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Today at Ms. | May 13, 2025
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Our Abortion Stories: ‘I Have the Privilege to Live in a State Where I Am Safe’ [[link removed]]
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By Livia Follet and Ava Slocum | “If she could have put off the baby for two more years, she could have saved up a nest egg and created her family the way she wanted. Instead, she was trapped with a baby too soon.”
Abortions are sought by a wide range of people for many different reasons. There is no single story. Telling stories of then and now shows how critical abortion has been and continues to be for women and girls. (Share your abortion story by emailing [email protected].)
“Seven more days. To find out what is happening inside my body. What is poisoning my body. Starving my body. Starving my life of joy and laughter.”
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Defunding and Refunding the Women’s Health Initiative: Why States Must Focus on Menopausal Women’s Health [[link removed]]
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By Jennifer Weiss-Wolf | The ongoing decimation of the federal funding landscape brings some good(ish) news for women: the role of state legislatures in stepping up to help improve and advance the health of menopausal women.
Thus far, 13 states—a record one in four—have introduced more than 20 bills focused on menopause care, proposing changes that could permanently reshape insurance coverage and educational and health care resources. Public officials in Michigan, Illinois and West Virginia announced support for menopause reforms. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer recently hosted a roundtable for leaders and a statewide listening tour. The latest slate of bills—introduced in red and blue states alike—would bolster workplace supports and dedicate resources to public education. The bills are being proposed at such a fast clip that menopause was named on a “Ones To Watch: Legislation Landscape for 2025” list.
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‘Women’s Place Is in the Conclave’: Pink Smoke Rises in Vatican City [[link removed]]
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By Emma Cieslik | Leo XIV, born in Southside Chicago, was elected as the first American pope last week by a conclave of 133 cardinal electors. After three rounds of inconclusive votes marked by black smoke, white smoke arose in St. Peter’s Square, signaling the election of the 267th pope in the history of the Catholic Church. Chaotic excitement erupted in the square, complete with a gay couple kissing as a camera panned across the crowd—a subtle protest to the church’s continued homophobic stance.
But before black and white smoke rose from the fated Vatican chimney, a group from the Women’s Ordination Conference released pink smoke before the start of another male-only conclave on Wednesday. It was a symbolic act of protest, accompanied by song and prayer. Women sent out what they called a “distress signal” for women’s equality in the church—a Church that continues to restrict women for positions of spiritual leadership and deny reproductive justice, despite 68 percent of U.S. Catholic adults opposing the reversal of Roe v. Wade .
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Despite persistent obstacles—from intergenerational pay inequity and earning just 63.7 cents for every dollar made by a white guy for the same work, to constant surveillance and doubt—Black women consistently excel in their chosen fields and rise to leadership positions. In this episode, we’re joined by powerful Black women in leadership to discuss the glass ceilings, glass cliffs, pink ghettos, and other obstacles they’ve faced—and the strategies they’ve used to triumph against the odds.
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