I agree with everything here AND I really hope that red state people don’t become political cannon fodder because we just watched this happen three years ago with Dobbs and we can’t make the same mistake again…
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The reality is, the red state politics and values will not change until enough people are harmed by it so that they will change their behavior And by people I mean rich white people. Brownback had to do immense damage before they got rid of him. Some people have to touch the stove repeatedly.
aug 31, 2025, 3:42 pm • 1 1 • view
Because as soon as abortion was “sent back to the states” the end result was a coalition of blue states protecting their own, with the resources primarily pouring into them and then being divvied out to red staters who tapped into those networks.
aug 31, 2025, 1:00 pm • 12 2 • view
Stockpiling mife while red states had complete bans. Paying for travel while letting red clinics close, regardless of the other health care we could provide. Offering shield protections to blue providers while red recipients were left with most of the immediate legal risk.
aug 31, 2025, 1:01 pm • 12 2 • view
We CANT do this again with public health. There has to be a way to do an AND/BOTH that supports red state folk who deserve healthcare too and already had the least access, because this is going to decimate us.
aug 31, 2025, 1:03 pm • 20 3 • view
On this glorious long weekend I’ve spent most of it trying to figure out whether we can be an access point for vaccines - either on site or with prescriptions. A thing we’ve already been working on for HPV (still a crisis) and birth control (so difficult to get). But we need resources to do it.
aug 31, 2025, 1:05 pm • 21 4 • view
Please don’t cut red states out of the solution. Especially if it’s a gathering of resources. Don’t make us start checking driving distances and hotels just to get a vaccine. Most of us did not vote for this, and we are still here…
aug 31, 2025, 1:07 pm • 20 5 • view
Creating voluntary associations that not only blue states together could join but also blue cities or towns in red states. I expect red states would move to take that option away from their localities, but that would at least exact a political cost if not legal challenges that allow it.
aug 31, 2025, 1:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly. And red state public health is utterly dependent on resources for capacity. We don’t “ban” things as much as underfund them so they can’t be accessible. A sister city project would help that exponentially.
aug 31, 2025, 1:18 pm • 3 0 • view