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A protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24, 2024, to mark two years since the Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling, which reversed federal protections for access to abortions. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

BY CARRIE N. BAKER | To give themselves political cover in the fall elections, conservatives have devised a way to sidestep democratic processes and political accountability while still achieving a nationwide abortion ban. They hope to do this by asking the conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court to interpret the 14th Amendment to ban abortion nationwide. In other words, they don’t need a new amendment because they assert the Constitution already bans abortion.  

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Trump’s pick for vice president, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) on the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 15, 2024 in Milwaukee. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)

BY GRACE PANETTA, THE 19TH | Former President Donald Trump has selected as his running mate Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, who has opposed abortion rights and LGBTQ+ rights in his time in political office. 

Vance, who ran as staunchly anti-abortion in his Senate campaign and in 2021 compared abortion to slavery, has somewhat shifted his public stance on the issue. Trump has reportedly viewed a hardline stance on abortion as a negative for a running mate. 

On the campaign trail in 2021, Vance defended the lack of exceptions for rape and incest in a Texas abortion ban known as S.B. 8, saying in an interview that “two wrongs don’t make a right.” In a July 2021 interview with Fox News, he criticized “the childless left,” saying, “Why have we let the Democrat Party become controlled by people who don’t have children?” In June, Vance voted against a Democratic-led bill to enshrine access to in vitro fertilization (IVF). 

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Rep. Cori Bush at a news conference to announce a joint resolution to affirm the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment on Capitol Hill on Jan. 31, 2023. (Drew Angerer / Getty Images)

BY ISABELLE GRACE BALLARD | Women are still fighting for the ERA and constitutional gender equality. It’s astonishing that in 2024, women are not legally considered equal to their male counterparts.

For Gen Z, a generation that prides itself on embracing diversity, inclusion and equality, this discrimination cannot stand. We are in a unique position to support gender equality, demanding that it becomes a constitutional right.

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