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Today at Ms. | February 25, 2025
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‘Daddy’s Home’: Republican Paternalism Towards Women Exemplifies Punishment, Not Protection [[link removed]]
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By Bonnie Stabile | On the first day of his second term in office, Trump signed the “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism” executive order, which claims to defend and protect women by asserting that, as a matter of U.S. policy, the existence of transgender people will not be recognized. Trump followed up on Feb. 5 with his “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order. These EOs join a long history of laws in the U.S. based on professed protection for women, which actually do the opposite.
While posturing as women’s protectors, Republican lawmakers ignore or inadequately address very real, substantiated and systemic threats to women, including in the intimate space of their own homes, where as many as one in four women experience domestic violence and more than three women are killed by husbands or boyfriends every day.
Women’s intelligence is insulted—and their autonomy further threatened—when the state asserts the intent to protect them from trumped-up threats that are overstated and insignificant in comparison to a spate of other much more common material, even mortal, threats to their lives and well-being.
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Iranian Human Rights Attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh Shares Petition to Free Husband Reza Khandan From Prison [[link removed]]
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By Jeff Kaufman | Iranian human rights attorney and recently released political prisoner Nasrin Sotoudeh wrote in the September 2022 issue of Ms. to express her appreciation for the magazine’s “unreserved support for me and my husband during the harsh days of my imprisonment.”
She described the way politicians around the world gain power and control by oppressing women, and she spoke about facing governmental “pressure that tightened like a noose around our family on a daily basis.”
That pressure was felt again last Dec. 13 when Nasrin’s equally courageous husband Reza Khandan was arrested for his efforts on behalf of women’s rights in Iran.
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Sending Those Who Choose Abortion to Jail or to Their Death: The Growing Visibility of ‘Abortion Abolitionists’ [[link removed]]
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By Shoshanna Ehrlich | Abortion abolitionists, once considered a fringe extremist movement, are gaining political influence—pushing for laws that equate abortion with murder and call for prosecuting, even executing, those who seek or provide the procedure.
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Welcome to The Magazine, our mini-pod, which gives a peek into Ms. magazine’s forthcoming and current issues. In this episode, listeners hear about the Spring 2025 issue—which delves into the feminist resistance to the second Trump administration—as it hits newsstands.
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