Today at Ms. | October 1, 2021


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A Visit to the Mississippi Clinic at the Center of the Abortion Case Before the Supreme Court [[link removed]]

BY ANOA CHANGA | From the Fall 2021 issue: In truth, abortion legislation in Mississippi is about personal values—not the moral posturing of elected officials who are determined to cut off access to legal and safe abortion, and who are more focused on protecting the “lives of unborn children” than on supporting children and their families currently living and breathing in the state.
“One thing I’ve learned is that our government of Mississippi don’t seem to care about children,” Brewer said. “Everything that they vote for and against shows that they have no desire to uplift women or children.”

Race, Disability and Coercive Control: One More Look at the Gabby Petito Case [[link removed]]
BY GILLIAN CHADWICK | Two features of Petito’s case have been strikingly absent from media coverage: her disability, and the myriad signs that Petito’s boyfriend was subjecting her to a form of domestic violence known as coercive control.
Yet Petito’s disability was central to how the system failed her prior to her death. Her case also shows what happens when law and society oversimplify domestic violence and overlook coercive control.

The Political Case for Childcare Moms Shouldn’t Have to Make [[link removed]]
BY RESHMA SAUJANI | For America’s moms, the last 18 months have been a crash course in the five stages of grief. And yet I was unprepared for a new, sixth stage of grief that hit me this week, as Congress threatens to abandon a once-in-a-generation opportunity to help millions of American families.

Rally for Reproductive Rights: Women’s March Returns Saturday, Oct. 2 [[link removed]]
BY THE TEAM | Tomorrow, the Women's March returns to Washington, D.C. and cities near you to protest the conservative attacks on reproductive rights that have dominated legislatures and the courts this year.
Here's how to find a march near you.

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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]] .
Over the past year, the demand for a global reckoning with anti-Blackness has reverberated around the world. How can the international community address slavery’s legacy? Dr. Goodwin is joined by Dr. Amara Enyia to break down the global impacts of antiblackness—from COVID-19 deaths to the effects of the climate crisis—and the importance of international organizing across the African diaspora.
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