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Rewire News Group @rewirenewsgroup.com · 15/06/2026

Reproductive justice advocates have said for decades that Roe v. Wade was never enough. So why did so much of the reproductive rights movement organize itself around protecting Roe anyway?

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If ‘Roe’ Was Never Enough, Why Was It Everything? (Podcast)

The public health data was there. The reproductive justice framework was there. So why did Roe v. Wade become the center of gravity of the abortion rights movement?

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

And if you are still standing on the middle ground of the abortion “debate,” I invite you to consider why you believe your personal discomfort with abortion should take precedence over the lives, bodies, and self-determination of other people.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

People who have abortions are not theoretical props for your idealized version of what an abortion should look like. So no, I’m not interested in courting the middle ground. I am interested in a future where my patients can access health care — including abortions — with ease, dignity, and respect.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

We are already living where the “middle ground” strategy gets us: people dying preventable deaths, criminalized for pregnancy outcomes, surveilled, forced to carry pregnancies when they can’t or don’t want to, jumping through massive logistical and financial hoops to get the care they need.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Abortion is safe, essential health care. There is nothing intellectual about treating it as a fringe political issue when the science is already clear about this. There is nothing novel about ceding inches of our rights to groups who have repeatedly demonstrated they’ll take a mile.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

There is no missing middle ground here that abortion advocates have failed to consider. The middle ground is the quicksand that overturned Roe v. Wade.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

No, there is no “middle ground” on abortion. There is no middle ground for my patients who can’t be pregnant. There is no middle ground for my patients who don’t want to be pregnant. There is no middle ground for my patients who need abortions to parent the children they already have.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I would not be doing the work I do today had it not been for @prh.org Leadership Training Academy. It gave me the skills I needed to do this work in a meaningful and sustainable way. If you’re a physician looking to be an advocate in your community, I invite you to apply: prh.org/become-fello...

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Yesterday, Senator Josh Hawley introduce legislation that would ban and withdraw mifepristone’s FDA approval. Mifepristone is safe. Anti-abortion extremists once again attempting to control us through misinformation is not. My full statement: prh.org/press-releas...

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Senate Introduces Attack on Mifepristone

Yesterday, Sen. Josh Hawley introduced legislation that would ban and withdrawal mifepristone’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval. Dr. Jamila Perritt, ob/gyn and abortion provider in Washing...

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Abortion providers haven’t given up for a world where people can have abortions with ease and dignity. I hope you won’t, either.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Today, members of Congress led by @pressley.house.gov and @hirono.senate.gov introduced a resolution recognizing Abortion Provider Appreciation Day and the clinicians and staff who make abortion care possible. I’m deeply grateful their continued commitment to abortion access + providers.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Abortion providers show up because we understand what is at stake if we don’t: the freedom to make decisions about our bodies, our lives, and our futures.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

As an abortion providers, I know this work doesn’t exist in isolation. Across the country, clinic workers continue showing up for their communities—even as immigration enforcement infiltrates our neighborhoods and attacks on transgender people rise.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Since the fall of Roe, attacks on abortion haven’t stopped. But neither have abortion providers.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

@prh.org is hiring a full-time physician Reproductive Health Advocacy Fellow — someone ready to use medical expertise to take on policy, misinformation, + the systems that harm our patients. If you’re a clinician who wants to practice medicine *and* shape it, take a look. 🔗 prh.org/careers/#fel...

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Careers

Join our dedicated team working to ensure access to comprehensive and compassionate reproductive health care for all.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Patients deserve a health care system where nurses are respected, resourced, and able to thrive. Anything less is a threat to equity, justice, and our collective well-being.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Physicians: we have an ethical obligation to stand in solidarity with nurses. Nursing is a profession worthy of resources and respect. If we can’t say that out loud, we’re not practicing justice, we’re enforcing hierarchy.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

As a physician, I could not do my work without nurses. They are the first point of contact for patients, the monitors of safety, the ones who spot crises before they escalate. Undermining nurses undermines patients, trust, and the integrity of care itself.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Adding barriers to degrees, loans, and career advancement is a values statement about who the Trump administration believes deserves opportunity and mobility. And in the context of nursing degrees? They’re also letting us know who they believe deserves culturally competent care.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Nursing has long been a pathway into health care for Black, brown, immigrant, and working-class students — people whose expertise and proximity to community strengthen our health care system and patient health outcomes.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I will say this plainly: the Department of Education’s exclusion of nursing as a professional degree is a direct attack on the people who hold our health care system together, and it’s an attack shaped by race, class, and power. It is unacceptable. www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...

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Nursing is no longer counted as a 'professional degree' by Trump admin

The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it implements various changes to student loans.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21/11/2025

ICYMI Dept of Education will no longer considers these professional degrees: Nursing Public health Social work Physician assistant Occupational therapy Physical therapy Audiology Speech-language pathology Social work Counseling & therapy Health Admin A smaller health workforce makes us all sicker

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Our pregnant people, our infants, our communities deserve to thrive — not just survive. If you can, support mutual aid groups in your community. When systems fail us, we take care of each other. That’s how we survive. That’s how we build a liberated future.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Despite what the Administration would have you believe, SNAP and WIC are not on the line because of trans people or immigrants. They’re on the line because the government would rather play politics than take care of us.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Lawmakers using food assistance as a bargaining chip and letting thousands of families pay the price is unfathomably cruel. This is not leadership rooted in care or community.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

This isn’t an abstract policy debate — it’s systemic political violence with real consequences for public health. When a pregnant person can’t access nutritious food, formula, or support, outcomes worsen across the board. We see harm that could and should be prevented.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Reproductive justice is also the right to live in a body unconstrained by hunger, neglect, or scarcity. People need stability to be healthy. They need food. These things are absolutely necessary for raising families.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I’m not interested in qualifying anyone’s “worthiness” for support based on employment, sobriety, age, or ability. And I’m not interested in policing how people use their benefits. Everyone deserves food, stability, and care.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Nearly 42 million Americans rely on SNAP for food stability. 6.7 million new parents depend on WIC to care for their families. As a physician, I am deeply alarmed about what is unfolding.🧵

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Jules Sherred (he/him) @geekyjules.julessherred.com · 21/10/2025

Also, while implied, it also needs to be implicitly said: Not all people who get abortions are women and girls. In Canada, the rates of teen pregnancy in trans youth is same as cis girls. No data is kept on trans masc ppl which is unacceptable

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Excellent point. It’s more inclusive and it is also more accurate. All the more reason to constantly examine the language we use.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

My solidarity with trans people isn’t at odds with Reproductive Justice — it’s integral to it. I will keep using inclusive language. I will keep including trans people in my work. Our liberation is bound together. Are you coming along?

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

The same forces attacking abortion access are attacking gender-affirming care — both rooted in control. We can’t stop at abortion access. We have to dig injustice out at the root, not just when it touches our own gardens.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Abortion is health care — but it’s also about bodily autonomy, self-determination, and the right to shape our own futures. Trans people are in a parallel, interconnected fight.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Pregnant women are people. “Pregnant people” doesn’t erase cis women’s experiences with pregnancy — it expands the frame. It helps make all reproductive health safer and more accessible for everyone.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Many people still think of this work as “women’s rights.” They worry that saying “pregnant people” dilutes the fight for abortion access. If that’s where you’re coming from, I hear you. And I offer this:

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

“I was with you, until you said ‘pregnant people.’” I get this a lot. I’m an abortion provider, and the CEO and President of an org known for abortion advocacy. Let’s talk about why I use inclusive language — and why I’m not stopping. 🧵

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Hyde and Dornan are meant to break us. But our communities know how to survive—and how to keep fighting. We endure, we resist, we insist on justice. Read more: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Resisting Federal Overreach in the Exam Room and on the Streets of DC

This Hyde anniversary, Dr. Jamila Perritt reflects on the culture of fear and self-determination in the nation’s capital.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

In my piece for @thenation.com , I wrote about what this means for providers and communities: how federal control shows up in exam rooms, on our streets, and in daily life.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

This is Hyde in action. It’s not theoretical — it’s lived reality. Every day, patients in DC are told their health, their choices, and their futures are subject to federal politics.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

For nearly 50 years, the Hyde Amendment has been used to deny people with public insurance the ability to access abortion care. In DC, the Dornan Amendment takes it a step further: it strips an entire city of the right to use its own funds to take care of its residents when the government fails.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

We actually don’t train students but Medical Students for Choice does! check them out @msfchoice.bsky.social

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Science, not politics, should guide medical care. Yet the Trump administration and RFK Jr. are spreading false claims about Tylenol that create fear and confusion for pregnant patients. Know this: The science is settled. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. Thank you for having me @msnbc.com.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Our patients trust us to protect their health and dignity. Political assaults like those from RFK Jr. and the Trump administration only heighten obstetric pain and violence and endanger lives. As physicians, we stand by the evidence: Tylenol is safe. @prh.org

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 16/09/2025

We’ve been hearing that social media platforms are censoring abortion-related content, even when no law requires them to do so. Now, we’ve got the receipts to prove it. www.eff.org/pages/our-s...

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Our Stop Censoring Abortion Campaign Uncovers a Social Media

BY JENNIFER PINSOF | September 15, 2025This is the first installment in a blog series documenting EFF's findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here. We’ve

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classacthr73.bsky.social @classacthr73.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Meet the Panelists! • Dr. Jamila Perritt – President & CEO, Physicians for Reproductive Health @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social Join us September 28th, 7:00 PM #ClassACTHR73Forum buff.ly/9bgoKIv

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classacthr73.bsky.social @classacthr73.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Reproductive rights in this country are under threat. Panelists from @ppcacentralcoast.bsky.social @pregnancyjust.bsky.social @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social & others will discuss how advocacy, education and litigation can help address these growing threats 9/28 7:00 PM ET. #ClassACTHR73Forum

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Center for Reproductive Rights @reprorights.org · 02/07/2025

‼️THIS IS NOT A DRILL! Congress is one House vote away from passing Trump's “big beautiful bill”—a federal government funding bill that would destroy Medicaid and DEVASTATE reproductive health care across the country, forcing Planned Parenthood's vital health centers to close.

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