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she/her • abortion fund director @kyhealthjustice • proud KYian • terminally gay • consistent (& sexy) antagonist • hot takes don’t rep my employer (sometimes)

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2 years

people of KY deserve the option to end their pregnancies in a clinic environment. @i_need_an_a people of KY deserve the option to manage their own abortions. @Plancpills people of KY deserve to not be criminalized for their pregnancy outcomes. @ifwhenhow

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1 year

nurses are really just cops in kate spade

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abortion resumes in ky 🎉

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fighting back tears while trying to navigate callers to clinics out of state. i lost it today and cried with a caller who is being forced to travel 600 miles for her abortion. none of this is okay.

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2 years

DO NOT CALL AN ABORTION FUND HOTLINE FOR VOLUNTEER OR MEDIA INQUIRIES

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no election will ever liberate us. the two-party system was designed to maintain the existence of a ruling class. pointing the finger at voters is obfuscating the real disease in elections: white supremacy & capitalism

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imagine having funding from warren fucking buffet & then telling a pregnant person that they don’t qualify for support with their $12800 abortion bc they make (maybe) $30k a year.

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1 year

some of our callers are driving to Illinois just to get abortion pills if ya wanna know how grim it is in KY abortion landscape rn.

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2 years

we are seeing more callers getting care later in pregnancy than ever before and i've essentially become a travel coordinator at this point. i anticipated a rise in delayed care, but seeing it come to fruition before my eyes is fucking heart breaking.

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2 years

i would highly suggest to anyone wanting to (just now) start an abortion fund/travel program (with no prior experience) to just… amplify the existing infrastructure that exists…

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2 years

I am proud, and fucking humbled as hell, to announce that I have accepted the offer to join @KyHealthJustice as the Program Director for the Abortion Fund. I am so grateful for the time I spent with @ppfa and @PPAAEast supporting the Patient Advocacy Program

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unrelated but i’m 26 running a state-wide abortion fund & all but one person staffed at our org is under 40

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abortion is legal in ky but more inaccessible post-roe almost exclusively because of the National Abortion Federation.

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KY’s injunction on the trigger ban got struck down. the clinics are cancelling appointments. abortion is banned in KY.

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2 years

ITS A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE COMMONWEALTH THAT CAN PROVIDE ABORTIONS

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2 years

sending love to every organizer that is holding an event today. i hope the action goes well. i hope more u get some well deserved rest. (except Rise Up lol)

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10 months

whew... nothing will ever burn out a passionate community care worker quite like the bureaucracy of non-profit organizational structures.

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2 years

HUGE APPRECIATION to abortion clinic staff at EMW & at PP KY health centers that diverted folks out of state for 8 days & supported patients seeking abortion

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1 year

so uhhhhh i just learned that CPCs use trans-vaginal ultrasounds....

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4 years

“does ur dad know ur here?” this is the oldest line in the book, joe. he doesn’t caaaaaaarrrrrrreeeee

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2 years

language matters. 👉15 weeks isn’t “late-term” 👉 “viability” is subjective legal term 👉 the majority abortions later in pregnancy are a result of delayed care 👉 delayed care begets delayed care

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2 months

imma say something & i don’t want yall to get mad at me. (most) abortion funding is not mutual aid. (most) abortion funding is progressive charity. it is mutual aid to philanthropists and clinic owners. (most) abortion funds rely on grants & foundational wealth

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2 years

just a friendly reminder to A: NEVER counterprotest at a clinic. no matter what. don’t do it. B: follow the lead of local repro organizers C: know what the outcome of your action is! what does it ask to do? who is for? and how does it HELP?

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1 year

“i’m from louisville not ky” crowd is so tiring. folks in rural areas are paving the way for organizing folks in louisville. know that.

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To be honest, Louisville has never felt like home to me. As an Appalachian living here, the awful things I’ve heard people say about the rest of the state is gross. I’ve been the outcast and I would be nothing without those who stayed to make a difference.

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2 years

what a time to be alive

@OrganizerMemes

organizermemes (panda era)

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“palestine is anti abortion” 1) the US is fucking anti abortion 2) that justifies genocide??? y’all are so brain melted. it’s so simple mass murder is BAD actually no matter what the govt or ideology dictates i cannot believe that’s something that needs to be explained

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2 years

Today I wrapped up a case on the abortion fund I will never forget. A caller who is taking a bus from WKY to seek care at one of the two operating clinics in the commonwealth (both providing in Louisville).

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9 months

i mean at what point will folks in power start to take this shit seriously? almost the entire southeast has a near-total abortion ban. what is fucking happening.

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2 years

@runlolarun @laurend986 @beardy_nick @garnethenderson donate to @KyHealthJustice : they are doing grassroots work to support kyians accessing care. most patients don’t want to stay w a stranger & abortion funds already do this work w hotel coordination. pls just donate money to them instead

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2 years

i really cannot fucking believe NAF is denying any person past 20 weeks right now.

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2 years

all these abortion stories on my TL are warming my heart ❤️ folks who have had abortions should ALWAYS be at the center of this movement ❤️

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2 years

FUCK FAKE CLINICS!!! a caller told me a CPC confirmed they provided abortions and they prolonged her care so much she can’t get the medication abortion she wanted. she’s forced to do surgical now bc of a LIE. fuckin unbelievable

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1 year

rural/urban divide is its own barrier to abortion access. imagine supporting a person from louisa,ky to a major metropolitan area like chicago? it can be incredibly intimidating & i don’t think we talk about it enough.

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1 year

had a podcast producer ask me why i stay in kentucky. i had to think about it. i’ve lived in ky almost my entire life. i LOVE ky. i understand why families will opt to leave. some won’t be able to. i wanna stick around for them.

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i’m literally a just 26 year old queer in a bathrobe eating moosetracks icecream out of the tub & an anti somewhere thinks i’m making blood pacts with satan

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1 year

being able to live without fear of being shot to death is reproductive justice.

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8 months

i really do not understand the round-off cartwheel back handspring folks in repro make to say, "women, trans men, and non-binary people with the capacity to be pregnant" like just say "people" why is this so hard

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1 year

we’re swimming in plan b. had a sexy night? get at me

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6 months

i used to work at a PP affiliate, and i used to work for PPFA, & i can tell u that the staff there are the most passionate, brilliant, dedicated people often times trying to change the culture that gatekeeping gen x/boomers force on the org.

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4 months

i am so glad Brittany Watts will not be indicted but y’all need to cool it with the “this is the reality of Post-Roe America” no… this is the reality of America for black & brown people & white feminism has simply failed to address it until it became useful to its own narrative

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1 year

yw

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@kamehamethottie

Pink Princess Philodendron

@kamehamethottie

1 year

How do you serve cunt in a way that ends abortion stigma?

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1 year

as always, i understand that some folks understandably will leave the state when their autonomy and live are being threatened. remember that there are those who can’t for a ton of different & complex reasons

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many many many people who just learned about abortion funds abandoned us the minute the dobbs decision became old news. we are still in ky making sure people can access abortion out of state (traveling on avg 400-800 miles away from their homes)

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3 months

idk the context but i am working over 40 hours a week coordinating funding and travel for people who can’t pay a cent towards their abortion bc it’s a large out of pocket expense + time sensitive so fuck anyone with anything to say other than “thank u” tbh

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1 year

well u don’t have to imagine bc that’s exactly what NAF does lmao

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6 months

the non-profit industrial complex survives off the maintenance of oppressive structures. while orgs can do substantively good things, ultimately they cannot address root causes of oppression without disrupting their fidelity to capitalism.

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3 years

the national abortion funds are overwhelmed, the local abortion funds are overwhelmed, the clinics are overwhelmed, and folks are still getting abortions.

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2 years

sometimes i truly can’t conceptualize that once roe v wade is overturned things will get worse than they already are. the anxiety of this decision doesn’t come w relief, it’s just more & more & more than we all can already take

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1 year

had a caller with a very long back & forth between clinics. finally, after nearly a MONTH & four appointments in 2 different states later…she got the care she needed today. she said today is the first time she’s felt relief. excuse me while i cry 🥹

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9 months

this! the automation of abortion support is frankly so unhelpful. abortion seekers often feel so isolated, especially those in banned states, and they deserve connection, care, and accompaniment.

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my good bitch 🇵🇸

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or… we could pay people a livable wage to talk to live humans

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1 year

the worst part about this is that most abortions later in pregnancy are due to delayed care due to significant barriers. so if one can’t gather the funding for a $700 abortion, y’all expect for them to somehow magically find an extra 12k?

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imagine having funding from warren fucking buffet & then telling a pregnant person that they don’t qualify for support with their $12800 abortion bc they make (maybe) $30k a year.

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it is incredibly abnormal to me that we’re watching our country overtly fall into fascism & we just continue on w our days bc we have to.

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2 years

f/u: i talked to the lead organizer of this action & she admitted no repro orgs in ky wanted to collab w them. if the state u are planning an action in does not want ur support: LEAVE

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2 years

i can assure u no one in ky asked for this @riseup4abortion pls do not come here

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1 year

“be nice or ill commit medical malpractice” is this generations “live, laugh, love”

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2 years

we’ve funded 19 peoples’ abortions since monday. Kentuckians seeking abortion can’t “just move on”

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1 year

we can put a man on the moon but can’t make an EC that is equally effective for fat people.

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1 year

“queer liberation is class struggle” h/t ( @abortiondaddy )

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@MollyOShah yeah it logically makes sense but knowing how trauma informed fake clinics are (they aren't) and how trained they are to use medical equipment (they aren't) sent literal chills down my spine when a journo informed me today....

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2 years

🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 “would you be able to take time off work”

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1 year

we talk about how horrific forced birth is a lot but forcing someone to be pregnant: experience the symptoms, hormones, etc… is equally as cruel.

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1 year

and force people to remain pregnant when they don't fucking want to be. god i fucking hate fucking everything.

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1 year

most people assume KYians are going to chicago. it looks more like this. we went from working w 1 clinic to 14 regularly + Dupont for later care callers

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@KateRoseBee abortifacient design by @JuniperMoonKY & mife & miso ☺️

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i am officially infertile 😎

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come see this queer at Kentuckiana Pride i’ll be at @PPAAEast table in the morning & @KyHealthJustice later in the day

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*talking w a socialist* him: “i mean i would venture to say that abortions should be… free?” me: *nods excitedly*

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@KEEMSTAR @jessismiles__ CONFUSED ABOUT CONSENT????

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2 months

same thing happened in ky with a total ban…. dangled the carrot during midterms & still ruled against granting a TRO against the ban. solidarity with floridians and the rest of the south. we only have eachother

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A wild decision by the Court to simultaneously start the clock on a 6 week abortion ban going into effect in May AND tell Floridians that they can vote on abortion in November. That's months of feeling the enormous negative impact of a 6 week ban to motivate people to vote.

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1 year

*sobs in severely restricted state that is fast tracking fascism this session*

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i love ky but god DAMN it is so hard right now.

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5 months

when national orgs ask what they can do to support local orgs on the ground my sole answer is always “amplify our fundraisers, give us money directly, & connect us with (ur) funders that would support our work” we don’t need our work replicated, we need it deeply invested in

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the pinnacle of egomaniac to not only center urself in a global human rights crisis, but also throw an organization providing pivotal material support for the entire nation under the bus… publicly… we are in hell

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Why I Resigned From the DC Abortion Fund: The landscape of organizations ostensibly working to advance sexual and reproductive health has become mired in antisemitism

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2 years

hi! i'm starting a virtual Abortion Book Club.

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LMAO a person organizing a rally in KY without repro org support & asking donations to NARAL just asked me for MY credentials

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1 year

today i’m gonna fund some abortions & look hot doin it. wryd?

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1 year

abortion pills earrings are back baby $15 dono to my fund a thon & they can be ur’s: just dm receipt & where to ship!

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idk the context but i am working over 40 hours a week coordinating funding and travel for people who can’t pay a cent towards their abortion bc it’s a large out of pocket expense + time sensitive so fuck anyone with anything to say other than “thank u” tbh

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1 year

our callers are already waiting weeks to a month for an appointment in a receiving state, beyond many other complex barriers. a 6 week ban in FL impacts all of us and will further overwhelm receiving states, push scheduling back father, delay care,

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1 year

i'm physically okay. i am canceling all my meetings. i am so fucking sick of this shit.

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8 months

so are dems gonna continue to exploit trauma porn to appease the right or are they actually going to support storytellers that reflect the majority of people seeking abortion? which overwhelmingly are people who aren’t survivors of SA, fetal diagnoses, and life endangerment

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1 month

Since yesterday, we have distributed 505 units of Plan B 😻

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1 year

all healthcare facilities should be required to provide interpretation services... (including, and especially, abortion clinics...)

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2 years

we supported 104 abortion seekers in the month of august. no matter what the legal landscape looks like in KY, Kentuckians will ALWAYS need access to abortion.

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10 months

55% of our callers have gone to IN for abortions this year. Now we are making HARD decisions about our budget to pivot. This is just so fucking hard & no one cares anymore

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10 months

everything that infuriated me about the response to abortion bans last year was justified today. people really just salivate for the new next social justice issue & then fucking disappear.

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2 years

i can assure u no one in ky asked for this @riseup4abortion pls do not come here

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the year before the dobbs decision (2021) we spent ~$11,000 on travel support. in 2023 we spent close to $60k, over 5 times the amount pre dobbs. 🤯

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1 year

JFC... Little Way (fake clinic) told my caller that they could perform the abortion for $600... I'm so glad I reached her before she gave them her money...

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1 year

journalists: can we ditch the handmaid’s tale imagery for your articles about abortion pls? it’s 2023.

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2 years

its #InternationalSafeAbortionDay ! gentle reminder not to conflate “safe” with “legal” 😇

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2 years

I’m proud to accompany KYians with seeking care and will continue to do so in ANY climate that our lawmakers create. But y’all… it shouldn’t EVER have to be like this.

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@TypicalTahdig i also hate that verbiage! how DARE u tell someone they make “too much money” when they’re getting hit with a bill that’s thousands of dollars by the time of service. in this economy?

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2 years

read that last line. THIRTEEN PERCENT.

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i know this has already been said, but it bears repeating: the reality that repro orgs are being silent about Palestinian genocide while their unionized staff releases solidarity statements at much larger personal and professional costs is unconscionable

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1 year

*inhale* *exhale* FUCK FAKE CLINICS

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8 months

it is so fucking hard to listen to both parties exploit abortion access in their campaigns as a person managing an abortion fund… talking directly with people seeking abortion out of state… for over a year…

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2 years

YIKES evergreen reminder: we have a dem house, senate, and president. they ain’t saving abortion bc they don’t WANT to

@AngryBlackLady

Imani Gandy (Orca’s Version) ⚓️

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i want to kill this with fire. who thought this was a good idea

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quenching my thirst with daniel cameron’s tears

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Many folks in KY already live in a post-roe reality with economic challenges, proximity to the clinic, and general stigma about their decision. Cases like this are not unusual.

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2 years

final interview for a full time repro job. time to dig out the prized abortion pill pins 🙂

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saw a ky politician on my plane home… surprisingly he disappeared as soon as we landed. is it’s something i’m wearing?

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If you can, donate to KHJN: so we can continue to assist callers with navigating their care... wherever they may access it.

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i got approved for a tubal!!!! my ob is amazing. like any good doctor, we talked about risks and considerations & eventually decided this was the right decision for me!!! surgery in august :)

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