⬇️ What’s covered in this newsletter: Meet our physician advocates from the Class of 2025, physicians continue to sound the alarm that state abortion bans are costing people their lives, what to know about Trump’s Executive Order attacking trans youth, books the PRH community is loving and more. 

With reproductive rights, gender-affirming care, vital public health institutions and more at risk right now, our nationwide physician network is a critical line of defense against these assaults that are dire threats to our health and lives.

The goal of the Trump-Vance administration and its allies is clear: to crush activism and cement inequity. But PRH's physician network and determined supporters like you will not be silenced. We will keep showing up for one another and caring for our communities, no matter what.  

Get to know the 32 dedicated physicians from across the country who make up our Leadership Training Academy Class of 2025. The Meet Our Advocates series showcases the talents and passion of these Fellows to find out, in their own words, what inspires them to be physician advocates. 

Prism spoke to three of PRH’s newest Fellows—Drs. Joi Spaulding, Carly Dahl, and Danielle Gershon—about the deadly consequences of abortion bans for patients and the physicians who face severe penalties for providing the lifesaving care their patients need. 

"Patients who cannot receive the care they need don’t have bodily autonomy. If they are mothers, that’s going to impact their family and in turn, the entire community.”

- Dr. Danielle Gershon, Alabama Ob/Gyn

Unfortunately, we have seen this before. We knew this was coming, and we are here with this blog to break down for you the Executive Order—which is NOT in effect right now as legal challenges unfold.

PRH Communications Coordinator Mani Vinson and Policy Assistant Taryn Graves explain who is impacted, the facts about gender-affirming care, and how you can make an impact right now by supporting trans folks and trans-led organizers and organizations.

PRH President & CEO Dr. Jamila Perritt condemned the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as our our nation's Secretary of Health and Human Services, citing his anti-vaccination and anti-science stances as a clear and urgent danger to public health. 

"RFK Jr. has a proven history of exploiting, endangering, and harming communities with his antiquated and uninformed race-based medicine theories, anti-vaccination stances, including causing a public health emergency leading to the loss of many lives in Samoa, and deep lack of understanding of basic medical and scientific evidence."

Reading keeps us grounded in what people before us and around us know to be true and know to be possible. Please find a few books that are currently on our shelves across the PRH Staff and Board of Directors. Check out a few of our picks below:

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