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Today at Ms. | January 4, 2024
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Marco Flores Deserves to Stay in the U.S.: A Feminist Argument Against Deportation [[link removed]]
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Marco Flores was 17 years old when he killed the man who had been molesting him since he was a boy. Prosecutors were swayed by the abuse Flores suffered and agreed that to some extent he had been driven to this crime. (Suzanne Kreiter / The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
BY AMY REED-SANDOVAL | Marco Flores and his mother migrated to the U.S. from El Salvador for a better future. When Marco was 9, a neighbor began sexually abusing him, which continued until Marco was 14. Eventually, Marco’s mother told him the neighbor would soon be moving into their home to babysit his 6-year-old nephew. Convinced that this was the only way to protect his nephew from the abuse he had endured, teenage Marco murdered Jaime Galdamez. Marco accepted a plea deal and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Now in his early 30s, Marco has served his time and is set to be released—and immediately deported back to El Salvador. Two lawyers are fighting for him to remain. A feminist understanding of immigration ethics offers a better understanding of the moral challenge in question—underscoring why Marco Flores deserves to remain in the United States.
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Democracy and Women’s Rights in 2024 [[link removed]]
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at an abortion round table discussion at Liberty Temple Baptist Church in Detroit on June 28, 2022. In November 2023, Whitmer signed the Reproductive Health Act (RHA) into law, which builds on efforts to expand access to abortion in Michigan. (Sarah Rice / The Washington Post via Getty Images)
BY CARRIE N. BAKER | One reason women are losing the right to abortion is that men who do not support women’s rights have supermajority control of most state legislatures and Congress.
If we as a society want to address critical, life-affirming issues like healthcare, housing, education, childcare and anti-poverty programs, we must elect more women—because the men clearly aren’t going to do it.
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Reimagining Child Welfare: The Ms. Q&A with Dorothy Roberts, Host of Podcast ‘Torn Apart’ [[link removed]]
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BY ANOUSHKA CHANDER | Professor Dorothy Roberts worked for decades to try to fix the child welfare system—but she came to the understanding that the system could not be fixed: It had to be abolished. Ms. sat down with her to discuss how abolishing the child welfare system is an issue of reproductive justice for women and their families, and the importance of educating about the injustices of the child welfare system.
All episodes of Torn Apart are available here [[link removed]] or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Report after report has shown that sexual harassment and assault are pervasive throughout the U.S. armed forces: at least 15.7 percent of military personnel and veterans reported military sexual trauma, a number that is likely smaller than the actual total due to shame and fear around reporting. But in the face of a culture that silences and disenfranchises women and survivors, some women are speaking out—and demanding change.
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