Advocates testify before Congress on the Women’s Health Protection Act | Supreme Court rules on LGBTQ+ rights vs. religious liberty | Women in India bear brunt of COVID-19
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Advocates Testify Before Congress on the Women’s Health Protection Act: Abortion Restrictions Are the “New Jane Crow”

BY CARRIE N. BAKER | On Wednesday, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) chaired a hearing on the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA). The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution heard powerful testimony from Dr. Jamila Perritt, president and CEO of Physicians for Reproductive Health, Professor Michele Goodwin of the University of California at Irvine School of Law, and an abortion storyteller named Tohan from Texas.

 
 
 
The Supreme Court Rules Unanimously in LGBTQ+ Rights vs. Religious Liberty Case

BY KATE SOSIN | In a unanimous ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that Philadelphia violated the First Amendment’s protections for free exercise of religion when it cut ties with a Catholic group that discriminated against LGBTQ+ couples. It did not, however, 

 
 
 
Ms. Global: Women in India Bear Brunt of COVID; Combatting Digital Sex Crimes in South Korea; U.K. Secures Paid Parental Leave

BY JULIET SCHULMAN-HALL and LILY SENDROFF | The U.S. ranks as the 19th most dangerous country for women, 11th in maternal mortality, 30th in closing the gender pay gap, 75th in women’s political representation, and painfully lacks paid family leave and equal access to health care. But Ms. has always understood: Feminist movements around the world hold answers to some of the U.S.’s most intractable problems. Ms. Global is taking note of feminists worldwide.

 
 
 
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