106 Restrictions on Abortions Have Become Law This Year. It’s a Record. | Coercing Rape Survivors to Be Pregnant for the State—The Texas Way | October 2021 Reads for the Rest of Us
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Today at Ms. | October 6, 2021
 

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106 Restrictions on Abortions Have Become Law This Year. It’s a Record.

BY SHEFALI LUTHRA | More abortion restrictions have been enacted this year than any other, with 19 statehouses passing 106 new limitations on the procedure, per an analysis first shared with The 19th. A dozen of the new restrictions include some form of a complete ban on abortion. 

This is the first time that the Guttmacher Institute, which has compiled this data annually since 1973, has counted more than 100 abortion restrictions passed in a single year. In 2011, the only other year since 1973 to come close, 89 restrictions on abortion were passed across the country.
 
 

Coercing Rape Survivors to Be Pregnant for the State—The Texas Way

BY AZIZA AHMED and MICHELE GOODWIN | Texas has one of the nation’s highest rape rates. Shockingly, its newest near-total abortion ban contains no exceptions for rape or incest. When asked about this, Gov. Greg Abbott said, “Texas will work tirelessly to make sure that we eliminate all rapists from the streets of Texas.”

Abbott’s disturbing pledge fits in line with a tried-and-true political strategy: claim to address a public health issue by pivoting to crime control. But as history has taught us, public health crises will not be solved in the prosecutor’s office or by claiming to be tough on crime.   
 
 
 
 
October 2021 Reads for the Rest of Us

BY KARLA STRAND | Need a hand crafting your October reading list? We’ve got you covered.
 
Enjoy this month’s list of 30 feminist books from writers who are women, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, AAPI, LGBIA+, queer, disabled and more. They all have a hint of enchanting, irresistible, impudent or irreverent imaginary within them. Some more than others. Can you find it? 
 
 
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Tune in for a new episode of Ms. magazine's podcast, On the Issues with Michele Goodwin on Apple Podcasts + Spotify.

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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