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Today at Ms. | June 4, 2025
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‘Remember the Ladies’: Attacks on Gender Equity Remain a Core Feature of Surging Authoritarianism [[link removed]]
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By Suzanna Danuta Walters | In the whirling, swirling hellscape of illegality and cruelty that is the current American political scene, it’s hard to keep track of all the individuals and groups demonized, deported and derided by an administration seemingly motivated by a Machiavellian desire for power that might make Machiavelli himself blush with shame. In the midst of an apocalyptic news cycle, one targeted segment of the population seems to be fading from view: women.
But let us not, as Abigail Adams wrote so many years ago, forget the ladies. “Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.”
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Apply Now: Online Summer Training Camp Empowers High School and First-Year College Students to Lead Change [[link removed]]
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By Ashley Steimer-King | Do you know a high school student or first-year college student passionate about social justice, democracy and creating positive social change? If so, invite them to apply for the Summer Activist Training Camp—a free online program for students of any gender who want to deepen their knowledge and sharpen their advocacy skills.
In a landscape where young people’s human rights are under attack, we need to unite, educate and amplify the youth voices.
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Lawsuit Challenges Kansas Law That Voids Living Wills for Pregnant Women [[link removed]]
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By Carrie N. Baker | Reproductive freedom advocates filed a lawsuit, Vernon v. Kobach, on May 29 challenging the constitutionality of a Kansas law that automatically invalidates a person’s end-of-life treatment decisions in their living will if they are pregnant. The case argues that this law violates pregnant patient’s constitutional rights to bodily autonomy, privacy and equal treatment under Kansas law. The complaint asks the court to permanently prohibit the state from enforcing the pregnancy exclusion—restoring pregnant women’s’s right to have their end-of-life decisions honored, just like anyone else.
Kansas is one of 28 states that restrict advance directive during pregnancy—16 based on the potential of fetal survival and 12 regardless of fetal survival.
“Across the country, people are shocked and horrified to learn that their end-of-life directives might be invalidated because they are pregnant,” said Farah Diaz-Tello, senior counsel and legal director at If/When/How. “Everyone deserves to be able to make decisions about their body and their life; pregnancy is no excuse to deny someone’s fundamental rights.”
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[link removed] [[link removed]] Tune in for a new episode of Ms. magazine's podcast, On the Issues with Michele Goodwin on
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In this emergency episode, we’re ringing the alarm bells: We just learned that in the state of Georgia, a woman named Adriana Smith, who passed away in February, and has been declared brain-dead, is being forcibly kept on a ventilator due to the state’s strict abortion ban, against her family’s wishes. Dr. Michele Goodwin breaks down Adriana Smith’s case, and the cases of other women who, like Smith, have been disrespected and desecrated in death thanks to abortion bans and pregnancy exclusion laws.
We hope you'll listen, subscribe, rate and review today!
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