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ERA activists marched from the White House to the Capitol on Dec. 13, 2023, the 100-year anniversary of the national ERA’s introduction in the House of Representatives. (Courtesy of Madelyn Amos)

BY CARRIE N. BAKER | Abortion providers can challenge the Pennsylvania ban on Medicaid coverage for abortion as sex discrimination under the state’s Equal Rights Amendment and Equal Protection provisions of the Pennsylvania Constitution, according to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Two justices of the court explicitly stated that the Pennsylvania Constitution “secures the fundamental right to reproductive autonomy, which includes a right to decide whether to have an abortion or to carry a pregnancy to term. … Whether or not to give birth is likely the most personal and consequential decision imaginable in the human experience. Any self-determination is dependent on the right to make that decision.”

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Hillsdale College is a private conservative Christian liberal arts college in in Hillsdale, Mich., that maintains an outsized reputation within conservative circles. It welcomed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to speak on April 6, 2023. (Chris duMond / Getty Images)

BY MICHELLE ONELLO | Two students have filed a federal class-action lawsuit accusing Hillsdale College, a small but influential religious institution in rural Michigan, of failing to establish and enforce proper policies for preventing and responding to sexual assaults, thereby creating a hostile educational environment and exposing students to a high risk of sexual assault.

While Hillsdale boasts of its adherence to conservative Christian values and the safety of its campus, the students claim the college conducts inadequate sexual assault investigations without transparency or accountability, issues arbitrary decisions, and silences and blames survivors. 

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In 2021, Black women start-up founders received just 0.34 percent of the total venture capital spent in the United States. (The Good Brigade / Getty Images)

BY VAUGHN RANDOLPH FAURIA and AMBER BOND | As experts in our field and industry suspected, the Supreme Court’s ruling to strike down affirmative action created a cascading wave of attacks on corporate DEI initiatives meant to level the playing field and eradicate the racial wealth gap.

We cannot close the racial wealth gap without programs specifically designed to support Black women.

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Over the past several years, we’ve made significant progress in destigmatizing mental health care. However, this de-stigmatization hasn’t reached all kinds of mental illness or all kinds of people who struggle with their mental health. Writer, researcher, and poet, Krista L.R. Cezair, and writer, activist and educator, Brittany Packnett Cunningham, join us to discuss the criminalization of mental illness on the latest UNITED BODIES. 

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