[[link removed]] Ms. Memo: This Week in Women's Rights
January 15, 2025
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.
Grassroots Power: How Amarillo Became the First City to Reject a Abortion Travel Ban [[link removed]]
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By Shoshanna Ehrlich | On Nov. 5, 2024, voters in the Texas Panhandle city of Amarillo resoundingly defeated (59 to 41 percent) a proposition that would have declared their town a “sanctuary city for the unborn.” Amarillo now enjoys the distinction of being the first city in the U.S. where voters rejected a post-Roe abortion travel ban.
Given that antiabortion lawmakers control the state itself, the defeat of Proposition A may appear a Pyrrhic victory (one that is achieved at a great cost). However, it marks a powerful repudiation of Mark Lee Dickson, founder of the antiabortion group Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn, and his claims to Llano residents at a town hall that travel bans are desperately needed to stop “baby-murdering abortion cartels” from whisking women and their fetuses across state lines to legally “kill” them, according to The Washington Post.
The protracted battle over the ordinance dates back to July 2023, when Dickson held an “interest meeting” at a church in Amarillo. As Lindsay London, a cofounder of the Amarillo Reproductive Freedom Alliance (ARFA) told Ms., he expected a “slam dunk” victory following a string of successes across Texas, especially since Amarillo’s mayor and city council were fiercely antiabortion, and the Panhandle, deeply red.
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‘This Work Is Not at the Fringe’: What It Was Like to Lead the White House Gender Policy Council [[link removed]] Care Can’t Wait: Why Families Must Come Before Billionaires in the 2025 Tax Fight [[link removed]]
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N.C. Democrats Rally for Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs After Opponent Jefferson Griffin Denies Her Win [[link removed]] Reading the Warning Signs: How Trump’s Administration Could Crack Down on Abortion [[link removed]]
What we're reading:
Because it's hard to keep up with everything going on in the world right now. Here's what we're reading this week:
* "Female Senators Grill Hegseth Over Views on Women" — the New York Times [[link removed]]
* "Virginia Foxx to be only woman leading House committees in 119th Congress" — ABC [[link removed]]
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