Come to think of it, denigrating the worth of a soldier’s service based on whether he deployed to a war zone is… kind of like denigrating the worth of a woman’s citizenship based on whether she happens to have children.
This! How can we be silent when politicians and policies are actively working to harm our patients and how we practice medicine
#AdvocacyInMedicine every 👏🏼 day 👏🏼
Should perpetrators of #IPV have access to #firearms? One case went all the way to the #SCOTUS
Spoiler alert: they ruled 8-1 that no, they shouldn't.
#GunViolence is one of the leading causes of #maternalmortality. This ruling is life-saving but the #advocacy continues
Addressing a Leading Cause of Maternal Mortality: Intimate Partner Violence and Access to Firearms. A Personal Perspective from @CharlotteMLeeMD and @MeganEvansMD (@TuftsMedicalCtr) https://t.co/Wpgtlq9T1i
More with this nonsense
DOES 👏🏼 NOT 👏🏼 HAPPEN
When the baby “comes out of the birth canal” it’s called a VAGINAL birth
Which many of us do every day with care and compassion even though you and your colleagues are working tirelessly to make pregnancy UNSAFE for everyone
We’ve entered a multi-year partnership with @opill_otc, the first-ever daily birth control pill available without a prescription in the U.S.
Our partnership focuses on building confidence, strength and health equity, all of which closely align with both organizations’ core priorities
Read More ⬇️
https://t.co/vfSW3aK7M6
The #Ohio election showed that people understand abortion is critical to families and communities, and they want access to this essential health care. We’ll continue to work to expand access to reproductive health care so that all Ohioans can get #abortion care when they need it.
🚨NEWS: Massachusetts just passed a budget that makes universal free school meals permanent.
Food security is a human right, and this will literally change & save lives.
TY to our State House colleagues & advocates who fought hard to make this possible.
https://t.co/TwqDy4qIDe
The Advocates speak with the amazing Jordan Zaslow, Founder and Executive Director of @HerBoldMoveUSA!
Prepare yourself though - after listening you’ll be motivated to run for office and change the world.
#PhysicianAdvocacy#MakeADifference
Did you hear that ladies?
Your c-sections, hysterectomies, laparoscopies for ectopics, endometriosis, fibroids, torsions, hysteroscopies, ovarian cancer debulkings, pelvic reconstructions, D&Cs etc don’t count as surgery!
Don’t even think about needing time to recover 🙃
I just wrote @RepAuchincloss in a campaign for @ACOGAction and working to reduce #maternalmortality!
Let's get #HR3838 Preventing Maternal Deaths Reauthorization Act across the finish line!
https://t.co/4FQVgpUXfi
@AmerMedicalAssn response to Indiana’s Medical Board’s hearing on @drcaitbernard. AMA reaffirms their stance that abortion is healthcare and that non-evidence based laws compromise the patient-physician relationship. @ACOGAction https://t.co/YvZzKpK7tI
If you have student loan debt, you should know this:
Every single House Republican just voted to overturn President Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan AND retroactively charge you interest on your paused payments.
Pearl from the Writing for Advocacy session @SASGOG featuring @MeganEvansMD, Drs. William Leininger, Maureen Farrell and and Jaclyn Nunziato: use M&Ms, RCAs and surveys (which we doing already in academia) to further advocacy for DEI, repro justice & SDoH.
Truly unbelievable-elected officials threatening kids with violence for speaking out about the abhorrent school shootings occurring around the country
#itstheguns
Today @WilliamLamberth, a Tennessee state representative, asked students protesting gun violence which gun they’d like him to use when shooting them: “If there’s a firearm out there you’re comfortable being shot with, please show me which one it is.”
https://t.co/eiEJWpeNJR