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Today at Ms. | September 6, 2024 |
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Laura Campbell with her husband Spencer, son Keith, daughter Lily and dog Jack. (Courtesy of Laura Campbell) |
By Bonnie Fuller | Laura Campbell chose to have an abortion after suffering devastating complications during her pregnancy.
Campbell’s traumatizing experience is one of the reasons that she knew that she would be 100 percent on board with helping the effort by the organization Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom to place an abortion rights ballot measure on the November ballot.
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Clinic escorts wait to greet and help arrivals at Camelback Family Planning, an abortion clinic in Phoenix, Ariz., on April 18, 2024. (Frederic J. Brown / AFP via Getty Images) |
By Rosa Topp | As a gay woman, abortion wasn’t something I thought about too often; but the lawmakers in my home state were villainizing and legislating abortion the same way they villainized and disenfranchised the LGBTQ+ community, so I figured it was my turn to be an ally.
As of this month, 22 states have banned some or all abortions. If you’re like me and your home state has closed your local abortion clinic—well they’re probably anti-LGBTQ too, and this is your call to get involved: to volunteer, donate and fight abortion stigma wherever you can. But if you’re a queer person with a nursing license looking for somewhere to work where you can be yourself and make a profound impact, check to see if your local abortion clinic is hiring. (Click here to read more) |
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Abortion rights activists rally at the Texas Capitol on Sept. 11, 2021, in Austin, after state lawmakers passed SB 8, which prohibits abortions in Texas after a fetal heartbeat is detected on an ultrasound, usually between the fifth and sixth weeks of pregnancy. (Jordan Vonderhaar / Getty Images) |
By Cynthia Richie Terrell | Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: More women are elected to higher office in countries with parliamentary systems than those with presidential systems; Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, and Washington, D.C., all have ballot measures proposing ranked-choice voting this November; a record 45 percent of the total Paralympic competitors are women; and more.
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