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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

“If the Congress won’t act, and if somebody else won’t act, then veterans ourselves will stand up and say, ‘fine, we will act, we will fight for our country and for our people the way that we have always done,’” Lindsay Church of Minority Veterans of America, the petitioner in the suit, told me.

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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 15/05/2026

NEW: Minority Veterans of America, repped by @nwlc.org and @democracyforward.org, is suing the Trump administration over its ban on abortion care and counseling at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Here's the complaint:

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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

❗SCOOP: The first lawsuit over the Trump administration’s abortion ban for veterans & their dependents was just filed. Minority Veterans of America says one of its members w/ chronic health issues + a history of pregnancy complications is currently being impacted. More from me at @ms.now:

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Veterans group sues Trump administration over VA abortion ban

Minority Veterans of America is bringing the lawsuit on behalf of its members, including one who is pregnant and unable to access abortion care.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 07/05/2026

NEW: 113 Republican members of Congress asked the Supreme Court to end telehealth prescriptions of the abortion drug mifepristone. They say the FDA rule change was improper *and* that it violates the federal Comstock Act www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

screenshot of amicus brief from 113 Republican members of Congress (28 senators and 85 House members):
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of Authorities. ii
Interest of Amici Curiae
Summary of the Argument
Argument
I. The Biden FDA’s 2023 Mifepristone REMS Is Contrary to Law
Because It Fails to Meet the Statutory Requirement to Demonstrate
Safety and the Fifth Circuit’s Ruling is Justified.
A. The Biden FDA relied on insufficient data to establish the safety
of foregoing the in-person requirement.
B. The Fifth Circuit’s ruling is warranted because the 2023 REMS
endangers women’s health and safety and increases the risk of
coercion.
1. The 2023 REMS endangers women’s health and safety.
2. The 2023 REMS increases the risk of coercion.

II. The Biden FDA’s 2023 Mifepristone REMS Violates Federal Law.
A. The 2023 REMS directly conflicts with the Comstock Act, which
prohibits mailing abortion drugs
B. The Biden FDA’s attempt to authorize conduct prohibited under
federal law exceeds its statutory authority and violates the
separation of powers.
C. The Biden administration’s attempts to evade the plain text of the
Comstock Act do not stand up to legal scrutiny.
1. There is no “longstanding judicial construction” of the Comstock
Act which limits its applicability to situations where the sender
“intends” that the pills be used unlawfully.
2. Congress did not “ratify” the Biden administration’s preferred
construction of the Comstock Act.
Conclusion
Appendix: List of Amici Curiae

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Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

By all that is holy, if and when SCOTUS decides that birthright citizenship is protected in the Constitution, don't let the 3-3-3 numpties tell you this is a moderate, centrist court. Rejecting an a-textual stupid Hail Mary doesn't cash out to a push when it comes to eviscerating the VRA today.

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Payton Gannon @paytongannon.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Death, taxes, and the Supreme Court desperately trying to undo the progress of reconstruction and the civil rights movement.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Well, the Reconstruction Amendments were nice while they lasted.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

"I dissent because Congress elected otherwise. I dissent because the Court betrays its duty to faithfully implement the great statute Congress wrote. I dissent because the Court’s decision will set back the foundational right Congress granted of racial equality in electoral opportunity. I dissent."

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Elizabeth Banks

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 14/01/2026

Table setting: More than 100 studies have found mifepristone is safe and effective. It's safer than continuing a pregnancy. The only way to claim it's unsafe is if you believe abortion is murder, which is what we're going to hear today.

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Are Abortion Pills Safe? Here’s the Evidence. (Published 2023)

The Times reviewed 101 studies of medication abortion, spanning continents and decades. All concluded that the pills are a safe method for terminating a pregnancy.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 14/01/2026

Brace for nonsense: there’s a Senate hearing today that will baselessly question the safety of the abortion pill mifepristone. Expect Josh Hawley to be on his worst behavior www.youtube.com/live/M3PNge7... www.autonomynews.co/wyoming-abor... @autonomynews.co

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Somewhat relatedly, there will be a Senate committee hearing on Wednesday morning that baselessly questions the safety of mifepristone. Sen. Josh Hawley serves on this committee and the chair, Sen. Bill Cassidy, claimed in a release that "chemical abortion drugs not only kill innocent babies, but also put women in serious danger." Translation: you can expect a lot of garbage from them and the two anti-abortion witnesses, one of whom is Liz Murrill, the Attorney General of Louisiana, whose office filed the aforementioned lawsuit. (Murrill is also pursuing criminal charges against two doctors accused of mailing abortion pills to Louisiana, one from New York and another from California.) Democratic members of the committee invited as their witness a Georgia OBGYN who is a fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health.

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I’m so glad to see this paper — my first solo-authored one and second from my dissertation — finally published! If you’ve heard me talk about my research in the last couple of years, you know this is the story that started it all for me, and I’m so happy to finally have it out there in the world.

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

My and @paytongannon.bsky.social 's latest publication on abortion access in Italy came out last week as part of the special issue of Interdisciplinary Political Studies! This article grew out of our conversations about the interviews we were each conducting in different regions of Italy. 1/

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Payton Gannon @paytongannon.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

A special issue of Interdisciplinary Political Studies on reproductive rights in developed democracies has been published. It has been a pleasure to work with all the authors and my co-editors @dmpullan.bsky.social and @gmripamonti.bsky.social Read it here: siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/idps

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

So happy to see this special issue of Interdisciplinary Political Studies on Steps Forward and Backward on Abortion Rights in Advanced Democracies published today, coedited with @gmripamonti.bsky.social and @paytongannon.bsky.social! gendersky reprosky polisky

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Payton Gannon @paytongannon.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

The 26th Annual Review of Gender and the Law is now in print. It has been a joy to serve as the Editor-in-Chief for the last year. I am so grateful to the entire staff of the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law for their hard work. Check it out here: www.law.georgetown.edu/gender-journ...

law.georgetown.edu

Volume XXVI (Annual Review 2025)

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The Supreme Court is as powerful as it is in large part because of a reputation that it earned through fitfully at best furthering racial justice. It has diminished that reputational capital for more than a century. We should in fact respect it less because of that.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Justice Sotomayor dissenting on birthright citizenship case: "The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along. Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent."

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Honored to have been considered for this prize for my work with @paytongannon.bsky.social explaining US court decisions on abortion post-Dobbs! Highly recommend publishing quick, contemporary pieces with @ecprtheloop.bsky.social — always a great experience and great editorial team!

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Payton Gannon @paytongannon.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

A little life update: I graduated law school and will join the National Women's Law Center in the fall to continue working on repro rights. I will also continue to research abortion law and policy. On that note, I published a new article on Muller v. Oregon: www.law.georgetown.edu/gender-journ...

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Labor and Labor: The Sexism and Legacy of Muller v. Oregon

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Abortion access works in political-geographic systems: when there is regional regulation, you’ll end up with some sanctuaries, some islands, and some deserts of access — in the US, in Italy, and beyond. So glad my oldest paper with @paytongannon.bsky.social has finally made it online!

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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Sanctuaries, Islands, and Deserts: @paytongannon.bsky.social and @dmpullan.bsky.social propose a typology of regionalized abortion policy. Comparing the US and Italy, they analyze the impact of regional abortion access on abortion providers and patients. New MPIfG Discussion Paper: s.gwdg.de/p7Ps65

Title page: Sanctuaries, Islands and Deserts. A typology of regionalized abortion policy. Payton Gannon and Danielle Pullan

Abstract

This paper elaborates a typology of regionalized abortion policy based on a comparative case study of Italy and the United States. Italy originally legalized abortion in 1978 and has seen little effort to modify the law since. Contrastingly, the United States’ abortion landscape has been in near constant flux since 1974, when, in Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court recognized a constitutional right to abortion. This became even more unstable in 2022 when the Supreme Court overruled Roe in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health and held there is no constitutional right to abortion.

Despite their differences in national abortion policy, both Italy and the US have regionalized the implementation of their abortion policies. Italy’s law is national, but implementation is interpreted differently at the regional level. Since Dobbs, US states have proposed and passed many laws about abortion, creating even greater regional variation than before.

We propose a typology of regionalized abortion access: Sanctuaries where abortion is most protected and available; Islands with liberal policies that are surrounded by more restrictive territories; and Deserts with minimal abortion access. Through qualitative analysis of policies, political activities, and firsthand accounts by abortion providers and advocates working in places of each type, we then highlight the long-term implications of each of these components of the typology, analyzing the ways that they impact abortion providers and patients.

Keywords: abortion, health policy, human rights, policy implementation, regionalization

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Payton Gannon @paytongannon.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Every DC group chat is currently being renamed to "Houthis PC Small Group'

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Mary Ziegler @maryrziegler.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The history here is instructive: before Roe, prosecutions tended to focus on non-physicians, and disproportionately on midwives, especially those who weren't white. We see the same now--and for strategic reasons. This isn't the first prosecution Paxton could bring but the one his office chose.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

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Payton Gannon @paytongannon.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

This report is damning and terrifying. Abortion saves lives.

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Payton Gannon @paytongannon.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

If you want to read about concerns regarding abortion data integrity in a country other than the US @dmpullan.bsky.social and I have a new article out in RevDem. We discuss Italy's annual abortion report and concerns about the accuracy and its delayed release. revdem.ceu.edu/2025/02/07/a...

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Access Denied: Abortion Data Failures and Erosion of Accountability in Italy | Review of Democracy

Delayed data on abortion care in Italy impacts citizens’ ability to effectively advocate and hold their government accountable for the management of public healthcare. The Italian Ministry of Health i...

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

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ANSIRH @ansirh.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Q: Abortions are safer than _______. A. Consuming Tylenol. B. Getting your wisdom teeth out. C. Giving birth. D. All of the above. It’s D. Abortion is one of the safest outpatient procedures in the United States.

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Payton Gannon @paytongannon.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The U.S. isn’t the only country where the government withholds key public health data on abortion. @dmpullan.bsky.social and I explore concerns about Italy’s abortion data and the severe delays in its release.

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The US isn't the only place where citizens are struggling to trust government data on abortion, gender, and health: Italy regularly publishes delayed data that is misleading at best about how available abortion actually is. Read more about why good public health data matters for democracy at RevDem!

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Not only do they erase trans, non-binary, and intersex people with this order, but they had to lace it with a side of fetal personhood. (I assume ova are “large reproductive cells” and sperm are “small reproductive cells? Is this how they teach sex ed?)

In yesterday’s executive order from the White House

d) “Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.
(e) “Male” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.

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Payton Gannon @paytongannon.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

"She left us with work that demands we keep building, refusing to stew in apathy or despair. Yes, this is hard. Yes, it will demand a lot from us. But Cecile committed her life to the idea that we could do it anyway."

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 20/01/2025

Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Update from DC: It’s still not that cold outside.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

An early contender for headline of the year…

Headline stating: I knew one day I'd have to watch powerful men burn the world down - Ijust didn't expect them to be such losers
by Rebecca Shaw

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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Re-upping this because lots of great new people have been added to this fantastic starter pack. If you're interested in repro legal issues, these are the folks to follow!

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Steph Herold @stephherold.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Abortion is 14x safer than child birth. And abortion pills have a better safety record than Tylenol.

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Participated in this really fascinating panel on the role of emotions and affect in social research this afternoon @ the Feminism as a Method conference at Scuola Normale Superiore. Little teaser of our tips for interviewing about abortion if you zoom in! Learning so much! @paytongannon.bsky.social

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Ciao from Firenze! Excited to be visiting the Scuola Normale Superiore this week for a conference on feminism as a research method! I’m presenting new work with @paytongannon.bsky.social & Anna Crawford about techniques for conducting academic interviews about abortion! Can’t wait to meet everyone!

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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

A sobering empirical piece in JAMA. Homicide has long been THE LEADING CAUSE of maternal/peripartum death. Here they show: * restrictions on divorce * restrictions on abortion… both correlate with pregnancy homicide (albeit differently, depending on age/race) 🛟🩺 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Payton Gannon @paytongannon.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

In light of the election result this week, LGBTQ+ youth are more at risk than ever. The Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law is still accepting submissions for the Spring 2025 Symposium Issue. Send your submission to lawgenderjournal@georgetown.edu

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