An 18-year-old young woman in Durham, North Carolina, was arrested and charged this month with a litany of crimes for allegedly self-managing an abortion at 31 weeks “in an attempt to terminate her pregnancy early,” her arrest warrant states.

North Carolina Teen Was Arrested for Allegedly Self-Managing an Abortion

Abortion bans have always been about criminalizing the pregnant person.

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A Durham teenager is facing absurd charges, including assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, for allegedly self-managing an abortion. It proves that the anti-abortion movement has always been about criminalizing pregnant people. My latest for @truthout.org: truthout.org/articles/nor...

North Carolina Teen Was Arrested for Allegedly Self-Managing an Abortion

Abortion bans have always been about criminalizing the pregnant person.

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A Durham teenager has been charged with a litany of crimes, including ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON WITH INTENT TO KILL, for allegedly self-managing an abortion with medication abortion. It's unconscionable that she's been charged, let alone. facing prison time. www.newsobserver.com/news/local/c...

Young NC couple arrested after teen allegedly took abortion pills in 3rd trimester

The teen is accused of taking mifepristone and misoprostol while 31 weeks pregnant. She allegedly ordered the medication online.

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Despite what far right anti-abortion extremists may want you to think, abortion has been part of American life since the very beginning. The medical establishment began taking aim at abortion due to hostility toward the people who provided them. (1/3) @truthout.org @laurenarankin.bsky.social

Abortion Is as American as Apple Pie

Abortion has been legal in some or all parts of the country for more than 180 years of US history.

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Once again, New York state failed to pass a bill that would have required informed consent before drug testing birthing people and newborns. For @truthout.org, I wrote about this failure and why protecting birthing folks from nonconsensual drug testing is ESSENTIAL. truthout.org/articles/non...

Nonconsensual Drug Testing Has Criminalized Tens of Thousands of Pregnant People

New York can’t squander another chance to protect pregnant people from criminalization.

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What would it actually take to improve women's health care in the U.S.? We have to start by prioritizing women's lived experiences, both cis and trans. I break down the challenges and the possibilities at @damemagazine.bsky.social: www.damemagazine.com/2026/05/27/f...

What It Would Actually Take to Fix Women’s Health Care in America

Women’s health in America is failing. Experts explain how sexism, medical bias, and policy failures harm women—and what must change.

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Women’s health care in America isn’t broken by accident. It was built inside systems that normalize women’s pain and politicize women’s bodies. Fixing it, in part, means centering women’s lived experiences. @laurenarankin.bsky.social with a very deep dive for our American Repair series

What It Would Actually Take to Fix Women’s Health Care in America

Women’s health in America is failing. Experts explain how sexism, medical bias, and policy failures harm women—and what must change.

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BREAKING: the Supreme Court finally blocked a lower court's ban on telemedicine prescriptions of abortion drug mifepristone from taking effect, pending full hearing/ruling in Fifth Circuit. Dissents from Alito and Thomas, who claims that the dormant Comstock Act of 1873 bans mailing of mifepristone

SCOTUS has blocked the Fifth Circuit ruling, which means FOR NOW, you can access medication abortion (mife AND miso) through telehealth. Do yourself a favor and order medication abortion RIGHT NOW from @aidaccess.bsky.social. You don't even have to be pregnant and it ships right to your door.

Buck v. Bell is STILL good case law, which means that a state could still enforce eugenicist policies with the aim to prevent "unfit" individuals from bearing children and have a constitutional basis. It's abhorrent.

Paul A. Lombardo@plombardo2024.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Tomorrow marks 99 years since Buck v. Bell, the infamous and much criticized U.S. Supreme Court opinion written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. finding Virginia’s eugenical sterilization law constitutionally valid.

While the world is a mess, there have been some legit wins for abortion access in recent months that are worth celebrating. Especially in times of darkness, it's imperative to find and celebrate the wins. I detail a few of them for @truthout.org:

Despite Ongoing Attacks, Here Are Some Key Wins for the Abortion Rights Movement

The wins show that it’s possible to take back the narrative and ensure access to those who’ve been denied for too long.

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Didn't think it would be controversial to say I am and remain anti-genocide, but whew have the last few years proved otherwise.

This is WILD and also not at all surprising. An OBGYN associated with the Texas anti-abortion pregnancy center that failed to diagnose a woman's ectopic pregnancy on an ultrasound (she later required emergency surgery) told the DMN of the care she was given: "There is nothing to fix."

A Texas pregnancy center told her everything was fine. Three days later, she was in the ER

A crisis pregnancy center told a Texas woman that her pregnancy was intrauterine. Three days later, she had emergency surgery for an ectopic, or out-of-uterus, ...

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I don't fuck with AI for many reasons, but chiefly, because it's based on stolen labor and exploitation. There is no "AI revolution;" it's actually just billionaire tech bros stealing work product and, in this case, a literal persona, from underpaid and exploited workers.

Jessica Luther@jessicawluther.com · 5mo ago

The entire AI conversation is so frustrating and insulting because they have built these LLMs by stealing, they have simply stolen people's work, and then are hoarding the $ they are making by using that stolen work. The conversation should ALWAYS start there. They are thieves.

I recently finished Killers of Roe by the amazing @amylittlefield.bsky.social and I'm now knee-deep in Fear and Fury by the incomparable @historianheather.bsky.social. I am equal parts edified and enraged. Both should be required reading.

33 years ago today, Dr. David Gunn was shot and killed outside of his Pensacola abortion clinic. He had been stalked and harassed for weeks, yet law enforcement did nothing. His murder, the first of an abortion provider in U.S. history, is commemorated now with #AbortionProviderAppreciationDay.

We must state this clearly. Our lawless regime is building a system of "human warehouses" that will function as concentration camps. Most Americans have no idea that this could quickly exceed Japanese-American internment. No national Democrats are calling for these camps to be stopped & closed.

If we don’t call for the camps to be closed, no one will

The history of Guantanamo tells us exactly what happens when people with "good intentions" confuse a dirty bandage with a cure.

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Anti-abortion groups are trying to force the public release of Indiana's pregnancy termination records, even though the state has a near-total abortion ban. Why? They want to expose abortion seekers and providers to public harassment. My latest for @truthout.org: truthout.org/articles/ant...

Anti-Abortion Groups Try a New Intimidation Tactic: Make Abortion Records Public

Abortion rights opponents want Indiana to use reporting rules to expose abortion providers and recipients to targeting.

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ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

ICE is afraid of children protesting

“Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”

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Stephen Miller is a Nazi pass it on

Ian Johnson@mrianjohnson.bsky.social · 7mo ago

If you wonder why Stephen Miller is orchestrating ICE hate into the streets of the US, emails that show who he really is may have been forgotten but here they are, sitting in plain sight Neo-nazism and White Nationalism support feature strongly www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

We already learned the hard way with abortion rights that mealy-mouthed positions only embolden your opponents. Now we see congressional Democrats doing the same thing with ICE. Abortion is a human right. ICE must be abolished; it's fascist and deadly. There should be no wavering on either.

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

Reup: Stephen Miller, Not (Just) Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino, Must Be Held Accountable www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/26/s...

Stephen Miller, Not (Just) Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino, Must Be Held Accountable - emptywheel

The right wing wants to blame Kristi Noem's propaganda failures for the cratering legitimacy of Stephen Miller's deportation regime. If they want to scapegoat, let's make sure they include Miller as w...

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Geraldo Lunas Campos, a Cuban man imprisoned an ICE concentration camp, was murdered when guards essentially choked him to death. His name should be on our signs, too. Geraldo should be alive, with his family, in his home. Instead, our federal government murdered him because he was an immigrant.

All the anti-war and anti-occupation protestors were right. All the far leftists were right. All the “woke scolds” and your friend who’s “too woke” were right. They were somehow even more right than they may have realized at the time. But really, it was always obvious they were right.

What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?

Chuck Schumer@schumer.senate.gov · 7mo ago

ICE out of Minnesota NOW.

A group of fascist terrorists are hunting and murdering innocent people at the behest of the federal government. The time for statements of condemnation is gone. Any elected official who wrings their hands yet refuses to take action against ICE is abetting this terror and should be voted out ASAP.

NEW: After doctors sent her home with a racing heart, Ciji Graham came to believe the best way to protect her health was to end her pregnancy. But new restrictions in NC and nearby states made finding an abortion provider difficult. www.propublica.org/article/nort...

A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion.

In a state that had legislated its commitment to life, Graham spent her final days struggling to find anyone to save hers.

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Sports are made up. The "rules" of sports are made up, and they change all the time. Baseball introduced a pitch clock in 2023 and the NFL implemented the Dynamic Kickoff rule this past year. There is no immutable code that says that only cis people can play sports. It's just bigotry.

even ignoring all other evidence showing that trans sports bans are about discriminating against trans people, not protecting cis women... I'm supposed to believe that the Supreme Court that overturned Roe v. Wade and has two justices credibly accused of sexual misconduct cares about womens rights?