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Hayley McMahon, MSPH, CPH @mcmisoprostol.bsky.social · Nov 20

Don’t forget to follow abortion funds + practical support organizations and engage with their content to boost their visibility! 💜

And as always, find a fund and donate if you’re able: abortionfunds.org/find-a-fund/

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Hayley McMahon, MSPH, CPH @mcmisoprostol.bsky.social · Jul 12

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

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Hayley McMahon, MSPH, CPH @mcmisoprostol.bsky.social · Jul 12

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

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Hayley McMahon, MSPH, CPH @mcmisoprostol.bsky.social · Jul 12

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.

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Hayley McMahon, MSPH, CPH @mcmisoprostol.bsky.social · Jul 2

Pssst 🗣️ They’re using abortion to challenge EMTALA (which legally requires ERs to provide stabilizing care regardless of your ability to pay) while kicking 16 million people off health insurance, closing hospitals, and ending medical school loans during a primary care shortage. They want you dead.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · Jul 1

NEW: The Senate bill "defunding" Planned Parenthood is just one front in the war to ban abortion without explicitly banning it.

The right is vying to cut off federal funds, shutter clinics, restrict abortion pills, and let protestors terrorize abortion seekers—and put abortion entirely out of reach

The Plot to Effectively Ban Abortion Nationwide Is Unfolding Before Our Eyes

Lawmakers and activists are working to shutter clinics and restrict access to abortion pills. The end result would be catastrophic.

www.autonomynews.co

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Hayley McMahon, MSPH, CPH @mcmisoprostol.bsky.social · Jul 1

I hope it’s clear to everyone that this budget bill quite literally defunds every social assistance program in the country to increase funding for ICE, defense contractors, and millionaires.

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Hayley McMahon, MSPH, CPH @mcmisoprostol.bsky.social · Jun 19

Babes I’m gonna be honest we got people being disappeared by ICE and having their corpses used as incubators so I could not possibly care less about however Sabrina Carpenter wants to consensually sexualize herself

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Hayley McMahon, MSPH, CPH @mcmisoprostol.bsky.social · Jun 19

Getting rid of HIPAA and EMTALA would mean 1) the state can fully surveil healthcare [esp. pregnancy, gender affirming care, overdoses] for criminalization, and 2) healthcare companies and the state have fully authority over who lives and dies. It’s all the white supremacist, eugenicist project.

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Hayley McMahon, MSPH, CPH @mcmisoprostol.bsky.social · Jun 19

Pay attention to this. Abortion is under attack—but it’s also often a canary in the coal mine.

HIPAA *ALREADY* prohibited disclosing health info, just like EMTALA *ALREADY* required hospitals to provide emergency abortions. Biden just reiterated that. The GOP wants to upend HIPAA & EMTALA entirely.

Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · Jun 18

BREAKING: U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk has issued a ruling striking down the 2024 Biden-era HIPAA rule protecting reproductive health information from disclosure to law enforcement investigators when it was legally obtained, such as in another state.

Order of court order in favor of a plaintiff in Texas who asked to strike down the rule, Carmen Purl

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · Jun 19

Kelcie has been all over this horrifying story

Opinion and order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
One page judgement: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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ReproMemes @repromemes.bsky.social · Jan 25

👽😘 #fixyourheartsordie

Illustration depicts a nighttime desert scene/surrealist painting by Mark Roger’s Art titled “The Astral Body.” Amid saguaros and a campfire area with a white horse tied up, a sort of vampiric-looking alien hovers in the air horizontally above a sleeping person with a cowboy hat over their face and emits a ray of light down toward text that says “chill the fuck out about abortion and trans people”

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Hayley McMahon, MSPH, CPH @mcmisoprostol.bsky.social · Jun 18

May Adriana Smith finally rest in peace. What Emory Hospital & Georgia have put her family through is unimaginable. It turns my stomach to see people say someone who died in February just “gave birth.”

You can donate to help Adriana’s family with the enormous medical bill and care of her sons here:

Donate to Help Adriana's Family During This Heartbreaking Journey, organized by April Newkirk

This journey has been deeply saddening and heartbreaking since F… April Newkirk needs your support for Help Adriana's Family During This Heartbreaking Journey

www.gofundme.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · Jun 18

reposting with alt text bc yikes

screenshot from Amy Coney Barrett's Skrmetti concurrence:

"The Equal Protection Clause does not demand heightened judicial scrutiny of laws that classify based on transgender status. Rational-basis review applies, which means that courts must give legislatures flexibility to make policy in this area."

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Tiffany Green @tiffanylgreen.bsky.social · Jun 14

Let's be clear: our collective failure to normalize abortion as vital healthcare (including among liberals) leaves abortion providers and pro-abortion legislators uniquely vulnerable.

Sending love to Minnesota and especially to the Hortman and Hoffman families.
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Minnesota Rep. Hortman and husband killed, Sen. Hoffman and wife wounded in politically motivated shootings, Gov. Walz says

Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed, and state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were wounded in politically motivated shootings overnight, Gov. Tim Walz said Saturday. Autho...

www.cbsnews.com

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · Jun 14

The Minnesota shooter reportedly had a hit list of almost 70 people, including abortion providers and abortion rights advocates.

Just this week, a House committee advanced a bill that would repeal a federal law protecting abortion clinics
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

2 hr 20 min ago
Police found a hit list in suspect's car with nearly 70 different targets including abortion providers
From CNN's John Miller
Law enforcement found a hit list in the Minnesota suspect's car that contained nearly 70 names, a law enforcement official briefed on the matter told CNN.
The names included abortion providers, pro-abortion rights advocates, and lawmakers in Minnesota and other states, the official added.
Law enforcement also found a Father's Day card addressed to the suspect in a bag full of ammunition, the official said.
A second official briefed on the case echoed the targeting of abortion providers to CNN's Holmes Lybrand.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jun 6

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.

Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

One attorney, Lizbeth Mateo, said ICE officials slated several of her clients for check-ins at the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in downtown L.A. but when they showed up on Tuesday, they were detained and immediately escorted to the basement.

Mateo said a couple and their two children, one of whom is a U.S. citizen, spent the night in a room with no beds and limited access to food and water. Mateo said the father had previously been issued a stay of removal, barring him from deportation but he and his family were detained anyway. His wife was released Wednesday evening along with their children since she needed medical attention due to a high-risk pregnancy. He was still being detained early Friday, Mateo said.

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Hayley McMahon, MSPH, CPH @mcmisoprostol.bsky.social · May 28

The update: Despite the fact that Missouri voters passed a state constitutional amendment that enshrines protections for abortion back in November 2024, the Missouri Supreme Court has reimposed the state’s total abortion ban.

New court ruling halts abortions in Missouri

A Missouri Supreme Court decision cut off access to abortions in the state, reinstating a post-Roe ban.

www.axios.com

Hayley McMahon, MSPH, CPH @mcmisoprostol.bsky.social · May 28

Status of post-Dobbs abortion bans as of 5/28/25:

❌ Total ban: SD, OK, TX, AR, MS, AL, LA, KY, TN, ID, WV, IN, MO
❌ 6-wk: SC, FL, IA, GA
❌ 12-wk: NC, NE
❌ 18-wk: UT

🚫 Ban blocked but no available clinics: ND

✅ Ban recently blocked and clinics available: WY, AZ

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RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · Apr 28

This one is a must read, especially for folks still evolving on the urgent need to abolish family policing. One part of this infuriating story to highlight is that the only people who fundraised and provided material support to this teen and her baby…was abortion funds.

Jason Hancock @jasonhancock.bsky.social · Apr 28

Hailey entered foster care when she was 2.

She got pregnant at 15, and after being denied an abortion, became determined to keep her baby from repeating the traumatic childhood she experienced.

But Hailey says the state has seemed just as determined to keep her from raising her baby. #moleg

A Missouri teen spent her life in foster care. Now she’s fighting the state to keep her baby • Missouri Independent

Hailey, a Missouri teen in foster care, was denied an abortion, then said the state worked to keep her from parenting her child.

missouriindependent.com

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ifwhenhow @ifwhenhow.bsky.social · Apr 9

No matter your status, you deserve access to care and support.

We know people have a lot of questions about their rights around both abortion and immigration.

That’s why @ineedana.bsky.social and us along with @immdefenseproject.bsky.social, created a guide: www.ineedana.com/blog/how-can...

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Hayley McMahon, MSPH, CPH @mcmisoprostol.bsky.social · May 18

Help support Adriana Smith’s family as they navigate the growing costs of this tragedy:

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Hayley McMahon, MSPH, CPH @mcmisoprostol.bsky.social · May 18

Link to support Adriana Smith’s family as they navigate the growing costs of this tragedy:

Donate to Help Adriana's Family During This Heartbreaking Journey, organized by April Newkirk

This journey has been deeply saddening and heartbreaking since F… April Newkirk needs your support for Help Adriana's Family During This Heartbreaking Journey

www.gofundme.com

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Hayley McMahon, MSPH, CPH @mcmisoprostol.bsky.social · May 15

I would also urge folks to think critically before using a fictional story about white women to describe the actual reproductive violence that Black women are experiencing and have been experiencing in this country for centuries.

Cannot recommend this essay by Sherronda J. Brown enough:

White Women In Robes

White feminism has tunnel vision, especially when it comes to reproductive rights.

werdbrew.wordpress.com

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Hayley McMahon, MSPH, CPH @mcmisoprostol.bsky.social · May 15

I have not found a donation link to help Adriana’s family with the immense medical costs that this forced seven-month hospital stay and delivery will accrue, which they have noted is a growing burden. But I will be sure to post it if one is created and/or if Adriana’s family shares any action items.

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Hayley McMahon, MSPH, CPH @mcmisoprostol.bsky.social · May 15

Adriana’s family has also expressed concerns that, even as a nurse at the same hospital, she did not receive adequate care that could have saved her life. The fact that abortion bans target and disproportionately impact Black folks is inseparable from the Black maternal health crisis.

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