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Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) speaks at a campaign rally at VFW Post 92 on August 15, 2024 in New Kensington, Pennsylvania. Vance is campaigning in several battleground states as part of his campaign efforts. (Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

By Julie Kohler | Senator JD Vance (R-OH) has had a rocky debut as Donald Trump’s running mate, forced to defend comments he made disparaging Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democratic leaders as “childless cat ladies” and agreeing that the “whole purpose of the postmenopausal female” was to care for grandchildren. He has also spent much of the last few weeks backtracking from earlier policy proposals that would have made people without children pay more in taxes and have less of a say in democracy than those who are parents.

His fervent pro-natalist beliefs have been derided as extremist, retro, and just plain “weird.” But Vance is not an outlier. Rather, he is part of a growing movement of conservatives who are in a panic over changing family patterns. And it is not merely the prospect of women’s “childlessness” that alarms Vance and his ilk. It is the fact that many are delaying marriage — or forgoing it altogether

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Shaunda Lane, 35, at the Folsom State Prison’s women’s facility in Folsom, Calif., on Friday, Sept. 13, 2019. (Gabrielle Lurie / The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

By Aishatu R. Yusuf | The number of women experiencing or soon experiencing menopause behind bars has skyrocketed to more than 40 percent of incarcerated women today.

Many women experiencing menopause must manage uncomfortable symptoms, but for incarcerated women, the environmental hazards of prison life—excessive heat and denial of fans, unhealthy food, harsh lighting, loud noises, lack of access to fresh air and sunlight, and limited opportunities to exercise—severely exacerbate these symptoms, reduce an individual’s ability to manage them, and significantly compromise their basic quality of life.

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By Roxane Gay | Bold and personal, Roxane Gay unpacks gun culture and gun ownership in America from a Black feminist perspective in her latest work, “Sand Your Ground.”

“It is appalling that women and people with uteruses have lost such a fundamental right to bodily autonomy. And it is not lost on me that women in many states have more rights as gun owners than they do as women. The power to take a life is more constitutionally and culturally valuable than a woman’s right to live freely. I do not know how to reconcile this reality with my feminism.”

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