[[link removed]] Ms. Memo: This Week in Women's Rights
October 25, 2023
From the ongoing fight for abortion rights and access, to elections, to the drive for the Equal Rights Amendment, there are a multitude of battles to keep up with. In this weekly roundup, find the absolute need-to-know news for feminists.
This November, Abortion Is on the Ballot in Ohio. Here’s What You Need to Know to Vote [[link removed]]
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A “yes” vote on Issue 1 supports amending the Ohio constitution to establish a right to “make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions, including but not limited to” decisions about abortion, contraception, fertility treatment, miscarriage care, and continuing pregnancy. (Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights / Instagram)
BY MORGAN CARMEN | This November, Ohioans will decide whether to add to the state’s constitution the right for individuals to make their own reproductive healthcare decisions, including abortion. Early voting in the election has already begun.
Ohio Issue 1—the Right to Make Reproductive Decisions Including Abortion Initiative—would add this language to the Ohio state constitution: “Every individual has a right to make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions, including but not limited to decisions on: contraception, fertility treatment, continuing one’s own pregnancy, miscarriage care, and abortion.” The amendment would preclude the state from interfering, burdening or prohibiting the exercise of such a right—directly or indirectly.
A coalition of reproductive, women’s and civil rights organizations, Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights, is urging voters to vote YES on Issue 1 to protect reproductive freedom. If passed, the amendment would restore Roe-era protections in Ohio and prevent a six-week abortion ban (that has no exceptions for rape or incest and which is the subject of ongoing litigation) from ever taking effect.
Notably, the ballot language looks different from the actual amendment: The state’s Republican-led ballot board drafted the language for the ballot, which does not specify which reproductive-health-related decisions would be protected by the amendment and refers to a “fetus” as an “unborn child,” among other departures from the original language of the proposed amendment. (Read the entire ballot initiative at the end of this article.) The Republican-led effort is part of a larger campaign to confuse voters, and follows an unsuccessful attempt earlier this year by the Republican legislature to change the election rules to increase the votes required to pass a measure on the ballot from a simple majority to 60 percent. Voters rejected the proposed rules change in a special election in August.
Ohioans, here’s all you need to know about how to vote in this election.
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The Hyde Amendment Continues to Be a Barrier for Accessing Abortion Care [[link removed]] Diverse Stakeholders Implore Supreme Court to Preserve Abortion Pill Access [[link removed]]
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Social Security’s Cost-of-Living Adjustments Must Not Come at the Expense of Americans’ Other Basic Needs [[link removed]] The Last Two Years Saw Record Wins for Women in Politics Worldwide. How Can Election Rules and Voting Systems Shape Opportunities for Women? [[link removed]]
What we're reading
Because it's hard to keep up with everything going on in the world right now. Here's what we're reading this week:
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"The
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Abortion
Cowboy”
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Mother
Jones
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Next
Big
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"Anti-abortion
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On this week’s episode, we’re continuing our series unpacking the litigation and criminal charges that have been levied at former president Donald Trump: The Trump Indictments. But these indictments don’t just include former president Donald Trump—they also include co-conspirators. Who are they—and what do their cases mean for the case against Trump as a whole?
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