Great op-ed by Chive Lady of Shallots & Leeks 🧄 up at Rewire News Group today, diving into one of my pet peeves: media platforming anti-abortion misinformation! rewirenewsgroup.com/2024/05/20/the…

There are campaign posters all over Upper Manhattan today—but they’re for Dominican Republic elections, which are on Sunday.

President Luis Abinader, who says he supports exceptions to the DR’s total abortion ban but has so far done nothing to enact them, is up for reelection.

another day, another Madeleine Aitken slay – her newest Rewire News Group piece dives deep into the fallout from Alabama's IVF turmoil and how the murkiness over new laws affects patients, medical students, and IVF providers rewirenewsgroup.com/2024/05/16/wil…

Wrote about this in November 2022 and several of the people I spoke with said they hoped philanthropists would take note of this need. I guess not 🙃 rewirenewsgroup.com/2022/11/15/cri…

The Nation has done some early reporting on police brutality injuries from the CCNY raid, too. This is the tip of the iceberg.
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Retraumatizing survivors of #GBV . Garnet Henderson writes about how abortion stigma, misinformation and conscientious objection make it nearly impossible for women to access abortions services in Brazil.
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I absolutely hate to say it but corporate lawyer Miranda Hobbes would be the management-side attorney

Multiple confirmed reports that Barnard seniors who attended People’s Graduation are not allowed back on campus to retrieve their belongings as a result of attending the “protest.” (It was a joyous ceremony in a nearby church.)

Catch Garnet Henderson’s excellent (and enraging) reporting on CPCs at Rewire News Group.

Security just dragged an NYU graduate off the stage for holding a Palestinian flag

5/ This reporting was supported by the International Women's Media Foundation’s Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice in the Americas Initiative.

Check out part one of the project, Garnet Henderson’s look inside a São Paulo “crisis pregnancy center,” here: rewirenewsgroup.com/2024/05/08/ins… #IWMFfellow

4/ A measure before Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court would decriminalize abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy—but the court’s president said he doesn’t think Brazilian society is ready for that. Read more:
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3/ On top of that, a high number of medical professionals in Brazil refuse to provide abortion care. One medical director in Rio de Janeiro told Garnet Henderson that at his hospital, as many as 80% of physicians object.

2/ However, many sexual violence survivors don’t know they’re entitled to legal abortions. Finding accurate information about abortion in Brazil is difficult, period.

Researchers who recently surveyed hospitals about legal abortion services were even cursed at and hung up on.