[[link removed]] Ms. Memo: This Week in Women's Rights
February 19, 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.
‘Silence Is an Enemy’: Rep. Frankel Leads the Fight for Global Reproductive Rights [[link removed]]
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By Shoshanna Ehrlich | Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.) is the lead sponsor of the recently introduced Global Health, Empowerment, and Rights (HER) Act. The Global HER Act would permanently repeal the global gag rule—also known as the Mexico City Policy—which prohibits international NGOs from receiving U.S. funding if they provide, promote or even share information about abortion (and even if they use their own resources to do so). Opponents use the word “gag” because the provision silences what organizations can say about abortion.
The House legislation was co-introduced with Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Ami Bera (D-Calif.), Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) and Norma Torres (D-Calif.); Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) introduced companion legislation in the Senate.
Since it was implemented by President Ronald Reagan in 1984, the global gag rule has been repeatedly repealed and reinstated by executive action, depending upon the president’s party affiliation. Most recently, after a four-year reprieve under the Biden administration, it was reinstated by President Donald Trump during his first week in office—a decision Frankel condemned as a “cruel and dangerous move backward.”
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Don’t Let Donald Trump and Elon Musk Talk Us Out of Democracy [[link removed]] Texas’ Abortion Ban Has OB-GYNs Working in an Environment of ‘Extreme Fear’ [[link removed]]
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Funding Cuts Leave Domestic Violence Survivors Trapped with Their Abusers [[link removed]] The SAVE Act Is Voter Suppression Disguised as Election Integrity [[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:
* "On a Mission From God: Inside the Movement to Redirect Billions of Taxpayer Dollars to Private Religious Schools” — ProPublica [[link removed]]
* "How to stop Trump’s power grab” — Vox [[link removed]]
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