Today at Ms. | August 26, 2021

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Crimes Against Afghan Women and Girls: “All It Will Take a Talib to Silence Me Is One Bullet”
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BY CARRIE N. BAKER and JULIET SCHULMAN-HALL | Americans need to take responsibility for our role in enabling Taliban persecution and violence against women and girls and join governments and organizations around the world to protect their human rights.

“Everybody’s really, really scared. ... None of my female cousins are going outside the house because they’re terrified of the Taliban. There’s a lot of talk about the Taliban forcing women into sexual slavery. … I’m a strong woman, and I believe in women’s rights … But all it will take a Talib to silence me is one bullet. That’s it.”

Texas Set to Ban Most Abortions Next Week
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BY ELIZABETH NASH and LAUREN CROSS | On September 1, an unconscionably cruel abortion ban (S.B. 8) is set to go into effect in Texas.
This law is part of a three-pronged strategy by Texas lawmakers in relentless pursuit of banning abortion: ban abortion at six weeks of pregnancy and incentivize anti-abortion vigilantes; ban the most common method of abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy; and restrict medication abortion.

New Study Shows Online Abortion Services Are Safe and Effective: “Telehealth Medication Abortion is the Future”
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BY CARRIE N. BAKER | On Tuesday, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco released the first-ever study on the safety and effectiveness of new online clinics offering telemedicine abortion, allowed for the first time in the U.S. during the pandemic.

“This study is real world evidence that providing medication abortion with telehealth and with a mail order pharmacy leads to efficacy and safety that is similar to in-clinic care.”

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