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A note to all care providers: There is NO mandate to report someone you suspect (or know) has self managed their abortion. In fact, it's in violation of privacy laws, antithetical public health and human rights frameworks and causes harm. #stopcallingthepoliceonpatients #donoharm

Keynote on Teaching Civil Disobedience in Medical Training with Kristyn Brandi at #FP4Change is raising questions about breaking the law as physicians, going to protests? Not charging/billing for things? What risks are we taking? Crazy we have to ask these questions American Medical Student Association (AMSA)

Doctors took an oath. Laws being passed outlawing abortion directly conflicts with that oath. What should they do? #AbortionIsHealthcare #GenderAffirmingCare #fp4change American Medical Student Association (AMSA)

These cases are so unacceptable. She was fined and reprimanded but could have had her license taken away. -#AbortionIsHealthcare #CivilDisobedience #fp4change American Medical Student Association (AMSA)

Dr. Kristyn Brandi got a standing ovation on her keynote about civil disobedience at #fp4change American Medical Student Association (AMSA) @DrKBrandi

Many folks have been looking for new ways of screening that are not as invasive as the pelvic exam has been. At LA Pride this month there was a booth where folks could do their own pap smears. Let’s liberate patients from the speculum? bostonglobe.com/2023/06/15/opi… via The Boston Globe

The manual abortion vacuum aspiration workshop was incredible. Educating future physicians about abortion is so important. And this procedure is so simple and safe, all doctors who work with patient bodies and genitals should learn it. Thanks American Medical Student Association (AMSA) for this! #FP4Change

Your religion does not prohibit me from anything. It prohibits you. Learn the difference. Denying equal rights to another group of human beings based on your religious beliefs is still called bigotry. Religion is about helping others and controlling yourself. When it becomes

Do you live in a state that protects your right to say yes - or no- to a pelvic, prostate, or rectal exam while unconscious? What about one with consent legislation pending? Find out using our newly created consent map! #consent #Choice

The #Massachusetts state legislature's Joint Committee on Public Health will hold a public hearing to consider a bill requiring consent for all intimate exams on unconscious patients on Wednesday, July 26. Stay tuned for further details! #consent #choice #reproductiverights

Update - due to a fire at the Massachusetts state house, the public hearing for this bill had to be postponed. We will let you know as soon as a new hearing is scheduled.

And shoutout to Senator Patty Murray for giving a statement that includes the word “abortion,” proving it CAN be done

Senator Patty Murray Another cool element of this bill: Provisions that would increase the representation of disabled people on the physician and nursing workforces

An important piece about what it means to be a woman, BIPOC and queer in academic medicine. #stillathing #sexism #medicaleducation #academicmedicine I am one of those women who left academic medicine carmen fong kevinmd.com/2023/07/i-am-o… via Kevin Pho, M.D.

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👏👏👏👏 Go Advocates for Youth!!! Such amazing work you always do. #advocacy #reproductivejustice

“In 1992, Kris Kristofferson comforted Sinéad O'Connor when she was booed off the stage at a Bob Dylan anniversary concert. He later wrote this for her. May we all have her courage. May we all tell the truth. —- "I'm singing this song for my sister Sinead Concerning the god

New: For decades, patients warned Columbia about the behavior of obstetrician Robert Hadden. One even called 911 and had him arrested. Columbia let him keep working. propublica.org/article/columb…

This is another unacceptable way in which patient consent is marginalized, not prioritized or taken seriously. And the way that misogyny thrives in medicine because women’s labor, MD or otherwise is not valued or respected.

The public hearing for H.2146/S.1333 - bills to ban non-consensual intimate exams in Massachusetts - is THIS THURSDAY, September 20! Find more information here: instagram.com/p/CxUA_X7OGq6/