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Preston MacDougall

Today’s ‘Featured article’ on @wikipedia is about Margaret Sanger, the ‘mother’ of the #BirthControl Movement and founder of Planned Parenthood. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margar

The birth control movement soon ‘went on steroids’, thanks to #chemistry and the development of synthetic steroids by multiple ‘fathers’, including Russell Marker at Penn State and then Carl Djerassi, Jorge Rosenkranz and Luis Miramontes in #Mexico City.

“Chemical Eye 👁️ on the Pill” sitnews.us/MacDougall/032405_m

en.m.wikipedia.orgMargaret Sanger - Wikipedia
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Nonilex

Even when non-#abortion services like #birthcontrol & cervical #cancer screenings are covered by #insurance, clinics aren't always reimbursed for the full cost, Thornton Greear said.

"The reality is that insurance reimbursement rates across the board are low," she said. "It's been that way for a while. When you start looking at the costs to run a #healthcare organization, from supply #costs, etc, when you layer on these #funding impacts, it creates a chasm that's impossible to fill."

#economy
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History May 14, 1940: Emma Goldman (1869-1940) died in Toronto, at the age of 70. She had been raising money for anti-Franco forces in Spain. Goldman emigrated to the U.S. from Lithuania in 1885. The Haymarket Affair radicalized her and attracted her to the anarchist movement. She planned the assassination of industrialist Henry Clay Frick, along with her lover Alexander Berkman. However, Frick survived and Berkman was sentenced to 22 years in prison. After that, she renounced “propaganda by the deed.” Nevertheless, she continued to agitate for women’s and workers’ rights and for anarchism. And she went to prison numerous times for “inciting to riot” and for distributing information about birth control. She also went to prison in 1917 for “inducing persons not to register” for the draft. When she was released, the U.S. deported her, and 248 other radicals, to Russia. She initially supported the “workers’ revolution.” However, after learning about the violent suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion by the Bolsheviks, she denounced the Soviet Union.

Portrait of Emma Goldman, in glasses, looking to the left, with the following quote: People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.
#workingclass#LaborHistory#anarchism
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Broadwaybabyto

The US dismantled most Covid wastewater testing to save money, yet Texas wants to test water for birth control, abortion pills & hormones associated with gender affirming care.

This is an assault on reproductive rights & another move towards a full surveillance state.

This isn’t about increasing the birth rate or protecting children. It’s about control.

#uspoli#fascism#reproductiverights
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Heliograph

@kottke wow what a woman :O :akko_fistup:
"#McCormick’s interest in #birthcontrol began in the 1910s, when she learned of Margaret Sanger, the feminist leader who had been jailed for opening the nation’s first birth control clinic. She shared Sanger’s fervent belief that women should be able to chart their own biological destinies. From 1922 to 1925, McCormick smuggled more than 1,000 #diaphragms into Sanger’s clinics."

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Nonilex

“President #Trump & #ElonMusk are pushing their dangerous political agenda, stripping #health care access from people nationwide, & not giving a second thought to the devastation they will cause,” Johnson said in a stmnt.

Federally funded programs such as #TitleX are crucial in providing access to #affordable #ReproductiveHealthcare, said Kelly Baden, VP for public policy at the Guttmacher Institute, which supports #AbortionRights.

#FammilyPlanning#MaternalMortality#BirthControl
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Nonilex

The WSJ reported last week #RFKJr’s #HHS planned an immediate freeze of $27.5M in #FamilyPlanning grants for groups including #PlannedParenthood.

PPFA says >300 #health centers are in the #TitleX network & Title X-funded centers received >1.5M visits in 2023.

The loss of funding will mean that “cancers go undetected, access to #BirthControl is severely reduced, & the nation’s #STI crisis worsens,” said Alexis McGill Johnson, PPFA president.

#ReproductiveHealthcare#ReproductiveRights#law
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Voting is Your POWER

By VOTING for DEMOCRATS, WE PROTECT OUR FREEDOM

The Healey-Driscoll Administration in Massachusetts has implemented two standing orders allowing approximately 500,000 eligible Massachusetts residents to obtain free over-the-counter birth control pills and prenatal vitamins. #uspol #uspolitics #freedom #birthcontrol #health #massachusetts #mapol #mapoli

wgbh.org/news/health/2025-03-0

GBH · State orders open access to free prenatal vitamins, birth controlBy Sam Drysdale | State House News Service
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Maggie Maybe

I ❤️ Massachusetts.

Governor Healey just made prenatal vitamins and OTC birth control part of mass health & some other medical mass insurance program.

I rejoice when I see something helping women who want to have children and who don’t want to have children. This is really wonderful, but I’m kind of surprised that someone on mass health who is pregnant would have had to pay for prenatals anyway.

#massachusetts#BirthControl#MassHealth
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DoomsdaysCW

SCOTUS just gave abortion clinics a rare win

But more significant threats from Trump’s Department of Justice remain.

by Julianne McShane, 2/24/2025

"Abortion rights advocates took the court’s rejection of the cases as a win, albeit a limited one.

"Katie O’Connor, director of federal abortion policy at the National Women’s Law Center, said that while the organization was “relieved” to hear about the court’s decision, “anti-abortion extremists are now more emboldened” thanks to Trump.

"Last month, for example, Trump’s DOJ announced it would limit enforcement of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, a 1994 federal law that prohibits physical force, threats, or intimidation against people trying to access reproductive health clinics. While the law has been used to prosecute both anti-abortion protesters targeting abortion clinics and abortion rights protesters targeting anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers, Trump baselessly claimed the Biden administration 'selectively weaponized [the law] against Christians.' The new DOJ guidance—which says the FACE Act should only be used in 'extraordinary circumstances' or cases involving 'death, serious bodily harm, or serious property damage'—reportedly has abortion providers bracing for more intense protests and fearing more violence. (The DOJ’s directive to limit FACE Act enforcement, though, does not override the legality of buffer zones, which are controlled by state and local law enforcement.)"

Read more:
motherjones.com/politics/2025/
#AbortionRights #WomensRights #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #BodilyAutonomy #BirthControl #PlannedParenthood
#ProBirth is not #ProLife!

Mother JonesSCOTUS just gave abortion clinics a rare winBut more significant threats from Trump's Department of Justice remain
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