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Politics and Health @politicshealth.bsky.social

First they came for the LGBTQ 🏳️‍⚧️ people, and I did not speak up because I wasn’t LGBTQ. Then they came for the immigrants, not caring about their legal status, sending them to countries they never lived where violence is endemic, and I didn’t speak up. Then they came for us, for women.

Texas's effort is part of a broader strategy by abortion foes to target the rising popularity of medication abortion and to expand limits on the procedure into states that ostensibly protect abortion rights. President Trump's budget and policy law, passed by Congress this summer, imposed a one-year ban on state Medicaid payments to any health-care nonprofit that offers abortions and received more than $800,000 in federal funding in 2023. A federal judge in Maine declined on Monday to block the government from stripping Medicaid funding from one of Maine's largest abortion providers, finding that to do so would override
aug 29, 2025, 11:35 am • 1 1

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Politics and Health @politicshealth.bsky.social

I’m out of gift articles til September, but here’s the @nytimes link. Abortion in America is mostly a private thing, now, with the meds easily available and you can take them at home. Don’t get used to that. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...

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Shadow of My Former Self @meerkatsrmammals.bsky.social

You can order boner pills. Online. Super effing cheap. No problem. Oh how I wish women could have nice things too.

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