Today at Ms. | September 16, 2021


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Texas’s Abortion Ban Is Already Causing a Brain Drain in the State. Will Companies Speak Out? [[link removed]]

BY ROXY SZAL | For many, Texas has a lot to offer. It’s no wonder then that more than half a million people relocated to Texas from other states over the last few years. Then along came Senate Bill 8—one of the nation’s most extreme abortion bans that criminalizes abortions after just six weeks and deputizes private citizens to enforce the law. The brain drain has already begun, and is likely to continue, as a result.
“When you’re looking at the accumulation of anti-constitutional rights legislation being passed over and over again here, it’s got to have a chilling effect on people’s willingness to consider Texas as a place to come,” Texas state Rep. Donna Howard told Ms.

DOJ Files Emergency Motion to Stop Texas's Abortion Ban, with Support from Democratic Attorneys General [[link removed]]
BY CARRIE BAKER | On Tuesday, September 14, the Department of Justice filed a motion for a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction to enjoin enforcement of SB 8. On Wednesday, 24 state attorneys general filed an amicus curiae brief in support of the Justice Department’s position.
Ms. spoke with Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, who said of the ban, “[Texas’s Senate Bill 8] is un-American. This is undemocratic. This does not comport in any way, shape or form with the rule of law as we know it. It’s an incredibly dangerous and slippery slope for this country to go down.”

Before Roe v. Wade, the “Janes” Gave Desperate Women a Safer Choice (Fall 2018) [[link removed]]
BY CINDY WOLFE BOYNTON | There’s a reason most people don’t know about the underground network of non-medical women in New York City who are volunteering their homes to help women living in states where access to abortion is severely restricted beyond the first trimester.
It’s the same reason most people living in Chicago in the late 1960s didn’t know about Jane, a group of roughly 100 women who in the years before Roe v. Wade used code names and street-corner pickups to arrange as many as 11,000 abortions.
It was a secret.


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Tune in for a new episode of Ms. magazine's podcast, On the Issues with Michele Goodwin on Apple Podcasts [[link removed]] + Spotify [[link removed]] .
Dr. Goodwin is joined by Professor Dorothy Roberts to unpack Texas’ new abortion ban, the Supreme Court’s decision to let it stand, and what the legacies of legislative interference with reproductive decision-making and autonomy mean for women, people who can become pregnant, and for our American democracy.
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