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Today at Ms. | February 1, 2024
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Fourteen States Deny Abortions to Over 65,000 Rape Victims Since Dobbs [[link removed]]
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Abortion rights activists march to the Texas Capitol after the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court, in Austin on June 24, 2022. (Suzanne Cordeiro / AFP via Getty Images)
BY CARRIE N. BAKER | Abortion bans are having a devastating effect on rape survivors who become pregnant. In the 18 months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, there were more than 500,000 reported and unreported rapes in the 14 states that have outlawed abortion throughout pregnancy, resulting in 65,000 rape-related pregnancies.
Of all the states, Texas had the highest number of rape-related pregnancies: 26,313—which was 45 percent of the total rape-related pregnancies in the 14 states evaluated.
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Eight Recommended Books by Women to Understand Black History [[link removed]]
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BY KEISHA N. BLAIN | A list of recommended readings—all written by women—that shed light on the richness and complexity of the Black experience in the United States.
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The War on Women Report: SCOTUS Allows Idaho to Deny Emergency Abortions; Taylor Swift Subjected to Online Sexual Abuse [[link removed]]
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BY JULES HANISEE and EMMALINE KENNY | U.S. patriarchal authoritarianism is on the rise, and democracy is on the decline. But day after day, we stay vigilant in our goals to dismantle patriarchy at every turn. The fight is far from over. We are watching, and we refuse to go back. This is the War on Women Report.
Since our last report: The Supreme Court will hear its second major abortion case; Pope Francis called for a ban on surrogacy; three new anti-trans bills were introduced in West Virginia; Gov. Ron DeSantis ended his presidential campaign after a second-place finish in Iowa; Texas has a higher number of pregnancies resulting from rape than any other state; and more.
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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.
We hope you'll listen, subscribe, rate and review today!
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