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Today at Ms. | November 16, 2021

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Wide Majority of Americans Approve of Roe v. Wade and Disapprove of New Texas Abortion Law

BY ROXY SZAL | Sixty percent of Americans believe the Supreme Court should uphold its 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, which established the constitutional right to abortion. Just 27 percent believe it should be overturned.

In the run-up to oral arguments on Dec. 1 in the Supreme Court case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade, a Gallup poll shows Supreme Court approval at 40 percent—the lowest number recorded since the poll first started tracking this question in August of 2000.

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Women Climate Leaders Aren’t Satisfied With COP 26. You Shouldn’t Be Either

BY LEELA DE PAULA | Women are at the forefront of local, national and global environmental movements as both the greatest victims and greatest fighters of climate change—yet men continue to make most of the decisions to combat the destruction that they themselves designed.

Multi-generational female environmental activists react to the U.N. Climate Change Conference COP 26, their thoughts on what needs to be done to combat environmental destruction, and their idea of real, sustainable global change.

Texas’s Abortion Bans and Voter Suppression Laws Let Citizens Do “Dirty Work” of Opposing Constitution

BY IZABELA TRINGALI and JULIA KIRSCHENBAUM | Texas’s S.B. 8, the state’s near-total abortion ban, went into effect on the same day that S.B. 1, an omnibus voter suppression package, was passed by both chambers of the state legislature. The parallels between these laws extend well beyond their synchronized timelines.

(Click here to read more from our special series in collaboration with the Brennan Center: "Abortion is Essential to Democracy")

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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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