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🩺 1st woman to openly provide third-tri abortion care in the United States 📚”Beyond Limits” is available for pre-order! 💻 ShelleySella.com

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Dr. Shelley Sella | #BookSky @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
🔔Calling all book clubs!🔔 Are you reading Beyond Limits in your book club or reading group? Hopefully this new reading guide, prepared by Patient Forward, can help get the convo started 🧡 www.shelleysella.com/reading-guide #AbortionBeyondLimits #EmpathyHasNoLimits #BSbookclub
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Cedar River Clinics @cedarriverclinics.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Ty to our Medical Director, Dr. Khattar, @shoutyourabortion.bksy.social's Amelia Bonow, and @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social for such a moving discussion about 3rd trimester abortions. Dr. Sella's new book, #BeyondLimits helps end the stigma around later abortion care. @townhallseattle.bsky.social
Photo of our medical director, Dr. Anuj Khattar speaking at the Town Hall Seattle event. Photo of Amelia Bonow from Shout Your Abortion, Mercedes Sanchez, Cedar River Clinics Executive Director and Dr. Shelley Sella. Photo of Dr. Shelley Sella's new book, "Beyond Limits - stories of third-trimester abortion care."Photo of Cedar River Clinics staff tabling
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Rewire News Group @rewirenewsgroup.com · 15/09/2025
Who Gets a Third-Trimester Abortion and Why? @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social New Book Unpacks Politicized Procedure
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Who Gets a Third-Trimester Abortion and Why? Doctor’s New Book Unpacks Politicized Procedure
Who gets third-trimester abortions and why? Dr. Shelley Sella’s new book discusses the procedure and her former patients.
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rePROs Fight Back @reprosfightback.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
@doctorshelleysella.bsky.social, retired OB-GYN & the first woman to openly provide third-trimester abortion care in the U.S., sat down with us to share her expertise, the many reasons people seek a third-trimester abortion, & personal stories from her new book Beyond Limits. #podcast
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Dr. Shelley Sella on Her New Book: Beyond Limits — rePROs Fight Back
There are many reasons why someone may require a third-trimester abortion, including both fetal implications and maternal implications (such as health diagnoses and difficult life circumstances). Dr....
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Dr. Shelley Sella | #BookSky @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
🔔Calling all book clubs!🔔 Are you reading Beyond Limits in your book club or reading group? Hopefully this new reading guide, prepared by Patient Forward, can help get the convo started 🧡 www.shelleysella.com/reading-guide #AbortionBeyondLimits #EmpathyHasNoLimits #BSbookclub
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Town Hall Seattle @townhallseattle.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
9/11 at 7:30 PM | @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social weaves patient stories and her experiences as an OB-GYN together, providing a compassionate perspective on late-term abortion that challenges preconceived notions of who gets abortions and why. 🎟 Get tickets: buff.ly/GGOxZuH
Blue promotional graphic for event featuring Dr. Shelley Sella with Amelia Bonow on September 11 at 7:30 PM. Headshots of the speakers are included with the book cover for "Beyond Limits: Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care." The Town Hall Seattle logo is in the bottom right corner.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
“Understanding third-trimester abortions is the key to understanding all abortion care.” — @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social #ReproJustice @kpfa.org
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Beyond Limits: Understanding Third Trimester Abortion Care w/ Dr. Shelley Sella | KPFA
As ​we ​face ​a ​government ​that ​is ​active ​in ​its ​efforts ​to ​remove ​people’s ​ability ​to ​make ​decisions ​about ​what ​happens ​in ​their ​own ​bodies, ​Dr. Shelley…
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rePROs Fight Back @reprosfightback.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
This week’s #podcast features @amylittlefield.bsky.social discussing her new article for The Nation, “What Would It Mean to Defend All Abortions?” alongside Garin Marschall, co-founder of @patientforward.bsky.social, who highlights the importance of protecting access to later-abortion care.
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Now is The Time to Defend All Abortions — rePROs Fight Back
“Democrats love to avoid it, and Republicans love to lie about it. But later-abortion care has never been more important.” Amy Littlefield , abortion access correspondent for the Nation and author of...
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
When @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social decided to become a doctor, she wanted to offer the technical part of care in addition to the emotional care and the educational care. She views healthcare as a way to empower people. #ReproJustice @reprosfightback.bsky.social
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Dr. Shelley Sella on Her New Book: Beyond Limits — rePROs Fight Back
There are many reasons why someone may require a third-trimester abortion, including both fetal implications and maternal implications (such as health diagnoses and difficult life circumstances). …
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rePROs Fight Back @reprosfightback.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
@doctorshelleysella.bsky.social, retired OB-GYN & the first woman to openly provide third-trimester abortion care in the U.S., shares her expertise, the many reasons people seek a third-trimester abortion, & personal stories from her new book Beyond Limits 👉 www.reprosfightback.com/episodes-blo...
A graphic with a light tan background featuring the book Beyond Limits: Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care by Shelley Sella, MD. The book has an orange cover with the title in bold white text. Orange scrapbook-style paper elements, including a watercolor tiger lily and butterfly, border the top and bottom of the image.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Whatever the stage of pregnancy, imposing any limits on abortion access means that we are not truly providing the room to choose. #ReproJustice @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social
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Beyond Limits: Understanding Third Trimester Abortion Care w/ Dr. Shelley Sella | KPFA
As ​we ​face ​a ​government ​that ​is ​active ​in ​its ​efforts ​to ​remove ​people’s ​ability ​to ​make ​decisions ​about ​what ​happens ​in ​their ​own ​bodies, ​Dr. Shelley Sella ​challenges ​even ...
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Dr. Shelley Sella | #BookSky @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
📣 So excited for these upcoming book events in DC, Atlanta and NYC. I will be talking about Beyond Limits with some absolutely incredible conversation partners. Cannot wait to see you there! 🧡 For more info, visit ShelleySella.com 🙌 #AbortionBeyondLimits #EmpathyHasNoLimits #booksbooksbooks
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
“It’s important that abortion be provided throughout pregnancy without the intervention of the government, which doesn’t know people’s lives as well as the patients themselves.” — @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social‬ #ReproJustice
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What It’s Like to Provide Abortions Later in Pregnancy
Dr. Shelley Sella tackles the discomfort and misinformation around third-trimester abortions head-on in a compassionate memoir.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Studies find that people denied abortions face increased rates of poverty, physical complications, and long-term health issues. But @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social‬’s patients didn’t need a study to tell them that. They lived it. #ReproHealth @time.com‬ buff.ly/XRF8mYw
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
@doctorshelleysella.bsky.social‬ and her mentor, Dr. George Tiller, had the same outlook: The pregnant person is smarter than the doctor. It’s a midwifery model that pays attention to the patient’s physical and emotional care. #ReproHealth
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Why would someone have a third trimester abortion? | All Access DNA
In this conversation, Dr. Shelley Sella discusses her book “Beyond Limits: Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care” and her experiences in providing third trimester abortion care. She emphasizes the…
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Dr. Shelley Sella | #BookSky @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Abortion is far safer than continuing a pregnancy in many cases due to the high maternal mortality rate in the US. This is why support systems are crucial for patients undergoing this procedure. @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social‬ will tell you. #ReproHealth
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Why would someone have a third trimester abortion? | All Access DNA
In this conversation, Dr. Shelley Sella discusses her book “Beyond Limits: Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care” and her experiences in providing third trimester abortion care. She emphasizes the…
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Before Roe was overturned, pregnant patients in the 3rd trimester were already living in a post-Roe world. @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social‬ points out that they had all the restrictions more and more people are facing now. #ReproJustice‪ @thecut.com‬
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What It’s Like to Provide Abortions Later in Pregnancy
Dr. Shelley Sella tackles the discomfort and misinformation around third-trimester abortions head-on in a compassionate memoir.
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rePROs Fight Back @reprosfightback.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
"When these stories are truly heard, judgment fades. Understanding and compassion take their place." 🧡 Check out @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social’s powerful feature in TIME & hear her talk with us about Beyond Limits on our recent episode: www.reprosfightback.com/episodes-blo... #Booksky
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Dr. Shelley Sella on Her New Book: Beyond Limits — rePROs Fight Back
There are many reasons why someone may require a third-trimester abortion, including both fetal implications and maternal implications (such as health diagnoses and difficult life circumstances). Dr....
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Dr. Shelley Sella | #BookSky @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
🧡 New essay today in TIME! 🧡 “We are told to be ‘reasonable‘ about abortion and accept limits—15 weeks, 20 weeks, 24. But the truth is, they do not reflect the unpredictable realities of pregnancy, or the complexity of human lives." time.com/7292801/thir...
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Isaac Maddow-Zimet @imaddowzimet.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
@doctorshelleysella.bsky.social's book is probably one of the best things I've read in the past decade.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
3rd-trimester abortion care is often stigmatized and misunderstood. @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social‬ wrote BEYOND LIMITS so that people understand the circumstances that lead individuals to seek such care. #AbortionIsHealthcare @genepoolmedia.bsky.social‬
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Why would someone have a third trimester abortion? | All Access DNA
In this conversation, Dr. Shelley Sella discusses her book “Beyond Limits: Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care” and her experiences in providing third trimester abortion care. She emphasizes the…
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MSW Media @mswmedia.com · 06/06/2025
New #FeministBuzzkills with @lizzwinstead.bsky.social & @mojilocks.bsky.social @abortionfront.bsky.social #MSWMedia 💄 Guests: @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social & Chanel Ali Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
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The Brigid Alliance @brigidalliance.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
📚 Happy Publication Week to @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social and her book, "Beyond Limits"! This book is "a tribute to the real people whose hearts, reasons, and stories are more complex than politicized conversations about abortion lead us to believe." Don't miss it! www.shelleysella.com
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Abortion Access Front @abortionfront.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
ROLL CALL 🗣️ @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social, the first woman to openly provide abortions later in pregnancy in the US, sits down with your Buzzkills to gab about her book "Beyond Limits," the beautiful legacy of Dr. George Tiller, and reclaiming the narrative from anti-abortion fools.
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Madison Pauly @msjpauly.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
"If people could hear these stories, they would have such a different attitude about third-trimester abortion." @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social spent 20 years providing care to patients seeking abortion late in pregnancy. Our conversation about her new memoir: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A doctor’s impassioned defense of later abortions
A third-trimester provider writes the memoir Dr. George Tiller never got a chance to.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Understanding 3rd-trimester abortions is key to understanding all abortion care. Because what drives people to have a 3rd-trimester abortion are the same things that drive people to have a 1st- and 2nd-trimester abortion. @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social‬ #ReproRights
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What It’s Like to Provide Abortions Later in Pregnancy
Dr. Shelley Sella tackles the discomfort and misinformation around third-trimester abortions head-on in a compassionate memoir.
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gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
"What if we accurately & compassionately talked about why people may choose to terminate their pregnancy at [a late] stage?" @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social sits down with @thecut.com to discuss just that & her book with @beaconpress.bsky.social BEYOND LIMITS. www.thecut.com/article/dr-s...
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What It’s Like to Provide Abortions Later in Pregnancy
Dr. Shelley Sella tackles the discomfort and misinformation around third-trimester abortions head-on in a compassionate memoir.
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Dr. Shelley Sella | #BookSky @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
This is my most personal interview to date. I hope folks will take a moment to read it and sit with the questions it raises. And a huge thank you to @msjpauly.bsky.social for the thoughtful conversation 🧡
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Dr. Shelley Sella | #BookSky @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Pub week continues with this new interview in @thecut.com 🧡 Huge thanks to @andreagonram.bsky.social for the thoughtful questions and for introducing readers to Beyond Limits!
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The Cut @thecut.com · 03/06/2025
In her new book ‘Beyond Limits: Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care,’ Dr. Shelley Sella tackles the discomfort and misinformation around abortion care later in pregnancy.
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What It’s Like to Provide Abortions Later in Pregnancy
In her new book ‘Beyond Limits: Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care,’ Dr. Shelley Sella tackles the discomfort and misinformation around abortion care later in pregnancy.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
🙌🏼🎈🎉🎊✨
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Happy #PubDay, @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social‬! 🎊 BEYOND LIMITS, a compassionate perspective on late-term abortion that challenges preconceived notions of who gets abortions and why, “bursts with insight.” — @publisherswkly.bsky.social‬ buff.ly/b45oAEz
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Dr. Shelley Sella | #BookSky @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
It’s pub day!! I am so proud to eelease Beyond Limits out into the world so that we can ALL understand that empathy has no limits! 🧡 Released by, and in partnership with, @beaconpress.bsky.social Available today wherever books are sold 😭🙏
Graphic showing the book “Beyond Limits: Stories of Third Trimester Abortion Care” with a headshot of Dr Shelley Sella smiling. Text: On Sale June 3rd!
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rePROs Fight Back @reprosfightback.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
"Life is complicated. I guess that's what I want to say, what I want people to acknowledge: that life is complicated, and it doesn't fit into gestational limits that the state has decided—that that's how we should decide who can have an abortion or not." @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social
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Dr. Shelley Sella on Her New Book: Beyond Limits — rePROs Fight Back
There are many reasons why someone may require a third-trimester abortion, including both fetal implications and maternal implications (such as health diagnoses and difficult life circumstances). Dr....
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Dr. Shelley Sella | #BookSky @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
ONE WEEK til my book Beyond Limits is available everywhere books are sold! 😬🥹🥰
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rePROs Fight Back @reprosfightback.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
@doctorshelleysella.bsky.social, retired OB-GYN & the first woman to openly provide third-trimester abortion care in the U.S., sits down with us this week to share her expertise, the many reasons people seek a third-trimester abortion, & personal stories from her new book Beyond Limits. #podcast
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Dr. Shelley Sella on Her New Book: Beyond Limits — rePROs Fight Back
There are many reasons why someone may require a third-trimester abortion, including both fetal implications and maternal implications (such as health diagnoses and difficult life circumstances). Dr....
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
For @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social‬, defending later abortions requires a new paradigm of trust that will make us better able to defend all abortion. #AbortionIsHealthcare @thenation.com‬
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What Would It Mean to Defend All Abortions?
Democrats love to avoid it, and Republicans love to lie about it. But later-abortion care has never been more important.
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 22/04/2025
"In essence, it’s child trafficking": another article on the state of Utah as a hotbed for #adoption trafficking. With competition among would-be adopters so intense--roughly 1 million couples versus roughly 20,000 adoptions every year--Utah is a hot marketplace.
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Inside Utah’s ‘human marketplace’ for adopted babies
Desperate women denied abortion access in much of the US are being offered a way out for the children they cannot raise themselves. It’s not always what it seems
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Dr. Shelley Sella | #BookSky @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I am so proud to be featured in this incredible article in @thenation.com alongside some inspiring providers, patients and advocates. I hope it will inspire folks to read more by picking up my book Beyond Limits 🧡
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Diana Parker-Kafka @dianaparker.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Two repro LEGENDS, coming to you Oakland!
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Dr. Shelley Sella | #BookSky @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I’m so thrilled to share my first IRL event for Beyond Limits. Please join me at Womb House Books in Oakland on June 5th! For more info on this and future events, please visit ShelleySella.com 🧡
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Christine Henneberg @chennebergmd.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Thanks to Lauren Harvey and the @sfchronicle.com for featuring I TRUST HER COMPLETELY, and the writing of other abortion providers and researchers, @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social and Diana Green Foster. Order the book here: www.amazon.com/Trust-Her-Co... datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/christ...
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An S.F. abortion doctor delivers a new voice in reproductive rights in debut novel
Christine Henneberg’s “I Trust Her Completely” explores abortion, queer parenthood and life in the Bay Area.
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Dr. Shelley Sella | #BookSky @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Today is Independent Bookstore Day! Celebrate by pre-ordering Beyond Limits at your favorite indie bookstore 🧡
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
🚨GIVEAWAY ALERT!🚨 @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social’s BEYOND LIMITS is a compassionate perspective on late-term abortion that challenges preconceived notions of who gets abortions and why. Enter our Goodreads giveaway by May 2 for a chance to win a copy!
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Book giveaway for Beyond Limits: Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care by Shelley Sella Apr 03-May 02, 2025
Enter to win one of 25 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Apr 03-May 02, 2025. Enter for a chance to win 1 of 25 first edition copies of Beyond L...
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Diana Parker-Kafka @dianaparker.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
@doctorshelleysella.bsky.social has a book coming out in June, timely!
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Nicola Davidson @nicoladauthor.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Five things that help authors and cost $0: - requesting their books at your local library - raving about your fave on social media or to friends - sharing info about a sale or freebie or new release - subscribing to their newsletter - posting your love for a book on a review site
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Dr. Shelley Sella | #BookSky @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Beyond Limits: Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care is available for preorder wherever books are sold 🫠
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Dr. Shelley Sella | #BookSky @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Thanks to all who joined. It was a wonderful event! 💜
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Lisa Fernandez @ljfernandez.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Big turnout -- organizers said 500 -- for a protest over possibly turning FCI Dublin women's prison into an ICE detention center. www.ktvu.com/news/activis...
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