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By Bonnie Fuller | Samantha Casiano, an east Texas mother of four, tells her story of life and loss:

“I found out that my baby daughter had no chance of being able to live outside my womb at my 20-week ultrasound. … I felt that what happened to us should be everybody’s business. The people in power in Texas forced me to give birth with their abortion ban. I wanted everyone to know who Halo was and how she suffered.

“We all try to visit Halo’s grave every Sunday, and we’ll have a party for her second birthday on March 29 with a cake. We call her birthday her ‘Freedom Day.’ The day she was born is the day she was finally free to go to heaven. She shouldn’t have been on this earth, but the state of Texas forced her to be here, and she fought a fight we all knew she would lose.”

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By Dina Bakst | The passage of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) on Dec. 23, 2022, marked a historic civil rights victory more than a decade in the making. 

The core principle behind this landmark legislation is simple, as I argued in The New York Times over a decade ago—an op-ed which ultimately led to the bill’s introduction: No woman in this country should have to choose between her job and a healthy pregnancy.

(This essay is a part of Ms. and A Better Balance’s Women & Democracy installment, all about the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act—a groundbreaking civil rights law ensuring pregnant and postpartum workers have the right to reasonable workplace accommodations. Bipartisan, pro-family and boldly feminist, the PWFA is both a lesson in democracy and a battleground for its defense against antidemocratic attacks.)

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By Teresa Cisneros Burton and Lizbeth Sanchez | Antiabortion group invasions and disruptions are surging dramatically since the pardon of 21 convicted extremists, and California is becoming ground zero for aggressive tactics by extremist groups. “Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust” (Survivors) is at the forefront of these actions, coordinating intimidation campaigns against pharmacies, clinics and local city councils.

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As we reckon with an administration hostile to equal rights, feminists will continue to fight. To help keep hope, we must remember and celebrate recent wins.

One of those wins is the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which took effect on June 27, 2023. This is a landmark piece of legislation that prohibits discrimination and ensures workplace accommodations related to pregnancy for workers. But is the PWFA safe, or will it be threatened by the Trump administration’s crusade against reproductive rights and justice?

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