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Today at Ms. | October 20, 2021

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Pennsylvania Medicaid Abortion Coverage Ban Challenged Under State ERA: “Sex Discrimination, Pure and Simple”

BY CARRIE N. BAKER | Pennsylvania-based abortion providers and reproductive rights lawyers filed their brief in a lawsuit—Allegheny Reproductive Health Center v. Pennsylvania Department of Human Services—asking the state’s Supreme Court to strike down the Pennsylvania ban on Medicaid funding for abortion as a violation of the Equal Rights Amendment and equal protection provisions of the Pennsylvania Constitution.

The Department of Education is Failing Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault

BY KENYORA PARHAM | In March, President Biden issued an executive order asking the Department of Education to re-examine the harmful Title IX regulations put in place under Betsy DeVos. But, after months of empty platitudes about “urgency” and how the Department “takes these matters seriously,” they have failed to take any meaningful action and will delay any changes until May of 2022.

No survivor should have to wait to have their most basic rights met.

Are Women Human Beings?

BY FRANÇOISE GIRARD | On Dec. 1, the Supreme Court will hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Mississippi’s brief in Dobbs claims Roe v. Wade must be overturned because “scientific advances show that an unborn child has taken on the human form and features months before viability.”

But aren’t women human beings? The answer must be: Yes, and they must be able to control their lives, their reproduction and their bodies.

Tune in for a new episode of Ms. magazine's podcast, On the Issues with Michele Goodwin on Apple Podcasts + Spotify.

Dr. Goodwin is joined by former Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards to discuss the dark money underwriting anti-abortion laws like Texas’s near-total abortion ban S.B. 8 and her Abortion Ban Accountability project, which is calling out corporations who fund legislators who stand against abortion rights and LGBTQ rights.

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