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Today at Ms. | July 26, 2023 |
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Organizers re-created the historic photo of ERA supporters in front of the First Presbyterian Church of Seneca Falls in New York. (Annette Dragon) |
BY CARRIE N. BAKER | On July 22, 1923, the National Women’s Party unveiled the Equal Rights Amendment at the First Presbyterian Church of Seneca Falls in New York. Precisely 100 years later, contemporary ERA advocates gathered to mark this important historic milestone and plan for the final push for recognition of the ERA as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. (Click here to read more) |
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A pro-abortion rights rally on May 14, 2023—two weeks after the Dobbs v. Jackson decision overturning Roe v. Wade leaked from the Supreme Court. (Whitney Saleski / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images) |
BY ROXY SZAL | It’s official: Abortion rights advocates in Ohio have met the signature requirement to place a ballot measure on the Nov. 7, 2023, ballot that would codify abortion rights in the state constitution. Before the amendment gets in front of voters, though, it faces one more unique obstacle: an Aug. 8 election, where voters are tasked to decide if future constitutional amendments will need to meet a threshold of 60 percent support, rather than 50 percent (or a simple majority).
Advocates have been worried about turnout in an election held in an off year at the end of the summer, but early voter turnout numbers have already showed a “five-fold increase” compared to last year’s August election. (Click here to read more) |
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A protest against legislation bill would severely restrict access to abortion in in Bratislava, Slovakia, on Oct. 18, 2021. (Vladimir Simicek/ AFP via Getty Images) |
BY ALEXANDRIA WILSON-MCDONALD | For the last decade, feminists in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland have fought the growing right-wing movement. Some have been quite successful and might prove helpful as American feminists resist this growing movement here in the U.S.
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