[[link removed]] Ms. Memo: This Week in Women's Rights
May 29, 2024
From the ongoing fight for abortion rights and access, to elections, to the drive for the Equal Rights Amendment, there are a multitude of battles to keep up with. In this weekly roundup, find the absolute need-to-know news for feminists.
To Win, They Have to Lie: Why Louisiana Is Reclassifying Safe Abortion Pills as Dangerous Controlled Substances [[link removed]]
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Demonstrators gather in front of the Supreme Court during oral arguments in the case of the 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. (Anna Rose Layden / Getty Images)
BY JILL FILIPOVIC | The Republican-dominated Louisiana state government is on the verge of reclassifying mifepristone and misoprostol, two abortion-inducing medications, as Schedule IV drugs—a categorization reserved for drugs they may cause addiction or abuse. Abortion pills are a lot of things—highly effective, often life-saving, and of course controversial — but they are not addictive, nor prone to being abused. No one is taking recreational abortion drugs. No one is addicted to abortion pills.
But Louisiana wants to further criminalize abortion and further terrorize women.
Abortion is already broadly outlawed in Louisiana, but women who have abortions are not criminally punished; penalties are reserved for those who help women have abortions. This was not guaranteed: Just two years ago, a “pro-life” Louisiana lawmaker introduced legislation that would have tried women who have abortions for murder. The same legislator has also tried to criminalize IVF and contraception in the state. The bills failed because criminalizing women for abortion is broadly unpopular, even among many people who say abortion is murder (no, it doesn’t make sense), and the leaders of the anti-abortion are at least smart enough to know that pushing this particular issue too far may make them lose even more support.
So they look for workarounds. And one of those workarounds is targeting abortion pills for criminalization—and lying about what those pills do in order to make that happen.
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Texas Medical Board’s Proposed Abortion Guidance *Still* Doesn’t Clarify When Doctors Can Legally Perform Abortions [[link removed]] When an Abortion Ban Is Not Enough: Louisiana Seeks to Add Abortion Pills to List of Controlled Dangerous Substances [[link removed]]
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Care Is About Democracy—And It Wins at the Ballot Box [[link removed]] Keeping Score: Abortion Bans Drive Away Young Workers; Far-Right Groups Mobilize to Suppress Voting Rights; Biden Has Confirmed 200+ Judges [[link removed]]
What we're reading
Because it's hard to keep up with everything going on in the world right now. Here's what we're reading this week:
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