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Subject Meet the courageous recipient’s of FMF’s Global Women’s Rights Awards
Date May 15, 2024 10:00 PM
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Today at Ms. | May 15, 2024
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Meet the Courageous Recipients of FMF’s Global Women’s Rights Awards [[link removed]]
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(Nina Zacuto)
BY ROXANNE SZAL | The 16th annual Global Women’s Rights Awards, hosted by the Feminist Majority Foundation (publisher of Ms.), convened Tuesday evening in Los Angeles. This year’s awards celebrated the activism to secure final ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment and the bravery of both U.S. and Afghan women in the face of misogynistic laws and leadership.
The evening recognized three honorees in particular who have contributed greatly to advancing the rights of women and girls: Former U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Dr. Austin Dennard, and the Bread and Roses documentary team, including director Sahra Mani.
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Texas Supreme Court Considers Taking Up Question of Whether Frozen Embryos Are People [[link removed]]
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In 2021, over 86,00 infants born—or 2.3 percent of all infants born in the U.S.—were conceived through the use of assisted reproductive technologies like IVF. (Abraham Gonzalez Fernandez / Getty Images)
BY ELEANOR KLIBANOFF | The Texas Supreme Court is considering whether to take up a case that could have Alabama-esque impacts on in vitro fertilization in Texas.
What began as a Denton divorce has grown into a larger battle over whether a frozen embryo can be defined as a person. The court has not yet said whether it will take up the case, which centers on three frozen embryos created by Caroline and Gaby Antoun.
Earlier this year, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos qualify as people under the state’s wrongful death statute, leading fertility clinics to halt their work until the legislature stepped in and granted temporary protections. While the details are different, legal experts and fertility doctors say the results of this Texas case could be similar.
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Survivor Trauma Cannot Be Treated as Just Another Bar in a Rap Battle [[link removed]]
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Kendrick Lamar onstage on February 8, 2024, in Las Vegas; Drake on Dec. 9, 2022 in Atlanta. (Daniel Boczarski and Prince Williams / Getty Images and Wireimage)
BY CELESTE FAISON | In the rap battle between Kendrick Lamar and Drake, serious accusations of violence against women and girls were repeatedly reduced to punchlines in these diss tracks.
We don’t deserve to see our experiences, especially our most painful ones, turned into punchlines.
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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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