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ROXANNE SZAL | In a world where the political gender gap is growing as women become more liberal, a clever grassroots campaign is reminding women of a fundamental truth: Their vote is private. This guerrilla movement uses a simple yet powerful tool—Post-It notes—to reach women whose partners may disagree with their political choices.

The premise is simple: small, brightly colored notes discreetly placed in public spaces, like bathroom stalls, libraries, cafes, dorm buildings, workplace lounges, doctors’ offices and community boards. Each note carries the message that every woman has the right to cast her vote freely and privately.

“Woman to woman, your vote is private,” read one Post-It in a bathroom stall at the Minnesota State Fair.

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LYNN M. PALTROW | No one—not even New Yorkers—can count on having a right to an abortion. This is why, New Yorkers must vote yes on Prop 1 to “protect abortion permanently.”

Proposal 1, however, does far more than establish constitutional protection for abortion. New York’s Prop 1 explicitly protects women who experience miscarriages and stillbirths, as well as those who carry their pregnancies to term and give birth. Prop 1 will also ensure equality for all those who want to travel—even if they happen to be pregnant. Proposal 1 will, for the first time, close the pregnancy loophole that has been used to deny pregnant patients equal rights to follow their religious beliefs.

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MS. EDITORS | Dr. Austin Dennard, an OB-GYN in Dallas, knows firsthand how draconian abortion bans create high-risk situations for pregnant patients and providers. For Dennard, it’s not only professional—it’s personal. In 2022, she herself had a nonviable pregnancy, in which the fetus she carried had anencephaly, a fatal condition in which the skull and brain do not fully develop. Today, abortions are completely prohibited in Texas. But at the time of Dennard’s fetal diagnosis, Texas’ SB 8 was the law of the land, which banned abortions at five to six weeks gestation. Because Texas’ ban didn’t allow for exceptions for the health of the mother or for fatal fetal diagnoses, Dennard—then, already a mother of two—was forced to go out-of-state to terminate her pregnancy.

Dennard told these stories as a part of an Aug. 29 Zoom panel discussion 'Abortion 2025: Where Do We Go From Here?’ 

“Anytime you have a group of women at the center of your storytelling, it’s almost insane that you wouldn’t be bringing up abortion,” said another panelist Rina Mimoun, executive producer for Max's The Girls on the Bus, which featured a prominent storyline on medication abortion told the panel audience. “It’s part of [women’s] lives, it’s part of our choices.”

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