While the baby naps, we rage on.This week, Fiona breaks down:

• 3 years post-Roe — abortions are up, access is harder, and bans are reshaping care across the U.S.
• SCOTUS rulings — a gut punch to Planned Parenthood and a dangerous step toward undermining birthright citizenship
• GOP hypocrisy — Rep. Kat Cammack received abortion care for her ectopic pregnancy, while backing bans that would prevent others from doing the same
• ICE’s violence — detained breastfeeding moms and pregnant women denied care until tragedy strikes
• Bright spot — Zohran Mamdani’s people-powered win in NYC is the hopeful future we’re building toward

Links to Reporting Referenced:

• Roe, 3 Years Later: Yahoo!

• SCOTUS Birthright Ruling: PBS

• SCOTUS Planned Parenthood Medicaid Case: The Hill

• Kat Cammack Ectopic Pregnancy: HuffPost

• ICE Detention Data: Cato Institute

• Marine’s Wife Detained by ICE: OregonLive

• Pregnant Woman Loses Baby in ICE Custody: Yahoo!

• Zohran Mamdani Wins NYC Primary: CBS News

What You Can Do:

• Donate to immigrant & reproductive justice orgs like IRCO and Planned Parenthood PAC
• Use 5 Calls to demand ICE accountability & federal abortion protections
• Share these stories, speak up, get loud
• Make something that nourishes your soul or helps showcase your resistance: protest art, cookies, signs, care packages

This moment needs your energy, whether whispered from the nursery or shouted at a rally.

Stay wild. Stay tender. Stay feral.

While the baby naps, we rage on.

This week, Fiona breaks down:

• Adriana Smith’s devastating update | 1lb 13 oz baby removed from her body posthumously | BBC
• Political violence in Minnesota | Melissa Hortman and her husband murdered | People
• ICE detainment of Moises Sotelo in Newberg, OR | KOIN 6 News
• Texas sues San Antonio for funding abortion travel | Yahoo News
  
• EMTALA protections rolled back by Texas judge | Yahoo News
• Ohio’s proposed near-total abortion ban— no exceptions, full criminalization | Newsweek
• No Kings Rally — millions marched for democracy & freedom | Axios

What You Can Do:

Donate to:

• Adriana Smith’s Family
• Moises Sotelo’s Family

Call your reps — demand protections for EMTALA, immigration justice, and abortion rights.

Bake bread. Plant a tree. Tell a dad joke. Do something in Melissa & Mark Hortman’s memory.

Amplify these stories. Share this episode.

This moment needs your energy — whether online, in the streets, or in your community and your own kitchen - dancing with your babies!

Stay wild. Stay tender. Stay feral.

While the baby naps, we rage on.

This week, Fiona breaks down:

• 🚨 EMTALA abortion guidance rollback by the current administration | MSNBC

• ⚖️ West Virginia’s terrifying miscarriage prosecution speculation | SNOPES

• 💊 Mifepristone access challenges and what you should call it | REUTERS

• 🐻 Montana Supreme Court protecting abortion rights | MONTANA PUBLIC RADIO

• ✊ No Kings Rallies — rising resistance, collective energy | NOKINGS.ORG

Additional Links & Resources Mentioned:

• Reproductive Health Access Project

• Plan C Pills

• National Immigration Law Center
• ⁠No Kings Rally Info⁠

• ACLU: Protesters' Rights

What You Can Do:
🩺 Donate. ✍️ Call. 🪧 March. 🎨 Make signs. 💻 Amplify.
This moment needs your energy — whether online, on the streets, or in the nursery with your voice turned up while nap-trapped.

Connect:🌐 feralmamas.club📸 @feralmamasclub on IG and TikTok📬

🎧 Stay wild. Stay tender. Stay feral.

This week on The Feral Mamas Club Podcast, Fiona brings the fire with updates and urgent headlines about motherhood, bodily autonomy, immigration, and resistance. From the continued horror of the Adriana Smith case to dystopian surveillance in Texas and systemic cruelty at the border, it’s a ride—but don’t worry, we end on a hopeful note from Maine. Plus, ways to take action and support the work.

1. Adriana Smith Update – Still on Life Support

Lawmakers are demanding answers as controversy deepens over Georgia’s heartbeat law and its role in keeping Adriana Smith, a brain-dead pregnant woman, on life support.

Read more from NPR

Read more from Law & Crime

2. Texas Surveillance – License Plate Scanners & Bodily Autonomy

Texas officials used license plate readers to track a person who had a self-managed abortion, raising chilling implications for privacy and bodily autonomy.

The Independent: Texas abortion license plate surveillance

3. ICE Separations & Sen. Ossoff’s Demands

Following up on previously reported stories of Heidy Sánchez and Yorley Bernal, Senator Jon Ossoff is now publicly demanding DHS explain why nursing mothers were deported without their U.S. citizen infants.

NBC News: Ossoff questions ICE on family separations

4.) Maine’s Law Protecting Reproductive Providers

Some good news! Maine passed a law to protect doctors from criminal prosecution when prescribing abortion medicines to patients in other states where abortion is restricted.

Yahoo News: Maine Prescriber Privacy Law

Take Action:

Call your Senators

If/When/How

Reproductive Health Access Project

CodePink: End ICE Flights

National Immigration Law Center

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Stay loud. Stay loving. Stay feral. 💥

This week on The Feral Mamas Club Podcast, Fiona dives into the unholy trifecta of horror: Missouri's Supreme Court drops the hammer on reproductive freedom, Catholic hospitals in California prioritize dogma over pregnant peoples’ health, and the House GOP passes a budget bill that guts care and crushes families. But don't worry—there's a bright spot (and toddler lols), plus real actions you can take right now to rage and rally.

Main Stories Covered:

1. Missouri Supreme Court Reinstates Abortion Ban

Missouri's highest court reinstates the state's abortion ban, overturning lower court rulings and ignoring voters who passed Amendment 3.

Read more from The Hill

2. Catholic Hospitals Denying Emergency Abortion Care

AP: Providence California Abortion Story

3. The GOP Budget Bill's Impact on Families

Financial Times: The Economic Impact of Trump’s Budget Bill

MSNBC: House GOP Moves Forward With Trump Agenda Bill

Take Action:

• Call your Senators and tell them to block the budget bill and protect Planned Parenthood funding.

• Planned Parenthood Action Fund

• National Network of Abortion Funds

• Yellowhammer Fund

• If/When/How for legal help & abortion rights

• Reproductive Health Access Project

• Pro-Choice Missouri and ACLU of Missouri

Bright Spot: Fiona’s 19-month-old demanded “More Milk” and then looked up, said “Where were we?” and resumed nursing. Honestly? Iconic.

Subscribe to the podcast and support the movement by sharing this episode, leaving a review, and following us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Stay loud. Stay loving. Stay FERAL.

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This week on The Feral Mamas Club Podcast, we channel righteous rage into focused fire. We start with Adriana Smith, a Black nurse and mother who was declared brain dead after being denied care for headaches, only to be kept on life support against her family’s wishes because she was nine weeks pregnant. Her case is everything that’s wrong with how we treat Black women and bodily autonomy in America.

Missouri lawmakers’ underhanded attempt to undo a pro-choice voter win, and the huge legislative sneak attack that happened while most of us were sleeping: the GOP’s Billionaire Tax Cut Bill and how it’ll impact Planned Parenthood (even though it'll cost us $300 million).

Rage isn’t the end point—it’s the beginning. Let’s use it.

📎 Show Notes + Source Links:

Adriana Smith Coverage:

• A Brain-Dead Pregnant Woman is Being Kept on Life Support, Raising Legal Questions – NPR

• Family, Doctors of Brain-Dead Pregnant Woman Grapple With Georgia Law – AP News

• Black Woman Declared Brain Dead Kept Alive for 12 Weeks to Deliver Baby – AP News

• Georgia is Keeping a Brain-Dead Black Woman Alive to Incubate Her Pregnancy – Ms. Magazine

Missouri’s Abortion Repeal Tactic:

• Missouri Lawmakers Approve Referendum to Repeal Abortion Rights Amendment – MSN

GOP Legislative Moves:

• The GOP’s Plan to Defund Planned Parenthood Would Add $300 Million to the Deficit – Mother Jones

• In Late-Night Vote, Republicans Move Closer to Pushing Trump Agenda Bill Through House – MSNBC

💥 Places to Put Your Rage:

• Adriana’s Family GoFundMe: Help Adriana's Family

• Planned Parenthood

• Black Mamas Matter Alliance

• SisterSong (Atlanta-based)

• Amplify Georgia Collaborative

Hey, Feral Fam. It’s Fiona here – comms professional and feral baby wrangler. If you're anything like me, you're juggling bedtime, burnout, and a browser full of bleak headlines. That's why I’m bringing you this weekly roundup: for the humans who care deeply but don’t have time to sift through 19 think pieces before preschool drop-off. We’re making sense of the news that hits hearts hardest, and finding ways to channel the rage. Because as the goddesses know, there is plenty of it.

In this episode, we’re talking about:

• ICE agents waiting outside a maternity room door to deport a new mother

• Trump’s team stalling on mifepristone access (because of course)

• Rising maternal mortality rates in the U.S.

• And a surprising bright spot from Connecticut centering teen reproductive health

Tune in for the news, the fury, and a little hope. We’re not just surviving, mamas – we’re roaring back.

ICE at the Maternity Ward

• Erika, fleeing violence in Guatemala, walked through the Arizona desert at eight months pregnant to secure safety for her baby. She gave birth in a Tucson hospital—only to find ICE waiting to deport her outside her room.

• Erika was separated from her newborn right after giving birth. Public pressure and intervention from Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs delayed the deportation, but the trauma is unimaginable.

• This is a grim reminder that policies meant to protect are often used to harm. We must do better.

  Sources: CNN, Newsweek

  Maternal Mortality Rates Keep Rising

• • • New CDC data shows that U.S. maternal mortality rates rose again in 2024—up to 19 deaths per 100,000 live births.
    • Most of these deaths are preventable, especially among Black and Brown mothers. This reality should shake us all.

  • Source: MSN

  Mifepristone Madness

  • Three Republican-led states (Idaho, Kansas, Missouri) filed a lawsuit to ban telehealth access to mifepristone—a crucial pill used in 60% of U.S. abortion cases.

  • Trump’s team asked for a dismissal, not because they support access, but because they claim it was filed in the wrong court.

• This isn’t backing down; it’s stalling. Stay alert, mamas

  Source: AP

  
  

  Bright Spot: Connecticut's Teen Reproductive Health Bill

  • The Connecticut state House passed a bill to expand access to birth control and prenatal care for teens—without needing parental consent.

  • It’s a win for reproductive autonomy, health equity, and the dignity of young mothers.

  Source: NBC CT

  
  

  Get your claws out:

  Channel your frustration into change. Support these organizations:

  • RAICES Texas
  • MomsRising / Mamás Con Poder
  • Immigrant Families Together