Today at Ms. | September 24, 2021


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House Passes Women’s Health Protection Act: “Abortion with Dignity and Without Barriers” [[link removed]]

BY CARRIE BAKER | On Friday, three weeks after the state of Texas passed the most extreme abortion ban in U.S. history, the House of Representatives passed the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA)—federal legislation that would codify Roe v. Wade in law and establish the legal right to abortion in all 50 states under federal law.
First reintroduced on Tuesday, June 8, the WHPA guarantees a pregnant woman’s right to access an abortion and protects the right of abortion providers to deliver these services free from medically unnecessary restrictions that interfere with a patient’s individual choice or the provider-patient relationship.

From Greater Education Access to Higher Quality of Life, The Revolutionary Power of Birth Control [[link removed]]
BY RAEGAN MCDONALD-MOSLEY | It’s important to raise awareness of birth control’s many benefits—from greater education access, to general well-being, to the management of chronic health conditions. But we must also consider birth control is not available equitably to all.

The U.S. Still Hasn’t “Forgiven Haiti for Being Black”—And Modern Immigrants Are Paying the Price [[link removed]]
BY KATIE ADAMS | Each administration is faced with a choice on our relations with Haiti and how we treat our neighbors. Up to this point, the choice has universally been to enslave, invade or expel. This seemingly endless cycle is failing, and we are failing, as a country to live up to any hope of redemption. We must find a way to break the cycle and the opportunity is now.


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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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