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Dara Kass, MD

@darakass.com
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Physician, wife, mother, daughter. Expanding reproductive healthcare in EDs. Helping folks think about better healthcare systems. darakass.com for more.

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Brown University School of Public Health @brownpublichealth.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
State-level efforts to reclassify vital medications (like mifepristone) as "controlled substances" are creating roadblocks for standard obstetric care. Professors Liz Tobin-Tyler and @darakass.com and Senior Fellow @spsaki.bsky.social describe the laws' unintended, often dangerous consequences.
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How states' moves to call abortion drugs ‘controlled substances' can make childbirth more dangerous and interfere with legal, safe and necessary healthcare
Medications used to perform abortions are also widely used to treat severe pregnancy complications, as well as several conditions unrelated to childbirth.
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 23/01/2026
In an #OpEd, @darakass.com, @spsaki.bsky.social, and Liz Tobin-Tyler, JD, MA, all of @brownpublichealth.bsky.social, explain what the research actually shows about reproductive coercion. Read now: www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
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Opinion | Debunking the 'Coercion' Argument in the Abortion Pill Debate
Restricting mifepristone access doesn't protect women from abuse
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 16/12/2025
For parents of children caught in school shootings, the burden is overwhelming—and the answers are painfully few. Dr. Dara Kass’ latest is a must-read. contrarian.substack.com/p/what-pare…
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Dara Kass, MD @darakass.com · 16/12/2025
My daughter spent hours in a bathroom this weekend as we waiting for the lockdown to be over. A few lessons I learned along the way. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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What Parents Can Do When Their Child Is in an Active-Shooter Lockdown
This moment will come for too many of us.
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Alan Stamm @alanstamm.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
@darakass.com, a NYC emergency medicine physician whose daughter Hannah was among students sheltering at Brown on Saturday, posts at @contrariannews.org about a stark reality of American parenting: "If your child hasn't been touched by this, at the rate we are going, they certainly will be." [1/2]
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What Parents Can Do When Their Child Is in an Active-Shooter Lockdown
This moment will come for too many of us.
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Dara Kass, MD @darakass.com · 31/10/2025
Nothing scarier!
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I’ve had an incredible first week sharing my book, Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual For Keeping A Democracy with friends across the country. Next up, San Francisco. a.co/d/0GGCiHU
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.
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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. 

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
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Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @repyassansari.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Today, I'm chatting with @darakass.com about the impacts of the Republican health care crisis on every day people. #TrumpShutUSDown Tune in at 12pm MST/3pm EST ⬇️
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Dara Kass, MD @darakass.com · 06/10/2025
This weekend has been hard. I tried to put into words why. open.substack.com/pub/feminemf...
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When the System Breaks Our Hearts and Blames Us At The Same Time
Emergency physicians are blamed for wait times we didn't create, mourning a patient we couldn't save, and holding together a system that's collapsing around us.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 30/09/2025
If the FDA moves to restrict mifepristone access against the weight of decades of evidence, it will break the trust the American people have in this critical agency. How can we trust any of the FDA's decisions if it is so clearly politicized? Dr. Dara Kass gets into it @darakass.com
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The FDA is putting politics in your medicine cabinet
This isn't about just Tylenol and mifepristone. It’s about whether the FDA will remain a trusted arbiter of safety and e
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
President Clinton opens CGI 2025 by addressing the rise of political violence and the assassinations of Melissa Hortman and Charlie Kirk. #CGI2025 @clintonglobal.bsky.social
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
WSJ editorial board's take on Trump and Tylenol wsj.com/opinion/tyle...
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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Here are some heroes for today: Idaho physicians fighting for women’s health in a heartbreaking practice environment (35% of the ob/gyn workforce have left since Dobbs) after realizing that there was no cavalry coming #WIMS
An ob/gyn, a family med doc, and an ER doc sit on a stage at a women in medicine conference
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@tsmendola @tsmendola.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
@darakass.com at #PWIMS2025: “If you watch #ThePitt, you know America thinks you can get an abortion in the ED. The truth is you most often can’t.” We wrote about that disconnect here: www.autonomynews.co/the-pitt-sho...
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‘The Pitt’ Showed What Abortion Pill Access Should Look Like
The popular HBO show’s accidentally aspirational mifepristone plotline should inspire more emergency rooms to offer medication abortion.
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Dara Kass, MD @darakass.com · 05/09/2025
When the pitchbot punches you in the gut 👇🏻
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2025
WARNER: Do you accept the fact that 1 million Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't know how many died W: You're the secretary of health and human services. You don't have any idea how many Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't think anybody knows that W: How can you be that ignorant?
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Deb Houry @drdebhoury.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Thank you @jeremyfaust.bsky.social Demetre, Dan, and I ("D3") using our voices to raise the alarm for public health
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Dara Kass, MD @darakass.com · 30/08/2025
I am a proud member of the "I don't care" club for health professionals who do not GAF about this administrations perceptions of their commitment to health equity and ALSO the "I do not care club" for post/perimenopausal women. My dance card is getting full.
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Dara Kass, MD @darakass.com · 28/08/2025
Proud to be signatory on this letter.
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Dara Kass, MD @darakass.com · 08/08/2025
Breaking: Gunfire hits CDC campus. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
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Breaking: Gunfire hits CDC campus.
Staffers are sheltering in place. Little else is known.
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Rachel Sterling @racsterls.bio · 05/08/2025
The startup world is quietly abandoning .com domains, and the data is fascinating. We analyzed 4,000+ YCombinator & Techstars startups and found: 85% of .ai/.pro/.global startups got their exact brand match. Startups aren't compromising. The old "you need .com to be credible" rule? Dead.
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Dara Kass, MD @darakass.com · 09/07/2025
I didn’t see this posted anywhere else but this is our warning sign. As expected
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HealthBegins @healthbegins.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Instead of taking steps to improve #maternalhealth we're making treatment harder. The result will be more deaths. EMTALA Still Supports Emergency Abortion Care—No Matter What Memo You Read www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco... by @nikkivinck.bsky.social‬ @darakass.com‬ via @medpagetoday.bsky.social‬
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Dara Kass, MD @darakass.com · 28/06/2025
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Ushma Upadhyay, PhD, MPH @ushma.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
"Makary, who proudly calls himself a 'data guy' should have no trouble acknowledging that the science behind mifepristone is rock solid—and it hasn’t changed." 📣My new op-ed with @heyjane.com's Kiki Fredman that calls on @fda.gov to trust the data on the #abortion pill! thehill.com/opinion/heal...
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The FDA’s ‘data guy’ should trust the data on the abortion pill
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary’s pledge to reexamine the safety of medication abortion isn’t just pointless — it’s dangerous.
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Dara Kass, MD @darakass.com · 25/06/2025
My first piece for @thecontrarian.bsky.social Adriana Smith and the ethics of indifference open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Adriana Smith and the ethics of indifference
Fetal personhood laws created a medical and moral tragedy.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Is the U.S. about to be dragged into a war in the Middle East? Wendy Sherman on the Israel-Iran conflict - the single most terrifying and important explanation of what it means to go to war vs. Iran. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Is the U.S. about to be dragged into a war in the Middle East? Wendy Sherman on the Israel-Iran conflict
"No one should underestimate how difficult and, in my view, how profound this decision will be by President Trump"
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19/06/2025
EXCLUSIVE: State Dept. leaves Americans stranded Ned Price, former senior State Department official and former CIA official, explains
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/06/2025
Wow. California Sen. Alex Padilla is wrestled and detained by federal officers after showing up to DHS Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference in LA. (video from Bill Melugin of Fox News)
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Dara Kass, MD @darakass.com · 12/06/2025
Here is our reminder that EMTALA is still the law of the land. Its core protections remain unchanged. More from us in @medpagetoday.bsky.social www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
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Opinion | EMTALA Still Supports Emergency Abortion Care — No Matter What Memo You Read
Hesitating in emergency medicine can be deadly
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Dara Kass, MD @darakass.com · 11/06/2025
We put together our thoughts on why abortion didn’t define the federal election as folks thought it would.
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Dara Kass, MD @darakass.com · 11/06/2025
Our lastest in @bmj.com on abortion and the 2024 Election www.bmj.com/content/389/...
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Dara Kass, MD @darakass.com · 07/06/2025
EMTALA and abortion. What's real, what's rumor, and what you need to know. In the Doctor’s Lounge with Dr. Dara Kass and Prof. Elizabeth Sepper. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
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EMTALA and abortion. What's real, what's rumor, and what you need to know. In the Doctor’s Lounge with Dr. Dara Kass and Prof. Elizabeth Sepper.
Getting beyond the clickbait and the hype...
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Dara Kass, MD @darakass.com · 06/06/2025
Joining @jeremyfaust.bsky.social for to talk about what the latest EMTALA news means for people needing care in our ERs. Preview: EMTALA and abortion. What you need to know. Live in The Doctor's Lounge, with guests Dr. Dara Kass and Professor Elizabeth Sepper. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
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Preview: EMTALA and abortion. What you need to know. Live in The Doctor's Lounge, with guests Dr. Dara Kass and Professor Elizabeth Sepper.
Join us tomorrow, June 6, at 1 p.m. ET for a live conversation on Substack Live.
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Sheila Katz @sheilakatz.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Sarah Milgrim was so much more than someone about to be engaged. She served on the civil society team at the Embassy of Israel, dedicating her life and career to building bridges. (1/2)
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Dara Kass, MD @darakass.com · 05/05/2025
Does this mean the next White Lotus has to be shot in Fort Lauderdale?
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
STOP USING THE WORD DEPORTED FOR CITIZENS!!! This has to stop. Media outlets. Posters. Everyone. It’s not deportation.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
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Dara Kass, MD @darakass.com · 04/04/2025
"The notion that taxing Lesotho gemstones is necessary for the U.S. to add steel jobs in Ohio is so absurd that I briefly lost consciousness in the middle of writing this sentence." @dkthomp.bsky.social with keen observations. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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There Is Only One Way to Make Sense of the Tariffs
The policy is absurd. It’s also an extension of Trump’s chaotic personality.
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Dara Kass, MD @darakass.com · 02/04/2025
Susan Crawford won her seat despite Musk trying to buy it and today @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social launched her Senate Campaign with a viscerally powerful ad about what is possible. Watch this launch video and you will feel the same. youtu.be/p6jOsZPk7pQ
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I'm Running for U.S. Senate. Are You With Me?
YouTube video by Mallory McMorrow
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
AMAZING NEWS FOR MICHIGAN: Mallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social is running for Senate!!! mcmorrowformichigan.com
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McMorrow for Michigan
Mallory McMorrow is a Democrat with a backbone. She’s stood up to extremists and won – helping to flip the Michigan Senate blue...
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Dara Kass, MD @darakass.com · 01/04/2025
Same. Even folks who knew they were likely going to lose their jobs are shocked at how many others were let go as well.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 01/04/2025
BREAKING: A federal court ruled that Alabama cannot prosecute people for helping others travel across state lines to access abortion care. This is a win for our freedom of speech and our right to travel freely.
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Dara Kass, MD @darakass.com · 28/03/2025
That Pitt episode hit me in my gut. Even if Noah Wyle never wins an award for this role, he will have my enduring admiration for showing the world who we are- and what we have been through. Thank you to everyone to made this show happen.
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Dara Kass, MD @darakass.com · 27/03/2025
988 Lifeline - the National suicide and crisis hotline, is supported by SAMHSA at HHS Local treatment for drug addiction is supported by SAMHSA at HHS. Yesterday Trump/Musk/Kennedy cut a BILLION dollars of SAMHSA funding. They say they care mental health and drug addiction. Is that a lie too?
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Dara Kass, MD @darakass.com · 24/03/2025
Listening to this in advance of reading their book Abundance. @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and @dkthomp.bsky.social are so spot on. I am hopeful this helps people crack the code on pragmatic and effective progressivism. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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The Origins of Abundance
Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 03/21/2025 · 1h 13m
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Dara Kass, MD @darakass.com · 23/03/2025
I just watched this week’s episode of the Pitt. Yes, this is what we do. Yes, this is how we do it. IMHO this one of the most important shows on TV right now. The only way out is through. Let’s start solving these problems together.
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Dara Kass, MD @darakass.com · 18/03/2025
There is zero objective evidence so far that any law was broken - but a lot of objective evidence that these clinics were serving the prenatal needs of pregnant patients in Texas. How pro-life….
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Dara Kass, MD @darakass.com · 13/03/2025
Did you know @petebuttigieg.bsky.social has a substack? You should subscribe and read- it’s free and it will be good for your blood pressure. petebuttigieg.substack.com/p/im-not-run...
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I'm Not Running in 2026, But I Am Getting to Work
We all have work to do in delivering a better kind of politics for America.
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