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A Springboard family. (Courtesy of Springboard to Opportunities / Photo by Sarah Stripp)

By Aisha Nyandoro and Kathy Spillar | Front & Center is a groundbreaking Ms. series that began as first-person accounts of Black mothers living in Jackson, Miss., receiving a guaranteed income. Moving into the fourth year and next phase of this series, the aim is to expand our focus beyond a single policy intervention to include a broader examination of systemic issues impacting Black women experiencing poverty. This means diving deeper into the interconnected challenges they face — including navigating the existing safety net; healthcare, childcare and elder care; and the importance of mental, physical and spiritual well-being. Tomorrow, we'll launch the latest first-person account from a mother struggling to feed her kids when they're home from school during the summer after Mississippi was one of 15 states to decline federal food aid for poor families.

“Things have changed, and hard-won progress is under threat on countless fronts. In response, we are shifting our focus to look at the bigger picture. As we look ahead to the upcoming year of our Front & Center series for Ms. magazine, we are reaffirming our commitment to shining a light on issues faced by Black women living in poverty.”

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Protesters march at an abortion-rights rally on June 25, 2022, in Austin, Texas, the day the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health overturned the landmark 50-year-old Roe v. Wade case and erased a federal right to an abortion. (Sergio Flores / Getty Images)

By Eleanor Klibanoff, The Texas Tribune | Two women have filed federal complaints against Texas hospitals they say refused to treat their ectopic pregnancies, leading both women to lose their fallopian tubes and endanger their future fertility.

Texas law allows doctors to terminate ectopic pregnancies, a condition in which the fertilized egg implants in the fallopian tubes, instead of the uterus. Ectopic pregnancies are always non-viable and can quickly become life-threatening if left untreated. Despite these protections, these women say they were turned away from two separate hospitals that refused to treat them. The complaint alleges that the doctors and hospitals are so fearful of the state’s abortion laws, which carry penalties of up to life in prison when violated, that they are hesitating to perform even protected abortions.

“Texas officials have put doctors in an impossible situation. It is clear that these exceptions are a farce, and that these laws are putting countless lives in jeopardy.”

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Imane Khelif of Algeria wins the gold medal after defeating Liu Yang of China on day 14 of the Olympic Games on Aug. 9, 2024, in Paris. (Aytac Unal / Anadolu via Getty Images)

By Alison Carlson | At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, a right-wing media firestorm spread disinformation that Imane Khelif of Algeria was transgender. As this article from the October 1988 issue of Ms. reminds us, sex testing in women’s sports is nothing new—and its origins are blatantly unscientific.

“Sports are not democratic. They’re elitist. The tallest play basketball. The shortest are jockeys. The ultimate would be to break the Olympics into biological classes and run them like the Westminster Dog Show.”

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