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Today at Ms. | November 9, 2021

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In today's special edition of the newsletter, we're so excited to share with you our collaboration with the Brennan Center for Justice — "Abortion is Essential to Democracy." In this essay series, we demonstrate that the fight for abortion rights, the fight for equality, and the fight for representative democracy are all in service of the same goal: justice for all.

We've included some of these essays below — you can visit msmagazine.com to read the rest.

The Government Has a Long History of Controlling Women—One That Never Ended

BY ELIZABETH HIRA | Abortion is not (just) a health issue. Whether we are willing to let women and people capable of becoming pregnant control their own bodies, for health or any other reason, is an equity issue—a question of who deserves bodily autonomy and freedom to reach their full potential.

Ultimately, abortion bans and restrictions are part of broader legal and societal structures that were unambiguously designed to not recognize women’s inherent equality.

(Click here to read more)

The “Invent-Your-Own-Facts Approach”: Many Abortion Laws Use Medically Incorrect Language

BY MARTHA KINSELLA, JULIA BOLAND and HARRY RUBE | Throughout history, appeals to pseudoscience have undermined true reproductive autonomy. And now, the Supreme Court and state courts have become increasingly willing to defer to or even adopt pseudoscience, undermining science-based policies—from abortion bans to COVID mitigation strategies.

Religion Must Not Substitute Science in the Abortion Debate

BY KELLY PERCIVAL | When Gov. Greg Abbott signed Texas law S.B.8, he provided an oft-heard reason for why the Lone Star state is effectively banning nearly all abortions: “Our creator endowed us with the right to life.”

Abbott’s religious invocation to justify Texas’s law, of course, begs the question: Whose vision of a creator, exactly?

(You can read the rest of the essays in the series online now at msmagazine.com)

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

In this episode, we are on the ground with the American Constitution Society (ACS) for a show with Colorado state Representative Leslie Herod and Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford. Along with host Michele Goodwin, Herod and Ford discuss being Black in public office: namely, how they deal with the challenges and demands while staying true to themselves.

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