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Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights @ohioreprorights.bsky.social · May 28

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Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights @ohioreprorights.bsky.social · May 1

Head-spinningly bizarre, dangerous, and false.

Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · May 1

Page 459 of Project 2025

Highlighted text says the chickenpox, hepatitis and MMR vaccines are derived through or tested on aborted fetal cells

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Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights @ohioreprorights.bsky.social · Apr 23

Outrageous

Gabriel Bosslet @gbosslet.bsky.social · Apr 23

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history

It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women

Unreal

www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women

The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

www.science.org

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · Apr 2

www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...

The Trump administration is betraying our kids and jeopardizing America’s future: Arthur Lavin and Teri Mills

A country that neglects its children is a country that is dooming itself. If we want the next generation to grow up in a safe, stable, and supportive America, we cannot stand by in silence. Our childr...

www.cleveland.com

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Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights @ohioreprorights.bsky.social · Apr 2

Keep organizing! #ReproSky

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Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights @ohioreprorights.bsky.social · Apr 2

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Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights @ohioreprorights.bsky.social · Apr 2

Heartbreaking

Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · Apr 2

I spoke to a South Carolina woman today who is miscarrying - her fetus has no heartbeat - but the state's ban is preventing doctors from taking action.

She has to walk around with a dead fetus for another week so she can get a FOURTH ultrasound.

This is what bans do.

Her Fetus Has No Heartbeat—They Still Won't Give Her An Abortion

South Carolina's ban is torturing a 31-year-old mom *right now*

jessica.substack.com

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Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights @ohioreprorights.bsky.social · Apr 1

Ohio lawmakers want to give tax credits to fetuses—this isn’t about helping families. It’s a backdoor to fetal personhood and a step toward banning abortion from conception. #ReproRights #OhioPolitics

www.cleveland.com/news/2025/03...

Ohio Republican wants to give child tax credits to pregnant parents

Parents wouldn't have to wait until a baby is born to claim them as a dependent if a bill in the Ohio legislature becomes law.

www.cleveland.com

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Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights @ohioreprorights.bsky.social · Apr 1

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · Mar 29

Is this just our new normal? Women being arrested if a cop doesn’t like how they miscarried, and lawmakers debating whether to put us to death before breaking for fucking lunch? Has everyone lost their minds?

They're Arresting Us for Miscarriages Now

What the hell happened to the Overton Window?

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · Mar 31

To support the woman arrested in Georgia for her miscarriage, donate here: www.gofundme.com/f/selenas-fa...

Donate to Selena’s Family is Grateful for your Understanding Prayers, organized by Selena Chandler-Scott GoFundMe

This GoFundMe is for Selena Chandler-Scott, 24, of Tifton, wh… Selena Chandler-Scott GoFundMe needs your support for Selena’s Family is Grateful for your Understanding Prayers

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Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights @ohioreprorights.bsky.social · Apr 1

This is bad
#TitleX #AbortionIsHealthcare #MedSky #ReproSky #OBGynSky

Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · Apr 1

You can read the full story at the newsletter, but here's the quick rundown of what's coming from the Trump admin on Title X tomorrow.

What a nightmare:

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Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights @ohioreprorights.bsky.social · Mar 28

Cutting Title X funding puts contraception, STI testing, cancer screenings & abortion access at risk for thousands in Ohio. We won’t stay silent while access to care is under attack. #ReproRights #TitleX
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Risk to federal 'family planning' grants could spell danger for Ohio clinics • Ohio Capital Journal

Health clinics that provide abortion services are already battling against threats to funds and the work they do, but services like contraception, STI testing, and preventative health screenings are a...

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Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights @ohioreprorights.bsky.social · Mar 26

#MedSky #SaveMedicaid #ReproSky #ReproJustice

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Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights @ohioreprorights.bsky.social · Mar 26

If lawmakers want to fight waste & fraud in healthcare, start with billion-dollar insurance companies—not by gutting Medicaid, which covers millions of women during pregnancy and nearly half of all U.S. births. #ProtectMedicaid
@protecthealthcare.medsky.social

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Shrink Greed, Not Medicaid: Why Cutting Care for 20 Million Is Wrong for America

Cut the greed, not the care — America’s health crisis isn’t Medicaid, it’s corporate profiteering.

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Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights @ohioreprorights.bsky.social · Mar 20

Medicaid saves lives—newborns, kids, and parents. Cutting it means more maternal and infant deaths. We cannot let that happen. #SaveMedicaid #PedsSky #OBGynSky #ReproSky #MedSky
@protecthealthcare.medsky.social @doctorscouncilseiu.bsky.social
@hwrf.bsky.social
msmagazine.com/2025/03/06/m...

Medicaid Insures Half of U.S. Children. 'Pro-Life' Republicans Are Trying to Cut the Entire Program.

Republicans’ proposed Medicaid cuts would strip healthcare from millions, including half of U.S. children, one in five Americans, and 40 percent of all pregnant women.With so much at stake for America...

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Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights @ohioreprorights.bsky.social · Mar 20

🤷🏻‍♀️ #StopProject2025 #ReproSky #MedSky #AbortionIsHealthcare #SaveMedicaid #ChecksAndBalances #Democracy #SOS @momsforohio.bsky.social @amsfordemocracy.bsky.social @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social

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Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights @ohioreprorights.bsky.social · Mar 13

We’re grasping on to the glimmers of hope! #ReproSky #MedSky #IDSky #CDC
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/h...

White House Withdraws Nominee for C.D.C. Director

Dr. Dave Weldon was to have appeared on Thursday in a confirmation hearing before the Senate health committee. He has close ties to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new health secretary.

www.nytimes.com

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Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights @ohioreprorights.bsky.social · Mar 13

🤦🏽‍♀️ #ReproSky

Physician Women For Democratic Principles #PWDP @pwdp.bsky.social · Mar 12

Also school shootings are not deemed to be acts of domestic terrorism.

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · Mar 12

@angierasmussen.bsky.social

This is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Please get your kids vaccinated. The MMR vaccine is safe, provides lifelong protection in most cases, and is the most effective way of preventing measles, which can disable and kill.

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Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights @ohioreprorights.bsky.social · Mar 13

Democracy is in Critical Condition - without democracy all of our rights crumble. #ReproSky #MedSky #Project2025

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · Mar 12

@drrobdavidson.bsky.social

RFK Jr is a firehouse of disinformation. Getting measles gives you immunity, but also gives you measles with risks of encephalitis, pneumonia, and death. MMR vaccine wanes 0.04%/year, not 4.5%. For the vast majority it’s lifetime protection and it’s incredibly safe.

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Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights @ohioreprorights.bsky.social · Feb 26

House GOP passed a budget cutting Medicaid by $880B over 10 years—hurting nearly 80M Americans. Medicaid covers 41% of U.S. births, nearly half in Ohio. Call your Senators & state leaders to reject these cuts! #ProtectMedicaid #MedSky @protecthealthcare.medsky.social @doctorscouncilseiu.bsky.social

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Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights @ohioreprorights.bsky.social · Feb 20

ICYMI: Immigration + Healthcare- watch the webinar recording
drive.google.com/file/d/1UOV6...
Slides:
drive.google.com/file/d/1Ynyo...
Immigration Resources- work in progress: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Please share: #ReproSky #MedSky #StopProject2025 @doctorscouncilseiu.bsky.social

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Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights @ohioreprorights.bsky.social · Feb 20

This is exactly what we predicted would happen and exactly what we were afraid would happen,” said Dr. Lorie Harper, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist in Austin. #ReproSky #OBGynSky #OBSky #IDSky #MedSky #AbortionIsHealthcare #StopProject2025

ProPublica @propublica.org · Feb 20

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.

https://propub.li/43487Tj

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.

ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

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