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Today at Ms. | May 7, 2024
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Drawing the Line: How Gerrymandering Determines Whose Votes Have Power [[link removed]]
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Senate candidate Kate Compton Barr with her children Max (left), 6, and Winnie, 8. (Jenny Warburg)
BY KAREEM CRAYTON and MICHYA COOPER | A healthy, functioning democracy operates on two core principles: that each person’s vote counts equally, and that the law applies to everyone the same, regardless of wealth, race, gender or political party. Gerrymandering, the practice of drawing district boundaries to advantage a specific party or community, poses a grave threat to both of these foundational principles.
The ongoing battle against gerrymandering will determine whose votes will have value, whose voices will be heard and what public policy ideas on issues like women’s and civil rights stand a chance of becoming law.
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A Moral Justification for Civil Disobedience to Abortion Bans [[link removed]]
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A protester holds an “I object” placard during the demonstration outside the Royal Courts of Justice. Crowds marched in central London in support of the right to choose and demanded a change in UK abortion laws in response to the recent arrest of a woman who took abortion pills later than the UK limit. (Vuk Valcic / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images)
BY CARRIE N. BAKER | Fighting for better laws and challenging bad laws in the courts are critical parts of the fight for the freedom and dignity of women and pregnant people, but so is the underground abortion pill movement, which enacts that freedom and dignity directly, and resists the “psychology of servitude” and “habitual acquiescence” to unjust laws.
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Women Over 40 Are Being Excluded from Hollywood [[link removed]]
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Sandra Hüller as Sandra, with Swann Arlaud as her lawyer, in Anatomy of a Fall. (Alamy)
BY ELIZABETH KAIDEN and NITZA WILON | Where are the stories by and about women of experience, GenX women and women over 40—your mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, exes, employees and employers? Women who disproportionately control household spending and shape the entertainment access of younger audiences. Women who continue to be systematically shut out of the conversation, silenced at our collective water cooler: film and TV.
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In this episode, taped in front of a live audience at Georgetown Law in Washington, D.C., a panel of health and legal experts unpack what’s happening around the world—from Gaza, to Afghanistan and beyond. How can governments and NGOs best act to preserve health, enforce legal norms, and protect humanity in times of conflict, and what can we learn from the doctors and human rights advocates who have been on the ground in these situations?
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