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Today at Ms. | October 26, 2023
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‘Comstocked’: How Extremists Are Exploiting a Victorian-Era Law To Deny Abortion Access [[link removed]]
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(L-R) Rev. Pat Mahoney, Peggy Nienaber of Faith and Liberty and Mark Lee Dickson of Right to Life East Texas pray in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on April 21, 2023 in Washington, DC. Organized by The Stanton Public Policy Center/Purple Sash Revolution, the small group of demonstrators called on the Supreme Court to affirm Federal District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling that suspends the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
BY SHOSHANNA EHRLICH | In June 2019, the all-male city council in Waskom, Texas, unanimously voted to make the tiny town of just 2,000 residents the nation’s first “sanctuary city for the unborn.” Characterizing fetuses as the “most innocent among us [who] deserve equal protection under the law,” the ordinance expressly bans abortion within its municipal boundaries. The man behind the ban, anti-abortion zealot and pastor Mark Lee Dickson, has since expanded his campaign to outlaw abortion “one city at a time” into at least six other states.
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The Biden Administration’s Investment in Internet Will Reduce Barriers to Abortion [[link removed]]
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Prior to the pandemic, getting an abortion in the U.S. could be difficult, complex and expensive. Telehealth abortion has rapidly transformed that. (José Araújo / Getty Images)
BY VAL DIEZ CANSECO | Millions of Americans lack access to reliable high-speed internet. But a move this summer from the Biden-Harris administration—a $42.45 billion investment in affordable high-speed internet—will no doubt help to close this digital divide. Promoting equity in internet access is especially urgent in a post- Roe world, where 21 states have moved to ban or restrict abortion, all while telehealth abortion capabilities are increasing.
The pandemic popularized and revolutionized telehealth, and today, a full range of reproductive healthcare services are available: abortion, contraception, gender-affirming care and more—but only if a person has reliable internet access. The Biden administration estimates 8.5 million households are without high-speed internet infrastructure, and millions more face limited or unreliable internet options.
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A Freelance War Correspondent Covers Ethnic Cleansing of Her Indigenous Nation [[link removed]]
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Days before Sargsyan’s September departure from Artsakh, standing at Renaissance Square, as thousands prepared for their exodus. “It was one of the hardest moment to witness.” (David Ghahramnyan)
BY JACKIE ABRAMIAN | For nearly three years, Siranush Sargsyan has documented Azerbaijan’s siege of the 120,000 indigenous Armenians in her disputed homeland of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). The former history teacher and state worker turned wartime freelance journalist is now among the over 100,700 forcibly displaced taking refuge in neighboring Armenia.
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