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Historically, women's pain has been diminished or outright dismissed by the medical industry, and this remains true even during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic as women come forward to allege that medical professionals are not taking their coronavirus symptoms seriously. On Capitol Hill, Black women are once again breaking barriers as a historic number have filed to run for Congress this year.
After two federal court rulings, parents detained in ICE custody are facing the impossible choice of keeping their children in detention centers where COVID cases continue to rise or releasing them to sponsors, putting them up for adoption, or sending them into the foster care system.
Meanwhile, a federal judge has blocked a Tennessee six-week abortion ban from being enacted, a move that conservative lawmakers hope to use to bring the case to the Supreme Court as a challenge to Roe v. Wade. In a step forward for reproductive choice in the South, a new Planned Parenthood clinic has opened in Birmingham, Alabama, the first to offer abortion care in the Southside neighborhood since 2017.
These stories are are linked below, and other important feminist news of the week can be found here.
HEALTH | RACE
Women Experiencing COVID Symptoms Are Disbelieved & Disregarded by Medical System
The story of one woman, Ailsa Court of Portland, Oregon, illuminates an issue that has existed far before the COVID-19 pandemic – disbelieving women’s pain.
ELECTION | ON THE HILL
Historic Number of Black Women Running for Congress in 2020
Women in politics are breaking barriers and setting records left and right in 2020, amid unprecedented circumstances that have shaped national conversations and altered the ways that elections are administered and campaigns are run. Most recently, a piece in Reuters shared that a record number of Black women are set to run for Congress in 2020 based on data gathered by the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP).
IMMIGRATION
Parents in ICE Detention Must Keep Their Children in Detention or Release Them to Sponsors
Hundreds of parents in ICE custody are being forced to decide whether to release their children to sponsors or waive their children’s right to be released.
Judge Temporarily Blocks Tennessee Abortion Ban
A federal judge temporarily blocked Tennessee’s abortion law on Friday. The law – or “heartbeat bill” – would ban abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can be as early as six weeks.
New Planned Parenthood Clinic in Alabama Offers Abortion Services
In Birmingham, Alabama a Planned Parenthood clinic in the Southside area has opened and plans to offer abortion services to the community. The clinic had a soft opening on July 14 and is now open for business.
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