org with questions.
December 15, 2024 at 7:05 PM
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Safe p!lls via reliable sources can be ordered from all 50 states. Abortion bans prohibit clinicians from providing abortion care—they don’t prohibit people from having abortions.

Sometimes there can still be a legal risk, and ReproLegalHelpline.org is the best resource to learn about your state.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO GET ABORTION PILLS IN ADVANCE? Many providers will send abortion pills before they are needed, to have on hand just in case. Available in all 50 US states and territories. You don't need to be pregnant to get abortion pills. It usually costs between $25 and $150. Some providers offer discounts, but they ask to contribute what you can to help cover costs. Help is available if and when it's time to use them - through the provider or mahotline.org. Abortion pills last for about two years when stored in a cool dry place. Depending on your location and situation, there may be legal risk. Read Plan C's FAOs or contact ReproLegalHelpline.org with questions.
December 15, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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Friendly Reminder: People don’t have to be pregnant to order ab0rt!on p!lls! 💊

A person in ANY state in the U.S. could hypothetically order them today on a sliding scale of $0 - $150 to have in their medicine cabinet just in case someone needed them at some point over their ~2 year shelf life.
A graphic from Plan C that says “ORDER PILLS IN ADVANCE. Having abortion pills at home is one way people across the US are preparing for possible barriers to abortion access. Website address: plancpills.org/in-advance”
December 15, 2024 at 6:58 PM
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In just the first 12 months after Roe was overturned, abortion funds distributed $37 MILLION in direct aid to 100,000+ abortion patients — many of whom would’ve otherwise had no choice but to remain pregnant.

But so many abortion funds are running out of money. They urgently need support.
Portion of a NNAF press release that reads: “In the year post-Dobbs decision, abortion funds reported a 39% increase in requests for support to access abortions. In the year post-Dobbs decision, abortion funds financially supported 102,855 individuals seeking abortions. In the year post-Dobbs decision, abortion funds disbursed a total of $36,971,667 to individuals seeking abortions, growing funding budgets by 88%. In the year post-Dobbs decision, abortion funds dispersed $10,080,317 in practical support funding — a 178% increase from the year before. Practical support funding includes logistical needs outside of abortion funding, such as transportation, lodging, childcare, and more. Immediately following the Dobbs decision, funds across the network reported a large increase in donations and then a staggering drop off — while the need for support only increased.”
December 3, 2024 at 7:15 PM