Today at Ms. | September 15, 2021


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Gavin Newsom Survived the GOP-Led Recall—Thanks in Large Part to Women Voters [[link removed]]

BY OLIVER HAUG | Late Tuesday night, with two-thirds of California voters opting against the recall, the AP and other news outlets called the election. Gavin Newsom will remain as governor—though his term is nearly up, and he must run again in 2022.
Speaking to members of the press, Newsom thanked voters for rejecting the recall and saying “yes” to ending the pandemic, ensuring diversity and inclusion, and a “women’s fundamental constitutional right to decide for herself what she does with her body and her fate and future”—referencing the ongoing challenges to abortion rights in Texas and other states.


Policing and Surveillance: How Texas’s Abortion Law Could Add To Systemic Racism [[link removed]]
BY CANDICE NORWOOD | Vigilante action in the form of policing, surveillance and violence has long endangered people of color. That reality worries some experts who fear Texas’s latest anti-abortion law—which empowers private citizens to sue anyone they suspect of providing, or aiding and abetting an abortion—will disproportionately target people of color.
“If there are people willing to report Black children because they’re selling bottles of water, and have little lemonade stands, which is what we have seen, do we not think there’s already a movement established in this space?” said Michele Goodwin, a chancellor’s professor of law at the University of California, Irvine.


Keeping Score: Breonna Taylor Portrait Unveiled at Smithsonian; Texas’s Unprecedented Abortion Ban; Half the World’s Children at “Extremely High Risk” from Climate Change [[link removed]]

BY SOPHIE DORF-KAMIENNY | This week in feminist news: Texas implements unprecedented pre-viability abortion ban; Biden’s Education Department forgives $5.8 billion in student loan debt for disabled borrowers; Supreme Court order maintain’s Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy; North Carolina bans child marriage under age 16; and more.


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