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My email is caitlinrcruz
@protonmail
.com
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BREAKING: Kate Cox, the Texas woman who sued the state to beg for abortion following a dangerous diagnosis, has fled the state for care.
Nancy Northup of
@reprorights
who are representing Cox says she’s "been in and out of the emergency room and she couldn’t wait any longer.”
BREAKING: South Carolina Supreme Court rules state’s 6-week abortion ban is unconstitutional: “This Act, which severely limits—and in many instances completely forecloses—abortion, is an unreasonable restriction upon a woman's right to privacy and is therefore unconstitutional.”
BREAKING:
@WholeWomans
Woman’s Health moving its abortion clinics to New Mexico. The org is fundraising to open clinic in New Mexico border city and will provide first and second trimester abortions.
BREAKING: Montana Supreme Court affirmed an injunction that blocks three bills that would’ve banned abortions after 20 weeks. The other bills include an omnibus law complicating medication abortion and mandatory ultrasound and documentation.
BREAKING: Arizona’s 1901 abortion ban can be enforced, thereby outlawing abortions in basically all cases. This ban is from more than a decade before Arizona was even a US state.
Good morning, it’s once again Supreme Court opinion day. There are 13 left, including guns, religion in public schools and of course Dobbs, the case that could overturn Roe v Wade.
Every decision day that Dobbs is not announced is another day people can access abortion care.
I've really struggled on how to fairly and accurately tell the story of the dismantling of abortion rights as Serious Reporter. I hope you'll read my essay for
@Jezebel
on my journey: You Are Not Owed a Reason for Somebody's Abortion
Something being left out of the Oz’s abortion comments is people DO have to consult their local politicians before having abortion. Those people are teens who are forced to use judicial bypass if they don’t want to involve their parents in their abortion.
✨personal news✨ i'm joining
@Jezebel
this week!!! after 5 years of freelancing, it was time for a change and I'm so stoked to be reporting on abortion and reproductive rights from the great state of Texas
Excited to announce that I've hired the extremely talented
@caitlinrcruz
to join Jezebel as a senior reporter, covering reproductive rights from her home base of Texas (!!!) She starts Wednesday!
UPDATE: BREAKING: The Texas Supreme Court ruled against Kate Cox, who asked for an abortion due to medical exceptions. “These laws reflect the policy choice that the Legislature has made, and the courts must respect that choice,” the court’s opinion reads.
NEW for
@Jezebel
: This has been a surprisingly good week for medication abortion news! DOJ found USPS can carry and deliver abortion pills, even in red states! CVS and Walgreens will be certified (where legal) to stock mifepristone
Some personal news: I'm joining
@TexasObserver
as an interim editor for the spring! I love the Observer and I love Texas so much so I'm utterly stoked. Reach me at cruz
@texasobserver
.org
First official day at
@Jezebel
✨ I’m covering abortion, reproductive rights, politics, etc. Got tips? Story ideas? ccruz
@jezebel
.com (and DM for signal)
BREAKING: Abortion can continue at
@RRWomensclinic
, the only abortion clinic in North Dakota, because a state court temporarily blocked the trigger ban from going into effect
“These are not just people with a difference of opinion. They are a political arm of violent hate groups.”
In a letter published exclusively on
@Jezebel
, more than 600 abortion workers have a request: “Stop giving air-time to anti-abortion activists.”
BREAKING:
@RRWomensclinic
, the only abortion provider in North Dakota, has filed a lawsuit in state court to block the state trigger law from taking effect on July 28. Filing:
NEW: In a joint statement to
@Jezebel
, Sudeikis and Wilde characterized the interview as an “unfortunate apex” of “18-month long campaign of harassing us, as well as loved ones, close friends and colleagues,” calling the allegations “false and scurrilous.”
NEW for
@Jezebel
: The right’s new strategy is talking about abortion pills as if they’re fentanyl coming over our borders. It's a twisted new version of the War on Drugs.
y’all I lived in Omaha during bright eyes come-up, I know what can happen at these shows lmao
And as I was typing this
@WhiteOakMH
announces one more karaoke song before ending the show and issuing refunds
Waffle House workers in Columbia, South Carolina are on strike, citing unsafe working conditions and low pay
“Nobody’s scared, we’re ready. We are going to keep fighting by any means necessary.”
BREAK:
@WholeWomans
has stopped providing abortions at its 4 Texas clinics after last night’s order. “This morning, our clinic staff embarked on the heartbreaking conversations with patients whose appointments must be cancelled, and our clinics have started the wind down process”
hope Conor is okay.
@WhiteOakMH
employees were such champs about an increasingly not great situation. gonna go watch some basketball from my big tv instead of my gf’s phone.
So
@splinter_news
was one of my regular gigs to keep the rent paid and keep me in topo chico in between features and I loved it! I’ll miss doing that writing regularly. If you know of any work/regular gig/etc. my DMs are open and email is Caitlin.cruz431
@gmail
.com
NEW from me: I dug into
@AbortionCare
's 2021 report on state of independent abortion providers.
In short, Non-Planned Parenthood providers are badly underfunded and under attack, and three in five patients are seeking abortions there.
NEW for
@Jezebel
: A South Carolina Republican was forced to carry a non-viable fetus for 49 days this summer. Now she's working to get
@JoeCunninghamSC
and other Democrats elected. My exclusive interview with Jill:
BREAKING: Abortion is banned at six weeks in Idaho. The Idaho Supreme Court lifted the stay on the six-week ban and civil enforcement (a la Texas) AND denied a request to block the upcoming total abortion ban. Total abortion ban goes into effect on 8/25.
@RepJayapal
is speaking now. She never told her mother about her abortion and never talked about it until 2019. “I wanted to share my story because there are so many situations when people make these choices.”
#dobbsvjackson
NEW: Late last Thursday
@LaFronteraFund
's operational manager started calling anyone who they knew needed funding. She felt it in her bones that Friday would be the day Roe fell. She was right.
BREAKING: North Carolina abortion providers asked state court to issue partial injunction, thereby allowing physician assistants, certified nurse-midwives, and nurse practitioners to provide medication abortion
“This is the message that young women are internalizing, that hypervigilance will keep you safe, that being in a constant state of anxiety is simply a fact of life and not something to work on with your therapist.” wow absolutely loved!
@eeberquist
NEW in
@Jezebel
: The Arizona law, now in effect, carries a two- to five-year prison sentence for anyone who “provides, supplies or administers” an abortion.
The origins of this law are in the territorial legislature in the 1860s!
"It is concerning that Breyer appears to have spent Wednesday doing something other than composing his retirement letter. He is still on the court. Stephen! No!"
Listening to a podcast about the last month of abortion litigation and I’m tired of people saying “these women lived in places not hostile to abortion” LITERALLY EVERY STATE IS HOSTILE TO ABORTION
For
@newrepublic
, I wrote about the last week. I’m so tired. Thanks to
@kmcdonovgh
for commissioning this. Thanks to all who reached out. Thanks to Texans for always being their for each other.
What a slap in the face to have the police officer investigating the mishandling of the Petito case write: “If this case was handled flawlessly, would it have changed anything? Nobody knows.”
NEWS: Coalition of reproductive rights groups announce massive day of action on May 14.
Bans Off Our Bodies Day of Action is organized by Planned Parenthood, Women’s March, UltraViolet, and MoveOn.
We said goodbye to our best girl, Pepper. Until a rescue found her, Pepper was treated terribly by the world—she carried 2 bullets in her until her death—but she remained so sweet. Always wanting scritches, always wanting to run into your legs. Always loving. I miss her so much.
Laura took a chance on hiring a reporter down south for the end of Roe. I’m forever grateful.
@Jezebel
is alive and kicking for now but my contact info is readily available if anyone needs a reporter 🤷🏻♀️
I guess the cat's out of the bag. I have reluctantly resigned from Jezebel, because the company that owned us refused to treat my staff with basic human decency. I will love and support my writers til the end and am so grateful I got to shepherd this site through the end of Roe.
thank you
@sueonthetown
for pointing out the actual most important part of this interview: how the Biden Administration didn’t seem to have any action items ready after Friday
Email from
@WhiteOakMH
: “Due to unexpected circumstances, Bright Eyes was unable to perform at White Oak Music Hall and the show has been officially cancelled.”
BREAKING: South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously blocked the state's six-week abortion ban by granting a temporary injunction while litigation proceeds.
The ban had been in effect since June 27, days after Roe was overturned.
BREAKING: Part of North Carolina’s sweeping abortion ban is struck down
Medication abortion during very early pregnancy, people can help patients obtain out of state abortions and sexual assault survivors hospital abortion requirement punted until 10/1
Law goes into effect 7/1
Sam Heyne, the
@guttunion
employee fired hours after their union victory, spoke exclusively with me about Guttmacher’s response to the union via
@Jezebel
NEW: Tricia Cotham, a NC state rep endorsed by
@emilyslist
, plans to change her party affiliation from D to R. This will give the state GOP a veto-proof majority to carry out policies like banning abortion.
My first piece for
@Jezebel
is about that poorly reported Atlantic piece earlier this week: "Medication abortion is not a solution to a lack of legal protections for patients and workplace safety for providers."
My first exclusive for
@Jezebel
: Planned Parenthood health centers surrounding Texas recorded a 1,082 percent increase in patients with Texas zip codes last month.
“Almost every plantation has problems related to labor, but the conditions of female workers are far worse than men.” This AP investigation into treatment of women harvesting palm oil for the global supply chain (it's in so much!) is harrowing
Today is the LAST 24 hours of
@gmgunion
@WGAEast
contract. We’re fighting for parental leave, healthcare and compensation during unprecedented inflation!!! We’d love your support
A necessary gut check about what happened in Iowa tonight. Having Respectable Republicans™️ as opponents leads to the same materially worse consequences for people.