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Other 👀 bits in here: *former Planned Parenthood Southeast board chair is out *PPSE claims to serve Mississippi but it has no clinics in MS and doesn't offer telehealth there *workers claim that Planned Parenthood Federation of America directed a California affiliate to assume management of PPSE

NEW: A Georgia-based Planned Parenthood affiliate has been hit with three lawsuits alleging discriminatory firings. Six women allege they were fired for pushing back on former interim CEO Mairo Akposé. @autonomynews.co broke the story that Akposé wanted to halt abortion care, and she's also suing

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Students for life CEO Kristan Hawkins and three others are being sued under HB 7 for $459,782—the average cost to raise two kids in Texas until age 18. The group pushed the legislature to enact the bounty-hunter law last year and declared “victory” when it passed www.autonomynews.co/texas-single...

Last year, a Students for Life exec said that when it comes to restricting abortion pills, "I’m for using the devil’s own tools against them." (talking about environmental law) A Texas woman forced to give birth has now sued the organization under a law it lobbied for. My latest in @autonomynews.co

"Frankly, I’m for using the devil’s own tools against them," this anti-abortion group's comms director recently said. And I just think that's poetic

Our story is the only one to explain the backstory of legal activist Jonathan Mitchell and his two bounty cases. Support independent journalism that connects all the dots. Join @autonomynews.co as a paid subscriber or make a one-time gift today:

Her lawyer told @autonomynews.co that while it seems strange that a person with no legal standing could bring a lawsuit, "if anyone should be benefiting from this regime, it should be people like my client.” “The majority of abortion seekers look like Maria, and we don't hear from them enough.”

HB 7 lets people seek $100K bounties from those who distribute abortion pills, or intend to. It's based on notorious SB 8, which ended most legal abortions months before Dobbs. Jonathan Mitchell wrote SB 8 and filed the only two suits citing HB 7—until this week www.autonomynews.co/texas-single...

NEW: Abortion opponents worked to pass bounty-hunter bills to end abortion in Texas and stop the flow of abortion pills. Now, a 26yo Texan forced to give birth is suing Students for Life after its president tried to order pills on camera. Seeks $460K—average cost to raise two kids. @autonomynews.co

DOJ lawyers laid out a number of avenues the FDA could take to restrict mifepristone depending on the results of its “review.” These include having RFK Jr. suspend approval of the drug, or force changes to its label or the conditions of a safety program under which it’s regulated. @autonomynews.co

The purportedly "pro choice" Susan Collins just said she doesn't regret confirming RFK Jr., the guy cheerleading a bogus safety "review" of the abortion pill that could soon limit access. 64% of all US abortions done with pills www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... www.autonomynews.co/fda-lawyer-l...

REVEALED: The Trump administration gave almost $13 million in family planning grants to anti-abortion physicians. More than $8 million went to projects led by a Pennsylvania doctor who recently said girls should think about future pregnancies as young as 8 years old. scoop by @garnethenderson.com

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NEW: HHS has awarded an additional $3.9 million to Duquesne University to research a "body literacy" education program. The principal investigator on the grant is Marguerite Duane, whose nonprofit is separately getting $4.5 million to create a national infertility training center.

The No on 3 canvassers had an impact on this Richmond Heights man, who was enjoying a cold porch beer, god bless. “They put the transgender surgery for minors thing on there when it’s already against the law!” Wissner told @assignedmedia.org www.autonomynews.co/missouri-ame...

The state’s largest LGBTQ+ group hopes to persuade people to vote no "but also to do something a lot more radical than that: Persuade voters that trans Missourians are their neighbors, that trans people are people just like them." If @evanurquhart.bsky.social's story doesn't make your heart swell!!

Missouri Amendment 3 would permanently ban both transgender youth healthcare and abortion—but there’s little focus on the former. @assignedmedia.org followed canvassers persuading people to vote no with a playbook developed during the marriage equality fight. Honored to publish on @autonomynews.co

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PROMO’s ED Katy Erker-Lynch happens to have given one of the best quotes in this recent @autonomynews.co story: Ken Paxton “gets a lot of attention for how outrageous he is,” Erker-­Lynch said. “Bailey was always saying, ‘Hey, Paxton, hold my beer...I’m gonna beat you to it.’”

“PROMO’s message for Missouri is to remember that trans people aren’t an abstract concept, but real people living in the state.” What a pleasure to republish this lovely story from @evanurquhart.bsky.social & @assignedmedia.org, edited by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, at @autonomynews.co today!

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ICYMI: Until six months ago, White House press secretary Katie Zacharia worked with an organization that wants to prosecute people who have abortions for homicide—yes, throw women in prison. And last year, she claimed that abortion pills have ties to Nazi Germany.

The START of this clip made me do a double take: new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia sits on the board of White Rose Resistance, an organization that wants to *prosecute abortion patients for homicide* www.ms.now/opinion/abor...

They’re doing an “abortion survivor” narrative for the new White House press secretary

NEW: An abortion provider suing the FDA for restricting the drug mifepristone obtained emails showing White House staffers meddling in statements about abortion pills. WH made edits to a letter RFK Jr sent to red-state AGs seeking crackdown @autonomynews.co storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...