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Today at Ms. | August 13, 2025
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Terrified to Try: The Mental Anguish of Motherhood in South Carolina [[link removed]]
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By Tori Nardone | In a state where abortion bans endanger lives and strip away autonomy, one South Carolina mother shares how fear, grief and rage have made her question whether she can risk motherhood again:
“I had to leave the state, my support system and my young son just to access the healthcare I needed.”
(This essay is part of a collection presented by Ms. and the Groundswell Fund [[link removed]] highlighting the work of Groundswell partners advancing inclusive democracy.)
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‘Care Is Baked Into a Healthy, Functioning Economy’: Economists Lenore Palladino and Rakeen Mabud on How to Advance Economic Justice [[link removed]]
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By Carmen Rios | The experts and Ms. contributors assessed the state of the U.S. care crisis and women’s economic inequality in the latest episode of the Ms. podcast Looking Back, Moving Forward —and broke down why investing in women and care workers is good policy.
Rakeen Mabud: “We’re at a really pivotal moment and a really complicated moment. We have conservative, pronatalist voices, with more institutional power than they have ever had, at least in modern times. They are advancing an agenda of deep progressive patriarchy, whiteness—and wealth, frankly, is the third prong of that. And they are co-opting progressive policy ideas to do it.”
Lenore Palladino: “There are schools, and there are childcare centers, and there are hospitals being shut down right now. Investing in those would be a really important way to move this whole conversation forward. … Within economic policy, there’s such bifurcation. There’s tax policy over here. There’s care over here. It’s still a women’s issue.”
“Economics is still seen as a man’s game. Women actually make most financial decisions in households, but men are the ones who are seen as the experts, and our financial system is shaped around their life cycles.”
Listen to the latest episode of Looking Back, Moving Forward , “Women Can’t Afford to Wait for a Feminist Economic Future (with Premilla Nadasen, Rakeen Mabud and Lenore Palladino, Aisha Nyandoro, Gaylynn Burroughs, and Dolores Huerta)” on Spotify [[link removed]] , Apple Podcasts [[link removed]] or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Texas’ Abortion Law Forced This Woman to Choose: ‘Watch My Baby Die or Flee My Home for Medical Help’ [[link removed]]
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By Bonnie Fuller | Eighth-generation Texan Megan Bond recounted the stories of her dangerous pregnancies to Courier Texas writer Bonnie Fuller. Here’s what happened, in her own words:
“I was 15 weeks pregnant and had just had my anatomy scan. As my husband, Kevin, and I watched the technician, we could see for ourselves on the ultrasound screen that our baby boy, Teddy, had no amniotic fluid around him inside my womb. … The sound that came out of my mouth was not human. It was such a loud scream, like a banshee or something. … Our second desperately wanted baby was suffering from the same fatal fetal anomaly, bilateral renal agenesis, as our first baby. … This wasn’t supposed to happen.”
“I asked my doctor if, in our case with this diagnosis, I could end the pregnancy in Texas and she said, ‘No, in Texas your only option is to carry to term.'”
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Trump has been in office for 200 days. In those 200 days, important institutions core to democracy have been dismantled. But we’ve also seen a coordinated effort to resist him, with millions across the country taking to the streets again and again to protest on behalf of the rights of their neighbors, their families, and themselves. Attorneys and advocates are also stepping up, demanding courts to defend our rights. Two hundred days in, what have we learned—and what’s the playbook for the next four years?
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