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Center for Reproductive Rights attorney Molly Duane alongside other plaintiffs, speaks at a press conference during Zurawski v. Texas, a lawsuit filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of women denied abortions despite serious pregnancy complications, outside the Texas Supreme Court in Austin, Texas, on November 28, 2023. (Suzanne Cordeiro / AFP via Getty Images)

BY ELEANOR KLIBANOFF | On Friday evening, the Texas Supreme Court temporarily halted a lower court’s order allowing Kate Cox, 31, to terminate her nonviable pregnancy. On Monday morning, two major national medical associations—the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine—filed an emergency brief urging the Texas Supreme Court to permit the procedure, arguing that Cox faces a current, emergent threat to her life, health and future fertility if she is unable to obtain abortion care. 

Despite this, Cox has been forced to leave Texas to get healthcare in another state, the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) announced on Monday. Her fetus has a fatal condition and continuing the pregnancy threatens her future fertility.

One of the members of the Texas Supreme Court, Justice John Devine, has been arrested at least 37 times while protesting abortion clinics. Devine described his convictions as being “forged in the crucibles” of the anti-abortion movement. His activism, he said, did not have any bearing on his ability to impartially interpret the law. His wife Nubia also publicly chose to continue a high-risk pregnancy; before birth, doctors told the couple was likely to end in the deaths of both mother and child. The child survived one hour.

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Kerryne James—Grenada’s minister for climate resilience, the environment and renewable energy—speaks during a COP28 session on Dec. 5, 2023. (Dominika Zarzycka / NurPhoto via Getty Images)

BY AYESHA CONSTABLE | Right now, political leaders, corporate representatives and climate activists are gathered in Dubai for the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference—COP28—to discuss approaches to mitigating the climate crisis. We caught up with feminist climate activists in the Caribbean on what climate justice means to them and what their expectations are of COP28.

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Maya Golden is the founder of the 1 in 3 Foundation, a nonprofit organization that helps adult women recover from PTSD, addiction and the lingering mental effects of sexual abuse or sexual assault. (Courtesy of Maya Golden)

BY ELEANOR J. BADER | Award-winning multimedia journalist Maya Golden’s searing but redemptive memoir, The Return Trip, takes readers on a harrowing journey. The book offers a no-holds-barred look into the sexual abuse that began when Golden was 5 and charts her course through a troubled adolescence and young adulthood. Along the way, she probes the long-term impact of repeated sexual violation and zeroes in on the ways religious institutions, educational systems, and familial denial continue to intersect and allow the perpetuation of violence.

Golden spoke to Ms. reporter Eleanor J. Bader before The Return Trip’s Nov. 14 release. Their wide-ranging conversation touched on the book as well as the work of the 1 in 3 Foundation, a group Golden founded to support survivors of sexual assault.

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