I watched the film just tonight. It’s nuanced and pretty impactful. Perhaps watch it before you criticize it because you don’t like a thing the director did? That snark and dismissal actually points to the importance of this film.

False. PP is the largest organization, but they provide only a third of abortions in the U.S. Many PP clinics do not have any abortion services at all, and instead refer to other sites, often miles and hours away.

Marie, EXCELLENT... and I mean PHENOMENAL reporting here. I’ve worked in abortion care and repro rights for over 20 years. This is the most thorough and accurate explanation of the intricacies and dynamics of the movement I’ve ever read. This is so great that I’m going to assign is as required reading in my Repro…

I used to work for Planned Parenthood (PP for short; unsure what PPA is). Your dollars do not go to the actual clinics providing services, the people who work there, or the patients they serve. Just FYI. If you really care about your dollar making an impact on abortion care directly, donate to the Abortion Care…

Great work, very scary!

I’m from a small farm town outside of Chicago and the creepiest shit happens to folks I know from that area. Great story!

Exactly. Greek groups HAVE TO to philanthropy to show they aren’t solely beer-bong-party bros and gals.

Spot on. Colleges and Universities are afraid to do anything substantial about Greek life because a majority of their donors are Greek-affiliated alumni. It is a cycle for a reason, in that it (seemingly) cannot be broken: College hosts Greek life, students rush and have “great” Greek experiences, students graduate…

Glad this helped you think about it differently! Access to health care and birth control is still important, especially in the US where we have huge disparities in who can get the care they need. When having those conversations you can frame it as “reducing as many unwanted pregnancies as we can.”

Does anyone watch The Morning Show on Apple TV? It’s an intense drama about the kind of thing that happened around Lauer and Couric, and everyone else who works at the show. It’s fiction and highly-dramatized, but hot damn if Katie Couric isn’t trying to make truth stranger than fiction.

Thanks for sharing your story. I work in abortion and repro health care.

That’s always tough with family. I like to follow that up with “should a baby be a punishment?” And “ what does your god/religion say about making mistakes and forgiveness?”

Your friendly neighborhood Abortion care worker here. This is a great time to self-reflect on how well-meaning “pro-choice” folks can actually stigmatize abortion and help anti-choice rhetoric and laws flourish.

Yeah, I work in abortion care, I know how it works. I’m saying this provider is “taking one for the team” to challenge the law. So far those suing him are men, and it sounds like they’re also doing it to challenge the law more than keep abortion shut down. My tongue-in-cheek comment was to say that I hope people can…

I hope all the men keep suing each other while the people with uteruses get their healthcare in a timely and safe fashion.

No private patient information has been shared (yet). And AR for Arkansas, AK is for Alaska.

Next time don’t reply and just leave him in the grays.

Speaking of IVF, if life begins at conception, every couple going through IVF with embryos in Texas should start suing themselves/each other until this law is sued into oblivion for the genuine pile of horseshit it is. Take Evangelicals’ embryos away from them, and no more reducing large numbers of multiples that have…

Not to pick at a sore spot, but what does that say if folks you’d consider friends or family don’t return your calls, emails. or texts?

Do you! This has worked for me and I’ve been in touch via real conversations with my family and friends in an authentic way since I quit. I don’t necessarily know what their kids ate for lunch, but I also no longer have to pretend to care what my 2nd cousin twice removed’s niece’s boyfriend is doing, either. I also…