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Abortion is still legal in all 50 states. Give your energy, dollars, and time to local NNAF Abortion Funds, practical support networks, and indie clinics Abortion Care Network.

“Each year, 4.7–13.2% of maternal deaths can be attributed to unsafe abortion” World Health Organization (WHO) Banning abortion does not prevent abortion. It just stops safe abortion. This is healthcare. And access to it that is safe, timely, respectful, and affordable is a human right.

On the cover, our Editorial: Why Roe v. Wade must be defended hubs.li/Q01b9FLr0

Today's #COVID19 data from the AAP hasn't been released yet, but looking at the past year of data available (5/6/21 - 5/5/22), COVID caused: - 26,277 pediatric hospitalizations - 712 pediatric deaths For perspective, last four years of #influenza mortality in children are below.

I've worked on gun violence for over a decade now. And after every tragedy, our reaction is to express rage at America's unwillingness to act. But there are people acting every day. Yes, hold Republicans accountable for this bloodshed. But also support those trying to stop it. 🧵

This graph just remakes this point: A remarkable increase in deaths from firearms and a simultaneous decrease in deaths from MVCs over the last decades. Neither by chance but due to decisions to make cars and roads safer for our kids and make it easier to kill people with guns

Racism continues to be perpetuated in medicine through our clinical practice guidelines. Let’s interrogate systemic racism and barriers to differences in outcomes…it’s racism, not race. ja.ma/3aCaSSF JAMA Pediatrics Edwin Lindo ✊🏾 @CalltheCNM @JoelTieder

Read this. #Dontlookaway Pediatricians (and so many others) work hard every day to keep children safe. We do our jobs. Beyond time for politicians to do theirs.

This. Brilliant, heartbreaking, and true. Grateful to Kimberly D. Manning, MD, MACP for this powerful illustration of the inexorable links between health and systemic inequities — whether you want to name them or not — and the care we should be providing to our patients

Come learn about our critical role as pediatricians to prevent youth from becoming involved with the justice system and support those who are. Hosted by the intimidible Peter Gyimah and Kathleen Kieran

Watching this and thinking about my work in Yakima, which, like many places in the PNW, is >70 miles in all directions from another hospital that cares for kids and > 100 miles from a PICU. (cc: Peter Gyimah Kathleen Kieran @WCAAP) nytimes.com/2023/01/04/opi…

And already the ramifications of this for parents and babies are not good. Families here are incredibly resilient, but their stories of the ways this closure has had an impact — and the choices they’ve had to make— have been heartbreaking