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How do the SCOTUS decisions affect our daily lives? Join me and Healing Equity United on June 28th for a free webinar on the recent decisions coming out of the Supreme Court. Registration: https://lnkd.in/eZ96-t2g This webinar will dive into the implications of a few of the most recent cases, including: ✦ L.W. v. Skormetti, which decides whether parents can provide gender-affirming care for their trans and gender-expansive children. ✦ FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicare, which determines whether Mifepristone (a common abortion method) can be banned. ✦ Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of NAACP, which decides whether states can make it harder for People of the Global Majority to access political power. We will unpack the underlying elements of the cases and their potential societal effects as I provide clarity on complex legal matters. Participants will learn about and process the implications of these rulings through a DEIB lens and together we will hold space for our personal reactions to them. Toward the end of our time together, we’ll cover actions we can take in response to these rulings. 💙

❗ Join our partners the United State of Women (USOW), If/When/How, and M + A Hotline for Self-Managed Abortion On Our Own Terms, a webinar that will cover the barriers communities of color face when accessing reproductive healthcare, how a person's intersecting identities can make them vulnerable to an increased risk of prosecution, the current legal landscape, and ways you can help your community avoid criminalization. RSVP for this event: https://lnkd.in/evuZqxkb, and M + A Hotline for Self-Managed Abortion On Our Own Terms, a webinar that will cover the barriers communities of color face when accessing reproductive healthcare, how a person's intersecting identities can make them vulnerable to an increased risk of prosecution, the current legal landscape, and ways you can help your community avoid criminalization. RSVP for this event: usowomen.org/webinar

Cavity Samantha and the court Drew Goins published a neat synopsis of a new rendition of an old game as imagined by @Alexandra Petri of WAPO. How to play Operation: Post-Roe — as the court plays with women’s health! You, a doctor, consider the situation: Patient is experiencing a ruptured amniotic sac, or severe preeclampsia. The procedure is medically necessary. There is no other option. It is the only way to stabilize the patient/pregnant woman. You begin to operate. BZZZZZ! Game over! Nice try, but you forgot to check whether saving a pregnant woman’s life is allowed in your state! Listening to oral arguments on Wednesday for the Supreme Court case Idaho v. United States — concerning whether federal law can require hospitals to perform emergency abortions in states with bans — Alexandra Petri saw fit to update America’s favorite hospital board game for certain realities after the 2022 Dobbs decision stripped the federal right to an abortion. The fun-ectomized version of the game has brand-new “state legislator” and “vintage law from 1864” cards, as well as the inevitable involvement of other unsavories, such as Justice Samuel Alito Q: Actually, I have a question about the inclusion of Justice Samuel Alito as an unavoidable character in this game. Why? A: What game isn’t more fun with the inclusion of Justice Samuel Alito? (The author of the Dobbs decision) making trenchant comments such as: "the hospital must try to eliminate any immediate threat to the child, but performing an abortion is antithetical to that duty.” Q: Why does my Justice Alito shout “Stop, Doctor! We must weigh the competing interests of Cavity Samantha against those of the unborn child!” in situations where doing so would be totally senseless — i.e., emergency situations where because of pregnancy complications, the loss of the fetus is inevitable but the loss of the life of the person carrying that fetus is not? A: Ah, you’re again making the mistake of thinking your Cavity Samantha is a person. That’s why we wrote “ONLY A PERSON SOMETIMES” on the box in big red letters. Doctors keep forgetting that, and then they lose the game — and their licenses! The mother to Alito apparently is "collateral damage, a mere vessel. And never mind that the "child" he refers to can be just a cell ball, or have an anomaly that will ensure death before or soon after birth. He consistently parrots anti-abortion activists in his choice of words. And decisions! Yeah, Operation: Post Roe sounds like a challenging and fun game all right (NOT). That's why lawyers and judges should never be allowed to practice medicine.

This is powerful.

Join me, Jane Seymour, Alison Gemmill, and Abigail Aiken at this webinar presented by the Association of Public Data Users (APDU) and PRB Data Opportunities and Challenges in a Post-Roe World June 6, 1 p.m. EST, virtual As we near the two-year anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, join a panel discussion with experts from across the United States to discuss questions including: What are the barriers to collecting abortion data today? What have we learned from the data so far? Where are the data gaps and how can we fill them? Learn more and register. https://lnkd.in/ecUPZdAk

Since the overturn of Roe v. Wade in 2022, an increasing number of women seeking abortion are almost exclusively using the internet, never actually stepping foot in a clinic. If abortions are online, hope must be there too! Caring Network now offers online care to bring women both love and truth! Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3ZyzfpK

I don’t know if Allie was employed when she had to confront this harrowing situation. A huge portion of her trauma could have been avoided if appropriate healthcare was available to her close to home. It was not. If you employ people in a state that has banned or severely limited access to safe termination of pregnancies or banned or limited gender affirming care - consider drafting policies that will help support your team if they have to look outside their home state for the healthcare they need to be productive employees. Ask your people what benefits they want or need to hold on to their sanity while navigating this kind of needless trauma. Consider offering access to employee assistance that can help your team do some of the health research and investigation that their healthcare team can not provide them with for fear of loosing their ability to practice.

Two years ago, SCOTUS gave us the Dobbs decision, ignoring science, evidence, precedent and ethics to strip women, girls and birthing people of bodily autonomy. Despite the spirited resistance of people throughout the country, many have been harmed: pregnant people and their families, physicians trying to maintain ethical standards and public health overall. In the article referenced here, we highlight the ways forward: https://t.co/CiJ2I1JoV3

Are you interested in learning more on how the overturning of Roe v. Wade has impacted #women and #Healthcare staff? Tune in to ABC tonight. #reproductivehealth #reproductiverights #abortionishealthcare