Today at Ms. | August 16, 2021

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“A Perilous Moment for Afghan Women and Girls”: If the U.S. Doesn’t Learn From the Past, Afghan Women and Girls Will Pay the Price

BY ANONYMOUS | In May, U.S. forces and other international troops began to withdraw from Afghanistan. Immediately, feminists and Afghanistan experts who feared a return to Taliban rule warned of the severe and brutal impact that would likely be felt by women and minorities in the vacuum created by the removal of international troops in the country.

In recent weeks, the horror of Afghanistan has unfolded more rapidly than previous reports estimated. According to the U.N. refugee agency, 80 percent of the nearly 250,000 Afghans who have fled or been internally displaced since the end of May have been women and children.

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House’s Two Major Spending Bills Omit Long-Standing Abortion Restrictions—But Senate Battle Remains

BY MICHELLE ONELLO | Reproductive rights champions in the House finally removed regressive anti-choice policies that disproportionately harm women, girls, LGBTQ people and others who already face systemic barriers to equal health care, and which polls show are not supported by a majority of U.S. voters.

The two bills, passed largely along party lines, will face a difficult path in the evenly-split Senate and stand in stark contrast to the recent rash of state-level abortion restrictions and the increasing possibility that the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade.

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U.S. Politics Push the Global Poor to Unsafe Abortion

BY MARJORIE NEWMAN-WILLIAMS | The global gag rule bans U.S. funding to health organizations that provide or refer to abortion—regardless of what other essential health care services they provide. While the global gag rule has come and gone, one U.S. policy has remained in place: the Helms Amendment. Passed in 1973, this amendment bans the use of U.S. foreign aid funding for abortion care directly. Now, this anti-choice policy might be on the way out.

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The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games have been rife with controversy—from rulings targeting Black athletes like Sha’Carri Richardson, to COVID protests taking place just outside the stadium, to transphobia directed at the first openly trans athletes to ever compete on this highest international stage. Is the Olympics an uneven playing field?

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