U.S. Health and Human Services to Protect Texas Abortion Patients and Providers: "We Have Your Back," Says Secretary Xavier Becerra | Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice to Coincide with U.N. General Assembly: "Life Itself Hangs in the Balance" | Solidarity, Motherhood and Immigration: Poet Divya Victor Shares Her South Asian Experience
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U.S. Health and Human Services to Protect Texas Abortion Patients and Providers: “We Have Your Back,” Says Secretary Xavier Becerra

BY CARRIE N. BAKER | On Friday, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra announced new resources and actions to protect reproductive health care for Texans after the state banned abortion at six weeks and the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the ban to go into effect on September 1.

“Every American deserves access to health care no matter where they live—including access to safe and legal abortions,” said Becerra.
 
 

Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice to Coincide with U.N. General Assembly: “Life Itself Hangs in the Balance”

BY KARLA STRAND | The Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice—a free, virtual, gender-inclusive public forum being held September 25–30, 2021—will assemble over 100 leaders from over 40 countries to encourage governments to increase climate action by examining the root causes of environmental and social injustice, adopting a climate justice framework and providing a diverse array of possible solutions to the climate crisis.
 
 
 
 
Solidarity, Motherhood and Immigration: Poet Divya Victor Shares Her South Asian Experience

BY MATHANGI SUBRAMANIAN | Born into a Tamil, Catholic family, poet Divya Victor spent her childhood in India, her teen years in Singapore, and now lives and works in the United States. Her latest poetry collection, ‘Curb,’ is an unflinching exploration of the inequities that the South Asian community face in the United States.

“We arrive in some ways already dead, because as immigrants, we are known by the administration only through our utility, which is a kind of death. Curb imagines the lives that are still throbbing, pulsating, while hidden behind these papers.”
 
 
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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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