Abortion access whiplash in Texas; new book shares behind-the-scenes look at Roe v. Wade; “I Want a Wife” gets an update.
Today at Ms. | April 16, 2020
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Texas’s Opportunistic Abortion Ban Puts Women’s Lives at Risk
BY DR. SARA SIMONS | Texas AG Ken Paxton took advantage of the current global health crisis to halt nearly all abortions in the state, calling abortion, “an elective procedure that can be done later.” The ban was, "opportunistic, medically unnecessary and led to a whiplash-inducing round of judicial back-and-forth. The legality of abortion has been in constant limbo, changing at least five times in two weeks,” Simons reports.
Plus: Head over to the Ms. Instagram, where Ms. Scholar Carrie Baker took over our IG Stories with an update on abortion access in the era of COVID-19.
The Stories Behind Twelve Significant Reproductive Rights and Justice Legal Cases
BY CARRIE N. BAKER | For your social-distancing reading: Reproductive Rights and Justice Stories—out now—shares a behind-the-scenes look at 12 of the most important reproductive rights cases in U.S. history.
BY MAGGIE TRINKLE | In this homage and COVID-era update to Judy Brady’s classic satirical feminist manifesto, “I Want a Wife” (which appeared in the first issue of Ms. in 1971!), Trinkle writes, “I don’t want a wife anymore. I just want a goddamn functioning society. Why do I want a functioning society? Because if society just operated like us ladies do, I wouldn’t need a wife, nobody would, and we’d all be better off.”
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