@tsmendola
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Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine @ Hofstra & Asst. Program Director of the Division of Women's Health @ NSUH & @ LIJ. Scary abortion lady writing on sex, culture, power. Views are my own do not represent Northwell Health.
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The online abortion pill guide @plancpills.bsky.social has been redesigned to make it even easier to learn where to get pills, including at no cost. The redesign comes as state officials have threatened investigations and potential lawsuits against the organization.
An Autonomy News exclusive:
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Exclusive: Plan C Doubles Down on Abortion Pill Info Amid Political Attacks
The online abortion pill guide has been redesigned to make it even easier to learn where to get pills, including at no cost.
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ProPublica
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· 29d
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
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· Sep 19
Soooooo they're applying abortion counselling strategies to vaccinations???
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· Sep 19
Great article in The Cut on designer prenatal vitamins and how companies are making bank by influencers peddling unproven folate www.thecut.com/article/fola...
Your Prenatal Vitamin Might Be Missing an Essential Ingredient
Trendy brands are selling supplements that are missing the one ingredient shown to prevent major birth defects.
www.thecut.com
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· Sep 19
AMA representative is tearing the current ACIP a new one, suggesting they are biased and cherry-picking data.
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Megan O'Matz
@megomatz.bsky.social
· Sep 18
Amid Rise of RFK Jr., Officials Waver on Drinking Water Fluoridation — Even in the State Where It Started
As federal agencies review their guidance on fluoridation and the nation’s top health official calls fluoride “industrial waste,” state and local governments are pulling back on the practice, upending...
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Liz Szabo
@lizszabo.bsky.social
· Sep 18
The meeting of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is starting now. They will vote on delaying the hepatitis B vaccine (now given at birth) until baby is 1 month old, as long as mom tests negative. www.youtube.com/live/-6uBNXs...
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) - September 18, 2025 - Day 1 of 2
YouTube video by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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