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Today at Ms. | July 31, 2024
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The Olympics Achieved Full Gender Parity. It’s Time for Media to Reflect It. [[link removed]]
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The women’s 4x100m freestyle relay swimming event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Paris La Defense Arena on July 27, 2024. (Manan Vatsyayana / AFP via Getty Images)
BY KATHY PLATE | The Summer Olympics in Paris have achieved full gender parity for the first time in history. The question is whether the media will rise to the moment and cover the Olympics and women’s sports with equality, fairness and respect.
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Antiabortion Extremist Sentenced to Prison for Harassing NYC Planned Parenthood Staff and Patients [[link removed]]
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Willams records Chavannes intimidating patients and staff workers at the carafem Health Center in Atlanta on July 14, 2022.
BY ROXANA BEHDAD | “This is going to be a wonderful day. We are going to terrorize this place. And I want the manager to hear me say that. … More people are coming … and we’re going to make sure we terrorize you guys so good.”
These words were shared on a Facebook livestream by antiabortion extremist Bevelyn Beatty Williams as she prepared to invade and harass a Planned Parenthood clinic in lower Manhattan in June of 2020. On Wednesday, July 24, Williams was sentenced to 41 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Rochon for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act—a 1994 federal law that “prohibits violent, threatening, damaging and obstructive conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with the right to seek, obtain or provide reproductive health services.”
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War on Women Report: As Iowa’s Six-Week Ban Takes Effect, a Trump-Vance Ticket Poses Further Threat to Abortion Rights; ‘Where Is the Humanity’ for Sonya Massey? [[link removed]]
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BY RACHEL LONKER and ABIGAIL RAMIREZ | U.S. patriarchal authoritarianism is on the rise, and democracy is on the decline. But day after day, we stay vigilant in our goals to dismantle patriarchy at every turn. The fight is far from over. We are watching, and we refuse to go back. This is the War on Women Report.
Since our last report: RFK’s historic mistreatment of women; the Trump-Vance ticket comes into focus; Biden passes the torch to Kamala Harris; rest in power, Sonya Massey; Iowa becomes the 17th state with an extreme abortion ban; and more.
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In this episode, we’re joined by two co-hosts of the Webby Award-winning #SistersInLaw podcast to discuss where our nation stands as we approach the 2024 elections—from the ongoing trials faced by former president Donald Trump, to Nikki Haley, to the Supreme Court’s recent opinions and so much more.
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