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Jennie Wetter @jennieindc.bsky.social · 18h ago

There’s still time to send me your questions before I record tomorrow afternoon.

rePROs Fight Back@reprosfightback.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's AMA time! Comment your question/s below or send 'em to rePROs Fight Back's host & director extraordinaire @jennieindc.bsky.social at jennie@reprosfightback.org📩 to get answers on the next podcast episode <3

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rePROs Fight Back @reprosfightback.bsky.social · yesterday

Women and girls are uniquely impacted by humanitarian emergencies. On top of violence, displacement, and the loss of livelihoods, they often face disruptions in their access to sexual and reproductive health services and a heightened risk of GBV. Learn more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv0l...

Sexual and Reproductive Health in Emergencies: Promising Practices to Address the Crisis in a Crisis

YouTube video by rePROs Fight Back

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rePROs Fight Back @reprosfightback.bsky.social · yesterday

Quote graphic attributed to Cristina Uribe, Chief of Programs for the Collaborative for Gender and Reproductive Equality, reading: "The friendship bracelet of reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and democracy really are interwoven." Reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and democracy are spelled out using circular letter beads. The background is dark blue denim.

rePROs Fight Back@reprosfightback.bsky.social · yesterday

This week, Cristina Uribe, Chief of Programs at the Collaborative for Gender and Reproductive Equality (CGRE) and Director of the Gender Equity Action Fund (GEAS), sits down with us to explain how attacks on reproductive rights, LGBTQI+ rights, and democracy cannot be discussed in isolation:

19thnews @19thnews.org · yesterday

The red van hands out food, water, clothes, first aid and free HIV tests. Locals recognize it across the Twin Cities. But the van, and everything inside it, is funded by federal grant money that has been suddenly revoked. https://bit.ly/4gbcGBn

Jennie Wetter @jennieindc.bsky.social · yesterday

🚨 New Episode 🚨 This week on @reprosfightback.bsky.social I talk to the fabulous Cristina Uribe with the Collaborative for Gender + Reproductive Equity about how the fight for our reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and democracy are interwoven and need to be discussed as one fight. #podcast

rePROs Fight Back@reprosfightback.bsky.social · yesterday

This week, Cristina Uribe, Chief of Programs at the Collaborative for Gender and Reproductive Equality (CGRE) and Director of the Gender Equity Action Fund (GEAS), sits down with us to explain how attacks on reproductive rights, LGBTQI+ rights, and democracy cannot be discussed in isolation:

rePROs Fight Back @reprosfightback.bsky.social · yesterday

This week, Cristina Uribe, Chief of Programs at the Collaborative for Gender and Reproductive Equality (CGRE) and Director of the Gender Equity Action Fund (GEAS), sits down with us to explain how attacks on reproductive rights, LGBTQI+ rights, and democracy cannot be discussed in isolation:

Attacks on Our Rights Are Attacks on Democracy — rePROs Fight Back

Reproductive rights, LGBTQI+ rights, and democracy cannot be discussed in isolation; fundamentally, they are all about who has the freedom to make choices for themselves, and each one affects the othe...

reprosfightback.com

19thnews @19thnews.org · 2d ago

Trump’s war on "gender ideology" and diversity is hurting San Francisco Asian Women’s Shelter’s ability to help victims — many of whom can’t get help anywhere else. It’s already cost them nearly $500,000.

This domestic violence shelter was told it no longer aligns with the Trump administration’s priorities

Trump’s war on ‘gender ideology’ and diversity is hurting San Francisco Asian Women’s Shelter's ability to help victims — many of whom can’t get help anywhere else. It’s already cost them nearly $500,...

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Reproaction @reproaction.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW: Abortion opponents exploiting election communications loopholes to force their misleading propaganda on the public is bad enough on its own, but we see these efforts as part of a broader anti-democracy agenda by anti-abortion advocates. reproaction.org/randall-terr...

Randall Terry’s Illegal Dual Campaigns and the Rise of Empty Anti-Abortion Campaigns

Tennessee-based anti-abortion advocate Randall Terry launched legislative campaigns in New Jersey and Hawaii. As Terry quickly learned, running two simultaneous congressional campaigns is illegal

reproaction.org

Jennie Wetter @jennieindc.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's important to remember it's imperative to fund sexual and reproductive health care in humanitarian settings. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv0l...

Sexual and Reproductive Health in Emergencies: Promising Practices to Address the Crisis in a Crisis

YouTube video by rePROs Fight Back

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Jennie Wetter @jennieindc.bsky.social · 2d ago

Pregnant women w/ Ebola are at an increased risk of problems incl miscarriage. Meanwhile, pregnant women who delay care & avoid health facilities “could die not from Ebola itself but because the care that would have saved them was no longer accessible, trusted or safe” - Naomi Dalmonte w/ @unfpa.org

More pregnant women are dying in Congo as they avoid hospitals over Ebola

Some pregnant women in eastern Congo are avoiding hospitals over fears of a rapidly growing Ebola outbreak, and more of them are dying around childbirth.

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Jennie Wetter @jennieindc.bsky.social · 2d ago

It’s happening! Get me your questions by Wednesday morning!

rePROs Fight Back@reprosfightback.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's AMA time! Comment your question/s below or send 'em to rePROs Fight Back's host & director extraordinaire @jennieindc.bsky.social at jennie@reprosfightback.org📩 to get answers on the next podcast episode <3

rePROs Fight Back @reprosfightback.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's AMA time! Comment your question/s below or send 'em to rePROs Fight Back's host & director extraordinaire @jennieindc.bsky.social at jennie@reprosfightback.org📩 to get answers on the next podcast episode <3

Jennie Wetter @jennieindc.bsky.social · 5d ago

It's been a while since I've done an AMA episode of @reprosfightback.bsky.social and I'm thinking of doing one in the near future. So now is your chance if you have questions you would like me to answer, please send them my way.

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rePROs Fight Back @reprosfightback.bsky.social · 3d ago

In our latest episode, Amy Myrick, Senior Council at the Center for Reproductive Rights @reprorights.org, talks with us about reproductive rights litigation in the four years since Roe fell, including key legal trends that have emerged in the post-Roe legal vacuum. #podcast

Uncertainty is a Given: Litigation Post-Roe — rePROs Fight Back

Since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case which overturned Roe v. Wade was decided, there’s been an abortion access crisis, an assault on legal precedent for abortion protections...

reprosfightback.com

Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 2w ago

NEW: A federal judge ruled that FDA restrictions on the abortion drug mifepristone are scientifically unjustified in suit filed by independent clinics—says 2023 REMS is unlawful, FDA must reconsider. Louisiana suing FDA for allowing telehealth Rx in same reg storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

screenshot from page 1 of the opinion:

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA
CHARLOTTESVILLE DIVISION
WHOLE WOMAN’S HEALTH )
ALLIANCE, et al., )
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Plaintiffs, ) Civil Action No.: 3:23-CV-00019
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v. )
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UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ) By: Hon. Robert S. Ballou
ADMINISTRATION, et al., ) United States District Judge
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Defendants. ))
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Since 2000, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has determined that mifepristone is a safe and effective medication for early pregnancy termination. Each time the FDA has reviewed mifepristone, it has reaffirmed its safety and efficacy.1 But the FDA has consistently imposed certain prescribing and dispensing restrictions, known as Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (“REMS”), because it concluded such restrictions were necessary to ensure that the drug’s benefits outweighed its risks. The 2023 REMS imposed by the FDA on mifepristone require that (1) prescribing pharmacies be specially certified, (2) prescribing clinicians be specially certified, and (3) prescribers and patients sign a form acknowledging the treatment and
its risks. Dkt. 78-7 at 389–92. Abortion providers in Virginia, Kansas, and Montana brought this case to challenge the 2023 REMS as excessively restrictive, unwarranted, and inconsistent with
the requirements of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938. The issue before this....

docket
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67347356/whole-womans-health-alliance-v-united-states-food-and-drug-administration/?order_by=desc
two page order https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vawd.128384/gov.uscourts.vawd.128384.96.0.pdf

screenshot from page 47 of the opinion:

CONCLUSION
The REMS modifications are arbitrary and capricious. The FDA has steadfastly found, over the past quarter century, that mifepristone is a safe and effective medication. The explanation for the REMS and ETASUs imposed by the FDA in 2023 does not identify the risk alleviated by the restrictions. Nor does the FDA explain how, without these restrictions, prescribing the drug becomes an intolerable risk which would require withdrawal of the drug from the market. The FDA failed to reasonably justify its 2023 REMS modification decision, disregarding substantial contrary evidence from the medical community and comparative regulatory data, and inadequately addressing the burdens imposed on providers and patients. While Plaintiffs’ claim that the FDA exceeded its statutory authority fails, the Agency’s failure to consider relevant evidence and provide a reasoned explanation renders the 2023 REMS modification arbitrary and capricious in violation of the APA and the Fifth Amendment.

two page order
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vawd.128384/gov.uscourts.vawd.128384.96.0.pdf
...the Court DIRECTS the parties to file a joint status report within 10 days of this order setting forth their positions on how this case should proceed as to the constitutional claims. The remand order will be entered following determination of the status of the constitutional claims.

rePROs Fight Back @reprosfightback.bsky.social · 6d ago

This week on rePROs Fight Back, Amy Myrick, Senior Council at the Center for Reproductive Rights @reprorights.org, talks with us about reproductive rights litigation in the four years since Roe fell, including key legal trends that have emerged in the post-Roe legal vacuum:

Uncertainty is a Given: Litigation Post-Roe — rePROs Fight Back

Since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case which overturned Roe v. Wade was decided, there’s been an abortion access crisis, an assault on legal precedent for abortion protections...

reprosfightback.com

rePROs Fight Back @reprosfightback.bsky.social · 6d ago

Want to stay in-the-know AND hone your skills as an advocate? Subscribe to the rePROs Fight Back newsletter to stay inspired, up-to-date, and empowered on all things reproductive health, rights, and justice! reprosfightback.com

Jennie Wetter @jennieindc.bsky.social · last wk.

🚨 New Episode 🚨 This week on @reprosfightback.bsky.social I talked to the wonderful Amy Myrick at @reprorights.org about what has been happening in reproductive rights litigation since the fall of Roe. We also talked about what she is keeping an eye on at the moment beyond abortion. #podcast

rePROs Fight Back@reprosfightback.bsky.social · last wk.

This week on rePROs Fight Back, Amy Myrick, Senior Council at the Center for Reproductive Rights @reprorights.org, talks with us about reproductive rights litigation in the four years since Roe fell, including key legal trends that have emerged in the post-Roe legal vacuum:

rePROs Fight Back @reprosfightback.bsky.social · last wk.

This week on rePROs Fight Back, Amy Myrick, Senior Council at the Center for Reproductive Rights @reprorights.org, talks with us about reproductive rights litigation in the four years since Roe fell, including key legal trends that have emerged in the post-Roe legal vacuum:

Uncertainty is a Given: Litigation Post-Roe — rePROs Fight Back

Since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case which overturned Roe v. Wade was decided, there’s been an abortion access crisis, an assault on legal precedent for abortion protections...

reprosfightback.com

Rewire News Group @rewirenewsgroup.com · last wk.

What do Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Mary Davidson have in common? They were all pioneering civil rights figures—and they were all disabled. We’re resurfacing @vilissathompson.bsky.social's 2018 story for Disability Pride Month. rewirenews.link/4gfeIRD

The Overlooked History of Black Disabled People – Rewire News Group

Black disability history matters because without us putting our voices and very bodies on the line, the political and societal strides many of us take for grant

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rePROs Fight Back @reprosfightback.bsky.social · last wk.

In our latest episode, @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app, author of The Originalism Trap & Deputy Editor and Senior Contributor at @ballsandstrikes.org, talks with us about recent SCOTUS rulings as part of the broad, comprehensive attacks on trans people’s health and wellbeing. #podcast

The Trans Sports Ban Cases Are Bigger Than Just Sports — rePROs Fight Back

The Supreme Court has heard two cases on transgender women and girl’s ability to participate in school sports after states have issued categorical bans on trans women playing on sports teams that matc...

reprosfightback.com

rePROs Fight Back @reprosfightback.bsky.social · last wk.

HUGE shoutout to the activists and abortion storytellers who are fiercely advocating to remove barriers to getting abortion care later in pregnancy in MA, incl. friends of the podcast Kate Dineen @reproequitynow.bsky.social, Jeanette Kincaid @dupontclinic.bsky.social, @patientforward.bsky.social! <3

Quote graphic featuring gold, yellow, and dark purple paper scrapbook elements in the background, as well as a sunflower, ladybug, and sparrow. The quote reads, in a typewriter-inspired typeface: “From my perspective as a later abortion patient who was forced to travel, I think that we in Massachusetts have a real moral imperative right now to expand access to abortion care throughout pregnancy...and really commit to being a bastion for reproductive justice.” The quote is attributed to Kate Dineen, abortion later in pregnancy patient & advocate & Board Member of Reproductive Equity Now

ACLU of Massachusetts@aclum.bsky.social · 2w ago

Good news! At a time when many states are imposing dangerous and cruel restrictions on bodily autonomy, we appreciate the Massachusetts House for moving to protect patients' access to vital health care. Abortion care is life-saving care. www.wbur.org/news/2026/07...

rePROs Fight Back @reprosfightback.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Organizations serving American Indian and Alaska Native survivors of violence say reductions in federal funding have led to over 1,000 unmet requests for help, according to a new report." Learn more from Nada Hassanein, Stateline via @19thnews.org:

Indigenous survivors of violence see fewer services after federal cuts

A U.S. House committee hearing raised questions about public safety resources in Indian Country.

19thnews.org

Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 2w ago

From family separation to barriers to prenatal care, immigration enforcement threatens the fundamental right to build and raise a family with safety and dignity.

Why Attacks on Immigrant Communities Are Reproductive Justice Issues

"It’s hell.” That’s how our colleague, Miri, described her months-long detention in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, last year, separated from her husband and four children. Food was inedible, medicatio...

msmagazine.com

rePROs Fight Back @reprosfightback.bsky.social · 2w ago

On a black paper background, there is a quote attributed to Clare Coleman, President and CEO of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association. White text with a pink drop reads: “Be out there visibly and vocally talking about the importance of having access to high-quality contraception and sexual health care as close to your house as possible.” At the bottom right, a hand holds a condom.

rePROs Fight Back@reprosfightback.bsky.social · 3w ago

This week, Clare Coleman, President & CEO of NFPRHA, talks about what the Trump admin's FY 2027 Title X funding announcement means for the #TitleX program & its grant recipients, & the lawsuit that NFPRHA, the ACLU, and FHCCP are pursuing against this blatant contradiction of the Title X statute.

Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 2w ago

You—or someone you love—has benefited from contraception, sex education, maternal care, assisted reproduction, miscarriage care or abortion. Four years after Dobbs, we're sharing our stories: msmagazine.com/thelifeibuilt/

rePROs Fight Back @reprosfightback.bsky.social · 2w ago

This week on the rePROs Fight Back podcast, Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app at @ballsandstrikes.org talks with us about recent SCOTUS rulings as part of the broad, comprehensive attacks on trans people’s health & wellbeing: www.reprosfightback.com/episodes-blo... 🎨: Advocates for Youth

Graphic by Advocates for Youth with a graph paper background. Gradient light blue, pink, and white text in the middle reads: "Trans Kids Belong." Around this text, different places of belonging are written: in the arena, in the gym, in the stadium, on the court, in the pool, on the track, in the classroom, etc.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 2w ago

got to chat with @reprosfightback.bsky.social about my article below and more -- check it out! Brett Kavanaugh tried hard in West Virginia v. BPJ to sell the idea that "trans sports bans are just about sports!" and I can't have y'all buying that nonsense ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/west-...

Conservative Activists Know the Trans Sports Ban Case Isn’t Just About Sports

Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s opinion emphasized that sports are “different.” But conservative activists are already celebrating what the case will allow them to do next.

ballsandstrikes.org

rePROs Fight Back@reprosfightback.bsky.social · 2w ago

This week, @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app, author of The Originalism Trap & Deputy Editor and Senior Contributor at the legal commentary outlet ballsandstrikes.org, talks with us about recent SCOTUS rulings as part of the broad, comprehensive attacks on trans people’s health and wellbeing. #podcast

rePROs Fight Back @reprosfightback.bsky.social · 2w ago

This week, @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app, author of The Originalism Trap & Deputy Editor and Senior Contributor at the legal commentary outlet ballsandstrikes.org, talks with us about recent SCOTUS rulings as part of the broad, comprehensive attacks on trans people’s health and wellbeing. #podcast

The Trans Sports Ban Cases Are Bigger Than Just Sports — rePROs Fight Back

The Supreme Court has heard two cases on transgender women and girl’s ability to participate in school sports after states have issued categorical bans on trans women playing on sports teams that matc...

reprosfightback.com

Lovering Health Center @loveringhealth.bsky.social · 3w ago

Reproductive Justice CANNOT coexist with ICE terrorizing immigrant communities. We are outraged at the murder of Johan Sebastian Guerrero in Biddeford, ME this past week. Violence enacted against immigrant communities directly obstructs Reproductive Justice. Johan should be home with his family.