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Sofia Resnick @sofiaresnick.bsky.social · 2h

Remember when the Trump administration pledged to increase federal support for IVF and reduce costs? Well, as @notus.com reports, the administration "appears to have fired all but one person" from the office that oversees all federal family-planning initiatives. www.notus.org/health-scien...

HHS Appears to be Cutting Its Entire Family Planning Office

Almost every member of the Office of Population Affairs lost email access and is unable to tell if they were laid off, workers told NOTUS.

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Sofia Resnick @sofiaresnick.bsky.social · 5h

With the CDC expected to lose hundreds of employees, disease experts worry the US will no longer be well-prepared for the next big outbreak, via @mayahoman.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/abou...

About 600 CDC workers are expected to be permanently fired after latest round of cuts

Public health experts in Georgia are speaking out against furloughs at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention they say have left hundreds of employees at the agency unemployed as...

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Sofia Resnick @sofiaresnick.bsky.social · 7h

“We are closing up programs that are Democratic programs that we wanted to close up ... and we’re not going to let them come back,” Trump said. “We’re not closing up Republican programs because we think they work.” www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...

Trump targets ‘Democratic programs’ as shutdown standoff heads for third week

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate returned to Capitol Hill on Tuesday following a four-day weekend, but neither Republicans nor Democrats appeared ready to work toward ending the government shutdown follow...

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Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 11h

NEW: Recordings from a crisis pregnancy center conference, shared exclusively with Autonomy News, reveal that anti-abortion physicians are reluctant to prescribe abortion pill “reversal”—even as the conservative legal movement uses the supposed treatment to expand CPCs’ free speech rights.

Abortion Pill “Reversal” Is a Hoax. It's Also a Powerful Right-Wing Legal Strategy.

Speakers at a crisis pregnancy center conference made rare admissions about the challenges of providing so-called abortion “reversal,” and indicate its importance as a litigation tool.

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Jane Norman @janenorman.bsky.social · 1d

"WIC should still be operational": Our Shauneen Miranda with details on how WIC money to states will continue through the end of month despite shutdown www.newsfromthestates.com/article/nutr...

Nutrition program for women, infants and children to stay afloat through end of month

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is infusing $300 million into a key federal nutrition program to keep it running through October, while a government shutdown continues without an appar...

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Jacob Fischler @fischler.bsky.social · 2d

Trump, U.S. leaders celebrate end of hostilities in Gaza, @ashleymurray.bsky.social reports for @statesnewsroom.com:

Trump, U.S. leaders celebrate end of hostilities in Gaza

WASHINGTON — After just over two years in Hamas captivity, the surviving Israeli hostages were released Monday as President Donald Trump visited Israel and Egypt to celebrate a U.S.-brokered peace dea...

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Jennifer Shutt @jennifershutt.bsky.social · 7d

Tillis says the shutdown could last “another couple of weeks.”

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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 7d

BREAKING NEWS from @ashleymurray.bsky.social: Former FBI Director James Comey pleaded not guilty to two felony charges Wednesday in federal court in Virginia.

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Former FBI Director Comey pleads not guilty to criminal charges demanded by Trump

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Former FBI Director James Comey pleaded not guilty to two felony charges Wednesday in federal court in Virginia, in response to an indictment that followed an extraordinary pressure ...

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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 8d

New data show Indiana’s entries into the state’s foster care system increased by 30%, from just over 6,000 children to nearly 7,900 children, between 2023 and 2024 even as the national average fell from 2%.

via @indianacapitalchronicle.com

DCS sees one-year increase in fosters as national numbers decline

New data show Indiana’s entries into the state’s foster care system increased by 30%, from just over 6,000 children to nearly 7,900 children, between 2023 and 2024 even as the national average fell…

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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 8d

NEW from @coloradonewsline.com: Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court appeared skeptical of a Colorado law banning conversion therapy for minors, which a counselor in the state says violates her First Amendment right to free speech.

www.newsfromthestates.com/article/supr...

Supreme Court justices skeptical of free speech limits in Colorado conversion therapy case

Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court appeared skeptical of a Colorado law banning conversion therapy for minors, which a counselor in the state says violates her First Amendment right to free speech.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 7d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Marisa Demarco @papermarisa.bsky.social · 9d

Texas advocates see familiar health care turmoil brewing as the federal Medicaid "defunding" rule hits the rest of the U.S.

Part 1 in our series on repro care access. From @kelciemmorris.bsky.social and @sofiaresnick.bsky.social /@statesnewsroom.com:

www.newsfromthestates.com/article/texa...

Texas advocates see familiar health care turmoil brewing as 'defunding' rule hits rest of the US

First in a five-part series.To some, the warning bells started sounding years ago.

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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 9d

ICYMI: Check out our Unraveling Series

This States Newsroom project explores how the provision strains reproductive health care nationwide.

via @elishabrown.bsky.social @sofiaresnick.bsky.social @kelciemmorris.bsky.social

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Sofia Resnick @sofiaresnick.bsky.social · 12d

Part 5, from @kelciemmorris.bsky.social and me: Some Democratic-led states pledged to help fund family planning services. But it's not always enough. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/some...

Some Democratic-led states pledged to help fund family planning services. It’s not always enough.

Fifth in a five-part series. Hope Broussard’s intrauterine device should have brought relief from her severe periods. But at 17, it started causing debilitating pain.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 13d

No they fucking didn’t—they said another manufacturer can make generic mifepristone, the same drug that’s been on the market for 25 years

Washington Post push alert:
Breaking News
The Trump administration quietly approved a new abortion drug, infuriating the right

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Michigan Advance @michiganadvance.com · 13d

Here is the fourth in a five-part series looking at ways in which new Medicaid rules are straining reproductive health care.

Story from @sofiaresnick.bsky.social

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Restricting, cutting Medicaid funding shifts more reproductive health care to telemedicine • Michigan Advance

Fourth in a five-part series. Sarah Elgatian was in too much pain to feel awkward. That morning in 2019, she was hunched over her toilet, feeling what she described as a “weird burning nausea,” abdom...

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Sofia Resnick @sofiaresnick.bsky.social · 13d

Alaska and Hawaii are mostly inaccessible by road, and Medicaid cuts could make travel for care harder, by
@kelciemmorris.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/thes...

These two states are mostly inaccessible by road. Medicaid cuts could make travel for care harder.

For a local Alaska resident who didn’t qualify for Medicaid because she made a few dollars over the income threshold, Title X family planning funding would have been an option for care at Planned Pare...

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Sofia Resnick @sofiaresnick.bsky.social · 13d

In Maine, Planned Parenthood has launched a canvassing effort, part advocacy and part to inform people their clinics offer a wide range of services -- like flu shots, via @eeshapen.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/amid...

Amid federal uncertainty, Planned Parenthood hits Maine streets to reach patients directly

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Sofia Resnick @sofiaresnick.bsky.social · 13d

Meanwhile, Idaho's last Planned Parenthood clinic plans to stay open despite federal cuts, via @pfannyyy.bsky.social: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/we-a...

‘We aren’t going anywhere:’ Idaho’s last Planned Parenthood plans to stay open despite federal cuts

MERIDIAN — By one early afternoon in late August, Dr. Colleen McNicholas had already inserted an IUD, seen a patient to provide gender-affirming care and helped a patient access HIV prevention medicat...

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Sofia Resnick @sofiaresnick.bsky.social · 13d

A clinic in an eastern Oregon farming town has a become a critical abortion access point for Idahoans. Its existence is now threatened, via @miamaldonado.bsky.social and @kelciemmorris.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/one-...

One eastern Oregon clinic is a health care ‘lifeline.’ Medicaid cuts threaten its existence

When Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette opened a health center in eastern Oregon in 2023, it did so expecting that Idaho’s looming abortion ban would force patients to travel to Oregon for care. T...

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Sofia Resnick @sofiaresnick.bsky.social · 13d

Another consequence of the new federal Medicaid rule for abortion providers: Maine Family Planning is shutting down its primary care practice, via @eeshapen.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/main...

Maine Family Planning will shut down its primary care practice because of federal funding cuts

Maine Family Planning will shutter its primary care practice by the end of the month after being blocked from accepting Medicaid funds.

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Sofia Resnick @sofiaresnick.bsky.social · 13d

Part 4, from me: Telehealth has expanded in the reproductive health space, especially at Planned Parenthood, but experts say it's only part of the solution: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/rest...

Restricting, cutting Medicaid funding shifts more reproductive health care to telemedicine

Fourth in a five-part series.Sarah Elgatian was in too much pain to feel awkward.

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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 14d

@susanrinkunas.com and I contacted every Planned Parenthood affiliate potentially affected by the Medicaid “defund.”

Here’s what we learned about whether people with Medicaid can still visit their local PP:

Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 14d

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 organization stands:

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...

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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 13d

This is bonkers. The antiabortion movement has put a full court press on FDA to restrict mifepristone, and everyone is on edge that it will do so.

So what does FDA do? It approves a new generic mifepristone without changing anything about the restrictions.

Thank you RFK? ?!?!

Greer Donley @greerdonley.bsky.social · 13d

NEW: On Tuesday, FDA approved a new generic for mifepristone from Evita Solutions. The FDA also modified the shared REMS for mifepristone to include the new generic. You can see the company's announcement here: www.evitasolutionsllc.com

Evita Solutions - Generic Mifepristone Available Today

Evita Solutions LLC's FDA-approved generic Mifepristone Tablets, 200 mg for safe, effective medical abortion up to 70 days.

www.evitasolutionsllc.com

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Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 14d

Protesters at US Capitol back Democrats in shutdown fight over health care costs, reports Ashley Murray for @statesnewsroom.com via the @alaskabeacon.com

Protesters at US Capitol back Democrats in shutdown fight over health care costs | Alaska Beacon

A large crowd gathered on Capitol Hill Tuesday hours before a federal government shutdown to protest rising health care costs — the crux of Democrats’ stand against approving a temporary Republican…

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