Lorena O'Neil
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Freelance reporter covering politics & culture | Bylines @RollingStone @LATimes @GuardianUS @IlluminatorLA | @PulitzerCenter fellow | Signal: lorenaoneil.64
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I spoke with several meteorologists about Hurricane Milton conspiracy theories and misinformation, and how it's making their job exponentially more difficult. Some are even being threatened:
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BREAKING: Lifesaving medication for postpartum hemorrhaging is being pulled off emergency carts because of new Louisiana law reclassifying misoprostol as a controlled dangerous substance. My first
@pulitzercenter
StoryReach article for
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Just tried to recap the RFK Jr/Olivia Nuzzi story at a party to normal, healthy individuals and got blank stares and slow blinks
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There are some stories that you know will stay with you for a very long time, and this is one of them. Had the honor of profiling these five women who have been warning about AI risks before you'd ever heard of ChatGPT. My latest for
@RollingStone
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I spoke w/
@AnnaKendrick47
about the pain & confusion of emotional abuse, how deeply it makes you question yourself. Kendrick's new film
#alicedarling
is a rare, nuanced portrait that will feel heartbreakingly familiar for survivors and their loved ones
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The
@KamalaHarris
campaign released a statement about my story on misoprostol being pulled off postpartum hemorrhage carts, blaming Trump:
BREAKING: Lifesaving medication for postpartum hemorrhaging is being pulled off emergency carts because of new Louisiana law reclassifying misoprostol as a controlled dangerous substance. My first
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A rural physician I spoke with hadn't even heard misoprostol was being reclassified. "What? That's death!" she said when I told her about the cart removal. She said pharmacies have already been "pushing back" when she prescribed the medication for miscarriages
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50 doctors signed a letter to the Louisiana Department of Health and Surgeon General Ralph Abraham asking for additional guidance, specifically “how to ensure [misoprostol] will be readily and quickly available in commonly used obstetric hemorrhage carts.”
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“We’re trying to fix something that is not broken and that is absolutely safe,” said Dr. Stacey Holman, calling the law "an unnecessary barrier"
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One OB-GYN I spoke with said it's been preemptively pulled off some postpartum carts already, and that there's "confusion and angst" among doctors worried about how this will affect inpatient care
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A reminder that doctors sounded the alarm about the reclassification of misoprostol and mifepristone back before the bill became law:
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More than 200 doctors signed a letter begging lawmakers to reconsider:
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I sat down with
@AOC
to talk about her experience surviving deepfake AI abuse and how strongly she feels that this issue goes far beyond sexually-explicit images.
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By the time the bill got to the state senate it had national attention, with VP Kamala Harris weighing in:
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I'm hearing from a lot of women who survived postpartum hemorrhage thanks to immediate access to misoprostol so starting a new thread to collect stories here. Please feel free to share.
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My five-page profile on Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry is on newsstands as part of the
@RollingStone
October election issue
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When you texted that my story was "misguided and misleading" I asked you to detail how & you refused to answer. Never once did I report misoprostol can no longer be prescribed. Doctors using this drug daily are worried about how a DELAY in access will endanger hemorrhaging women
More lies about the
#LAlege
legislation which continues to allow misoprostol to be prescribed by docs & used by patients.
@KamalaHarris
, there is nothing more harmful to our wives, mothers and sisters than this drug being placed in the hands of bad actors like the one who tried
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If you want to see the future of GOP governance, look no further than what Jeff Landry is doing in Louisiana. I spent time with the governor to understand the roots of his crusade to change the state — and the nation.
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I spoke with
@hanwaddingham
about the
@TedLassoFinale
,
#Tedbecca
as soulmates, and got a tiny scoop about that AFC Richmond women's scene between Rebecca and Keeley via
@latimes
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Here's the letter signed by 50 doctors asking Louisiana Dept of Health for guidance on misoprostol. They have yet to receive a response.
50 doctors signed a letter to the Louisiana Department of Health and Surgeon General Ralph Abraham asking for additional guidance, specifically “how to ensure [misoprostol] will be readily and quickly available in commonly used obstetric hemorrhage carts.”
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ICYMI Louisiana's top maternal health doctors are forcefully speaking out against the new law reclassifying misoprostol as a controlled dangerous substance:
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These domestic violence survivors fled their abusers in a pandemic, then were left without homes during the winter storm in Texas. My story for
@marieclaire
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Also, want to highlight — this week a rural OB said a nurse practitioner REFUSED to write a misoprostol prescription to treat a patient with a confirmed miscarriage. More here:
Misoprostol will be locked up in a passcode-protected dispensing system in Ochsner and LCMC hospitals in Louisiana. Modified carts are “not a feasible option”
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🚨OB-GYNs call out the
@LADeptHealth
for releasing guidance that is "not helpful" and "so confusing" on how to quickly access misoprostol when patients are hemorrhaging. “Whoever wrote this has not spent time on a labor unit," one doc told me.
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“You will no longer be thinking about abortion”
Trump addresses women: "I am your protector. I want to be your protector ... you will no longer be abandoned, lonely, or scared. You will no longer be in danger ... you will no longer be thinking about abortion."
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“One of these teenagers delivered a baby while clutching a teddy bear,” said one OB-GYN. Doctors and rape survivors begged Louisiana legislators to add a rape/incest exception for minors. They were shot down. (CW: distressing) My latest for
@Jezebel
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Thinking about all of the people who cannot afford to evacuate in hurricanes. Friendly reminder not to victim blame; there are many reasons people don’t or can’t leave when a storm like
#HurricaneHelene
comes
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Tomorrow misoprostol and mifepristone — life-saving medications used in pregnancy care — will be reclassified as controlled dangerous substances in Louisiana. They are being targeted because they are used in abortions, but that's far from their only use. 🧵
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"There are certain images that don’t leave a person; they can’t leave a person…It’s not as imaginary as people want to make it seem" —
@AOC
on seeing deepfake porn images of herself, especially as a survivor of physical sexual assault
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@GreggNezowitz
@pulitzercenter
@IlluminatorLA
If you read the article, I discuss why alternate meds don’t always work for high-risk patients. Also, nobody is saying they can’t prescribe. This is about a delay in accessing the drug.
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🚨 I’ve also received confirmation that at least one NOLA-area hospital will be pulling all misoprostol off their postpartum hemorrhage carts as of Oct. 1 in response to the new Louisiana law reclassifying the medication 🚨
I spoke with a NOLA-area doctor who conducted a timed drill to see how much of a delay getting misoprostol from down the hall introduced. She said it was more than a two minute difference from having it bedside:
@IlluminatorLA
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AI experts are pleading for regulations to help fight misinformation this election season, but some government officials are blocking efforts. My latest for
@RollingStone
on the struggle to control an increasingly threatening problem
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New Orleans leaders and doctors call for reversal of new drug law reclassifying miso/mife as controlled substances: "Women are not safe in Louisiana," said one official while another called the law a "hatchet job" via
@IlluminatorLA
@pulitzercenter
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For those of you following along, my misoprostol reporting for
@IlluminatorLA
is supported by the StoryReach fellowship at
@pulitzercenter
. My stories for the project will be collected here:
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@horbinski
The more I tried to explain the harder I bombed. I’m like, I swear this was a big deal with my imaginary online friends!
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“It’s so important to me that people understand that this is not just a form of interpersonal violence, it’s not just about the harm that’s done to the victim ... it's about class subjugation" —
@RepAOC
Full interview:
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I spoke with below-the-line crew members about how
@ava
's and
@Oprah
's commitment to diversity on
@QueenSugarOWN
changed their lives. My first story for
@latimes
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New Orleans is investigating "delay of care" issues involving a new Louisiana law reclassifying misoprostol and mifepristone as controlled substances. Meanwhile, the state's attorney general says this is "manufacturing a problem that doesn't exist"
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@GreggNezowitz
@pulitzercenter
@IlluminatorLA
I recommend reading the article. Controlled dangerous substances are not traditionally used as lifesaving medication in labor and delivery rooms.
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I spoke with a NOLA-area doctor who conducted a timed drill to see how much of a delay getting misoprostol from down the hall introduced. She said it was more than a two minute difference from having it bedside:
@IlluminatorLA
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I stand by my reporting, but don't take my word for it, listen to Dr. Gillispie-Bell, the lead doctor who reviews all maternal deaths in Louisiana. She publicly voiced her concerns with the law to
@rosiewestwood
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When women die during pregnancy or after birth, the lead doctor who reviews their cases is Dr. Veronica Gillispie-Bell.
She says a new law will make life-saving pregnancy medications harder to access in emergencies.
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Palestinian Americans spoke with me about working while mourning death on an unfathomable scale. My first article for
@GuardianUS
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Louisiana AG Liz Murrill released a lengthy statement about what she claims is "disinformation" about Louisiana's abortion laws. She says, "nothing in Louisiana laws stands in the way of a doctor providing care that stabilizes and treats emergency conditions" .. however...
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For
@RollingStone
's climate issue, I wrote about the coastal indigenous communities in Louisiana who are fighting to defend their vanishing homes and want their voices and experience valued
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Evacuating (esp 2x) is SO expensive & has many factors I promise you aren't thinking of. This is why w/every storm I beg people to stop victim-blaming for not being able to leave. I do hope that everyone that can leave, does, and that we find better ways to support those in need
I-4 and I-75 are backed up from people trying to evacuate due to Hurricane Milton. I don't want to hear in the aftermath. "Why didn't they leave?" People are trying to. You don't want to get stuck on the interstate during a hurricane.
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Selena Gomez losing it in the background makes this even better
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