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Chief cook and bottle washer. Did that thing that time that sometimes people remember. Hates lima beans.
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My New Year's resolution was to block more people.
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This morning, in a FB group I’m in, a woman told us she is having a miscarriage. Her doctor prescribed misoprostol to help her complete the miscarriage. The doctor had to spend 30 minutes explaining to a Walgreens pharmacist that she wasn’t having an abortion. 🧵
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… because they don’t know for sure she isn’t using it for an abortion.
This is what happens when you don’t actually consider women’s health when making policy.
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The first round of misoprostol didn’t work. The doctor calls in another round, and she heads to the pharmacy to pick it up. After waiting 20 minutes, she is told by the pharmacist that they’ve talked to colleagues and the corporate office, and have decided not to fill it,
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This is only going to get worse if Roe is overturned by SCOTUS.
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that some pharmacies just don't want to risk the litigation.
If you want to lay the blame somewhere, I would blame the laws that have created this scenario.
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I have a couple seconds for a bit of a follow up.
Her doctor actually told them they wouldn't send the prescription to CVS because it likely wouldn't get filled.
But this isn't totally the pharmacy's fault. The legal liability is so murky and so up in the air,
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Another update: I don’t want to say too much, but the woman was able to get her prescription filled at another pharmacy.
I thought I would answer a few questions/comments from today. (bonus 🧵)
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1) This is Texas. There is a law on the books that allows anyone to sue anyone suspected of helping someone get an abortion or getting an abortion.
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This means that, potentially, a pharmacist could be sued individually, as well as their drugstore, for filling a prescription meant to assist in an abortion, and it would be up to the patient and the pharmacist to prove it was for something else.
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2) Consider asking your doctor to send you to Planned Parenthood for the rest of your miscarriage care, and follow up with your doctor after. This will allow you to skip some of the interactions with people that are going to be the worst about this.
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My strong advice if you’re a woman in Texas picking this prescription up (or a pharmacist filling it) is to make sure the counseling the pharmacist typically does when handing over a prescription be done with even more privacy than usual.
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3) It’s more invasive, but if your doctor offers a D&C consider taking it. The recovery time was better (I’ve done both kinds), and you have more control over how the situation plays out in this political climate.
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4) Find someone who will advocate on your behalf, and let them do it. Your partner, your best friend, your parent, whatever. This is a REALLY hard time, and you need to conserve your strength for it. Let someone else argue with the pharmacist.
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Your yearly reminder that if you’re mad at what happens to Emma Thompson in Love Actually you can watch Die Hard after and he gets what he deserves.
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5) And finally, because of the way things are, you may find more scrutiny on your actions, and this is sad and stupid and the worst time for it. Find a trusted third party that can help you work through the this. Self-care doesn’t end when you stop bleeding. Find mental supports.
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imagine what all of us privileged people could do if we didn't move, and instead actually voted as conscientiously as we tweet?
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For the most part, doctors have always prescribed, and pharmacists have always filled. That's been the natural order of things for some time.
But with the new abortion law, every layer of standard care for a miscarriage is also fraught with a fair amount of peril.
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Peril for the doctor, peril for the patient, peril for the pharmacist.
So the standard of care will likely have to change as well. Doctors may have to begin stocking misoprostol in clinic to help their patients avoid conflict at a vulnerable time.
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I would also encourage OB/GYNs to compile a referral list for grief counselors and therapists, and encourage patients who have experienced a miscarriage to seek them out.
Miscarrying a wanted baby is awful, and the new law is going to make it even worse.
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I've also had people tell me to move out of Texas.
I can't tell you how unhelpful that is. I'm a white cis-het woman with a job I can do from anywhere. That's a lot of privilege for me to take to another state's voting booth if I move.
I don't fault people who do leave, but
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Good morning! I'm up waiting for my first interview of the day (on a completely unrelated subject) but I did want to talk about how the Texas law will change the landscape (clearly) for medical professionals.
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That's not ideal either, because now you've put your entire staff at risk of being named in a suit, too.
There really is no good way to mitigate harm, that I can see.
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It will most certainly mean that doctors will have to be even more careful about how they chart, and create an airtight paper trail for every single miscarriage, in the event a suit is filed.
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@Parkerlawyer
Like, I could see inviting a client over for dinner. But the whole night? Clients shouldn't see your bedhead and know how much toilet paper you use.
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I know a lot of people have commented about how awful the pharmacists were for not helping.
But it's not as black and white as "evil corporate pharmacy chain takes anti-abortion stance and punishes customer."
Because it's Texas, it's way more complicated.
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Oh my damn, this thing has really grown some legs.
I want to make something clear: I'm a journalist. But I'm also a woman, and having been through three miscarriages myself, I can't imagine having to explain myself repeatedly.
I don't have to imagine it, because I did.
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(on top of having to deal with his eye rolling and having to beg for care), I then had to go to several pharmacies to try to fill my prescription?
Would he even be helpful enough to advocate for me with a pharmacist?
My guess is that would’ve inconvenienced him a lot.
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That was not quite 8 years ago. But I think about this doctor a lot, and have thought about him a lot over the past 48 hours.
Because what if I had him (I forgot to mention that he sat me in a room full of happy pregnant women while I waited for his scheduler), and
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We didn't make it to the first available time he had (which was the next week). I ended up in the ER that afternoon, where they gave me misoprostol, pain medication, and observed me.
I finally completed the miscarriage while I was there.
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We cannot have an honest discussion about reproductive health without acknowledging that many pregnancies end in miscarriage, and that there is a standard of care for them that mirrors the standard of care for abortion.
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I begged him to put me on his schedule for a D&C. He finally agreed -- almost 48 hours later.
By then I was running a low-grade fever, still bleeding, and still in a lot of pain.
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We were back in his office because I was in a lot of pain, and bleeding heavily. The literature he handed me said to come in if you were bleeding over a certain amount, but he treated me as if I was just being hysterical.
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For my last two miscarriages, I was with a new doctor. On paper he seemed great, and he came recommended by friends.
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So you folk arguing that passing gun laws won’t work because some people won’t follow them. I have some things to say to you, and I don’t need you to respond because my patience is gone on this subject. Gone.
1) We don’t pass laws based on whether everyone will follow them. 🧵
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And we can’t just hope it all works out for women who are miscarrying. That ship has (judging from my OP and the litany of comments from women who have also dealt with this) sailed. It’s not working out.
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I also know that several of my fellow journalists are interested in where this woman posted. She did so anonymously, and in a private group. I don’t feel comfortable divulging more than that.
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So that whole tampon thing. I don’t think people mocking it realize it’s also an economic issue. 🧵
Nationally, a poll of 1,000 teens ages 13 to 19 found that 1 in 5 had trouble affording period products, and 4 in 5 missed class time or know a classmate
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@AngryBlackLady
And the lyrics literally say: “They let you dream/Just a watch 'em shatter
You're just a step on the boss man's ladder”
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I don’t typically talk about the Dallas Express for what I might call Mariah Carey reasons.
But yesterday a staff writer for the Dallas Express doxxed a librarian at Hillcrest High. He also tagged the Libs of TikTok account, which 🧵
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@mercnews
Question: Why does Simone Manuel's historic win have to be presented in context with Michael Phelps'? Can a lady get her own here?
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@kennyjacoby
This reminds me of the time I when I worked in a small town, and I went to the PD to look at the blotter, and in the book with the reports was a post it attached to a report that said, "Do not show this to the reporter."
The reporter was me.
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Holy cow. UT is doing a Baltimore and pulling down its 4 confederate statues right now, at night.
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I am over the idea that the best we can do is give my kid a clear backpack, teach him battlefield trauma care, and send someone once a year to check his school’s doors.
We’ve made our babies responsible for keeping their classmates and teachers alive.
We’ve completely given up.
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So yeah,
@mercnews
, let me, a journalist, fix that for you: "Manuel Wins Historic Swimming Gold."
Boom. There. You're welcome.
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@JohnCornyn
I know we may not have given you wads of cash like DeVos, but she can't vote here. I can. We can.
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No. We pass laws and if people break those laws they go to prison.
2) Let me repeat: We pass laws and if you break them you go to jail.
3) Let me repeat again: We don’t pass laws based on whether some people
won’t follow them.
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Again, don’t reply to this. I have zero patience for you. I am liable to verbally eviscerate you and go full Julia Sugarbaker on your collective butts.
I’m over dead children and six year olds being protected by the bodies of their dead moms.
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@hairybusiness
@Neoavatara
It’s true. I catapult my kid into his classroom through the roof via trebuchet every morning and then watch him rappel down every afternoon. REALLY slows down carpool.
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4) If you are a legislator saying these things, I look forward to your votes to legalize marijuana (after all, why have a law against it it some won’t follow it), and your vote against bills outlawing books and drag story hours. We don’t need laws, nobody will follow them.
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@MsPackyetti
Our kiddo, who is on the spectrum, decided on his own to try out for a children’s musical, and got a small speaking part. Last year he only wanted to be in the chorus.
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If we did pass laws based on that litmus, I think this bodes well for any and all marijuana legislation. In fact, why did we pass all those abortion bills? Some people won’t follow them, after all.
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You know what I’d love to read? The story Kim Mulkey thought was going to be told.
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@JohnCornyn
No wait. I got more. WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? You are beholden to the people who have been calling, faxing and writing you.
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We have surrogated our responsibility entirely and placed it on the backs of some of our smallest and vulnerable people.
I. Am. Over. It.
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@TomCottonAR
@SRuhle
I grew up in Arkansas - was mere blocks from Fort Chaffee, where asylum seekers often were housed en masse while their paperwork was processed.
They were welcomed and helped.
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@AngryBlackLady
They basically said, "Oh, the doctor didn't say the magic words so no."
And they completely ignored the law that allows ANYONE to sue anyone involved in helping or providing an abortion.
A doctor's "reasonable medical judgment" will still end up being decided by a court.
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And now I’m going to lay here for a few minutes and drink sweet tea and try not to let everything from the past 3 days make me mad enough to junk punch the next person I see.
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I’m not an economist, so maybe there’s a plot hole here, but what if we created a formula that automatically raised the minimum wage based on housing costs?
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this isn’t what responsible journalism looks like, if you’re wondering if this publication is worthy of your engagement and time.
Also, one of this writer’s former colleagues now works in the mayor’s office.
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@JohnCornyn
that you have the stones to wander in during the Super Bowl and drop this turd in the punch bowl, shows your disdain for Texas
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@mercnews
And that was AFTER you demeaned her in your now-deleted tweet. Stop acting as if female athletes need male athletes for context.
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@JohnCornyn
voters. You care not one bit about us, and are not acting in our interests.
This will be remembered.
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@JerusalemDemsas
I just handed mine a color swatch and said, "Something in this range, if it's already in your closet, that's fine."
My bachelorette was sushi and then a dive bar. It was the best.
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@andrewsduncan1
@juliamacfarlane
Boomer, my man, she wasn’t the maid, and she wasn’t Latino.
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has historically meant a lot of threats to the organizations that account targets.
I sent these screenshots to the district, and they’re sharing them with the appropriate people. But …
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The Stars are now 1-0 when Ken Paxton gets impeached.
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All of this is only pro-life if we actually support life. But we don’t. Maternal mortality rates are awful in this country. We can’t commit to a living wage. We have no paid parental leave.
This is pro-birth, and there is a vast difference between that and being pro-life.
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1) When you've lost Lee Greenwood ...
2) Anyone who cancels at this point doesn't get a brownie point, because you agreed to this after Parkland, Columbine, Santa Fe, Buffalo, Oxford, etc. And if this convention was happening even a month from now, you wouldn't have canceled.
Grammy Award-winning country singer Larry Gatlin says he's a proud gun owner, but he canceled on the NRA anyway. He talks to
@PamelaBrownCNN
about his decision to pull his performance from the NRA's annual convention in Houston. Watch:
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@mercnews
Just stop it. Seriously. Go back, and write a real Simone Manuel story, one about WHY it's historic. There's a real story there.
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@mercnews
I mean, you're gonna have plenty of time to write Michael Phelps stories this week. This was big, and you treated it as an aside.
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It’s worth noting that in the thousands of responses to this thread, not once have I heard about a urologist or PCP spending 30 minutes on the phone explaining what their patient intends to do with the erection they achieve with their Viagra script.
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@GovMikeHuckabee
Her Filipino maid would be a) more Christian than you, b) smarter than you and c) nicer than you.
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@MrArron4
@DaveLeibo
@kennyjacoby
An FBI raid that the PD participated in. Come to find out, the indictments were announced by the US Attorney's office that afternoon.
I just wrote, "Please do not show post it asking not to show report under post it to the reporter, signed the reporter."
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“Is this to do some raping? Will your patient be sure to get the full consent for each sexual act performed with the aid of this medication? Do they promise to only display the erection to consenting parties who wish to view it? Are you sure?”
No. That isn’t happening.
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One time during the tornado coverage when I had been up for about 36 hours straight I accidentally told a city councilman I loved him when I hung up the phone.
As a journalist, I have never kissed a subject at the end of an interview.
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You’re still allowed to say it, you addlepated lackwit. It’s just that now you’ll be fact checked, which I imagine is uncomfortable for a known prevaricator.
....Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen!
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@pjbreenphoto
Question - does the league or sports association that oversees the games have a sportsmanship policy?
It might be worth having your superiors email them about the incident. Here in Texas, spectators that violate the UIL policy can end up getting their team a forfeit.
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@JamilahLemieux
I’ve been catfishing a catfisher for 3 weeks now. He asked for pictures so I sent him pictures of the wife of the guy whose picture he is using to catfish me.
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@JohnCornyn
Thousands of YOUR constituents have told you they don't want her. Remember who you represent.
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Women are already being warned by their doctors (saw one instance just this morning) to come in and get their IUDs soon, because they don’t know if that’s next. They are even warning that they may not be able to offer misoprostol to soften the cervix prior to insertion
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@johncusack
@soledadobrien
OMG, Lloyd. FOCUS. We have this horrible goblin in the White House. Most of us are just committed to voting for Not Trump, but this jump the gun demonization of every single other Dem candidate that’s not Sanders is off putting.
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This isn’t a problem the men making these memes will ever face. I wager if they bled profusely for several days of every month, cramping to the point of nausea sometimes, things might be different.
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ATTN MEN: It’s getting dark earlier. Don’t bother women at gas stations or make them feel threatened or unsafe. Don’t rape them or mug them or murder them because it’s dark. Their unlocked car door is not an invitation, and their money belongs to them.
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who missed school because they couldn’t get pads or tampons. Nearly 61 percent reported wearing a product for longer than recommended because they didn’t have access to enough.
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I believe that with my whole heart. In a perfect world, my doctor could prescribe me something and (unless it’s contraindicated with another drug I’m taking) the pharmacist would fill it without needing to double check my intentions.
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