[[link removed]] Ms. Memo: This Week in Women's Rights
December 3, 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.
Twenty Thousand Stillbirths a Year, and No Federal Plan to Prevent Them [[link removed]]
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(Scott Meyers)
By Dovile Vilda and Clare Daniel | The U.S. loses over 20,000 babies to stillbirth each year, with many preventable. Yet stillbirth remains largely invisible in policy and public discourse, and families are left to deal with these tragic and costly losses with little support.
A new documentary from ProPublica, Before a Breath—based on the outlet’s Pulitzer Prize finalist reporting—follows three mothers who turn their grief from stillbirth into advocacy for safer pregnancies and better outcomes for expecting parents.
The overall rate of stillbirth in the U.S. has been declining over several decades, but the rate of decline has slowed significantly in recent years; and some recent studies suggest rates may be higher than previously reported.
In keeping with other trends in maternal and infant health, we see a persistent racial disparity, in which Black women experience stillbirths at a rate roughly twice as high as white women.
A key factor in the prevalence of stillbirth is the failure of healthcare systems to listen to women.
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A Bill Criminalizing Abortion Failed in the South Carolina Senate, But S.C. Prosecutors Have Long Treated Pregnancy as a Crime [[link removed]] War on Women Report: Antiabortion Extremist Charged in S.C. Shooting; Army OB-GYN Accused of Abusing Women Patients [[link removed]]
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Caregiving Is Extremely Difficult in America. It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way. [[link removed]] We Can No Longer Tinker With the Machinery of Death: New ACLU Report Exposes Fatal Flaws in Capital Punishment [[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:
* "How a small Florida college became Trump’s blueprint to threaten higher ed in Mass.” — MassLive [[link removed]]
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Over the past several months, the Epstein files have been extensively covered by the media. But too often, the voices of actual survivors are missing. In this episode, we’re filling that gap and shifting the focus to where it belongs: to the survivors and what justice means to them. Dr. Michele Goodwin is joined by Jessica Michaels, a sexual assault awareness advocate and Epstein survivor.
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