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Today at Ms. | May 4, 2023
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Three Reasons Congress Should Reject Medicaid Work Requirements [[link removed]]
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) speaks to the media at the U.S. Capitol on April 26, 2023, after the House passed a bill raising the nation’s debt ceiling. The bill also includes sweeping spending cuts over the next decade. It’s not expected to pass the Senate, and President Joe Biden would veto it if it did. (Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images)
BY THOMAS WALDROP, KIMBERLY KNACKSTEDT and REBECCA VALLAS | On April 26, the House passed Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s debt ceiling bill, the “Limit, Save and Grow Act.” If enacted, the bill would create new work reporting requirements, stripping Medicaid coverage from adults unable to document eighty hours of work or community service per month.
Work reporting requirements are unnecessary, harmful and ultimately counter to the goals of the Medicaid program. Here’s why.
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‘They Decriminalized Abortion, But They Still Judge Us’: The Mexican Fight for Reproductive Justice [[link removed]]
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Lawyer Ariadne Song said she has many cases still unresolved, creating quite a backlog. (Rebecca Robyns)
BY REBECCA ROBYNS | In the case of abortion, which the supreme court decriminalized in September 2021, allowing women access to abortion up until 12 weeks gestation, women are still struggling to gain proper access to legal abortion for free at public hospitals because doctors are unaware of the law or find excuses to delay the procedure.
Human rights defender and lawyer Ariadne Song has defended women’s rights cases for 19 years, including the ‘aborto legal’ campaign first started by the Green Wave, or Marea Verde, in Argentina.
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In Praise of Badass Super Mamas (Summer 2008) [[link removed]]
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BY STEPHANE DUNN | From the Summer 2008 issue of Ms. magazine:
The summer of 1973 was the season of the supermama: kickass Black women such as Pam Grier and Tamara Dobson, who starred in big-screen “Blaxploitation” action films.
The cultural nostalgia for Blaxploitation has never really died. And at the movies in recent years, Black women continue to be underrepresented among the latest kick-butt heroes. Yet my hope for new supermamas survives. The screen and action cinema not only have room for Black women—but need them.
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In this episode, Dr. Goodwin is joined by law professor and author Dr. Julie Suk to discuss her urgent, new book, After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What To Do About It , and explore how turning a lens on misogyny can help us to better understand the social, political, and legal challenges of these times. In the face of these challenges, how can women fight back?
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