POV: You got asked about the new CDC director hunting for “hidden abortions.” “On the one hand, Amy, I want to make a joke about this, because ‘find the hidden abortion’ sounds like a terrible board game that JD Vance makes his kids play on a Friday night.” www.democracynow.org/2026/8/7/bla...

“Zombie Law from the Victorian Era”: DOJ Could Use 1873 Comstock Act to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail

Reproductive rights activists are alarmed over a pledge by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to institute nationwide abortion restrictions. Blanche, whose confirmation for attorney general is curre...

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POV: You got asked about the new CDC director hunting for “hidden abortions.” “On the one hand, Amy, I want to make a joke about this, because ‘find the hidden abortion’ sounds like a terrible board game that JD Vance makes his kids play on a Friday night.” www.democracynow.org/2026/8/7/bla...

“Zombie Law from the Victorian Era”: DOJ Could Use 1873 Comstock Act to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail

Reproductive rights activists are alarmed over a pledge by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to institute nationwide abortion restrictions. Blanche, whose confirmation for attorney general is curre...

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Reproductive rights activists are alarmed over a pledge by acting AG Todd Blanche to institute nationwide abortion restrictions. “Abortion bans do not stop abortion. What they do is they kill and harm the people who need them,” says Amy Littlefield, The Nation's abortion access correspondent.

“Zombie Law from the Victorian Era”: DOJ Could Use 1873 Comstock Act to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail

Reproductive rights activists are alarmed over a pledge by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to institute nationwide abortion restrictions. Blanche, whose confirmation for attorney general is curre...

democracynow.org

Journalist and author @amylittlefield.bsky.social is in THE BACK ROOM discussing her latest book Killers of Roe: My Investigation into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

I love to hear people call my abortion history book a beach read! This was always my dream...to write a book about a difficult history that is still light and readable enough for people to take to the beach. Because let's be honest we all need a fucking break.

Helmi@helmsinki.bsky.social · 2w ago

First beach read ✅️ @amylittlefield.bsky.social is a talented writer whose vivid imagery jumps off the page! If you're interested in abortion access in the US and how we got here, definitely pick up Killers of Roe

Since March, I've been following Kristan Hawkins of Students for Life around the country, shadowing her attempts to stop the flow of abortion pills. Get a sneak peek on this week's @revealnews.org, featuring @byninamartin.bsky.social @rebeccaggrant.bsky.social revealnews.org/podcast/medi...

The battle over abortion pills in post-Roe America

Abortion rates were expected to tank after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Instead, medication abortion became easy to get—and it changed everything.

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NEW this week @revealnews.org @byninamartin.bsky.social, @amylittlefield.bsky.social, and I go behind the scenes on the post-Roe landscape—shield law providers' determination, how the anti-abortion movement is responding & how underground networks are fighting back. revealnews.org/podcast/medi...

The battle over abortion pills in post-Roe America

Abortion rates were expected to tank after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Instead, medication abortion became easy to get—and it changed everything.

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This piece is so good. Be sure to stick around for @amylittlefield.bsky.social's interview with Students for Life's Kristan Hawkins.

The battle over abortion pills in post-Roe America

Abortion rates were expected to tank after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Instead, medication abortion became easy to get—and it changed everything.

revealnews.org

NEW this week @revealnews.org: @amylittlefield.bsky.social @rebeccaggrant.bsky.social and I go behind the scenes to understand the surprising post-Roe landscape, how the anti-abortion movement is responding, & how underground abortion networks are fighting back. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The battle over abortion pills in post-Roe America

Abortion rates were expected to tank after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Instead, medication abortion became easy to get—and it changed everything.

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This week on @revealnews.org we explore how the fall of Roe v. Wade has reshaped abortion access in unexpected ways.

The battle over abortion pills in post-Roe America

Abortion rates were expected to tank after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Instead, medication abortion became easy to get—and it changed everything.

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Dobbs was supposed to crush the pro-choice movement. But even as abortion *rights* have shrunk in red states, abortion *access* has expanded. This week at Reveal @amylittlefield.bsky.social @rebeccaggrant.bsky.social & I look at why. @revealnews.org @motherjones.com

The battle over abortion pills in post-Roe America

Abortion rates were expected to tank after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Instead, medication abortion became easy to get—and it changed everything.

motherjones.com

NEW @ms.now: Abortion providers/advocates are bracing for a potential nationwide crackdown following Todd Blanche’s comments signaling his openness to enforcing an 1873 law that bans the mailing of materials used in abortions. “Everybody’s antennae are up in the air,” @drkristin4wi.bsky.social says

Blanche testimony has providers bracing for federal abortion crackdown

After Blanche committed to “the faithful enforcement” of a 19th century anti-abortion law, providers are preparing to shift their models of care.

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Trump claimed during the 2024 campaign that he wanted to leave abortion to the states. His pick for Attorney General, and his former personal lawyer, just said a nationwide abortion ban is on the table

Susan Rinkunas@susanrinkunas.com · last mo.

NEW: Under questioning from Senator Ted Cruz, acting AG Todd Blanche said he would review Biden-era DOJ guidance on the Comstock Act if confirmed to the role. Comstock is an 1873 anti-obscenity law that conservatives want to use to stop the mailing of abortion pills in all 50 states @autonomynews.co

My hometown paper absolutely nailing the zeitgeist

My commitment to reproductive justice and bodily autonomy is longstanding and unwavering

I will be mostly sharing through existing networks. So if you want to know more about the event you should make sure you are signed up for our IC newsletter: interruptingcriminalization.ourpowerbase.net/form/newslet... - the event is in-person and not virtual.

I'm organizing an event on October 3 with @amylittlefield.bsky.social and @renee.bsky.social focused on abortion and reproductive justice. It's going to be an opportunity for folks to learn 'Who Killed Roe?' and to talk about the fact that Roe was never enough & we need something else now.

This reminds me so much of the women I interviewed for Killers of Roe who were mistreated by the late Bob Packwood yet stood by him for a time because he was a champion of women’s rights…a tale as old and heartbreaking as our politics…

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · last mo.

“‘One of the reasons I didn’t come forward sooner was, the huge moral conflict that I had between supporting his politics, but not supporting him as a person,’ she said. ‘I just want the truth out there. I just want people to have a whole scope of who he is as a person.’”

The great @susanrinkunas.com on the growing support for jailing people who have abortions...and why it's kinda strange that the same women who call abortion "murder" will oppose "the logical endgame of their policies." www.ms.now/opinion/abor...

Opinion | The anti-abortion movement’s growing support for throwing women in jail

The only way to actually stop abortions in states where they’re banned, some activists argue, is to prosecute women for homicide.

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BREAKING: Melat Kiros has won the Democratic primary in Colorado’s 1st district. The democratic socialist has unseated the district’s 29-year incumbent by running on Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, ending forever wars and more.

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I wrote about how, according to newly public FBI documents, Alliance Defending Freedom may have helped influence the criminal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center

The Trump Administration Is Siding With Hate Groups

In investigating the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Department of Justice is making plain whose agenda it’s interested in furthering.

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"Benjamin Franklin, the US Postal Service’s first leader, included an abortion recipe in The American Instructor, his 1748 reprint of a popular British textbook that offered guidance on basic tasks and subjects, including arithmetic and writing."

Amy Littlefield@amylittlefield.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Abortion is a tradition older than the United States, and even Thomas Jefferson supported his daughter when she provided one to a friend. Read the essential @byreginamahone.bsky.social: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Abortion is a tradition older than the United States, and even Thomas Jefferson supported his daughter when she provided one to a friend. Read the essential @byreginamahone.bsky.social: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Abortion Has Always Been an American Tradition

More than one founding father knew that to be truly free, women needed control over their reproduction.

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NEW: A spokesperson for U.S. Health and Human Services confirmed to Stateline on Friday that the agency is canceling 53 out of 67 grants, worth about $68 million, under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, affecting grantees in more than two dozen states.

Federal health agency cancels most of its teen pregnancy prevention grants • Stateline

A spokesperson for U.S. Health and Human Services confirmed to Stateline on Friday that the agency is canceling 53 out of 67 grants, worth about $68 million, under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Progra...

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Hello, new followers! If you’re here for insight on how we lost Roe and why rage over preventable deaths (largely of women of color) from abortion bans should be at the center of our political decisions… You’ll love my book: bookshop.org/p/books/kill...

Killers of Roe: My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights

My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights

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Amy Littlefield@amylittlefield.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I just got my first reviews for Killers of Roe and this @publisherswkly.bsky.social one might be the peak of my career. Please put "quirky yet hard-hitting" on my tombstone.

Hello, new followers! If you’re here for insight on how we lost Roe and why rage over preventable deaths (largely of women of color) from abortion bans should be at the center of our political decisions… You’ll love my book: bookshop.org/p/books/kill...

Killers of Roe: My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights

My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights

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Amy Littlefield@amylittlefield.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I just got my first reviews for Killers of Roe and this @publisherswkly.bsky.social one might be the peak of my career. Please put "quirky yet hard-hitting" on my tombstone.

The last thing I will add is that we didn't get here with one ruling. There has been a long process of chipping away our rights until we got to the Dobbs decision. If you want to know how we get hear read @amylittlefield.bsky.social's book Killers of Roe and check out our episode about it:

Amy Littlefield on Her New Book: Killers of Roe: My Investigation into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights — rePROs Fight Back

From an IRS agent who originally penned the Hyde Amendment to the lawmakers involved in creating parental consent laws, there are several actors in the antiabortion movement’s fight to dismantle ...

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Today marks four years since the death of the nationwide right to an abortion. For @thebaffler.com, I was so pleased to speak with @amylittlefield.bsky.social about the lesser-known suspects responsible for that death—and about where we go from here: thebaffler.com/latest/autop...

Autopsying Abortion Rights | Kristen Martin

It has been four years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Where should the abortion rights movement go from here?

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Abortion bans don't stop abortions -- but they do kill people. I was on @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social this morning with @mika-brzezinski.bsky.social talking about the death toll, four years after Dobbs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcde...

"LIVES ARE IN DANGER": Mika on abortion access and women’s healthcare 4 years after Dobbs

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