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Demonstrators march towards the U.S. Capitol and the Supreme Court on March 26, 2024. (Jemal Countess / Getty Images for Women’s March)

BY AZIZA AHMED | The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. The case concerns the drug mifepristone, one of the two medications used to complete a self-induced abortion.

Tuesday’s oral arguments suggested the Court would not be using this case to strike a blow at the FDA’s drug regulating authority. But lost in the discussions about mifepristone are the lived experiences of people who use mifepristone to have abortions.

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Demonstrators gather in front of the Supreme Court as the Court hears oral arguments in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine on March 26, 2024. The case challenges the 20-plus-year legal authorization by the FDA of mifepristone, a commonly used abortion medication. (Madelyn Amos)

BY ROXANNE SZAL | The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in the first abortion-related case since the Court overturned Roe v. Wade—this time, over access to the abortion pill mifepristone.

Ahead of Tuesday, feminists and reproductive rights advocates warned that an adverse decision from the same Court that overturned the constitutional right to abortion would impact abortion access nationwide.

During oral arguments, the DOJ and Danco emphasized the safety of mifepristone, but also focused much of their arguments on standing—whether or not the anti-abortion doctors and dentists challenging the FDA's regulations have sufficient legal grounds to bring the lawsuit. If the Court agrees—deciding the plaintiffs do not have standing to sue—it could dismiss the case altogether.

But feminists know: "The Court does not always side with what is best for our communities."

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Aphra Behn (1640-1689)

BY RITA KRAMER | This Women’s History Month, we’re reviving the iconic “Lost Women” column—diving into the archives to make these histories more accessible to our new age of Ms. readers.

For any writer to have produced 19 plays and 13 novels, plus 11 volumes of letters, translations and miscellaneous prose and verse, is remarkable. For a 17th-century woman to have done so is phenomenal. That was the literary output of Aphra Behn (1640-1689), the first woman to earn her living as a writer in the English language. 

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The fight to enshrine gender equality in the U.S. Constitution is more urgent than ever. Nobody knows this better than Susan Frietsche—who recently secured an incredible victory for women in the state of Pennsylvania in terms of then power of the Equal Rights Amendment as it relates to reproductive freedom. In this episode, we delve into how Susan’s work sets an important precedent for protecting women’s rights—and how it relates to the fight to secure the federal ERA in the Constitution.

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