[[link removed]] Ms. Memo: This Week in Women's Rights
July 9, 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.
Historic Cuts to SNAP Deepen the War on Women [[link removed]]
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By Abby J. Leibman | For those of us who spend our lives advocating for social justice in our country, we’re used to disappointment.
For those, like me, who have made the rights and needs of women and girls an essential part of our advocacy, that disappointment is what we’ve come to expect from today’s policymakers. Time and time again, we’ve seen elected officials on both sides of the aisle trade away the basic rights and needs of everyday Americans—women and girls, in particular—for political or economic expediency.
So it wasn’t a surprise to see congressional Republicans again approach this year’s budget reconciliation process not only as a chance to target the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Medicaid and other critical basic needs programs, but specifically to attack women, and to erase their presence and undermine their power in our society. Their budget priorities speak loudly and clearly to the women and girls of our country: The goal here is to cement and deepen a status quo where men (specifically, cisgender white men) have access to opportunity and advancement, and women and girls revert to subservience.
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Five Ways the GOP Is Quietly Paving the Road to a National Abortion Ban [[link removed]] Idahoans Launch Ballot Initiative to Safeguard Reproductive Rights [[link removed]]
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Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Will Create a Disaster for Rural Mothers and Babies [[link removed]] Governors in 12 Republican-Led States Reject Federal Funding for Summer Lunches [[link removed]]
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Because it's hard to keep up with everything going on in the world right now. Here's what we're reading this week:
* "This mother relies on SNAP to help feed her kids. Now, she's bracing for cuts”. — NPR [[link removed]]
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