The phones are *still* ringing at a Shreveport abortion clinic that closed Aug. 1.

These are people who, when told they'll need to travel hundreds of miles, sound shocked. Likely, many won't.

This is HUGE.

New data shows nationwide, abortions have dropped by *10,000* since Dobbs.

In just two months, 10,000 people forced to stay pregnant.

fivethirtyeight.com/features/overt…

Useful note for journalists to remember. Louisiana is a single party consent state

Deon Elaine Haywood Women With A Vision Lift Louisiana Which brings us back to the question: How do abortion rights activists, then, fight back?

Read/listen here: wwno.org/public-health/…

I have never felt more seen by an annual report:

'As currently constituted, our operations team is inexperienced and/or bad at sales'

And navigating buying health insurance 'sucks shit'

Also extremely revealing info re: launching a podcast

defector.com/defector-annua…

After TX health department missed its deadline to update maternal mortality stats, advocates are pushing the state for answers.

TX says the 2019 data isn't ready yet, but they shared it w CDCs new report that found 80%+ US maternal deaths are preventable cdc.gov/reproductivehe…

'Health, education and business experts told the panel Tuesday that lack of affordable child care is a major impediment to Mississippi moving forward economically and socially.' mississippitoday.org/2022/10/25/mis…

if you’re wondering how insanely low the Mississippi River is right now here’s me on a massive sand dune in the middle of it near rosedale, mississippi

Highlighting this: No major health system or the hospital association wrote in, while many individual doctors are speaking out about their concerns.

Quite the contrast.

Just got the written comments submitted today on the proposed list of 'medically futile' conditions that would qualify someone for a legal abortion in Louisiana. Among them: Aimee Adatto Freeman wrote a letter asking for broader categories #lalege #lagov

Full story on today's hearing on narrowly expanding access to abortion — for people with fetuses deemed to sick to survive outside the womb👇

wwno.org/public-health/…

Says the list is far from sufficient.

Says she went to a series of hospitals to seek care. Says she was told she should come back if she stared bleeding too much, but no one would clarify what that meant. Says medically futile list restricts care for women, leaves them to infections or even death.