[[link removed]] Ms. Memo: This Week in Women's Rights
October 8, 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.
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By Belle Taylor-McGhee | Bre’Jaynae Joiner is a young single mother from Oakland, Calif. A college graduate, Joiner hopes to get a master’s degree in public health. Like millions of other Americans across the country, she worries about how she’s going to take care of her family’s basic needs: keeping a roof over their heads and putting food on the table.
Since President Donald Trump signed the Republican budget and tax bill into law on July 4, Joiner also worries about losing health coverage for her two daughters, ages 7 and 10.
“My children have always had Medi-Cal [California’s Medicaid program],” she says. “I really don’t know what I would do or how I could afford to keep us covered [without it].”
The Trump administration calls the law “the most pro-family legislation ever crafted,” but according to the Congressional Budget Office, an estimated $1 trillion in federal Medicaid spending will be cut from the program over a 10-year period, and 11.8 million Americans—a majority of them women and children—will lose their coverage by 2034.
The Republican budget also cuts $186 billion from SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) through 2034, in what is believed to be the largest cut in the program’s history. SNAP, the federal food stamp program, provides assistance to more than 42 million people nationwide from 22.7 million households—an essential lifeline for millions of children and adults who live with food insecurity.
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The War on Women Report: New Texas Law Targets Abortion Pills; More Planned Parenthoods Close Amid Federal Funding Cuts [[link removed]] What Does a Federal Government Shutdown Mean for Women’s Healthcare? A Stealthy Rollback of Coverage [[link removed]]
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This last Supreme Court term was harrowing—from momentous merits decisions about the First Amendment, parental rights, trans rights and more, to the stream of shocking “shadow docket” decisions and its enabling of many of the Trump administration’s executive actions. What does the 2025-2026 term have in store for our nation? What do we think will advance through the Court? What do we think will come up, when it comes to the shadow docket? And perhaps most importantly, how will the Court choose to mediate the Trump administration’s continued onslaught of executive actions?
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