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Healthcare is a human right

Interstate travel plays a key role in expanding or restricting abortion access and has gained increased attention following the Dobbs v. Jackson decision. As the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) continue to monitor rulings and propose new guidelines regarding reproductive health, it's crucial to stay updated on what is impacting HIPAA compliance. Further info in the link in the comments below. #HIPAA #Healthcare #Reproductivehealth #Reproductiverights

Today, the Supreme Court decided unanimously to uphold access to and regulatory approval of a safe and effective prescription drug that is used, among other things, to perform first term abortions. Reality and sanity prevailed. In case you haven’t heard, there was a real danger in this case that not only would reproductive freedoms be sharply curtailed, but also the regulatory power of the FDA would be restricted or eliminated. If the lower court ruling had stood, these fever dreams of the most ardent Christian nationalists in the current Republican Party would have come true. All because the Trump Administration had appointed a single, massively unqualified, radical right federal judge to a small court in Texas where he was the only arbiter of whatever he called justice. Because of this case, the federal judiciary changed their policies in assigning judges, so that petitioners can no longer “judge shop” and bias the outcome with judges like this one. Because of this case, we have finally found some modicum of unanimity even on this fractured Supreme Court. But also, do not for one minute think that if Trump is president again and the current Republicans running win the Senate back, that he would not take the opportunity to appoint justices that make Kavanaugh look like RBG in comparison, and force a different decision next year. Sanity prevailed today. There is a very real danger it would not ever again, if the Republican Party as it currently stands wins big in November. Let this peek over the edge of the cliff motivate you into action. It’s time to get to work.

We need our lawmakers to commit to true abortion justice: affordable, accessible, culturally competent abortion and reproductive health care. Tell Congress to fight to pass the Women's Health Protection Act here: https://bit.ly/3BDkDZ3 #GOPWarOnWomen

Being able to make decisions about your health is one of the most basic pillars of personhood. You create the dominion over your own body. In Idaho v. US, Idaho argues that a federal statute (whose acronym is EMTALA) put into place to prevent people from being thrown out of ERs and materially deteriorating because no one wants to treat them, just doesn’t count when it comes to pregnant women who are in the throes of a medical emergency that requires an abortion as life-saving care. Why? because Idaho’s near total abortion ban forbids it, until a woman has materially deteriorated enough that a group of non-doctors can decide whether or not she is sick enough to have an abortion. Or, the doctor, who is subject to criminal penalties and the loss of their livelihood for providing abortions, can use their “subjective judgment” and roll the dice and see, if, after the fact, the government agreed with that judgment. So, to recap: IDAHO: pregnant women having a pregnancy related health care emergency need to be staring at their death to get an abortion. GOVERNMENT: Hospitals that receive Medicare and Medicaid must provide care, including abortions, to people in health emergencies so they never have to unnecessarily stare at their death. States don’t get to ignore Federal law to take away people’s rights. We’ve seen how that works out and that’s why we have the 14A. And it was also about reproductive justice in 1868 too. Was so thrilled to be able to have Peggy Cooper Davis cited to that last point, as well as so many other beautiful minds on the question of reproductive justice and race. Idaho v. U.S will be argued on April 24. I hope you will listen to the arguments. I know we already know, but there are a lot of lives at stake. #EMTALA #personhoodisforpeople

Abortion is health care. Health care is a human right. On the 51st anniversary of #RoeVWade — we must recommit to defending reproductive freedom and continue fighting to make abortion — a personal decision — accessible for all — without judgement, shame or government interference. #abortionishealthcare #womenshealth #abortioncare

Watch our Executive Director Melissa Goodman break down 5 key ideas the center's work is advancing: 1. Abortion is basic mainstream healthcare that shouldn’t have restrictions imposed by politicians and should be truly accessible to everyone no matter their identity, location, or economic circumstances. 2. Restricting abortion and other types of reproductive health care is gender discrimination and rooted in gender stereotypes and control of women and people who can become pregnant.  3. Criminalizing healthcare and punishing women and families is never the best approach. Giving people access to healthcare and economic resources is. 4. Contraception is a right, is necessary for gender equity, and should be available to all in the most easily accessible ways possible, including teens. 5. We need laws and policy supports that help people who decide to build families thrive in safe, healthy, nondiscriminatory, and economically supportive environments. https://lnkd.in/girmSGmd

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The Reproductive Justice Panel is happening TODAY at 3:30 p.m. Join us in Bozorth 112 for an exciting discussion about the timely topic of reproductive justice!