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Lauren Rankin

@laurenarankin.bsky.social
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Author of BODIES ON THE LINE. @Truthout.org Contributor‬. Exceptional yeller. YNWA. she/her laurenarankin.com

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Truthout @truthout.org · 26/08/2026
In a significant win for abortion rights in the post-Roe U.S., on August 18 the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals struck down an Indiana law that barred abortion providers from helping minors find abortions outside of the state or even sharing information about abortion.
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The Win for Abortion Rights in Indiana Has Reshaped the National Legal Landscape
The ruling sets the stage for further free speech protections for those who help abortion seekers who cross state lines.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 11/08/2026
An 18-year-old young woman in Durham, North Carolina, was arrested and charged this month with a litany of crimes for allegedly self-managing an abortion at 31 weeks “in an attempt to terminate her pregnancy early,” her arrest warrant states.
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North Carolina Teen Was Arrested for Allegedly Self-Managing an Abortion
Abortion bans have always been about criminalizing the pregnant person.
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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A Durham teenager is facing absurd charges, including assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, for allegedly self-managing an abortion. It proves that the anti-abortion movement has always been about criminalizing pregnant people. My latest for @truthout.org: truthout.org/articles/nor...
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North Carolina Teen Was Arrested for Allegedly Self-Managing an Abortion
Abortion bans have always been about criminalizing the pregnant person.
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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A Durham teenager has been charged with a litany of crimes, including ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON WITH INTENT TO KILL, for allegedly self-managing an abortion with medication abortion. It's unconscionable that she's been charged, let alone. facing prison time. www.newsobserver.com/news/local/c...
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Young NC couple arrested after teen allegedly took abortion pills in 3rd trimester
The teen is accused of taking mifepristone and misoprostol while 31 weeks pregnant. She allegedly ordered the medication online.
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Cedar River Clinics @cedarriverclinics.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Despite what far right anti-abortion extremists may want you to think, abortion has been part of American life since the very beginning. The medical establishment began taking aim at abortion due to hostility toward the people who provided them. (1/3) @truthout.org @laurenarankin.bsky.social
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Abortion Is as American as Apple Pie
Abortion has been legal in some or all parts of the country for more than 180 years of US history.
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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Once again, New York state failed to pass a bill that would have required informed consent before drug testing birthing people and newborns. For @truthout.org, I wrote about this failure and why protecting birthing folks from nonconsensual drug testing is ESSENTIAL. truthout.org/articles/non...
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Nonconsensual Drug Testing Has Criminalized Tens of Thousands of Pregnant People
New York can’t squander another chance to protect pregnant people from criminalization.
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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
What would it actually take to improve women's health care in the U.S.? We have to start by prioritizing women's lived experiences, both cis and trans. I break down the challenges and the possibilities at @damemagazine.bsky.social: www.damemagazine.com/2026/05/27/f...
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What It Would Actually Take to Fix Women’s Health Care in America
Women’s health in America is failing. Experts explain how sexism, medical bias, and policy failures harm women—and what must change.
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DAME Magazine @damemagazine.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Women’s health care in America isn’t broken by accident. It was built inside systems that normalize women’s pain and politicize women’s bodies. Fixing it, in part, means centering women’s lived experiences. @laurenarankin.bsky.social with a very deep dive for our American Repair series
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What It Would Actually Take to Fix Women’s Health Care in America
Women’s health in America is failing. Experts explain how sexism, medical bias, and policy failures harm women—and what must change.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 14/05/2026
BREAKING: the Supreme Court finally blocked a lower court's ban on telemedicine prescriptions of abortion drug mifepristone from taking effect, pending full hearing/ruling in Fifth Circuit. Dissents from Alito and Thomas, who claims that the dormant Comstock Act of 1873 bans mailing of mifepristone
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Cite as: 608 U. S. ____ (2026)
THOMAS, J., dissenting
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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
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No. 25A1207
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DANCO LABORATORIES, LLC v. LOUISIANA, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
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No. 25A1208
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GENBIOPRO, INC. v. LOUISIANA, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[May 14, 2026]
The applications for stay presented to JUSTICE ALITO and
by him referred to the Court are granted. The May 1, 2026
order of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth
Circuit, case No. 26–30203, is stayed pending disposition of
the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the
Fifth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be
denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the
event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon
the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
JUSTICE THOMAS, dissenting.
Applicants are manufacturers and distributors of mifepristone, a drug that is primarily designed to cause abortion. They complain that the Fifth Circuit’s order would
reduce profits they derive from selling mifepristone. I
would deny their applications because they have not satisfied their burden for securing interim relief.
I write separately to note that, as Louisiana argued be-
low, it is a criminal offense to ship mifepristone for use in
abortions. The Comstock Act bans using “the mails” to ship...
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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
SCOTUS has blocked the Fifth Circuit ruling, which means FOR NOW, you can access medication abortion (mife AND miso) through telehealth. Do yourself a favor and order medication abortion RIGHT NOW from @aidaccess.bsky.social. You don't even have to be pregnant and it ships right to your door.
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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Buck v. Bell is STILL good case law, which means that a state could still enforce eugenicist policies with the aim to prevent "unfit" individuals from bearing children and have a constitutional basis. It's abhorrent.
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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
While the world is a mess, there have been some legit wins for abortion access in recent months that are worth celebrating. Especially in times of darkness, it's imperative to find and celebrate the wins. I detail a few of them for @truthout.org:
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Despite Ongoing Attacks, Here Are Some Key Wins for the Abortion Rights Movement
The wins show that it’s possible to take back the narrative and ensure access to those who’ve been denied for too long.
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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Didn't think it would be controversial to say I am and remain anti-genocide, but whew have the last few years proved otherwise.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 27/03/2026
This is WILD and also not at all surprising. An OBGYN associated with the Texas anti-abortion pregnancy center that failed to diagnose a woman's ectopic pregnancy on an ultrasound (she later required emergency surgery) told the DMN of the care she was given: "There is nothing to fix."
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A Texas pregnancy center told her everything was fine. Three days later, she was in the ER
A crisis pregnancy center told a Texas woman that her pregnancy was intrauterine. Three days later, she had emergency surgery for an ectopic, or out-of-uterus, ...
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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I don't fuck with AI for many reasons, but chiefly, because it's based on stolen labor and exploitation. There is no "AI revolution;" it's actually just billionaire tech bros stealing work product and, in this case, a literal persona, from underpaid and exploited workers.
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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I recently finished Killers of Roe by the amazing @amylittlefield.bsky.social and I'm now knee-deep in Fear and Fury by the incomparable @historianheather.bsky.social. I am equal parts edified and enraged. Both should be required reading.
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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
33 years ago today, Dr. David Gunn was shot and killed outside of his Pensacola abortion clinic. He had been stalked and harassed for weeks, yet law enforcement did nothing. His murder, the first of an abortion provider in U.S. history, is commemorated now with #AbortionProviderAppreciationDay.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
We must state this clearly. Our lawless regime is building a system of "human warehouses" that will function as concentration camps. Most Americans have no idea that this could quickly exceed Japanese-American internment. No national Democrats are calling for these camps to be stopped & closed.
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If we don’t call for the camps to be closed, no one will
The history of Guantanamo tells us exactly what happens when people with "good intentions" confuse a dirty bandage with a cure.
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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Anti-abortion groups are trying to force the public release of Indiana's pregnancy termination records, even though the state has a near-total abortion ban. Why? They want to expose abortion seekers and providers to public harassment. My latest for @truthout.org: truthout.org/articles/ant...
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Anti-Abortion Groups Try a New Intimidation Tactic: Make Abortion Records Public
Abortion rights opponents want Indiana to use reporting rules to expose abortion providers and recipients to targeting.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
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ICE is afraid of children protesting
“Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”
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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Stephen Miller is a Nazi pass it on
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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
We already learned the hard way with abortion rights that mealy-mouthed positions only embolden your opponents. Now we see congressional Democrats doing the same thing with ICE. Abortion is a human right. ICE must be abolished; it's fascist and deadly. There should be no wavering on either.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/01/2026
if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Reup: Stephen Miller, Not (Just) Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino, Must Be Held Accountable www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/26/s...
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Stephen Miller, Not (Just) Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino, Must Be Held Accountable - emptywheel
The right wing wants to blame Kristi Noem's propaganda failures for the cratering legitimacy of Stephen Miller's deportation regime. If they want to scapegoat, let's make sure they include Miller as w...
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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Geraldo Lunas Campos, a Cuban man imprisoned an ICE concentration camp, was murdered when guards essentially choked him to death. His name should be on our signs, too. Geraldo should be alive, with his family, in his home. Instead, our federal government murdered him because he was an immigrant.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
All the anti-war and anti-occupation protestors were right. All the far leftists were right. All the “woke scolds” and your friend who’s “too woke” were right. They were somehow even more right than they may have realized at the time. But really, it was always obvious they were right.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?
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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
A group of fascist terrorists are hunting and murdering innocent people at the behest of the federal government. The time for statements of condemnation is gone. Any elected official who wrings their hands yet refuses to take action against ICE is abetting this terror and should be voted out ASAP.
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Caitlin Kelly @caitlinkelly.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
NEW: After doctors sent her home with a racing heart, Ciji Graham came to believe the best way to protect her health was to end her pregnancy. But new restrictions in NC and nearby states made finding an abortion provider difficult. www.propublica.org/article/nort...
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A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion.
In a state that had legislated its commitment to life, Graham spent her final days struggling to find anyone to save hers.
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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Sports are made up. The "rules" of sports are made up, and they change all the time. Baseball introduced a pitch clock in 2023 and the NFL implemented the Dynamic Kickoff rule this past year. There is no immutable code that says that only cis people can play sports. It's just bigotry.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 13/01/2026
even ignoring all other evidence showing that trans sports bans are about discriminating against trans people, not protecting cis women... I'm supposed to believe that the Supreme Court that overturned Roe v. Wade and has two justices credibly accused of sexual misconduct cares about womens rights?
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
We don’t need to compare what happened in Minneapolis to Nazi Germany. We can compare it to what has happened in Minneapolis before.
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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
ICE isn't just a terror squad--it's a white supremacist death squad. ICE murdered someone today and it won't be the last murder they commit. It is imperative that state and local leaders REFUSE to cooperate in any way with ICE and put their resources into protecting immigrant communities.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 05/01/2026
Kentucky State Police charged a woman with "fetal homicide" after she allegedly used abortion pills bought online—despite the fact that the statute explicitly exempts pregnant people from charges. But her mugshot is all over the internet including People fucking magazine www.wkyt.com/2026/01/02/k...
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week. This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025. Read/share 👇
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Department of Veterans Affairs quietly implements abortion ban
A VA spokesperson confirmed to MS NOW that the ban was in place following a Department of Justice memo issued last week.
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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns
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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Did tampons in bathrooms ruin the workplace Did that cute girl from HR with the skirts ruin the workplace Did the fact I can’t call ladies “toots” ruin the workplace Did women stopping wearing pantyhose ruin the workplace Did that harpie who told me I can’t snap bras anymore ruin the workplace
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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
There's no such thing as "conservative feminism." There's no such thing as "conservative feminism." There's no such thing as "conservative feminism." There's no such thing as "conservative feminism." There's no such thing as "conservative feminism." There's no such thing as "conservative feminism."
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 05/11/2025
Zohran Mamdani: "So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."
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Mary @marybadthings.com · 01/11/2025
“These videos aren’t produced by OB-GYNs or scientists. They aren’t based on medical information. By using a seemingly anodyne tactic in order to cunningly and covertly attack abortion rights, they are a sinister tool of anti-abortion propaganda.” — @laurenarankin.bsky.social
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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Abortion opponents have realized that they've lost public opinion among adults. Now, they're trying to brainwash children by mandating that schools show junk science videos about fetal development. And it's already the law in several states. My latest at @truthout.org: truthout.org/articles/gop...
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GOP Wants to Mandate “Fetal Development Education.” It’s Anti-Abortion Nonsense.
Republicans can’t seem to convince adults to vote against abortion, so they’re trying to brainwash kids instead.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 25/10/2025
if you want to defend the working class? buy out a street vendor’s cart so they don’t have to choose between their income or kidnapping by ICE
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Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 15/10/2025
NEW: Recordings from a crisis pregnancy center conference, shared exclusively with Autonomy News, reveal that anti-abortion physicians are reluctant to prescribe abortion pill “reversal”—even as the conservative legal movement uses the supposed treatment to expand CPCs’ free speech rights.
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Abortion Pill “Reversal” Is a Hoax. It's Also a Powerful Right-Wing Legal Strategy.
Speakers at a crisis pregnancy center conference made rare admissions about the challenges of providing so-called abortion “reversal,” and indicate its importance as a litigation tool.
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Palmetto State Abortion Fund @psabortionfund.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Good news: y’all have already raised $300! Bad news: she’s measured further along and the cost has gone up. She needs a total of $3,400 now in addition to the $1,000 we already pledged. Our goal is now $2,500 to raise for her and we will cover the rest of the balance.
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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Just a reminder that mifepristone is incredibly safe and has been approved by the FDA for a quarter of a century. You can purchase medication abortion (mifepristone and misoprostol) online and have it shipped to your home through @aidaccess.bsky.social. Mifepristone has a shelf life of 5 years.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 23/09/2025
Anti-vaxxers are copying a core anti-abortion strategy: if you can’t make it illegal, make it inaccessible instead.
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FDA’s Arbitrary Restrictions on Vaccines Are Right Out of Anti-Abortion Playbook
Anti-vaxxers are copying a core anti-abortion strategy: if you can’t make it illegal, make it inaccessible instead.
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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Vaccine deniers have learned from abortion opponents that you can ban health care without actually making it illegal––stigmatize it and make it inaccessible. It's meant to make us distrust science and disbelieve what we see with our own eyes. My latest for @truthout.org: truthout.org/articles/fda...
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FDA’s Arbitrary Restrictions on Vaccines Are Right Out of Anti-Abortion Playbook
Anti-vaxxers are copying a core anti-abortion strategy: if you can’t make it illegal, make it inaccessible instead.
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