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Today at Ms. | April 18, 2024
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Anti-Abortion Extremists Are Diverting Tax Dollars to Crisis Pregnancy Centers [[link removed]]
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Anti-abortion activists gather in D.C. ahead of the March for Life on Jan. 20, 2023. (Nathan Posner / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
BY JENIFER MCKENNA and CARRIE N. BAKER | Anti-abortion politicians are siphoning public dollars meant for low-income mothers and their children to fund anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) that coerce poor women and teens seeking an abortion to give birth, further condemning them to long-term economic hardship. Being denied a wanted abortion is a proven predictor of maternal and child poverty.
As the Biden administration advances a proposal to prohibit CPCs from future access to these federal funds, the anti-abortion movement is pushing back in force, claiming CPCs save taxpayer dollars and provide vital healthcare and safety net services to poor families. A first-time analysis of the CPC industry’s own reporting wholly contradicts these claims.
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Federal Budget Battles Put Women and Families at the Forefront [[link removed]]
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President Joe Biden hands a pen to Mary Kay Henry, president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU), after signing an executive order related to childcare and eldercare on April 18, 2023. (Drew Angerer / Getty Images)
BY MARIBEL RAMOS | Too often, investments in housing, affordable and quality healthcare, child and elder care, paid family and medical leave—all of which allow women and families to thrive—are the first to get cut when lawmakers talk of “cutting wasteful government spending” or “balancing the budget.”
President Joe Biden’s most recent budget proposal bucks that historical trend in a big way.
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Virginia Becomes the First State in the South to End Child Marriage [[link removed]]
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Virginia’s bill to end child marriage was introduced by chief patron Del. Karen Keys-Gamarra, a former school board member. (Alastair Pike / AFP via Getty Images)
BY LISA SALES | Virginia became the 12th U.S. state and first in the South to end child marriage last week, after Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) signed HB 994 into law. The law completely ends child marriage in the state by establishing a minimum marriage age of 18 without exceptions and removes a legal loophole that previously allowed emancipated minors to marry in Virginia. The law will go into effect on July 1, 2024.
Child marriage has been shown to result in increased risk of future poverty, particularly for teen moms, as well as greater vulnerability to sexual and domestic violence, human trafficking, coercive control, financial abuse, homelessness and mental illness.
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In this episode, we’re joined by the indomitable Lizz Winstead with a live studio in Washington, D.C. She bares all as we talk about the new documentary featuring her and Abortion Access Front (AAF), No One Asked You. From her childhood to her own abortion story, she tells it all, including what led her to found AAF.
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