roula

#ReproductiveJustice in the streets, insomnia in the sheets. This is my personal account: RTs + occasional original tweets on work, the news, books, big moods.

[roula @kangaroula]

Pinned tweet is for everyone. Professional mental health counselors/therapists are accessible with online visits & low or no costs. You might be going through a hard time, healing a relationship, surviving trauma, or reliving it. Now more than ever (tm): get you a therapist.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

My God. It’s just war crime after war crime. There is no law of war left for them to break.

[j @thickyrubio]

CNN tried to do a sympathy piece on IDF soldiers and then like halfway through the article you find out this guy was a D9 bulldozer driver who regularly drove over people while they were alive.

[Radheyan Simonpillai @JustSayRad]

Glad Ta-Nehisi Coates got to have a normal and healthy conversation about what remains a horrifying situation. https://t.co/3NWfPUI2in

[roula @kangaroula]

@crippledscholar @2024fighter @colleen__may @cannabisbutch Yes, one day it will affect them too. And I'm not sure if disobedience to the law would happen today or play out the same way - I truly wonder about that - but folks should at least know about the San Francisco 9, etc. It's not like it's never happened. https://t.co/HXOPxBvlJI

[roula @kangaroula]

@klc979 @colleen__may @AshleyGWinter rude lol. you may be interested in this article which (just incidentally, not as the main point- but still informative) mentions d&c the outdated name is still in common use as referring to aspiration procedures these days https://t.co/xLOywlq20N

[roula @kangaroula]

@aBigMess Yes, yes! This article (from 2022) is one of the few I've seen that acknowledges D&C is an outdated term still in common use. And, a thing I'd surmised but not heard aloud- that 'surgical' abortion is "more commonly known in the fertility world as a D&C" https://t.co/xLOywlq20N

[roula @kangaroula]

@EdwardIV63 @JessicaValenti @joelcardwellX Shut up and just listen, you know? All those things are related. People can't afford housing or food, families lose their kids to violence, we don't have confidence in a safe future - and our own choices on having children, raising a family are taken from us- How shall we live??

[roula @kangaroula]

@laurawershler @JessicaValenti Yes you would expect! I'm amazed that the only physician voice elevated by Georgia's paper of record @ajc was that of a totally anti-abortion physician, saying the same things as the anti-abortion governor who pushed the six-week ban and is now defending himself/deflecting blame.

[Laura Wershler @laurawershler]

@JessicaValenti Do you think the medical associations are doing enough to push back against these laws and defend their members? I’d expect to see ACOG or AMA spokespeople talking in the press everyday about the restraints these anti-abortion laws & restrictions have put on doctors.

[Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti]

There’s a lot to get angry about these days, but I can’t remember the last time I’ve been this furious.

Watching the anti-abortion movement blame pro-choicers for the deaths of Candi Miller and Amber Nicole Thurman is just mind-blowing.

[roula @kangaroula]

@RBraceySherman HELLO, this all day every day

[GL @GoldiloxxPlanet]

@colleen__may As someone who works in healthcare administration, the fact that the *administration* didn't tell practitioners to take care of their patients because THEY would help protect them is also such a huge failure imo. The GA woman went to a hospital. Hospitals have lawyers.

[roula @kangaroula]

@colleen__may @PretermCLE @abortionfundOH @IWRising @Abortion_Squad @KyHealthJustice And don’t count out those in states that ban most abortions who are still doing all they can to support folks’ access. In GA, nonprofit clinic @FWHC is trying to keep its doors open to patients, @ARC_Southeast is overwhelmed keeping up with calls & need for $ to travel out of GA

[Mara Davis @MaraDavis]

I wonder if they’d say that if it were one of his daughters.

[kris @thekbake]

you have to be a special kind of ghoul to be the lawyer in front of SCOTUS arguing that pregnant people must die in emergency rooms

[roula @kangaroula]

@TruthAgape @DPBogle @maryfiorito I believe you’re mistaken on this. For sure with mifepristone, as an FDA-approved drug there’s an “adverse event reporting system” for reporting all post-medication incidents, even ones not caused by the med. For ex, this data is in the article that reported the case:

[Leah Greenberg says NO KINGS ❌👑 @Leahgreenb]

Just to be clear: Amber Thurman's death was not a tragic mistake. It is the logical outcome of the Georgia abortion ban working exactly as intended by horifically punishing women who try to access abortion care.

[roula @kangaroula]

4 in 5 GA voters say govt shouldn’t stand in the way of abortion access! But we get abortion bans + debates of “🤔 which deserving few may be exempt?” Fact is, moms in mortal danger, SA survivors, etc etc- can only fully access care when EVERYONE can. Unrestrict abortion for all.

[roula @kangaroula]

This, but not just GOP! Pols & neighbors in every party: an abortion ban’s “exceptions” rarely even help the few they claim to. They do nothing to lessen the barriers created by the ban itself; they put up more hurdles to jump; the hardest-hit will again be hardest-hit.

[Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman]

When the GOP talks about exceptions, remind them that in practice trying to overcome the burdens to get the exception make it impossible. It’s a lie.

[roula @kangaroula]

@Ruwa4Georgia Thank you for this.