Today at Ms. | September 9, 2021


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Why I Refuse to Feel Hopeless About the Texas Abortion Case [[link removed]]

BY LYNN M. PALTROW | I refuse to feel hopeless about the fact that Texas has, for now, successfully banned abortion in that state. I know that just as no law prohibiting alcohol or drug use has ever worked, no measure designed to stop all abortions has ever worked.
No prohibition and no amount of pain or fear will ever stop a movement for fundamental human rights.


When “Six Weeks” Is Actually Two: Understanding Periods Is Essential to Fighting Abortion Bans [[link removed]]

BY JENNIFER WEISS-WOLF | There continues to be a visible, troubling disconnect in our collective literacy of the menstrual cycle—especially vis-à-vis the way we frame early pregnancy and abortion. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott spoke to the press about S.B. 8, the new law that all but obliterates the right to abortion in the state, saying, “[O]bviously it provides at least six weeks for a person to be able to get an abortion.” He is 100 percent wrong.


Britney Spears’s Case Exposed a Systemic History of Reproductive Control [[link removed]]

BY KRYSTALE E. LITTLEJOHN | Two months after Britney Spears first revealed that she wanted to end the conservatorship that gave third parties control over her life and finances, her father, Jamie Spears, has filed to end her 13-year-long conservatorship. Being forced to get and keep IUD are among the allegations that Spears made against her team in a statement to a Los Angeles Superior Court judge on June 23.
Men have an extensive history of inappropriate involvement in birthing people’s reproduction—making Britney Spears’s father only the latest person at the center of allegations involving reproductive control.

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