Supreme Court decisions deliver “a severe blow to reproductive health care access, especially for low-income women and women of color”; SCOTUS upheld a Bush-era policy endangering women’s health; Pride without intersectional racial justice is no Pride at all.
Today at Ms. | July 9, 2020
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Reproductive Justice Under Assault at the Supreme Court
BY MAYA MANIAN | "The Supreme Court’s decisions this term are a severe blow to reproductive health care access, especially for low-income women and women of color. Yet, those legal decisions are not the end of the story."
Supreme Court Upholds Bush-Era Policy Endangering Women’s Health
BY CARRIE N. BAKER | In a Supreme Court opinion handed down the same day as June Medical, a conservative majority upheld a Bush-era law requiring overseas affiliates of U.S. organizations to adopt an organization-wide “Anti-Prostitution Pledge” in order to receive federal anti-HIV/AIDS funding. This policy reduces the effectiveness of ongoing HIV programs, promotes stigma and discrimination against sex workers and prevents sex workers from accessing effective HIV programs and services
Pride Without Intersectional Racial Justice Is No Pride at All
BY KWOLANNE FELIX | "A Pride without racial justice, a Pride without intersectional feminism, is no Pride at all. It is simply a mockery of the work of the trailblazers that came before us.
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