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Today at Ms. | May 17, 2023
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North Carolina Legislature Overrides Governor’s Veto of 12-Week Abortion Ban [[link removed]]
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Abortion rights demonstrators gather in Raleigh, N.C., to protest the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health case on June 24, 2022 in, United States. (Peter Zay / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
BY CARRIE N. BAKER | Late Tuesday evening, Republican supermajorities in both houses of the North Carolina state legislature overrode Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill banning abortion at 12 weeks with exceptions so narrow as to be meaningless. The law is slated to take effect beginning July 1.
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Reflections From the Passenger Seat in the Wake of Dobbs: ‘We Go Forward, We Go Backward. We Keep Driving’ [[link removed]]
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Protesters take part in the Women’s March and Rally for Abortion Justice in New York City on Oct. 2, 2021. (Kena Betancur / AFP via Getty Images)
BY AUSTEN DELLINGER | Throughout my childhood, my mom drove me thousands of miles through North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida—giving up weeknights and long weekends to eat Panera Bread, sleep in hotels, and watch girls’ youth soccer.
It was in that passenger seat I knew so well where I sat nervously at 15, asking my mom about birth control. I felt comfortable enough to ask for contraceptives, confident that I could obtain them, and blissfully ignorant of the thought that an unwanted pregnancy could one day kill me. As I turned down the radio with sweaty palms, I was concerned with being late to practice and how my mom would react—not my right to exist in the world free of sex discrimination, or my rights to privacy and equal protection.
I am concerned with those things now.
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Keeping Score: 78% of Americans Say Abortion Is a Decision for a Woman and Her Doctor; Trans Kids Are Under Attack in at Least 17 States; FDA Allows Queer Men to Donate Blood [[link removed]]
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Abortion rights supporter Faith Halstead chants along with other protesters near the Florida State Capitol, where state senators voted to pass a proposed sic-week abortion ban in Tallahassee, on April 3, 2023. (The Washington Post via Getty Images)
BY SOPHIE DORF-KAMIENNY | In every issue of Ms. , we track research on our progress in the fight for equality, catalogue can’t-miss quotes from feminist voices and keep tabs on the feminist movement’s many milestones. We’re Keeping Score online, too—in this biweekly roundup.
This week: 16 states (and counting) pass bans on gender-affirming treatment for trans kids; FDA updates its policy on gay and bisexual men donating blood; Colorado bans “abortion pill reversal” groups; Hey Jane is first telemedicine abortion provider to accept insurance; New York SUNY and CUNY students will have guaranteed access to medication abortion; Manhattan jury finds Trump guilty of sexual abuse; New York launches successful gun buyback initiative; and more.
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