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Today at Ms. | December 6, 2023
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The Constitution as a Homicide Pact [[link removed]]
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Ruth Glenn, president of Survivor Justice Action, addresses at a rally in front of the Supreme Court to call on the justices to disarm domestic violence perpetrators and protect survivors, as oral arguments are heard in the case of United States v. Rahimi on Nov. 7, 2023. (Jahi Chikwendiu / The Washington Post via Getty Images)
BY MARY ANNE FRANKS | The facts of U.S. v. Rahimi reveal the gendered and destructive reality of gun use behind the illusion of abstract, idealized self-defense.
Every 14 hours in the U.S., a man uses a gun to kill his intimate partner. Pregnant women are particularly vulnerable. But the Supreme Court’s conservative commitment to “life” is highly selective, to put it mildly, and tends to value women’s lives—including those of domestic violence victims—very little. We can expect the Court’s ruling to come down in June or July of 2024.
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Texas Woman Asks Judge to Let Her Terminate Pregnancy After Lethal Fetal Diagnosis [[link removed]]
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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 | In an emergency request, the Center for Reproductive Rights is asking a judge to allow Kate Cox to terminate her pregnancy after she received a lethal fetal diagnosis.
“I’m trying to do what is best for my baby and myself, but the state of Texas is making us both suffer.”
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December 2023 Reads for the Rest of Us [[link removed]]
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High school students attend a camp for coding at Georgetown University on Aug. 12, 2015. (Nikki Kahn / The Washington Post via Getty Images)
BY KARLA J. STRAND | Each month, we provide Ms. readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups.
Take a break with one of these 15 new titles; each one is truly a gift.
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In the final episode of the Torn Apart podcast, Dorothy Roberts makes the case for the abolition of the child welfare system and lays out a vision for the more just and equitable society that could replace it. In conversation with Professor Anna Arons of St. John’s University, Roberts uses New York City as case study for what could happen if family policing ends.
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