Some of my favorite people (David S. Cohen & Sue Frietsche) are arguing a very important abortion case before the PA Supreme Court tomorrow. Check out this thread to learn more! This case could protect abortion access in our state even if dems lose the Governor’s race.

Doug Mastriano believes women who have an abortion should be charged with murder.

If you’ve been waiting for a moment to get off the sidelines and get in the game, your time is now.

It was awesome to work with Democracy Forward on this comment!

Shocking: OB/GYNs don’t want to work in states where politicians treat them like criminals! Who could have ever seen that coming! apnews.com/article/aborti…

A lot of very important points in this thread 🧵 👇🏻

And another one. people.com/health/texas-w…

Abortion safe-haven laws attempt to shield women & doctors from out-of-state liability. Carly Zubrzycki (@UConnLaw) explains medical records’ increasing interoperability & federal information-sharing regs may still put patient records in the wrong hands. yalelawjournal.org/forum/the-abor…

NEW: A covert, cross-border network of abortion activists is funneling thousands of abortion pills into the United States. I interviewed 16 people and visited 4 U.S. cities + Mexico to try to wrap my arms around this operation. The scope is staggering.🧵washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…

So many sad stories here (including my kiddo). But can't stop thinking of the lead -- she felt reduced movement, but had already seen the dr numerous times and was hesitant to 'bother' dr again. Too late by the time she went in. undark.org/2022/10/17/oth… via Undark Magazine

Looking forward to this event on Nov 9! The Wide Reach of Dobbs: Impacts Beyond Abortion. Hosted by CTIC and UPenn Medical Ethics & Health Policy. Dorothy Roberts will lead a panel with Greer Donley, Patti Zettler, and Wendy Parmet. Not to be missed. Register here: pennlaw.cvent.com/c/express/3b09…

Every time I read one of these stories, my stomach drops through the floor and I have to stop, because exactly this happened to me and I know what this woman feels like - losing her wanted pregnancy - and simultaneously cannot fathom how much additional trauma she's experiencing.

Anyway, I'm glad to see NYT exposing the hypocrisy in antiabortion folks distancing themselves from the definitions THEY created in abortion bans when forcing birth would be unpalatable. nytimes.com/2022/10/18/us/…

Each of these cases are abortions, even though I would argue they are ALSO pregnancy losses. The line is blurred. Abortion is one type of reproductive healthcare that cannot be disaggregated from the rest. Read more from Jill Wieber Lens & I on this here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Why are those parents who refuse life sustaining treatment at birth (or whose affected pregnancies end in stillbirth) considered bereaved parents when parents who chose termination are stigmatized? I wrote a whole paper on this in Minnesota Law Review here. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

I'll also mention fetal anomaly abortions, which are often completed in scenarios where--if the fetus survived to term and were born alive--the parents would have legal authority to refuse life-sustaining measures. (This is not true of all anomalies, e.g. Down Syndrome, but many)

When someone is forced to terminate a desired pregnancy for medical reasons (fetal or maternal), esp into the 2nd & 3rd trimester, the grief felt will be similar to pregnancy loss. And when the physical experience is also the same, the experiences are almost indistinguishable.

She had an induction abortion, where childbirth is induced before fetal viability. This type of abortion is very rare and mostly done for maternal health conditions and fetal anomaly. It allows parents to meet the child and say goodbye, like with stillbirth.