[[link removed]] Ms. Memo: This Week in Women's Rights
January 17, 2024
From the ongoing fight for abortion rights and access, to elections, to the drive for the Equal Rights Amendment, there are a multitude of battles to keep up with. In this weekly roundup, find the absolute need-to-know news for feminists.
The Next Battlefront in the War Against Women: Fighting for Congress to Fully Fund WIC [[link removed]]
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Carl G. Purvenas-Smith (L) sells produce to Sunday Smith (C) and Vanessa Edwards at the Ward 8 Farmers Market Cooperative in York, Pa., where farmers accept cash, credit, WIC coupons and food stamps. (Tracy A. Woodward / The Washington Post via Getty Images)
BY ABBY J. LEIBMAN | This week, leaders in Congress agreed on a topline figure to fund the government for the next fiscal year. Yes, this is a positive step that we all hope will avoid another government shutdown that would be disastrous for all Americans, and particularly deadly for the millions of women living in poverty and facing hunger. But it is certainly no cause for celebration.
The long-overdue agreement will continue most of last year’s levels for “non-defense discretionary funding,” while providing enormous boosts for the Pentagon.
With rising costs, last year’s funding levels are not enough for federal safety net programs to meet the needs of struggling Americans. Simply put, more people need more help and they will not get it. This is particularly true among single mothers—40 percent of whom needlessly struggle with food insecurity.
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A Young Woman Almost Died Due to Texas’ Abortion Bans. Now She’s Battling to Save Other Women. [[link removed]] Right-Wing Hubris Puts Ideology Over Medical Expertise—And Women Suffer [[link removed]]
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How Many of Your State’s Lawmakers Are Women? If You Live in the Southeast, It Could Be Just One in Five. [[link removed]] Murder-Suicides Are an Urgent Domestic Violence and Gun Control Issue [[link removed]]
What we're reading
Because it's hard to keep up with everything going on in the world right now. Here's what we're reading this week:
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"Children
must
forgo
fruit,
milk
as
fewer
stores
participate
in
US
government
food
program”
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The
Grio
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"How
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Report
Post-Dobbs
Deaths”
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Jessica
Valenti
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In an era of rampant public health misinformation and a distrust of institutions, Americans are running towards the wellness industry to save themselves. Multidisciplinary artist and author of Who is Wellness For, Fariha Róisín, joins the latest United Bodies to discuss exactly that question: WHO IS WELLNESS FOR?
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