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Dana M. Johnson

@danamartha.bsky.social
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I research and write about abortion, contraception, adolescents, technology, and public policy. Tbh, I'd rather be outside. www.dana-johnson.com

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Dana M. Johnson @danamartha.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Getting ready for my first @asanews.bsky.social meeting ever! Who is going to be in NYC this weekend?
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Anyway back to my ongoing theory that women use AI to get more done and men use AI to get out of doing more.
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Dana M. Johnson @danamartha.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I am deep in analysis on advance provision of abortion pills and cannot stress enough that not everyone wants, needs, or is medically eligible for medication abortion Expanding access to abortion pills should not distract from the continued need for procedural abortion and in-person care
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/07/2026
Republicans may have failed to extend the one-year defund of Planned Parenthood, but the fallout continues: PP of Michigan is closing clinics in Lansing, Livonia and Warren
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Planned Parenthood blames aid cuts as it closes 3 more Michigan centers
Planned Parenthood of Michigan is closing three additional facilities in Michigan due to a decline in certain funding and reimbursements.
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Dana M. Johnson @danamartha.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
➡️ Why do teens order medication abortion online, instead of seeking abortion at a clinic? ➡️ How can we reduce the age-related barriers for teens accessing online care? New in @bmj.com SRH "Adolescents’ motivations for obtaining online medication abortion in the US" srh.bmj.com/content/earl...
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Adolescents’ motivations for obtaining online medication abortion in the United States: a mixed-methods analysis
Background State-level abortion bans, parental involvement laws and structural barriers to abortion care create a complicated landscape for adolescents under 18 years old seeking clinic-based abortion...
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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The Trump administration has a new plan for teenagers learning about pregnancy: Millions will now be directed toward organizations that focus on body literacy, fertility tracking, hormonal production and “reproductive goals counseling,” programming usually meant for youth between ages 10 and 24.
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Feds have a new teen pregnancy prevention plan: Fertility and ‘reproductive goals’ • Stateline
The Trump administration has a new plan for teenagers learning about pregnancy: Beginning this summer, it will steer millions of dollars toward organizations that focus on anatomy, fertility tracking,...
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 21/07/2026
An electric ice-cream maker was listed at just $17.99 at Amazon and Best Buy. Then it became unavailable at Best Buy, and more than tripled in price to $59.99 at Amazon. Here’s how it happened… 🧵
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Dana M. Johnson @danamartha.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 17/07/2026
If you're relying on a certain substack for factual information about abortion access I would submit that you should not
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13/07/2026
You can and should point out that police killing people daily is the "norm" in America. But that doesn't mean you *accept* the normalization of this violence and the way some people rush to smugly point these things out contributes to collective fatigue. Your horror has been stolen from you.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 28/05/2026
The realities of why people need later abortions are why Erika and @patientforward.bsky.social oppose bans on abortion at *any* stage of pregnancy—including viability limits. She knows now that such bans force people to travel, give birth, or self-manage under the threat of arrest
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10 Years Ago, My 32-Week Abortion Story Went Viral. Here’s What I’ve Learned Since.
After sharing my experience with Jezebel, I became an advocate focused on eliminating barriers to abortion care throughout pregnancy.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 19/05/2026
"Her lawyer is not telling the truth about his participation that evening. And for this to be depicted as a 'bouncing baby boy' is materially false. It undermines the violence, lack of dignity, and safety of the whole situation. She was handcuffed behind her back throughout the birth."
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 14/05/2026
Not only is letting the stay expire a bad look, it will cause chaos, confusion and fear for abortion providers and abortion seekers. Abortion providers and funds are responding to questions from confused and scared people NOW
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
No, still nothing from SCOTUS on mifepristone. Justice Alito’s administrative stay ends at 5p.
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Dana M. Johnson @danamartha.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Guys....
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Dana M. Johnson @danamartha.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I research sexual and reproductive health all day every day and @autonomynews.co is my go to source for what the hell is happening in our world
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
On this day in 1985, the city of Philadelphia went to war against its own citizens. I wrote about it for @teenvogue.com back in 2020: www.teenvogue.com/story/histor...
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What You Need to Know About the MOVE Bombing
And how Philadelphia became "the city that bombed itself."
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Dana M. Johnson @danamartha.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"Misoprostol, by contrast, is harder to replace, as a mainstay of obstetric care and the most viable alternative to the standard regimen for pregnancy termination. If it becomes widely restricted, Americans seeking abortion care will have no ready substitute" www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
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Misoprostol Could Be Next
If the Supreme Court upholds new restrictions on mifepristone, the other abortion pill may be targeted too.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The administrative stay in the mifepristone case ends Monday. Unless SCOTUS issues an order regarding whether the injunction should stay in place while the litigation proceeds, the Fifth Circuit’s ban on obtaining the abortion drug via telehealth goes into effect. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The Week Ahead
May 10, 2026
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Dana M. Johnson @danamartha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Today is the final day in the stay of the mifepristone case. 🚨 Medication abortion is NOT going away. We know misoprostol is a safe and effective medication abortion option. ➡️ Our evidence of US-based use doi.org/10.1363/psrh... ➡️ NEJM Review of studies evidence.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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How Effective Is Misoprostol Alone for Medication Abortion?
With recent severe restrictions to abortion accessibility in the United States and a pending Supreme Court case challenging the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, evidence-bas...
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Dana M. Johnson @danamartha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Excellent reporting and explanations in this piece on the difference between different medication abortion regimens www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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They came for mifepristone. The abortion rights movement is ready.
As the abortion pill heads back to the Supreme Court, advocates have a backup that's effective and safe: misoprostol alone.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/05/2026
The fate of the widely used abortion medication mifepristone is in the hands of the Supreme Court on Monday. The justices are set to decide whether to keep nationwide access in place as they weigh a challenge to the FDA's rules governing the drug. Follow live updates.
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Trump Live Updates: Supreme Court to Consider Case Challenging Access to Abortion Pill
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
One of the most amusingly petty things Justice Alito does is to put deadlines on administrative stays *only* when he is deeply *unsympathetic* to the applicants. He did it in the 2023 mife case and the 2024 SB4 immigration case; and he did it today. In all other cases, his stays are indefinite:
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
BREAKING @ms.now: Justice Alito restores abortion pill access by mail as litigation on the matter continues The temporary action comes as the latest major shift in abortion access after an appeals court on Friday blocked access to mifepristone nationwide. What to know ⤵️
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Supreme Court restores abortion pill access by mail as litigation on the matter continues
The temporary action comes as the latest major shift in abortion access after an appeals court on Friday blocked access to mifepristone nationwide.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Terrific thread. I’ll just add: 1. I think there’s a good chance the Supreme Court will stay this decision, allowing providers to keep mailing mifepristone for the time being. 2. The Trump administration didn’t want this! Its plan was to wait until after the midterms to crack down on mifepristone.
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Dana M. Johnson @danamartha.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Also this happening on May Day is really effing rude
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Dana M. Johnson @danamartha.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Mifepristone is not illegal. It is not being taken off the market. LOUDER NOW. Mifepristone is not illegal. It is not being taken off the market.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 01/05/2026
NEW: The ultraconservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked the 2023 rule change that allowed for telemedicine prescriptions of the abortion drug mifepristone—nationwide.
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Published Opinion – #119, Att. #1 in State of Louisiana v. FDA (5th Cir., 26-30203) – CourtListener.com
NON DISPOSITIVE PUBLISHED OPINION FILED. Judge: LHS, Judge: SKD, Judge: KDE; granting Motion to stay the 2023REMS under 5 U.S.C. § 705 pending appeal filed by Appellant State of Louisiana [12]; denyin...
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Renee Bracey Sherman @renee.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Let’s talk misoprostol-only abortions! www.instagram.com/reel/DX0KtRe...
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Rachel Wells @rachelwells1.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The @reprorights.org lawsuit survived multiple state appeals seeking to throw it out, but courts consistently agreed the case had merit. Then the state legislature intervened. Days before the trial, it was canceled, pushing a 3-year case further out.
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After Losing in Court, Lawmakers Step In to Stop an Abortion Trial
New laws allowed the state to halt the case just days before patients and doctors were set to testify.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I do find this insistence on contingency and hedging survivors’ accounts really tedious. Andrew Cuomo was found to have sexually harassed Lindsay Boylan—and many others—by the New York Attorney General.
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Dana M. Johnson @danamartha.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
What is the relevance of marriage within the realm of family formation and births among US women? How off the press in @readdemography.bsky.social - Kristen L Burke investigates read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
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Decoupled? The Persistent Relevance of Marriage for Childbearing in the 2010s United States | Demography | Duke University Press
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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This is why I go so hard about studying entertainment as politically relevant media. Viewers may be learning about these issues for the first time, or connecting to what they’ve already experienced. And how they make sense of entertainment as politically relevant will affect what happens next.
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Dana M. Johnson @danamartha.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This case is very important. It speaks to privacy, child abuse, unregulated tech, and to how we treat sex crimes. In an American public that is both highly sexualized, yet deeply restrictive in terms of the sexual wellbeing and autonomy of young people... www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...
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Opinion | Deepfake Nudes Are Haunting America’s Teens
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Wisconsin Examiner @wisconsinexaminer.com · 08/04/2026
‘It’s a safe space’: Mobile midwifery clinics meet patients where they are. Via @nhassanein.bsky.social of @stateline.org
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‘It's a safe space’: Mobile midwifery clinics meet patients where they are • Wisconsin Examiner
One mobile clinic takes midwifery care to majority-Black and Latino neighborhoods in Florida’s Miami-Dade County, offering free, culturally centered care and referrals.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 01/04/2026
The president will take time out of his busy schedule of overseeing an illegal war, sending ICE to airports, and designing a ballroom to try to intimidate justices into upholding his policy that could put immigration agents in every labor and delivery ward in the US
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Trump plans to attend oral arguments in Supreme Court birthright citizenship case
Both the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court Historical Society have said there is no official record of any sitting president attending oral arguments.
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Dana M. Johnson @danamartha.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Every year April fools gets me - I’m unfortunately a very literal person!!
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Dana M. Johnson @danamartha.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I have seen a touch of confusion in the reporting and discussion around our recent study on AYA request for medication abortion from an online telemedicine service particularly in the context of new research from theGuttmacher team on the persistent increase in folks using telehealth for abortion
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
June Jordan said, "Activism... propels you forward, from one hard hour to the next. Believing that you can do something to make things better, you do something, rather than nothing... You do whatever you can. You reach beyond yourself in your imagination, and in your wish for understanding.“
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Scholars Strategy Network @scholars.org · 26/03/2026
In this @us.theconversation.com op-ed, @danamartha.bsky.social (@wisccore.bsky.social) and @lauralindberg.bsky.social (@rutgerssph.bsky.social) break down their research on how teens are accessing abortion pills via telehealth, why it matters, and what further research is needed. Read their piece:
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Teens are driving the demand for online abortion pills via telehealth – new research
Parental involvement laws and the stigma of teen pregnancy create significant barriers for teenagers seeking abortions. These factors are pushing teens to obtain abortion pills online.
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Fannie Jack Hammer @0hbetave.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Turn off face ID and get printed boarding passes.
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Dana M. Johnson @danamartha.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Important new data insights from @imaddowzimet.bsky.social @kimyaf.bsky.social @guttmacher.org Telehealth remains essential With what seems to be fewer people traveling to abortion supportive states for care, and more folks accessing abortion via telehealth www.guttmacher.org/report/full-...
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Full-Year Estimates Show Overall Stability in Abortion Incidence, Decreased Travel and Increased Telehealth Provision
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I'm receiving reports from airports all over the country about ICE sightings. I'll be sharing updates here as I get them. ⬇️
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Amanda Becker @amandabecker.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The women leading the farmworker movement won’t let it be defined by Cesar Chavez 19thnews.org/2026/03/wome... via @19thnews.org
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The women leading the farmworker movement won’t let it be defined by Cesar Chavez
The sexual abuse allegations against Chavez have rocked them. But their focus is still on protecting other women.
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Dana M. Johnson @danamartha.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The AI headshots are freaky!!
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 20/03/2026
One of many problems with this, @susanrinkunas.com points out at @autonomynews.co: This Black woman was arrested and charged even though Georgia state law doesn’t actually allow prosecutions of people who end their own pregnancies! www.autonomynews.co/georgia-cops...
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Georgia Cops Ignore Precedent to Arrest Black Woman for Murder After Alleged Abortion
The case is strikingly similar to a 2015 arrest where prosecutors later dropped the charges. “The law hasn't changed. It is still not a crime to take misoprostol,” a reproductive justice lawyer told A...
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Leah Abrams @leahrabrams.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
🚨PhDs in demography, sociology, public health, biomedical science.... Check out this exciting postdoc opportunity to work in the new and growing area of "medical demography" with Dr. Marcus Ebeling! www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...
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MPIDR - Postdoctoral Researcher: Max Planck Research Group on Medical Demography
The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock is one of the leading demographic research centers in the world. At the MPIDR, researchers from all over the world investigate demographic change, aging, fertility, biological demography and other issues at the forefront of population research.
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UW Collaborative for Reproductive Equity (CORE) @wisccore.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
📢 Check out this article from @msmagazine.com featuring CORE trainee @danamartha.bsky.social! Read Dana's insights on her research about medication abortion, telemedicine, adolescents, and state parental involvement laws (like in Wisconsin). 📝➡️ buff.ly/lDjM8m9
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Teens Avoid Coercive Parental Involvement Laws by Using Telehealth Abortion Services
teens in states with parental involvement laws are increasingly seeking abortion pills online to avoid judges, delays and unsafe alternatives.
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