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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · Jul 29

My and @paytongannon.bsky.social 's latest publication on abortion access in Italy came out last week as part of the special issue of Interdisciplinary Political Studies! This article grew out of our conversations about the interviews we were each conducting in different regions of Italy. 1/

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Payton Gannon @paytongannon.bsky.social · Jul 23

I am especially excited for the publication of @dmpullan.bsky.social's and my article “'In Italy, we have a saying: make the law and you will find a way to cheat it.' The Regionalized Implementation of Italian Abortion Policies."
Read it here: tinyurl.com/3fu5khpu

“In Italy, we have a saying: make the law and you will find a way to cheat it”. The Regionalized Implementation of Italian Abortion Policies | Gannon | Interdisciplinary Political Studies

“In Italy, we have a saying: make the law and you will find a way to cheat it”. The Regionalized Implementation of Italian Abortion Policies

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Payton Gannon @paytongannon.bsky.social · Jul 23

A special issue of Interdisciplinary Political Studies on reproductive rights in developed democracies has been published. It has been a pleasure to work with all the authors and my co-editors @dmpullan.bsky.social and @gmripamonti.bsky.social

Read it here: siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/idps

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · Jul 23

So happy to see this special issue of Interdisciplinary Political Studies on Steps Forward and Backward on Abortion Rights in Advanced Democracies published today, coedited with @gmripamonti.bsky.social and @paytongannon.bsky.social! gendersky reprosky polisky

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Payton Gannon @paytongannon.bsky.social · Jul 11

The Annual Review is the only comprehensive survey of laws relating to gender and sexuality in the US. It takes over a year to update and edit, and would not be possible without the fantastic staff editors, who make the Annual Review and the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law possible.

Payton Gannon @paytongannon.bsky.social · Jul 11

The 26th Annual Review of Gender and the Law is now in print. It has been a joy to serve as the Editor-in-Chief for the last year. I am so grateful to the entire staff of the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law for their hard work. Check it out here: www.law.georgetown.edu/gender-journ...

Volume XXVI (Annual Review 2025)

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jul 3

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · Jul 3

🚨🚨 NEW: House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk

Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick).

Senate passed it 51-50.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk

The Republican package would slash taxes, boost spending on immigration and the military, and impose steep cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and clean energy funding.

www.nbcnews.com

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · Jun 27

The Supreme Court is as powerful as it is in large part because of a reputation that it earned through fitfully at best furthering racial justice. It has diminished that reputational capital for more than a century. We should in fact respect it less because of that.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · Jun 27

Justice Sotomayor dissenting on birthright citizenship case: "The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along. Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent."

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The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · Jun 16

🎉 Congratulations to @paytongannon.bsky.social and @dmpullan.bsky.social who made the Loop Best Blog 2024 shortlist for their article 'Emergency room abortions in the US: doctors’ objections trump patients’ lives'. #RoeVWade
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Emergency room abortions in the US: doctors’ objections trump patients’ lives

It is now two years since the fall of Roe v. Wade. How has this affected healthcare for pregnant Americans? Payton Gannon and Danielle Pullan explain the most recent Supreme Court cases, and contextua...

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · Jun 13

Honored to have been considered for this prize for my work with @paytongannon.bsky.social explaining US court decisions on abortion post-Dobbs! Highly recommend publishing quick, contemporary pieces with @ecprtheloop.bsky.social — always a great experience and great editorial team!

The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · Jun 13

🏆 Last week we awarded our annual £500 prize for the best Loop blog piece in the previous calendar year, as judged by an independent jury.
📝 Here, Managing Editor Kate Hawkins presents the longlisted pieces — and reveals the very special winner.
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2024 Best Blog winner — revealed

In 2022, The Loop inaugurated a Best Blog prize to reward a contribution of exceptional value. We have now conferred our third £500 prize on the author of a piece judged by our independent jury to be ...

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Payton Gannon @paytongannon.bsky.social · May 22

A little life update: I graduated law school and will join the National Women's Law Center in the fall to continue working on repro rights. I will also continue to research abortion law and policy. On that note, I published a new article on Muller v. Oregon: www.law.georgetown.edu/gender-journ...

Labor and Labor: The Sexism and Legacy of Muller v. Oregon

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · Mar 31

Abortion access works in political-geographic systems: when there is regional regulation, you’ll end up with some sanctuaries, some islands, and some deserts of access — in the US, in Italy, and beyond. So glad my oldest paper with @paytongannon.bsky.social has finally made it online!

Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · Mar 31

Sanctuaries, Islands, and Deserts: @paytongannon.bsky.social and @dmpullan.bsky.social propose a typology of regionalized abortion policy. Comparing the US and Italy, they analyze the impact of regional abortion access on abortion providers and patients.

New MPIfG Discussion Paper: s.gwdg.de/p7Ps65

Title page: Sanctuaries, Islands and Deserts. A typology of regionalized abortion policy. Payton Gannon and Danielle Pullan

Abstract

This paper elaborates a typology of regionalized abortion policy based on a comparative case study of Italy and the United States. Italy originally legalized abortion in 1978 and has seen little effort to modify the law since. Contrastingly, the United States’ abortion landscape has been in near constant flux since 1974, when, in Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court recognized a constitutional right to abortion. This became even more unstable in 2022 when the Supreme Court overruled Roe in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health and held there is no constitutional right to abortion.

Despite their differences in national abortion policy, both Italy and the US have regionalized the implementation of their abortion policies. Italy’s law is national, but implementation is interpreted differently at the regional level. Since Dobbs, US states have proposed and passed many laws about abortion, creating even greater regional variation than before.

We propose a typology of regionalized abortion access: Sanctuaries where abortion is most protected and available; Islands with liberal policies that are surrounded by more restrictive territories; and Deserts with minimal abortion access. Through qualitative analysis of policies, political activities, and firsthand accounts by abortion providers and advocates working in places of each type, we then highlight the long-term implications of each of these components of the typology, analyzing the ways that they impact abortion providers and patients.

Keywords: abortion, health policy, human rights, policy implementation, regionalization

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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · Mar 31

Sanctuaries, Islands, and Deserts: @paytongannon.bsky.social and @dmpullan.bsky.social propose a typology of regionalized abortion policy. Comparing the US and Italy, they analyze the impact of regional abortion access on abortion providers and patients.

New MPIfG Discussion Paper: s.gwdg.de/p7Ps65

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Payton Gannon @paytongannon.bsky.social · Mar 24

Every DC group chat is currently being renamed to "Houthis PC Small Group'

Shane Harris @shaneharris.bsky.social · Mar 24

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

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Mary Ziegler @maryrziegler.bsky.social · Mar 18

The history here is instructive: before Roe, prosecutions tended to focus on non-physicians, and disproportionately on midwives, especially those who weren't white. We see the same now--and for strategic reasons. This isn't the first prosecution Paxton could bring but the one his office chose.

David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · Mar 17

I believe this is the first post-Dobbs arrest of someone allegedly providing abortions.

Attorney General Ken Paxton Announces Arrest of Houston-Area Abortionist and Crackdown on Clinics Providing Illegal Abortions

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the arrest of Maria Margarita Rojas, 48, for providing illegal abortions and illegally operating a network of clinics in the Northwest Houston area.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · Mar 6

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

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Payton Gannon @paytongannon.bsky.social · Feb 20

This report is damning and terrifying. Abortion saves lives.

Cassandra Jaramillo @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social · Feb 20

New and devastating reporting from my colleagues showing just how dangerous it has become to be pregnant and in Texas after the state banned abortion.

Please read and share:

www.propublica.org/article/texa...

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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Payton Gannon @paytongannon.bsky.social · Feb 20

If you want to read about concerns regarding abortion data integrity in a country other than the US @dmpullan.bsky.social and I have a new article out in RevDem. We discuss Italy's annual abortion report and concerns about the accuracy and its delayed release. revdem.ceu.edu/2025/02/07/a...

Access Denied: Abortion Data Failures and Erosion of Accountability in Italy | Review of Democracy

Delayed data on abortion care in Italy impacts citizens’ ability to effectively advocate and hold their government accountable for the management of public healthcare. The Italian Ministry of Health i...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Feb 12

It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

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ANSIRH @ansirh.bsky.social · Feb 10

Q: Abortions are safer than _______.

A. Consuming Tylenol.
B. Getting your wisdom teeth out.
C. Giving birth.
D. All of the above.

It’s D. Abortion is one of the safest outpatient procedures in the United States.

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Payton Gannon @paytongannon.bsky.social · Feb 7

The U.S. isn’t the only country where the government withholds key public health data on abortion. @dmpullan.bsky.social and I explore concerns about Italy’s abortion data and the severe delays in its release.

Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · Feb 7

✍️ Delayed data on abortion care in Italy impacts citizens’ ability to effectively advocate and hold their government accountable for the management of public healthcare, @dmpullan.bsky.social and @paytongannon.bsky.social argue in their article.

🧑‍💻 Read it now:
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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · Feb 7

The US isn't the only place where citizens are struggling to trust government data on abortion, gender, and health: Italy regularly publishes delayed data that is misleading at best about how available abortion actually is. Read more about why good public health data matters for democracy at RevDem!

Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · Feb 7

✍️ Delayed data on abortion care in Italy impacts citizens’ ability to effectively advocate and hold their government accountable for the management of public healthcare, @dmpullan.bsky.social and @paytongannon.bsky.social argue in their article.

🧑‍💻 Read it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/2kyzvtm6

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · Jan 21

Not only do they erase trans, non-binary, and intersex people with this order, but they had to lace it with a side of fetal personhood.

(I assume ova are “large reproductive cells” and sperm are “small reproductive cells? Is this how they teach sex ed?)

In yesterday’s executive order from the White House

d) “Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.
(e) “Male” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.

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Payton Gannon @paytongannon.bsky.social · Jan 21

"She left us with work that demands we keep building, refusing to stew in apathy or despair. Yes, this is hard. Yes, it will demand a lot from us. But Cecile committed her life to the idea that we could do it anyway."

Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · Jan 21

My heart is broken for Cecile’s family - and for all of us. I wrote something over at the newsletter, but I don’t know that words can capture what a loss this is.

Everything We Could

A few words on Cecile Richards

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