leah 🤷🏻‍♀️

Midwife, Abortion Provider, MPH
she/her

♥️ Maine, politics, repro health

(I'm probably doing the #SpellingBee🐝 right now)

[leah 🤷🏻‍♀️ @misorocks]

Having an abortion meant I could become a nurse, a midwife, deliver babies, teach nurses, provide abortions, raise amazing young people, and build a family filled with love. Hard to believe my children's generation will have fewer rights to determine their future than I did. 💔

[Ushma Upadhyay, PhD, MPH @UshmaU]

Ecstatic to have received this Notice of Award from @NICHD_NIH! #grateful for this support!

This research will investigate how obtaining abortion care via telehealth affects timing ⏳, cost💸, and whether telehealth📱reaches folks who face greater health inequities.

[Just The Pill @JustThePill]

The Talmud teaches that "permission has been given for the doctor to heal." Access to healthcare is foundational in Jewish legal thought, including abortion.

In the New Year, let's all renew our commitment to fight for abortion care. How will you show support? 🍎🍯❤️

[leah 🤷🏻‍♀️ @misorocks]

This. All of this. ⬇️⬇️

[RHAvote @RHAVote]

If I could use my short time here on Repro earth to make one small piece of change, it would be to forever send that dreaded "1% of abortions happen after 21 weeks" stat to the ash heap of history. Here's why:

[AbortionFinder @Abortion_Finder]

Raise your hand if you're unapologetically #ProAbortion! 🤚

[ANSIRH @ANSIRH]

As abortion care expands, we need to refine our language as needed.

This @SocietyFP statement, led by @UshmaU, encourages those in the sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice fields to use the terms medication abortion and procedural abortion. https://t.co/z1jenYfEjJ

[Ushma Upadhyay, PhD, MPH @UshmaU]

Thanks to brilliant coauthors Leah Coplon (@misorocks) and Jessica Atrio (@AtrioJessica) and inspiration from @TracyWeitz!

[SisterSong: National Women of Color RJ Collective @SisterSong_WOC]

The US must learn from other countries where denials of abortion are considered intentional, state-inflicted torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment.

https://t.co/cgq6sCxYGe

[ineedana.com @i_need_an_a]

The only headline we care about today: "We Are Still Having Abortions All Across The Country." Get your copy of The Abortion Times, powered by @i_need_an_a and @AbortionStories

Learn More https://t.co/x8lCW04UOg

[ACLU of Maine @ACLUMaine]

BREAKING: The House just passed #LD1619 to allow people to access abortion care when medically necessary – without governmental or political interference. It now moves to the Senate.

This crucial vote comes one year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: An FDA advisory panel found that the benefits of making a birth control pill available over the counter outweighed the risks. The agency is expected to decide this summer whether to allow nonprescription sales of an oral contraceptive. https://t.co/N3pbu9YBkD

[Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti]

Abortion is a winning issue I really wish they'd fucking act like it

[Steve Vladeck @steve_vladeck]

#BREAKING: #SCOTUS *stays* Judge Kacsmaryk’s mifepristone ruling in full pending appeal.

This means there will be no change in the access to or availability of the medication anytime soon.

[kelseydotorg.bsky.social @KelseyDotOrg]

to everyone with abortion care appointments in the coming days:

✨don’t cancel your appointment!✨

clinics are working tirelessly to make sure you can get the care you need, no matter what today’s Supreme Court decision says.

[Whole Woman's Health @WholeWomans]

We love everyone who is taking or prescribing mifepristone today.

[Follow us on Bluesky at @convergepitt.bsky.social @CONVERGEPitt]

Faculty member @GreerDonley and her co-authors @dsc250 and @RRebouche wrote about the need for the #FDA to be bold and decline to enforce the #mifepristone ban.
https://t.co/48CxFJTyRA

[leah 🤷🏻‍♀️ @misorocks]

@davidleavitt @dsc250 Conscious Disassembling

[Hayley McMahon, MSPH, CPH @McMisoprostol]

ICYMI: @SocietyFP released new #WeCount data that shows an estimated 32,260 people were unable to access a wanted abortion in just the first 6 months after Roe v. Wade was overturned.

32,260 people carrying undesired or mistimed pregnancies. https://t.co/BSD8QZBtVr