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BY BONNIE STABILE | Activists and organizers for reproductive rights showed up at the Supreme Court in full force on Tuesday, March 26, to advocate for mifepristone and reproductive autonomy, vowing that access would remain unimpeded as the Court deliberated over substantial restrictions on medication abortion.

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Pro- and anti-abortion protesters face off in front of the Planned Parenthood in Washington, D.C., ahead of the annual anti-abortion March for Life rally on Jan. 18, 2024. (Aaron Schwartz / NurPhoto via Getty Images)

BY TINA SHERMAN | Less than three weeks after Alabama’s State Supreme Court unleashed massive chaos and hardship by ruling that frozen embryos created through in vitro fertilization (IVF) must be considered children, the state legislature passed a bill providing immunity to clinics that provide IVF and people who access that care. Alabama’s stridently anti-abortion governor hastily signed the legislation into law. Are we supposed to be grateful?

Protecting and supporting families is not the focus of the Republican Party. They prove that every day by opposing food and nutrition assistance, childcare subsidies, paid family leave, Medicaid expansion and other programs that help families be healthy and thrive.

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Nasrin Sotoudeh (right) and her husband Reza Khandan hold a button from the “I OPPOSE THE MANDATORY HIJAB” campaign.

BY KATHY SPILLAR | Nasrin Sotoudeh is an Iranian human rights lawyer and activist who has consistently fought for the rights of women, children, religious minorities and others under persecution in Iran. Over the years, Sotoudeh has spent much of her time in prison, having been arrested for protesting Iran’s mandatory hijab law and resisting authoritarian rule. While in custody in 2022, Sotoudeh wrote to Ms. editors detailing the plight of women in Iran and called for global solidarity around women’s rights.  Ms. executive editor Kathy Spillar spoke with Nasrin and her husband Reza Khandan last month.

“The world has gone through darker days. … We’ve made our way forward through those horrific and dark events and times, and so, why not again? As long as I’m alive, I’m just naturally an optimist.”

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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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