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National Network of Abortion Funds @abortionfunds.bsky.social · 2d

Every day, and especially on Indigenous Peoples' Day--we celebrate the resistance and fight for land sovereignty, and underline how interlinked that is to our fights for bodily autonomy and access to abortions! Show your solidarity today by donating to @iwrising.bsky.social's Rain Fund.

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Kitsap Abortion Resources and Access @kitsapabortion.bsky.social · 1d

Oops, I got a page not found message. This link worked for me, though:

www.wmal.com/2025/10/13/g...

GOP Governors Ask Feds to Bar Abortion Funding

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has spearheaded a coalition of 10 Republican governors in formally asking the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administrat...

www.wmal.com

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Kitsap Abortion Resources and Access @kitsapabortion.bsky.social · 7d

Fixed it for you, Charlotte Lozier Institute. 👍🏻

Graphic by the Charlotte Lozier Institute (an anti-abortion organization) shows a pie chart of "Reasons for seeking abortion", and the % of abortions that were reported to be for that reason. All the reasons listed have been written over with the text "None of your business".

Kitsap Abortion Resources and Access @kitsapabortion.bsky.social · 7d

Yes! This is also true in Washington. If you're in Kitsap County and have questions about how to pay for an abortion, please contact us via DM or email: [email protected]

Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 8d

I was actually surprised to learn recently that Alaska's Medicaid program pays for abortion care, including flights to Washington for second trimester abortions.

AndreaaaHHhHHHHh!! Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 8d

There is no such thing as fed funding for the vast majority of abortion care (thanks to the Trump budget passed this summer, for at least a year) but some states still allow local public insurance recipients to use that insurance for abortion. B/c people who live in those geographies support it.

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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 8d

“My biggest fear is going to the hospital."

Pregnant immigrants are terrified ICE will show up outside the doctors' office or at the hospital. So they're skipping the care necessary to ensure a healthy birth.

Some experience dangerous complications as a result.

19thnews.org/2025/10/preg...

ICE fears put pregnant immigrants and their babies at risk

Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for their health — and the health of their pregnancies.

19thnews.org

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Kitsap Abortion Resources and Access @kitsapabortion.bsky.social · 9d

*jumping up and down and shouting YES YES THIS*

RJ Says: "Jay, Free Link Now!" @shoren18.bsky.social · 9d

Saw some post somewhere earlier about people “not getting” transness or whatever

You don’t have to get it.

If you believe in bodily autonomy for all, then no one needs you to understand their personal situation to earn being seen as a person by you.

You just treat every human being as a person.

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Kitsap Abortion Resources and Access @kitsapabortion.bsky.social · 26d

Abortion Pills Info Share

All are welcome! If you don't anticipate becoming pregnant, maybe you have a partner who might, or young people in your life... and never underestimate the value in just being a Useful Person to Know.

Thu Oct 9, 1pm
The People's Exchange
639 N Callow Ave
Bremerton, WA

Kıtsap Abortion Resources and Access -PRESENTS-

Abortion Pills Info Share

Join us to learn how to use abortion pills and how to help a friend or partner through a medication abortion.

Anyone is welcome! Even if you don't anticipate becoming pregnant, perhaps you have a partner who might, or young people in your life... and never underestimate the value in just being a Useful Person to Know.

This session is for informational purposes only. No medical advice given or implied.

Thursday October 9, 1pm
The People's Exchange
639 N Callow Ave
Bremerton, WA

Contact: karamutualaid@gmail.com

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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 12d

Some updates to our list here, and most of them are good—more affiliates tell us they are still caring for people with Medicaid post-"defund."

But an awful lot of these statements come with a "for now" caveat, suggesting things could change in a few weeks or months.

Here’s Which Planned Parenthood Clinics Are Still Seeing Medicaid Patients

In the wake of federal “defunding,” one Planned Parenthood affiliate has halted abortions, another has suspended all Medicaid services, and others are self-pay only. Find out where your local organiza...

www.autonomynews.co

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Kitsap Abortion Resources and Access @kitsapabortion.bsky.social · 12d

@autonomynews.co polled all PP affiliates about their status with regard to abortion services and Medicaid recipients, and collected the results here: www.autonomynews.co/heres-which-... 2/2

Here’s Which Planned Parenthood Clinics Are Still Seeing Medicaid Patients

In the wake of federal “defunding,” one Planned Parenthood affiliate has halted abortions, another has suspended all Medicaid services, and others are self-pay only. Find out where your local organiza...

www.autonomynews.co

Kitsap Abortion Resources and Access @kitsapabortion.bsky.social · 12d

Our Bremerton Planned Parenthood will continue to provide services -- including medication abortion -- to Medicaid recipients, despite the "defund" provision in the federal budget. Folks elsewhere in the country may be in a different situation. 1/2

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Plan C @plancpills.bsky.social · 13d

Just a reminder that the US Postal Service is still working :)

Abortion pills: available in all 50 states, with or without a functioning government!

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Kitsap Abortion Resources and Access @kitsapabortion.bsky.social · 16d

Yay! Here's Shout Your Abortion's insta post with our pictures!

www.instagram.com/p/DPKnmC4jwS...

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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Kitsap Abortion Resources and Access @kitsapabortion.bsky.social · 16d

Happy International Safe Abortion Day! 👩🏻‍❤️‍👩🏽🎉 Today -- as all days -- KARA stands with abortion rights and access groups around the country and globally. Together we can build a better world.

Special thanks to Shout Your Abortion for these posters and for including us in this celebration.

Two people stand in the woods with beautiful trees, moss, and ferns all around. They're holding up two posters each. The posters have a feminine-looking person texting to a friend "I'm here." They're in all different colors, with different pro-abortion slogans in different languages.

Two people stand near the warship USS Turner Joy. They're holding up two posters each. The posters have a feminine-looking person texting to a friend "I'm here." They're in all different colors, with different pro-abortion slogans in different languages.

Two people stand in front of a colorful mural depicting Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson. They're holding up two posters each. The posters have a feminine-looking person texting to a friend "I'm here." They're in all different colors, with different pro-abortion slogans in different languages.

Two people stand in front of the Thomas Dambo troll Pia the Peacekeeper. They're holding up two posters each. The posters have a feminine-looking person texting to a friend "I'm here." They're in all different colors, with different pro-abortion slogans in different languages.

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Plan C @plancpills.bsky.social · 16d

Our Access Director and Co-founder Elisa Wells on mifepristone's 25th anniversary in the US:

"While not a perfect system by any means, it represents an amazing revolution in access and an important way in which the injustice of abortion bans is being disrupted."

Thanks to @statnews.com!

Celebrating mifepristone, a hero in modern abortion access, on its 25th anniversary in the U.S.

Mifepristone has played a disruptive and transformational role in today’s abortion access landscape, writes Plan C’s Elisa Wells.

www.statnews.com

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Kitsap Abortion Resources and Access @kitsapabortion.bsky.social · 20d

Oops, to be clear, there are a couple other clinics in Wisconsin not affiliated with Planned Parenthood. But Wisconsinites' already limited options are tightening even further. Many folks will be forced to travel for care. Abortion funds need your help.

Kitsap Abortion Resources and Access @kitsapabortion.bsky.social · 20d

WHAT YOU CAN DO: if you'd like to help the people of Wisconsin obtain the abortion care they need despite the lack of providers in the state, the most effective things to do is donate to abortion funds that cover the state or region. Find a choice of fund(s) here:

abortionfunds.org/find-a-fund/

Find an Abortion Fund - National Network of Abortion Funds

Abortion funds provide various kinds of support. Use our search feature. Find an abortion fund that can help you or the folks in your community.

abortionfunds.org

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Kitsap Abortion Resources and Access @kitsapabortion.bsky.social · 20d

Law professor Mary Ziegler wrote about Wisconsin's battle over an 1849 feticide law here:

statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...

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Kitsap Abortion Resources and Access @kitsapabortion.bsky.social · 20d

Awful news out of Wisconsin today. Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin had only recently recommenced providing abortion care after it was briefly banned in the state (full story on that in next post), so it's especially tragic to see this happening now.

Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 20d

SCOOP: In June, @susanrinkunas.com and I reported at @autonomynews.co that Planned Parenthood was poised to let some of its affiliates stop providing abortion care in order to maintain Medicaid eligibility.

PPWI appears to be the first affiliate to do so.

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin to Halt Abortion Services

Sources say the affiliate isn't scheduling abortion appointments after September 30 in an apparent attempt to avoid Medicaid "defunding."

www.autonomynews.co

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Kitsap Abortion Resources and Access @kitsapabortion.bsky.social · 25d

PS: We would also like you to restore the $8.5m that was cut from the Abortion Access Project. kthx 👍

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Kitsap Abortion Resources and Access @kitsapabortion.bsky.social · 25d

Excellent news for Kitsap County and the state as a whole. Thank you, Governor!

“Washington will step into this temporary gap to ensure women continue to have access to critical health care.”

washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/09/18/w...

WA will replace Planned Parenthood’s lost Medicaid funding with state dollars • Washington State Standard

Washington state will backfill lost Medicaid dollars for Planned Parenthood after a court ruling last week.

washingtonstatestandard.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 25d

I would like 10,000 such workshops happening.

Kitsap Abortion Resources and Access @kitsapabortion.bsky.social · 26d

Abortion Pills Info Share

All are welcome! If you don't anticipate becoming pregnant, maybe you have a partner who might, or young people in your life... and never underestimate the value in just being a Useful Person to Know.

Thu Oct 9, 1pm
The People's Exchange
639 N Callow Ave
Bremerton, WA

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Kitsap Abortion Resources and Access @kitsapabortion.bsky.social · 26d

We're now on Facebook! Click here to follow us:

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Kitsap Abortion Resources and Access @kitsapabortion.bsky.social · 26d

Abortion Pills Info Share

All are welcome! If you don't anticipate becoming pregnant, maybe you have a partner who might, or young people in your life... and never underestimate the value in just being a Useful Person to Know.

Thu Oct 9, 1pm
The People's Exchange
639 N Callow Ave
Bremerton, WA

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Carter Sherman @cartersherman.bsky.social · 27d

There's SO MUCH going on that I'm sure this news will get lost, but: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed into law a first-of-its-kind bill that lets private citizens to sue abortion providers who ship pills into the state.

Providers basically told me: Bring it on.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Abortion pill providers targeted by new Texas law refuse ‘anticipatory obedience’

Greg Abbott’s latest move fuels clash between US red states and blue-state shield laws protecting abortion care

www.theguardian.com

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Plan C @plancpills.bsky.social · 29d

It's Art...Monday? Sure, why not. Highlighting this gorge trilingual campaign from Brazilian artist Prii Barbosa today!

An illustration of a woman's face looking into a mailbox. The top envelope says "you are not alone." The text on the image says: Abortion pills are available in all 50 states.

An illustration of a woman's face looking into a mailbox. The top envelope says "you are not alone." The text on the image says: Pílulas abortivas estão disponíveis em todos os 50 estados.

An illustration of a woman's face looking into a mailbox. The top envelope says "you are not alone." The text on the image says: Las pastillas abortivas están disponibles en los 50 estados.

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