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A memorial site with candle lights is set during a demonstration to mark the second anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death for the Women, Life, Freedom movement in Cologne, Germany, on Sept. 15, 2024. (Ying Tang / NurPhoto via Getty Images)

By Jeff Kaufman | Monday, Sept. 16, marks two years since the murder of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini made international headlines and sparked an uprising in Iran. Her death triggered the longest citizen-led rebellion in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. 

Nasrin Sotoudeh and her husband Reza Khandan are no strangers to brutal and violent government suppression. The two Iranian activists and attorneys have faced harassment, violence and imprisonment from a government that will do virtually anything to crush women’s rights and freedom of expression. 

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Demonstrators protest the killing of Sonya Massey on July 28, 2024, in New York City. Massey was shot at home by Sean Grayson, a Sangamon County, Ill., deputy after she called the police to report a possible prowler. Grayson was arrested, sparking protests around the country demanding justice for Massey’s death. (John Lamparski / Getty Images)

By Sylvia C. Washington and Hakim A. Stovall | The tragic shooting of Sonya Massey underscored profound systemic issues within law enforcement—especially police conduct and excessive force when it comes to Black women.

Massey, a Black woman with a known mental health condition, was shot and killed by a deputy from the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office in Springfield, Ill. This incident has intensified scrutiny of racial bias, inadequate mental health crisis responses and the erosion of trust between marginalized communities and police. 

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By Honor Moore | In her new memoir, A Termination, writer and actor Honor Moore recounts her decision to have an abortion in 1969: “I didn’t think about I’m having an abortion, I just did it. Blasted through fear; I want this life, not that life. … I made the decision by myself. But also with the remote-control help of my mother: ‘Don’t come home pregnant.'”

Abortions are sought by a wide range of people for many different reasons. There is no single story. Telling stories of then and now shows how critical abortion has been and continues to be for women and girls. (Share your abortion story by emailing [email protected].)

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