[[link removed]] Ms. Memo: This Week in Women's Rights
December 18, 2024
From the ongoing fight for abortion rights and access, to elections, to the drive for the Equal Rights Amendment, there are a multitude of battles to keep up with. In this weekly roundup, find the absolute need-to-know news for feminists.
‘Guerilla Storytelling’ and Joyful Resistance: Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández and the DWC’s Plan to Combat Project 2025 [[link removed]]
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By Kathy Spillar | The Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) this week announced the election of Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) as DWC’s chair for the 119th Congress, which starts in January. Leger Fernández served as the DWC vice chair in the 118th Congress and will now lead the largest ever DWC, which includes a record-breaking 96 members in the new Congress.
Leger Fernández is a 17th-generation daughter of rural New Mexico. She served on the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession, and as a public interest lawyer, she helped secure nearly a billion dollars for Head Start and healthcare clinics in New Mexico and solved jurisdictional issues that contributed to the abuses of Native American women.
Ms. executive editor, Kathy Spillar, sat down with Rep. Leger Fernández, to discuss priorities for the DWC—both to fight back against what will be repeated attacks by the Trump administration on women’s rights and programs benefiting women and their children, as well as strategies for moving forward toward equality.
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Trump’s Second Term Blueprint: Using the Helms Amendment to Enforce Total Global Abortion Bans [[link removed]] Texas Is Coming for the Abortion Pill [[link removed]]
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American Maternity Care Is in Crisis. Abortion Bans Are Making It Worse. [[link removed]] Keeping Score: More Attacks on Trans Rights; Sexual Assault Should Disqualify Cabinet Nominees, Americans Say; Female Professors Win Lawsuit and Backpay for Pay Disparity [[link removed]]
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Because it's hard to keep up with everything going on in the world right now. Here's what we're reading this week:
* "Trumpists Don’t Seem to Mind Claims of Sexual Assault” — The Atlantic [[link removed]]
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[link removed] [[link removed]] Tune in for a new episode of Ms. magazine's podcast, On the Issues with Michele Goodwin on
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In this episode, we continue to assess and reckon with the 2024 election results. How did abortion rights prevail, while anti-abortion lawmakers were elected in the very same states? What will a Trump administration mean for women’s rights, federal courts, agencies and throughout government? Are there any safeguards left as a check or restraint on abuse of office? And, what silver linings can we find among the election results?
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