Episode 7 | Surveillance, Separation, and YAY Maine!

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 SupportLawmakers 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 & Crime2. Texas Surveillance – License Plate Scanners & Bodily AutonomyTexas 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 surveillance3. ICE Separations & Sen. Ossoff’s DemandsFollowing 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 separations4.) Maine’s Law Protecting Reproductive ProvidersSome 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 LawTake Action:Call your SenatorsIf/When/HowReproductive Health Access ProjectCodePink: End ICE FlightsNational Immigration Law CenterSubscribe, review, and share The Feral Mamas Club Podcast on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Stay loud. Stay loving. Stay feral. 💥