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BY MS. EDITORS | In the decades since Ms. magazine was launched, and in the face of a constantly-evolving media landscape, the need for feminist-focused news coverage and perspective has perhaps never been greater than it is today.

With this installment of Women & Democracy, we are proud to partner with the International Women’s Media Foundation, an essential resource for strengthening the twin goals of gender equity and press freedom worldwide. Our shared grounding principle: Journalists can and must boldly, unequivocally center women’s lives and feminist perspectives.

Take the issue of abortion. Since the moment the Dobbs decision was leaked in 2022, feminist media outlets have reported that support for abortion would dominate U.S. elections and covered it accordingly—even as much of the mainstream media equivocated. The same is true of other core gender equality issues, from countering violence, to solving the climate crisis, to addressing the economy, to championing the Equal Rights Amendment.

We include in this site written, audio and video content covering a wide range of topics, some of which was created and produced as part of the tour for the new book, 50 YEARS OF Ms. We gratefully acknowledge the many advocates, activists, writers, and leaders who have been part of that journey—as well as the extraordinary nonprofit and membership newsrooms, hubs, and sites whose work inspires us (among them, our colleagues at Rewire News Group, The 19th*, Women’s Media Center, The Coalition For Women In Journalism, Abortion Every Day, The Meteor and DAME).

Feminist journalism is essential to public discourse. It is essential to political debate. And it absolutely essential to free and fair democracy.

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Mark Lee Dickson (center) of Right to Life of East Texas speaks to Todd Hawthorne during an anti-abortion event at Gospel Light Baptist Church in Rio Rancho, N.M., on Jan. 31, 2022. (Adria Malcolm / The Washington Post via Getty Images)

BY SHOSHANNA EHRLICH | On Oct. 23, three male Lubbock County commissioners approved an abortion trafficking ordinance making it unlawful to transport anyone seeking an abortion through the unincorporated area of Lubbock County—all thanks to tireless crusader Mark Lee Dickson, director of East Texas Right to Life and the founder of the Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn Initiative, who is pushing to bring about the day when “abortion is considered a great moral, social and political wrong and is outlawed in every single state.”

Even Justice Brett Kavanaugh—certainly no fan of Roe—expressed the view in his concurring opinion in Dobbs that a state cannot bar its residents from cross-border abortion travel.

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Center for Reproductive Rights attorney Molly Duane speaks during a press conference outside the Travis County Courthouse in Austin, Texas, on July 20, 2023. (Suzanne Cordeiro / AFP via Getty Images)

BY ELEANOR KLIBANOFF, THE TEXAS TRIBUNE | Twenty women are challenging the state’s abortion laws, saying they were unable to get the healthcare they needed for their medically complex pregnancies.

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