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Cofounder @autonomynews.co. Investigative reporter and researcher: abortion, reproductive justice, disinformation. Seen in The Nation, ELLE, Scientific American, WIRED, and more. Wyoming-born New Yorker. Signal: garnethenderson.12 garnethenderson.com

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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 3h
As we reported this week at @autonomynews.co: www.autonomynews.co/what-was-thi...
Does Trump actually want criminal investigations of abortion-pill providers? That’s not clear, though plenty of Republicans—including Hawley—do. Other anti-­abortion hardliners have been moving into influential positions in the administration, including pro-fetal personhood lawyer Josh Craddock at the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel and Dr. Heidi Overton, Trump’s new pick to lead the FDA. No one expects any big moves from the administration before the midterms. Then all bets are off.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 30/09/2026
Once again, @autonomynews.co is a team of only two and we published all these stories in the span of one week. Support our work today. Every dollar counts! www.autonomynews.co/support/
Yesterday, the FBI’s number two man resigned. Andrew Bailey was previously the Attorney General of Missouri, where he aggressively investigated providers of abortion and gender-affirming care. We spent months reporting on Bailey’s past in Missouri, and what he might have been doing at the FBI. The bottom line: An abortion pill crackdown is likely on the way, even after Bailey’s departure.Heidi Overton, Trump’s pick to run the Food and Drug Administration, had her confirmation hearing on Thursday and it was a doozy. Overton refused to say that the abortion drug mifepristone is safe and effective and even declined to say that IUDs are birth control, not abortifacients. Next comes a committee vote and a full Senate vote. In less soul-crushing news, Susan wrote about how advocates in multiple states are challenging abortion laws under the rights to life and liberty enshrined in state constitutions. The refreshing argument is that restrictions violate the constitutional rights of pregnant people.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 09/09/2026
Amid the news of the day, I have some news of my own. 😊
A Publishers Marketplace deal report that says: Journalist and Autonomy News cofounder Garnet Henderson’s LEAVE NO MEANS UNTRIED, an investigation into how anti-abortion disinformation has shaped our laws and culture, and how this playbook is being used to attack other freedoms, to Michelle Capone at Melville House, at auction, for publication in fall 2027, by Nicki Richesin at Dunow, Carlson, & Lerner (NA).
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 03/09/2026
All of this is why the space is crying out for better, more reliable information. Plus: You either believe in bodily autonomy and respect people's right to make their own choices... or you don't.
“The central guiding principle should be supporting people's reproductive autonomy and providing them with the information, knowledge, and support that they need to actualize that autonomy,” said Christine Dehlendorf, a family physician, researcher, and founder of the Person-Centered Reproductive Health Program at the University of California San Francisco. 

“Some people will want to use FABMs when provided with the full range of options and information about all the options, and some people will want to use IUDs,” she continued. “What we want to avoid is people making decisions that are based on incomplete information and incomplete knowledge.”
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 03/09/2026
Yet another cause for concern: Silicon Valley's rising interest in fertility tracking—and pronatalism.
Another concern for Polis and Simmons is the rise of “FemTech,” specifically apps and devices that purport to help users identify fertile days. A few years ago, Polis even faced a SLAPP suit from the maker of one such app and device, Daysy, after she criticized a flawed study claiming to show it was over 99 percent effective. The study was later retracted, and Polis ultimately prevailed in court. Currently, only one available app, Natural Cycles, has been FDA-approved for use as contraception. But many other apps show a “fertile window,” and because they’re classified as wellness devices rather than medical ones, they’re subject to less regulation, Polis said. Plus, there are significant privacy concerns with many of these apps. 

“I don't want us to come across as anti-technology, or anti-app, or device,” Polis said. “But this space is rife with issues and pitfalls, especially when you have companies that may have more of a profit-driven than a person-centered motive.” Tech billionaires’ increasing embrace of pronatalism, and alignment with right-wing views on abortion and contraception, is another reason for caution.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 03/09/2026
In fact, the most visible organization purporting to teach medical providers about FABMs is run by an anti-abortion physician with connections to the Heritage Foundation, the Trump administration, and more.
One organization certainly presents itself as an evidence-based source of information about FABMs: FACTS About Fertility, which says its mission is to “educate current and future medical professionals about the evidence supporting fertility awareness-based methods (FABMs) and their clinical applications to restore reproductive and overall health—equipping them to deliver medical care that empowers patients and respects each person.”

However, the organization’s cofounder and executive director, family medicine physician Marguerite Duane, has troubling links to far-right groups, including the Heritage Foundation, the American Association of Pro-Life OBGYNs, and the Charlotte Lozier Institute—the dubious “research” arm of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, the nation’s largest anti-abortion group.Duane has also cozied up to the MAHA movement: Most recently, she spoke at a three-day women’s health summit hosted by the Department of Health and Human Services, at which she said she talks to girls about what they “need to consider” in order to have children someday—starting as young as 8 years old. She’s a leading advocate for “restorative reproductive medicine,” which conservative and MAHA groups alike have presented as an alternative to in vitro fertilization. It involves using FABMs to help promote pregnancy, but sometimes includes surgical interventions and other treatments that ACOG says may actually delay conception. The American Society of Reproductive Medicine has said the approach “is simply fertility medicine minus key tools like IVF, which, for some, represents the only way to build a family.”
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 03/09/2026
Another problem: Many medical providers receive little education about FABMs, and those who do don't typically have enough time with patients to teach them. Ideally, they'd refer their patients to outside experts—but many of these so-called experts are religiously or ideologically motivated.
In fact, many FABM educators are faith-based and “really focused on married couples, on people who are willing to be abstinent during the fertile window,” Simmons said. She encourages the providers she trains to pass on some literacy tools to their patients, so they know to ask questions about whether a particular instructor will or won’t include information about the use of condoms, or emergency contraception. Another potential tell that an FABM proponent is coming from a religious perspective is the use of the term “natural family planning”—a version of FABM endorsed by the Catholic Church.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 03/09/2026
Boy are some of the responses to this piece validating the headline! It's very clear that most people don't know as much about FABMs as they think. I would really recommend reading the piece. First of all, there are lots of different FABMs.
There are a wide variety of fertility tracking approaches. Some simply involve logging the length of the menstrual cycle on a calendar, but most also require measuring other indicators of fertility, like basal body temperature, urinary hormones, changes in cervical mucus, and the position of the cervix itself. On potentially fertile days, users who want to prevent pregnancy can either avoid sex or use another method of contraception, like condoms or emergency contraception. People who want to conceive would have sex on those days.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 01/09/2026
Get ready to see a whole lot of this, folks
A photo of Josh and Erin Hawley kissing like they’re allergic to each other
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 19/08/2026
NEW: A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's changes to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program from going into effect while litigation continues. In his opinion, the judge noted that the TPPP funding notices (or grant guidelines) appear to contain AI-hallucinated citations.
A screenshot from Judge Cooper's order that says: "Next, consider that both FY 2026 NOFOs mandate the promotion of 'body literacy,' a vague public health framework that purports to 'equip young people with a clear understanding of how their bodies function in a state of health.' FY 2026 Tier 1 NOFO at 10.  As noted earlier, HHS itself highlights a 'near absence of body literacy education standards nationwide.'  Id. at 5.  On the topic of body literacy, the notices (remarkably) reference public health studies that appear either not to exist or not to support the propositions for which they are cited—a hallmark of AI-generated citations."
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 04/08/2026
I’ll never regret participating in a Covid vaccine trial even though SOME people clearly didn’t deserve to have their asses saved
A selfie of garnet with a bandaid on her arm after getting a dose of the Pfizer Covid vaccine
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 03/08/2026
And sorry to keep beating this horse, but based on a lot of headlines about this case, you'd think Rojas won and got to reopen her clinics. This is not correct. Subscribe to @autonomynews.co, where we care about getting it right every time: www.autonomynews.co/support/
The state suspended Rojas’ midwifery license within about a week of her arrest, and it is now expired. After her clinics were forced to close, she had no choice but to give up the leases on those spaces, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), which represents her in civil court. After Rojas was arrested, she spent 10 days in jail, and was only released after bail funds paid enough to secure her $1.4 million bond. Her attorneys told Autonomy News that, not only do the bond conditions still require her to wear an ankle monitor while the criminal case continues, they also prohibit her from going to the former clinic locations, or from working in healthcare in any capacity.

What’s more, 10 other people are facing criminal charges in connection with the case, meaning that, even without the license or lease challenges, Rojas likely wouldn’t have enough staff to run clinics, CRR senior counsel Jenna Hudson said. In an October press release, Paxton characterized Rojas and her staff as a “cabal of abortion-loving radicals,” and his office boasted that several “were foreign nationals.”
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 03/08/2026
What the state has shown in terms of evidence so far is exceedingly thin. One of their smoking guns is that Rojas had misoprostol, an essential obstetric medication. I've heard that many midwives in Texas were already afraid to carry miso. This will produce a chilling effect that could kill people.
One of the few facts the state has pointed to in alleging wrongdoing is that Rojas possessed misoprostol. This drug is used in medication abortion, but also for miscarriage management, labor induction, and crucially, for the treatment of postpartum hemorrhage, the leading cause of pregnancy-related death worldwide. In other words, any midwife should have misoprostol.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 28/07/2026
All their years of plotting. Finally come to fruition
The infamous photo of Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and other congressional Democrats kneeling while wearing kente cloth
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 21/07/2026
I finally got my stubborn fiddle leaf fig tree, which for years has only wanted to grow straight up, to send out two branches instead of just one. Choosing to see this as a powerful good omen
A picture of the top of Garnet’s fiddle leaf fig tree, with two new branches extending out just near the top of the trunk
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 20/07/2026
Here is Hawley's letter, which calls Plan C a "left-wing dark-money operation" and accuses it of violating the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The FDCA regulates manufacturers, not info services like Plan C, but Hawley alleges Plan C is engaged in conspiracy with mifepristone manufacturer Danco Labs.
Dear Acting Attorney General Blanche:
I write to refer to the Department of Justice new information my office has received concerning an organized international effort to profit from the violation of state and federal law. I believe these activities warrant criminal investigation.
At the center of the effort is an entity called Plan C, a left-wing dark-money operation that styles itself a "public health information campaign" but functions, in practice, as the referral and logistics hub for shipping abortion drugs into states whose laws prohibit it.

Plan C does not operate alone. Danco Laboratories, a large and wildly profitable manufacturer of mifepristone, lists Plan C among the patient resources on its own website, steering prospective customers to an organization that instructs Americans on how to break the law.' On information and belief, GenBioPro, the generic manufacturer, maintains a similar referral relationship with Plan C. The Department is well positioned to determine the full extent of these relationships, including any financial ties.

Consider what Plan C does, much of it in its own words:

*Florida, Oklahoma, and Texas each specifically prohibit providers from mailing abortion drugs to patients. Plan C nonetheless directs residents of all three states to obtain pills by mail, including from two foreign clinics, that ship mifepristone to U.S. addresses from abroad. Plan C warns that using these clinics carries "possible legal risk."

*Plan C likewise directs residents of those states to e-commerce websites that sell and ship dangerous pills with no prescription, no identification, and no medical consultation of any kind. By Plan C's own description, these websites "sell generic abortion pills that are not regulated or inspected by the US government," and "Plan C tests these websites by buying pills from them.”[Women on Web: This is a clinic outside the US that prescribes and mails pills to US addresses and provides medical support.]

Plan C coaches its users on how to evade the law. Its website instructs users to protect their "digital footprint" against investigations, recommending privacy-enabled browsers, virtual private networks, and encrypted email. Its own FAQ acknowledges that people face legal jeopardy for obtaining pills through the services it lists and tells readers it is "up to every individual to decide what level of legal risk they are willing to take."
Plan C steers women to providers willing to mail pills as late as fourteen weeks into pregnancy.
That is a month beyond the ten-week limit in FDA's own approved labeling and risk-mitigation program, and far beyond the limits enacted by states such as Florida and Iowa.
This conduct squarely implicates federal criminal law. The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act prohibits introducing unapproved and misbranded drugs into interstate commerce and dispensing prescription drugs without a valid prescription. Criminal anti-smuggling statutes likewise cover the importation of these unregulated foreign pills. And an organization implicates federal conspiracy statutes and aiding-and-abetting provisions when it openly announces its intent to deliver drugs into states whose laws forbid it, coordinating the suppliers, vendors, and carriers needed to accomplish that end.
I therefore respectfully refer this matter to the Department to open a criminal investigation into Plan C, its relationship with potential co-conspirator manufacturers, and the network of suppliers it promotes. That includes the foreign clinics and no-prescription vendors shipping drugs into the US.
I appreciated your recent comments before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the right of the states to enforce their duly enacted laws, as well as your promise that the Department will protect vulnerable women from criminals who would prey upon them…
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 16/07/2026
no
A screenshot from gmail showing the option "AI inbox" directly below the regular inbox
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 12/07/2026
Screenshot of a text message that says: “not Lindsey graham stealing Mitch mcconnell’s dead piece of shit thunder”
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 29/06/2026
Good morning from socialist Upper Manhattan
A picture of Garnet smiling and making a peace sign while running in a park
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 05/06/2026
Anyway, follow and support my former colleagues in @rngunion.bsky.social. They have been through the ringer. www.nlrb.gov/case/05-CA-3...
A screenshot from the NLRB website showing the details of an unfair labor practice charge filed against Rewire News Group by the Washington-Baltimore News Guild. The allegations are:
8(a)(3) Changes in Terms and Conditions of Employment
8(a)(1) Coercive Actions (Surveillance, etc)
8(a)(1) Concerted Activities (Retaliation, Discharge, Discipline)
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 05/06/2026
Come on now. You want this merch, and you want to support real journalism even more: bit.ly/ANbirthday
Garnet wearing her All Comstocks Are Bastards tee in black
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 04/06/2026
Very proud of our reporting, and all our "firsts," including the ones other outlets didn't credit us for. But especially proud of this.
We are the only outlet on this beat without a history of union busting, or of taking money from corporate interests. We’re also the only worker-owned outlet covering reproductive rights and justice. And we’re doing it without ads or a paywall.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 04/06/2026
Very glad I saved this deranged IG story posted the morning of our launch last year, having barely slept. For posterity!
A photo of Garnet imitating the “smiling through it all I can’t believe this is my life”LeBron James meme
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 29/05/2026
Anyway I do in fact lead an entire workshop on how to recognize misleading information, avoid spreading it, and teach others to do the same! Hit me up to bring it to your org or conference.
Picture of Garnet sitting on a table in front of a projector showing a slide that says "Disarming Disinformation"
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 27/05/2026
A “new” enemy… be serious!!
An NPR headline that says “For far-right extremists, the rise of a new enemy: women”
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 15/05/2026
I want to highlight this detail from our story: We at @autonomynews.co are first to report that, when the Fifth Circuit's decision was briefly in effect earlier this month, abortion providers in some states were advised not to even prescribe mifepristone in person.
However, while the Fifth Circuit’s order was briefly in effect from the evening of May 1 until the morning of May 4, multiple sources told Autonomy News that abortion providers in some states were advised not to prescribe mifepristone in person, either. This concern arose because of the fact that, in certain restrictive states, clinicians could have been accused of prescribing “misbranded” drugs if they gave patients mifepristone even in person for abortion or miscarriage, because the actual label and drug information would have been out of step with the restrictions imposed by the Fifth Circuit.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 12/05/2026
TikTok removed my video about Trump’s moms.gov. Interestingly, that happened after it got two anti-abortion comments. Guess I know who reported it!
A screenshot from Garnet’s TikTok showing the video was removed for “violating community guidelines.”
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 11/05/2026
NEW: The Trump admin has launched moms.gov, featuring "resources, information, and help for new and expecting mothers." The first resource listed: anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers, which appear next to or above federally qualified health centers, depending whether you're on desktop or mobile.
a screenshot from moms.gov featuring this description of crisis pregnancy centers: Pregnancy centers provide supportive services for mothers and families. Many centers offer pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, STD/STI testing and treatment, parenting support, childbirth classes, medical referrals, and material goods like clothes and diapers—at no cost to you. There are more than 2,750 pregnancy centers across the country. The majority of pregnancy centers offer limited medical services. Check with your local center for details.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 15/04/2026
This is why Susan and I started a business together lol
A skeet of Garnet's from January 8 that says "Begging you guys to get a frame of reference for reproductive coercion and control beyond the Handmaid’s Tale. United States history is a great place to start!"
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 14/04/2026
Can confirm. The Hudson is cleaner than you think and you can experience it for free every Sunday morning all summer at @inwoodcanoenyc.org
A photo of the George Washington Bridge and the Little Red Lighthouse, taken from Garnet’s yellow kayak on the Hudson River. Another paddler in a red kayak is visible heading toward the bridge.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 12/04/2026
Just call me professor Garnet 🤓
Garnet sits on a table in front of a projector screen showing a slide that says “disarming disinformation”
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 07/04/2026
Wow wow wow am I excited to give this workshop at Collective Power this weekend! If you'll be there I hope you will join me!!
The first page of a Google slides presentation. The title is "Disarming Disinformation" and the slide also says "Media literacy tools for a poisonous information environment" and "Collective Power 2026."
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 12/03/2026
Here’s a photo the inspector took. My bathroom still looks like that today. The city has taken absolutely no enforcement action—and this pales in comparison to other problems in the building, such as with the roof and the facade.
A picture of the hole in Garnet’s bathroom floor, where the bathroom sink used to be.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 10/03/2026
The DOJ is suggesting that gender-affirming care providers may be engaging in "conspiracy" because they're prescribing medications off-label. That poses danger for an important backstop in the event old restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone are restored:
If the Trump administration’s position is that a provider who prescribes off-label medications for a purpose it doesn’t like is engaging in conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, that could be the end of misoprostol-only abortion before it even gets started. To be sure, there will still be community networks providing abortion pills outside the health system. But nearly 30 percent of all clinician-provided abortions in the U.S. are currently done via telehealth—tens of thousands per month. It’s not clear whether existing community networks could absorb this volume, or whether struggling brick and mortar clinics could, either.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 22/02/2026
1 year to the day since I texted @susanrinkunas.com about a wild idea I had…
Garnet and Susan smile at the camera while wearing their Autonomy News All Comstocks Are Bastards merch
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 13/02/2026
Here’s the answer from Nexplanon maker Organon’s head of research and development in response to an investor question about the new FDA regulations, called a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS). Full transcript is here: www.fool.com/earnings/cal...
Juan Camilo Ferreira: Yes. Thank you, Matt, and thanks, Jason. Yes. We are pretty confident that with this window that we have and the efforts that we have already planned, we will be able to recertify the prescribers that constantly use or loyalty use of Nexplanon. This physicians that have been already certified before will have a very small requirement that will take them around 15 to 20 minutes to be certified. So we are pretty confident that we'll be able to maintain the volume based on the retraining that I believe was your question. The other factors are the ones that Matt and Joe already covered.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 11/02/2026
“Ew Hudson River gross” Grow up and learn to respect our beautiful estuary
A picture of the George Washington Bridge taken from a kayak on the Hudson River
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 02/02/2026
In its own strategic plan, which I obtained because it was submitted with grant applications, Georgia Wellness Group identifies "inability to provide more OBGYN services without a physician willing to provide services" as an organizational weakness.
Crisis pregnancy centers are typically religiously affiliated, and most are associated in some way with national anti-abortion organizations. However, they often hide their religious and ideological leanings from prospective clients. While Georgia Wellness is clear on its website that it does not provide or refer for abortions, the site doesn’t mention any religious leanings. But according to a strategic plan submitted with its 2025 CDBG application, its number one value is “Truthful, meaning, we base all truth on God’s Word and evidence-based medical information.” The center’s CDBG-funded mental and behavioral health program will also be operated in partnership with a church. As Autonomy News has previously reported, crisis pregnancy centers often struggle to recruit qualified physicians. Georgia Wellness acknowledges this problem in its plan, which identifies among a list of weaknesses, “inability to provide more OBGYN services without a physician willing to provide services,” and “bad reviews from angry patients” and “lack of adequate/involved physician” as potential threats to the organization.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 02/02/2026
This arrangement, called a nurse protocol, was mysteriously terminated after one of my sources submitted a public records request about it.
Swartzendruber submitted an open records request to the medical board regarding McClendon’s nurse protocol in August 2025. By October—the same month Walker received his new volunteer license—the protocol was mysteriously listed as “terminated.” Swartzendruber said Georgia Wellness “may have put clients at risk through lack of appropriate licensure,” but that she also considers the medical board to be “highly culpable.” A source who asked Autonomy News not to name them said they submitted a complaint about the matter to the Georgia Composite Medical Board in late 2025. GCMB did not respond to a request for comment, and complaints are not public record.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 02/02/2026
What I *was* able to verify is that, according to the medical board's own records, a nurse practitioner at Georgia Wellness Group was registered as being supervised by that same retired physician with the expired license. This would be a violation of state law.
Jean-Gilles also claimed that, at the time he spoke with Amplify Georgia, the post of medical director was being filled by a retired doctor. According to Jean-Gilles, that medical director was Dr. Gary Walker, who is listed in Georgia Wellness’ 2025 CDBG application materials as a retired OBGYN and board member. Walker “could come out of retirement to deliver babies, but he won’t,” Jean-Gilles wrote. According to the Georgia Composite Medical Board license verification portal, Walker’s physician license expired on November 30, 2019. A new “Volunteer in Medicine” license, a special type of license for retired doctors, was issued to Walker on October 15, 2025—meaning he was without a license for nearly six years, including during the time period that Jean-Gilles claims he was the medical director.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 02/02/2026
The licensing issues in a nutshell: First, according to allegations from a former medical director, the medical director of Georgia Wellness Group as of summer 2025 was a retired doctor with an expired license. For the record, I couldn't verify this allegation.
Jean-Gilles also claimed that, at the time he spoke with Amplify Georgia, the post of medical director was being filled by a retired doctor. According to Jean-Gilles, that medical director was Dr. Gary Walker, who is listed in Georgia Wellness’ 2025 CDBG application materials as a retired OBGYN and board member. Walker “could come out of retirement to deliver babies, but he won’t,” Jean-Gilles wrote. According to the Georgia Composite Medical Board license verification portal, Walker’s physician license expired on November 30, 2019. A new “Volunteer in Medicine” license, a special type of license for retired doctors, was issued to Walker on October 15, 2025—meaning he was without a license for nearly six years, including during the time period that Jean-Gilles claims he was the medical director.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 30/01/2026
Another cool thing about running your own website is that when there's something you don't like or want to change you can just fix it instead of begging for years to no avail. And that is why our website is beautiful 😊 www.autonomynews.co
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 22/01/2026
Very difficult to summarize all the bonkers details of this story; one is that, until recently, this crisis pregnancy center was affiliated with Obria, a CPC chain with a... very checkered past.
In August 2024, Obria’s former CEO, Dawn Hughes, went public with allegations that Obria manipulates patients and inflates the number of people it serves. Its founding CEO, Kathleen Eaton Bravo, came under fire in 2019—during the time Georgia Wellness was doing business under the Obria name—for making overtly white supremacist comments. It’s not clear when Georgia Wellness ended its affiliation with Obria, whether the decision was related to Hughes’s whistleblower turn, or how the change might have affected service provision at Georgia Wellness. The most recent post on a Facebook fundraising page called “Friends of Obria Gwinnett” is from March 2025.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 22/01/2026
Absolutely incredible stuff on this here website
Screenshot of a bluesky conversation
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 19/01/2026
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 24/12/2025
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Image featuring the book cover of Relinquished by Gretchen Sisson
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 17/12/2025
Alternatively, start a new, paid annual subscription and get a free, signed copy of an excellent reproductive justice book! www.autonomynews.co#/portal
An image featuring the book cover of Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 11/12/2025
Everyone who starts a new, paid annual subscription between now and the end of the year will receive a free, signed copy of @gretchensisson.bsky.social’s fascinating book Relinquished. Sign up today!
An image featuring the cover of the book Relinquished and the details of the offer.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 05/12/2025
🥴 www.kff.org/public-opini...
A graphic from KFF showing that four in ten people they surveyed are "unsure" about the safety of medication abortion.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 20/11/2025
More similarities between how what's happening with gender-affirming care now mirrors what happened with abortion care in the story: www.autonomynews.co/doj-subpoena...
Screenshot of text that says: “But then it is falling more on individual clinicians to make those things happen,” Beal added. “Which, if you have care siloed, it is also much easier to target those clinicians’ physical safety.” This mirrors a dynamic that has long existed in abortion care. The upside of specialized clinics is expert care and mission-driven staff. The downside is that these practices are easier to single out, whether for harassment, violence, or government surveillance.
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