@kemc

journalist/author

 https://kemc.substack.com
simonandschuster.com/books/Blood-Money/Kathleen-McLaughlin/9781982171964
Joined August 2008
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With arguments today at the US Supreme Court over Idaho's near-total abortion ban, I'm thinking of all the women I met in Idaho last summer who shared their fears and plans with me for this piece. What happens in Idaho matters for the entire country. theguardian.com/us-news/2023…

No OB-GYNs left in town: what came after Idaho’s assault on abortion

In Sandpoint, Idaho, the maternity ward closed down. Within months, medical care for women in the rural community was hollowed out

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First, this discussion about class and journalism and all sorts of things with the brilliant @annehelen, who just gets it, always annehelen.substack.com/p/an-…
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Loved doing this interview for the Montana Free Press... xitter.cf/kemc/status/1633152933…
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A good discussion about the biz with Bloomberg radio (I love this headline) bloomberg.com/news/audio/202…

Draining Americans of Blood for Profit - Bloomberg

Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec bring together the latest news from the world of business and finance and the interesting stories.

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The Daily Beast also published a piece of the book, looking at the big picture thedailybeast.com/this-indus…

This Industry Literally Wants to Suck the Blood of the Poor

Our most personal substance—our blood—has become a commodity, a substance traded for profit at the expense of the most vulnerable.

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And then of course this incredible chat about the real blood trade (it's not about adrenochrome) with amazing folks at QanonAnonymous, that treasure of a podcast. xitter.cf/QanonAnonymous/status/…
QAA Pod - Check out CURSEDMEDIA.NET@QAApod1 Mar 2023
Forget adrenochrome. There's a real network of private companies extracting blood plasma from financially precarious Americans across the country & selling it (and its derivatives) on the global market. Our guest @kemc wrote BLOOD MONEY Episode out now: podcasts.apple.com/podcast/q…
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Someone asked me how the practice of selling plasma remains hidden if there are so many Americans who do it. After all this reporting, I’m certain it’s about a stigma that demands people suffer in silence and ignore structural problems that stare us in the face every day.
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This book covers a lot of ground traveled over the past decade, from China to Japan, France, Mexico and all over the US. At its core, it's a deeply personal story of my search for the people on whose generosity I depend. I hope you'll read it. simonandschuster.com/books/B…
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My quest took me around the country. To Rexburg, Idaho, a majority-Mormon college town where selling plasma is a pretty mundane, routine part of life for a whole lot of students.
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I see a lot of media talk about labor shortages and the gig economy, but rarely mentioned are the millions of Americans who sell their blood plasma to massive pharma companies each week to pay the bills.
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To El Paso and the US-Mexico borderlands, where thousands of Mexican citizens enter the country each week to sell plasma in the United States. Paid plasma donation is banned in Mexico, just like all but 5 countries in the world.
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