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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Trump's pick to lead the CDC says "abortion surveillance is critical" and that she wants to make sure hospitals in certain states aren't "hiding" abortions. Full story at Abortion, Every Day jessica.substack.com/p/trumps-cdc...

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The Latino Newsletter @thelatinonewsletter.org · 08/07/2026

His daughter, producer @tjraphael.bsky.social, tells his story and what it reveals about the care Puerto Rican veterans are owed for serving in American wars, and still can't get at home.

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Episode 2: No Way Home

Podcast Episode · American Colony | The Latino Newsletter Podcast · July 8 · 48m

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j. cowit @jcowit.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... really incredible work by the amazing @tjraphael.bsky.social it's not easy to interview family, and yet, TJ gets into such in-depth stories with her father, and makes it such a unique listen. #AmericanColony #PuertoRico @julito77

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Episode 2: No Way Home

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Gretchen Sisson @gretchensisson.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Glad to be included in this conversation with “Liberty Lost”’s @tjraphael.bsky.social from the Concerned United Birthparent conference. I believe this is the first mainstream critical coverage of the adoption tax credit — an important step in the conversation to align our investment with our values.

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T. J. Raphael @tjraphael.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Brava to @juliaioffe.bsky.social. This book is fascinating and riveting.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Right now, Republicans are working to ‘replace’ reproductive healthcare clinics with crisis pregnancy centers—claiming that the fake clinics are perfectly acceptable alternatives to the credible healthcare centers their policies are shuttering. Here's the reality:

Imagine you’re a teenager who wants birth control pills. The problem is, your Planned Parenthood has shut down—financially devastated by Donald Trump’s budget bill. You don’t know anything about that; you just know the next closest clinic is a two-hour drive away.

You look around for an OBGYN, but the few who haven’t fled your anti-choice state are booked solid for months. Besides, you’re on your parents’ health insurance, and you’d rather keep this visit private. So you go to a ‘pregnancy clinic’ you found on Google; the staff are wearing white coats and seem legit enough, so you don’t think much about the framed picture of a Bible quote on the wall.

But when you ask about getting on the Pill, the woman there says hormones could give you cancer—and that it’s illegal for minors to get birth control without parental permission. You’re pretty sure that’s not true, but you’re 15 years old and aren’t going to argue with an adult. So you leave defeated, without contraception, hoping that your boyfriend might agree to wear a condom.

Now imagine that’s happening in every community, every day, across the country.

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T. J. Raphael @tjraphael.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Liberty Lost won gold for Best Documentary at the Signal Awards! 🏅🌟 A huge thank you to the judges, my team at Wondery, and the brave birth mothers and survivors who shared their stories with me and the world. In the words of the iconic RuPaul Charles, I'm a winner, baby! 🤸 ✨ #documentary

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T. J. Raphael @tjraphael.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Thank you for this piece @jessicavalenti.bsky.social. I find @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social's argument especially ghoulish, especially considering he's consistently invoked his own wife's high risk pregnancy in the past when talking about the need for abortion access jessica.substack.com/p/ezra-klein...

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Ezra Klein is Wrong About Abortion

Abortion *is* a big tent issue

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T. J. Raphael @tjraphael.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Liberty Lost has been nominated for Signal Award! For best documentary. It’s a listener choice award so please vote and share! vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...

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The Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOU

I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.

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jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

As someone who grew up in Jerry Falwell’s town and lived just three miles from the Liberty Godparent Home during my own teen pregnancy, T.J. Raphael’s Liberty Lost podcast really resonated with me. So grateful for the opportunity to work on this story - please give it a read! #libertylost

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BetsyB @betsyphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

As part of my journey to become increasingly angry at how women are treated in this country, I binge-listened to Liberty Lost last week. It is heart-wrenching, but SO GOOD. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

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Society & Culture Podcast · Weekly Series · In Evangelical homes across the United States, sex outside of marriage is a sin against God. So, when Abbi becomes pregnant at 16, her devout parents hide h...

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rePro-Truth @reprotruth.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Did you know that Liberty University has a maternity home on campus? I didn't. I just started listening to Liberty Lost, a podcast about the girls forced to live at Liberty University's maternity home & forced give their babies away to "male-headed households." open.spotify.com/episode/5mTt...

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Crooked Media @crooked.com · 10/07/2025

The "Maternity Home" attached to the evangelical Liberty University has a disturbing past and present, all propped up by huge amounts of money. Watch more Hysteria on YouTube.

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Laura Topliffe @thetoplife.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??? Tucked away on the campus of Liberty University is Liberty Godparent Home, where young, unwed mothers go for support. Instead, it's a place where vulnerable teens feel pressured to surrender their babies in exchange for full-ride scholarships to Liberty University.

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A pregnant girl sought help from care-giver and it cost the teen her baby

Tucked away on the campus of Liberty University is a maternity home where young, unwed mothers go for support. But a new podcast by Wondery, Liberty Lost, instead reveals a place where vulnerable teen...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I just listened to the first four episodes of this powerful podcast. If you thought you hated Jerry Falwell just the right amount, listen to this and you’ll realize you didn’t hate him nearly enough.

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RIPSTASH @ripstash.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

You all should take a listen to this podcast. So well done.

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I listened to episode four of this last night and it was all I could do not to wake the baby up to hold him. It’s harrowing, harrowing listening. The cruelty of every adult involved in this story is simple horrific.

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She Votes Illinois @shevotesil.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

3 years post-Roe, #MaternityHomes are rising—places where pregnant people are pushed toward adoption. In her podcast Liberty Lost, T.J. Raphael reveals how religious agendas drive this troubling trend, with 500 maternity homes across the U.S. including more than a dozen in Illinois. bit.ly/4ltAGjb

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Adoption Should Also Be a Choice. In Post-Roe America, It’s Increasingly Not.

It’s been three years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the right to legal abortion in the United States.

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T. J. Raphael @tjraphael.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

In a new podcast, I expose LIBERTY UNIVERSITY'S best kept secret — a maternity home where pregnant teens (some just 13) say they are kept in isolation and face coercion & religious manipulation until they place their babies for adoption to Christian couples.🎧 linktr.ee/tjraphael #reproductivejustice

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Euronews @euronews.com · 24/01/2025

💊The research suggests that ulipristal acetate, the active ingredient in the morning after pill, could be used to replace mifepristone, one of the two drugs used in a common type of abortion.

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Alternative to mifepristone could be used in abortions, study says

A new study found that the emergency contraception pill could be used as an alternative to mifepristone.

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T. J. Raphael @tjraphael.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

This is the correct take. Character is besides the point. The dude is unqualified for the job for a whole host of other reasons. #Hegspeth

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T. J. Raphael @tjraphael.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Started rewatching Handmaid’s Tale. This stands out: Commander: “We only wanted to make the world better.” June: “Better?” Commander: “Better never means better for everyone. It always means worse for some.” Let’s not forget that in the coming years.

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T. J. Raphael @tjraphael.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Have you seen this show called The Last of Us or

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