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**Today at Ms. | August 16, 2023**

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I’m an Aspiring OB-GYN. Here Is Why I Won’t Do My Residency in Any State With an Abortion Ban.

Half of U.S. counties have no OB-GYN, and post-Roe laws prevent new doctors from getting required training. (Nadzeya Haroshka / Getty Images)

BY ROHINI KOUSALYA SIVA | One of the many ripple effects of overturning Roe is how it undermines the education of a generation of medical students in our country.

As I prepare to apply for OB-GYN residency programs, I find myself disappointed with the state of reproductive freedom across the U.S., yet hopeful things will change.

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In DeSantis’ Florida, Whose Voices Are Silenced?

Demonstrators protest DeSantis’s plan to eliminate Advanced Placement courses on African American studies in high schools, as they stand outside the Florida State Capitol on February 15, 2023 in Tallahassee. (Joshua Lott / The Washington Post via Getty Images)

BY ALECIA HODGES | Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) continues to make headlines for his repeated, deliberate efforts to limit access to information.

These individual actions are part of a larger effort to upend educational rights in the state’s public school system and change the collective understanding of both the history and lived experience of the nation’s most marginalized groups.

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Halfway to the Sustainable Development Goals: ‘We Are Still Far From Achieving Them,’ Say Feminists

BY LINDSAY BIGDA | The United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) convened this year from July 10-19 to assess progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the halfway point between their adoption and 2030 deadline. The SDGs are a collection of 17 interlinked objectives designed to serve as a “shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future,” ranging from ending poverty, gender inequality and hunger, to promoting clean water and sustainability.

As HLPF came to a close, we spoke to four feminist activists from the Women’s Major Group about their experience at the convening—and their work fighting for gender-just implementation of the SDGs.

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