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Texas Equal Access Fund @teafund.org · 14/08/2025

Donations to abortion funds are down but the need is greater than ever. Texans face longer travel, higher costs, and more barriers to care. Our Intake Director, Charlie Hughes, spoke with @marytuma.bsky.social at @texasobserver.org about how TEA Fund continues to show up for our communities.

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Abortion Funds See Dwindling Donations as Demand and Cost Rise

A flood of cash following Roe’s fall has dried up, leaving Texas nonprofits struggling to keep pace with the state’s abortion access crisis.

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Howdy Politics @howdypolitics.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Update on Texas state rep and conservative, Christian Giovanni Capriglione saga: Current Revolt, a far right publication ran the story this morning and his mistress is already taking to socials. This is going to be messy! 🍿#txlege

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I could not agree more. We're still here. So thankful for the orgs that are still showing up for us, here.

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Texas Equal Access Fund @teafund.org · 09/04/2025

Watching abortion clinics opening up in non-ban states. Wish that could be us.

Picture of Patrick Schwarzenegger as Saxon Ratliffe in the third season of white lotus. He is looking over his shoulder with tears in his eyes and look of longing.

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The Texas Signal @texassignal.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Very important thread from the Board Chair of @prhdocs.bsky.social about why many reproductive health physicians and experts are *opposing* SB 31 and HB 44 (which many Texas Democrats are touting as a necessary abortion exception bill)

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

We NEED your help. Please help me, help us, keep working to save the lives of Texans. Call your representatives and ask them to listen to the Texas abortion experts. Tell them to either take the advice of the experts and fix the bill or oppose SB31/ HB 44.

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Abortion doctors in Texas oppose SB31/HB44 Abortion patients in Texas oppose the bill Abortion funds in Texas oppose the bill Abortion rights orgs in Texas oppose the bill Abortion lawyers in Texas oppose the bill So why are TX Dems advancing the bill?

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Why won’t SB 31/ HB 44 help? Because the language changes are not meaningful or substantive. Because the chilling effect of the bans still exists. Because there are only a few skilled abortion providers in the state. Because an abortion ban with a cute bow is still an abortion ban.

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

In addition to this game of secret password, The bill REQUIRES new, state-mandated education for OBGYNs ONLY. No other docs. The lege is trying to say WE are at fault for people dying. Not abortion bans. Rather than passing meaningful laws, they want me to take a State Propaganda course.

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Soooo...life-threatening then? Not only is this NOT a clear definition for “medical emergency,” but also… Is it even a definition? Is it a typo? Were we even supposed to be directed here? I can’t save a single, additional life with this language. We are playing word games with people’s lives.

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

“in the exercise of reasonable medical judgment, the pregnant [person]...has a life-threatening physical condition aggravated by, caused by, or arising from a pregnancy that places the [person] at risk of death or poses a serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function…”

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Doctors across the state have been confused as to what constitutes a “medical emergency” The bill attempts to define “medical emergency,” saying it’s defined by Section 170A.002(b)(2) What’s that section say? I’ll tell you, but when you read it, you’ll be more confused.

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Why is the bill a word game? Dems are saying this bill is a fix because it strikes out “life threatening” from the ban. But literally the next line in the ban still says, “places the female at risk of death” You don’t need to be an English major to know that sentence still has the same meaning.

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

But SB31/ HB44 resurrects that dead ban. It paves the way to criminalize abortion funds, abortion support networks, doctors that provide abortion information (like me), and even people getting abortions and their families. This bill will not help me save a single life, but endangers many.

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

SB31/ HB 44 is another abortion ban, wrapped up in a word game. TxDems think it adds clarifying language that will help me/us save lives, But it doesn’t. Instead, it revives a 100+ year old abortion ban that I sued Ken Paxton over in 2022. I sued to make sure that ban was dead and I won.

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

#TxDems are saying this bill is a “fix” to our harmful abortion bans. I really wish that were true. I am the person that provides that life saving care. The reality is, this bill will not help me save a single life, But, it will endanger thousands more lives in the process.

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I am one of the FEW abortion doctors left in Texas. I am Board Certified in Obstetrics & Gynecology AND Board Certified in Complex Family Planning I am a Texas #abortion expert Some might say, I’m THE Texas abortion expert I oppose SB31/ HB 44 Why?

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 20/03/2025

Thanks to @prhdocs.bsky.social / @dr-moayedi.bsky.social and @nwlc.org for explaining how this is all just a ruse to try to get people to accept oppression newrepublic.com/article/1918...

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The idea here is to try to gross people out to support a law that's not principally about water but rather is designed to drastically limit access to medication abortion—and to make people afraid of the drugs, as if they're some kind of dangerous chemical.
This scare campaign to give people "the ick" is a bit absurd to Moayedi, who still remembers the first time she saw a C-section in medical school and being shocked at just how much force surgeons use to open the abdominal cavity. The procedure is, to some extent, violent, she said-as are orthopedic surgeries using power tools.
"We are made of bones and blood and nerves and connections, and that's what medicine is about," she said. "The focus on trans health care or abortion care specifically being something different than the rest is really just a myopic view of what the reality is." Caring for bodies necessarily involves some amount of blood.

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Conservatives are using stigmatizing language as an intentional tactic to demonize the people who need this care and to discredit those who provide it, said Ma'ayan Anafi, senior counsel at the National Women's Law Center. "This is well-studied care. It's care that's provided according to well-established standards," Anafi said. "The goal of this kind of inflammatory language is to make it sound experimental and dangerous." Framing abortion and gender-affirming care this way creates a chilling effect that can lead to violence against providers and threats against health care clinics. "This strategy of vilifying providers has a real-world impact," they said. "It both discourages providers from offering care that they want to provide, and it means that patients need to also be weighing their own safety and their own privacy when they're trying to access the care they need."

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

It was "unintentional" Actually, the consequences were fully intended.

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 25/02/2025

I have a twice-weekly newsletter! I wrote about pronatalists -- of which #ElonMusk is probably the most famous one --- and how they basically want 21st century eugenics and JD Vance is a fucking loser. www.marybadthings.com/p/a-bunch-of...

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A Bunch of Loser Freaks Want You to Have A Bunch of Babies

Not every sperm is sacred

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Almost 90 minutes later & 3 Walgreens pharmacies later and I've finally got Ella called in. The pharmacist had "never dispensed this before" and wasn't sure if "this will get flagged"....ma'am, it's emergency contraception.

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

15 minutes on hold with the next Walgreens...at least they answered, but they don't have Ella in stock. They were able to look up who might have it in stock. Now to find out which ones are still open tonight and if the database is true.

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

45 minutes of holding and the Walgreens pharmacy closed w/o answering....now to call the next pharmacy that might be open in the area of the patient I'm caring for....

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I've been on hold with a Walgreens now for 20 minutes, just to talk to someone to see if they have Ella in stock. The new automated process at CVS is a nightmare, b/c I can't talk to pharmacy staff directly anymore - leave a message and get a call back later....

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Asking about abortion is part of my screening for almost anyone I hire. I provide abortion care and you are about to be paid with abortion money....you cool or no?

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Another night of calling pharmacies across a city, just to find one that has Ella in-stock, right now. There has to be a better way for people to access emergency contraception. I would love @costplusdrugs.com to step in and help people across the country access ulipristal acetate.

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

In addition to telemedicine birth control and menopause care in Texas, I care for people in 19 other states! This is not just a #Texas problem! Right now, I'm calling pharmacies across #OKC, trying to find someone that has Ella in stock.

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Hi @mcuban.bsky.social - OBGYN in #Dallas here! I love your pharmacy & I take care of patients from all over #TX via telemedicine. My patients struggle getting Ella: highly effective, prescription emergency contraception. Most pharmacies don't have it in stock. Can @costplusdrugs.com help?

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I mean, I am blaming them. Those of us who do 'the work' spent the past 4 years begging the administration to flex their power to make actual change for our communities. We got campaigning on our suffering and a whole lot of nothing else. I'm not surprised at their ineffectiveness now.

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Alise @shereadytoread.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

If you are a BLACK INDIE AUTHOR, reply to this tweet with a blurb about your book and a link of where to purchase it. If you are a reader please repost this! #booksky #blackbooksky #diversebooks #blackhistorymonth

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The technical guidance you need for contraceptive use: Selected Practice Recommendations bit.ly/pegasusSPR

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2024 US SPR.pdf

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Honestly, my favorite and most used doc of the most recent CDC update: Supplementary Appendix for SPR with GRADE Tables. This is SUCH important work from the researchers of the CDC. bit.ly/pegasusSPRGR...

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SPR GRADE Tables.pdf

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Hey you! I've got the #CDC clinical guidelines you need and used saved on my website. Please feel free to reach out to me, if you have saved ones that need to be added. #Contraception #Vaccines #STI pegasushealthjustice.com/cdc 🧵

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CDC Guidelines: Contraception, STI, Vaccines — Pegasus Health Justice Center

U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

JUST IN: A new H5N9 bird flu variant has been found in U.S. poultry for the first time at a California duck farm. This variant, linked to the dangerous H5N1 strain, has led to the culling of nearly 119,000 birds to stop the outbreak.

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Federal health agencies are CRITICAL in disease surveillance and public communication. I can't even believe I have to say that. Last week, I had to tell a pregnant person, "I would tell you to check this website so you know which foods currently have outbreaks...but..." This is America.

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I direct patients to the #CDC website and the #MMWR. We specifically discuss listeria, a foodborne bacteria that is devastating to pregnant people. It causes miscarriage, stillbirth, and potentially fatal infection after birth...and it is periodically found in a lot of foods, like ice cream!

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I remind people the importance of prenatal vitamins: which vitamins specifically they need, which to avoid, and why specific vitamins are important. I discuss scheduling their first prenatal visit and what to expect. And...I talk about food safety, vaccines, and communicable diseases.

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

In my practice, I often do dating scans - an ultrasound to tell you how many weeks pregnant you are. During those visits, I go over pregnancy options. If someone is unsure what they want to do, I discuss 1st trimester #pregnancy care, signs of a #miscarriage, and #abortion options.

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

If asked to "medically clear" someone for detention, don't. Detention is inhumane. No person is medically cleared for State violence. Resist being a tool of The State and instead use your position to be a wrench in the works.

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

It is unethical to conduct medical exams, lab testing, imaging, or procedures at the request of law enforcement. Period. It is unethical to discuss patients with law enforcement. Period.

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

There is no medical or ethical reason to provide information about someone's immigration status to law enforcement. There is no medical or ethical reason to ask about someone's immigration status OR document it in their chart.

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Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH, FACOG @dr-moayedi.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

There is no medical or ethical reason to allow ICE access to patient care areas. Doing so harms public health & betrays our oath to do no harm.

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