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Today at Ms. | August 22, 2023
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Abortion Snitching Is Already Sending People to Jail [[link removed]]
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Police on bicycles monitor protesters as they march and chant in Atlanta on July 23, 2022, in opposition to Georgia’s six-week abortion ban, H.B. 481. (Megan Varner / Getty Images)
BY MORGAN CARMEN | Last month, Celeste Burgess was sentenced to 90 days in prison because she took abortion pills when she was 17 years old. The story of Celeste and her mother—who helped her get the pills and will be sentenced in September—went national.
This case was seen as a harbinger of intimate privacy violations to come. But this case also exemplifies a disturbing phenomenon in the genesis of abortion prosecutions: friends and community members reporting on each other.
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Gloria Feldt and Kathy Spillar on Feminist Wins and Losses: ‘The Setbacks Have Only Awakened an Even Larger Giant Among Women’ [[link removed]]
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Kathy Spillar (left) and Gloria Feldt are both speakers, authors and leaders in the feminist movement. (Marla Aufmuth)
BY MS. EDITORS | The movement for gender equality has been sustained by a steady drumbeat of activists and leaders pushing for progress and fighting side by side. It is powerful when these feminist leaders take time to reflect together on the lessons, the losses, the wins, and the road ahead. This conversation between Gloria Feldt and Kathy Spillar offers just that.
Feldt and Spillar, along with hundreds of other feminists, will convene on Women’s Equality Day—Saturday, Aug. 26—for the Take The Lead Conference at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center in Los Angeles. The program will be dedicated to sharing solutions to help the U.S. reach intersectional gender parity in leadership—at work, in politics, and in life.
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Lessons to a Young Girl From Megan Rapinoe [[link removed]]
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Megan Rapinoe during the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023 on Aug. 6, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia. (Jose Breton / Pics Action / NurPhoto via Getty Images)
BY HADLEY LEVENSON | Megan Rapinoe hung up her soccer cleats after the final U.S. game of the 2023 World Cup. Rapinoe has proven herself as one of her generation’s most talented female players. Off the field, Rapinoe has been a leader on crucial social issues like LGBTQ+ rights, racial justice, gender equality and pay equity.
To many of her fans, her profile as a fierce agent for change is the defining component of her legacy. Count me among them.
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In early June 2023, for the second time in two months, Trump was indicted—this time on 37 felony counts for allegedly mishandling sensitive, classified government materials and obstruction of justice. What does this most recent indictment mean for Trump, the 2024 elections, and the future of American democracy as a whole?
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