Physician. Advocate. Activist. Provider of care at the intersection of sexual health, repro rights & social justice. #PoliticsHasNoPlace President/CEO @prhdocs
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Jamila Perritt MD MPH retweeted
Hi community! 👋🏾 WEDNESDAY 11/13 @ 9am PST. Join us for critical conversation around the future of #ReproductiveRights and the #RJmovement as @DrAishaMays and @Reprorightsdoc discuss where we are headed on the reproductive health front. Tune in! 👏🏾✨📣✅
Patients’ lives should not be at the mercy of anti-abortion extremist lawmakers. Physicians have the knowledge and expertise to care for their patients and should be able to do so without fear. Josseli Barnica, Candi Miller, and Amber Thurman deserved better.
Josseli Barnica is one of at least two Texas women who ProPublica found have died after doctors delayed treating miscarriages, which are subject to the state’s strict abortion laws.
propublica.org/article/josse…
Jamila Perritt MD MPH retweeted
Anyone who doesn’t understand this or says it isn’t true has never taken care of pregnant women from conception to delivery. They have no concept of the nuance, how many things can go wrong, and how often they DO go wrong. Pregnancy care isn’t possible without abortion access.
Jamila Perritt MD MPH retweeted
Without abortion, pregnancy is too dangerous to attempt. Building a family safely requires abortion. The reason pregnancy doesn’t kill more people is because OB/Gyns are good at their jobs. And abortion is part of the job.
Jamila Perritt MD MPH retweeted
October is #DomesticViolenceAwarenessMonth
Healthcare providers are vital in preventing and responding to Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). 🏥🩺
Swipe to learn more key facts and recommendations from @WithoutViolence.
#HealthcareProviders #GBV #IPV
Jamila Perritt MD MPH retweeted
*TMW at 2 pm* join us for an event ft. @RepPressley, @JasmineForUS, @ReproRightsDoc, and @Be_the_Most to discuss the intersection of abortion bans and our maternal health crisis. tcf.org/content/event/how-ab…
Jamila Perritt MD MPH retweeted
"Being pregnant, desiring pregnancy, and parenting your children does not absolve you from being at risk of criminalization."
@Reprorightsdoc spoke with @Salon about the increased surveillance & criminalization risk that pregnant people face. Read more: salon.com/2024/10/03/new-rep…
Jamila Perritt MD MPH retweeted
Now that @opill_otc, the first-ever OTC birth control pill, is available on shelves & online across the US, we must ensure it is accessible. That means:
✅ fully covered by insurance
✅ low & no cost options
✅ stocked nationwide w/o barriers
#FreeThePill #WorldContraceptionDay
On #WorldContraceptionDay, we must remember that access to reproductive healthcare, including contraception, is a fundamental right—not a privilege. We must address inequities in access AND give people everything they need to decide if, when, and how they have their families.
Jamila Perritt MD MPH retweeted
The horror of the US criminal punishment system isn’t only that it wrongfully imprisons and kills innocent people. It is that it imprisons and kills regardless of guilt or innocence. It is designed to uphold power, not morality.
Jamila Perritt MD MPH retweeted
TW: The impact of abortion bans in GA and beyond is deadly. We need all hands on deck to demand accountability for the deaths of Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller & to regain access to lifesaving care.
Join @SisterSong_WOC on Sep 28th: ow.ly/aqkl50TuiLI
Jamila Perritt MD MPH retweeted
Health care providers are still unable to provide standard medical care in states with abortion bans, according to our new Care Post-Roe report.
"Medical care for pregnant people has become dangerously warped." - @DrDGrossman.
Read the full report. ⬇️ ansirh.org/CarePostRoeReport
Abortion ban “exceptions” aren’t intended to work in practice, because no part of an abortion ban is about keeping patients safe or healthy. The laws are confusing, chaotic and designed to make people afraid of providing and seeking out abortion care. Decriminalize abortion. Now.
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Jamila Perritt MD MPH retweeted
“This young woman in Georgia should have received the care she needed and deserved, without delay.” - @Reprorightsdoc
Access to the timely, compassionate care that we need is critical. Amber Thurman should still be alive.
jezebel.com/28-year-old-sing…
We don’t need an abortion policy that makes abortion technically legal. We need an abortion policy that invests in abortion, a policy that breaks down + prevents barriers to care.
We need abortion policy that makes abortion possible for all people, everywhere, no matter what.
Jamila Perritt MD MPH retweeted
Why do Republicans keep bringing up abortions in the “ninth month”? Beyond them not wanting to have a real conversation about the barriers they put in place to make it difficult for people to get abortions, pushing care later into pregnancy, it’s about disgust. I explain!
#Debate
Abortion restrictions and bans not making sense is a feature, not a bug. They are about control and nothing else.
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Jamila Perritt MD MPH retweeted
In the last two years, more than 100 pregnant people have been denied or delayed life-saving care.
"Whether you live in a ban state or a so-called ‘safe’ state, this affects us all,” said @Reprorightsdoc of @prhdocs.
jezebel.com/pregnant-people-…
