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Members of Women Wage Peace take part in a rally calling for coexistence and an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, along Jerusalem’s Old City walls, on May 19, 2021. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)

BY PAT MITCHELL | There are times throughout recorded history when women have stepped up, spoken up, and taken action to resolve border and boundary disputes, to protect their cities, communities and families, and to demand and negotiate peaceful resolutions of long-term conflicts.

I am reflecting on those times today as the suffering, death and destruction in Ukraine, Israel and Gaza, and the violent oppression in Iran and Afghanistan, seem beyond our ability to do anything that would mediate the violence or end the suffering. Yet, sometimes, women have come together and accomplished just that.

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Protesters march near the Supreme Court in support of gun control and abortion rights protection on May 28, 2022. (Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images)

BY MORGAN CARMEN | Anti-abortion and right-wing prosecutors and law enforcement agencies are warping child neglect, abuse and endangerment statutes to criminalize behavior during and after pregnancy.

Dobbs “will further accelerate an existing crisis, putting anyone who is pregnant or has the capacity to become pregnant at even greater risk of arrest, prosecution, and conviction,” according to a new report from Pregnancy Justice.

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Abortion rights activists march to the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24, 2023, to mark the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. (Anna Rose Layden / Getty Images)

BY JENNIFER GERSON, THE 19TH | Reports of abuse involving reproductive coercion—actions that prevent someone from making crucial decisions about their body and reproductive health—nearly doubled in the yearlong period after Roe v. Wade was overturned.

Reproductive coercion can take the form of any situation in which one partner is exerting power over another in a way that impacts their reproductive health: forcing someone to engage in sexual activity, refusing to use contraception, restricting a partner from seeing a healthcare provider, telling a partner they are not allowed to receive abortion care.

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