Feminist News Digest | Weeks of November 8-November 19

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ON THE HILL
Feminist Victory: House Passes Build Back Better Act Today [[link removed]]
In a historic victory for feminist policies, the Build Back Better Act [[link removed]] passed the House of Representatives Friday morning by a vote of 220-213. The Act will invest billions in helping women, families, and the environment.


GLOBAL | AFGHANISTAN
Attacks on Shia Minorities Increase in Afghanistan [[link removed]]
The Taliban intelligence directorate asked school teachers in the Herat province [[link removed]] to fill out a form to specify their religious identity, as well as their home address, duty station, and contact information last week. This religious identification requirement caused panic among the Shia minorities living in the Herat province, some of whom strongly opposed the action.


REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | ON THE HILL
Maloney and Other Members of Congress Introduce Access to Birth Control Act [[link removed]]
On Wednesday, November 17, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Rep. Robin Kelly, and Rep Katie Porter in the House and Sen. Cory Booker and Sen. Patty Murray in the Senate introduced the Access to Birth Control Act [[link removed]] to ensure that customers attempting to access birth control at pharmacies cannot be turned away.


ABORTION | COURTS
New Poll Shows Strong Majority of Americans Support Upholding Roe v. Wade [[link removed]]
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll [[link removed]] found that Americans, by a large majority, think that the Supreme Court should uphold Roe v. Wade , and, by a similar margin, oppose SB8, the Texas abortion ban that was implemented in September.


ABORTION | COURTS
Texas’s Six-Week Ban Has Been In Effect for Over Two Months. Is There an End in Sight? [[link removed]]
With a lack of Supreme Court action to block the most restrictive abortion ban in history, Texas abortion advocates are looking to a district court for relief.
On Wednesday, a state district judge heard arguments from abortion providers and advocates to block enforcement of Texas Senate Bill 8 [[link removed]] , the most restrictive abortion ban in the country. For the first time, a judge was tasked to formally rule on the merits of the law and the constitutionality of the ban under both the Texas and U.S. Constitutions. Judge David Peeples of the 98th Judicial District Court in Travis County is expected to rule [[link removed]] on the decision soon.


ECONOMY | ON THE HILL
Congress Passes Infrastructure Bill, Biden to Sign Next Week [[link removed]]
On Monday, November 15th, President Biden will sign the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act [[link removed]] , the long-awaited bipartisan infrastructure bill, into law.


AFGHANISTAN | GLOBAL
Afghan Women’s Rights Activists Murdered [[link removed]]
Last week [[link removed]] , bodies of four Afghan women’s activists were discovered in Mazar-i-Sharif, northern Afghanistan. One of the victims was identified as Frozan Safi, a 30-year-old activist and private university economics lecturer. According to Safi’s family, she left her home on October 27 after she received an anonymous call asking her to collect her documents because they would take her abroad. Frozan was expecting a call as she was waiting to leave the country, her request for asylum in Germany was in progress. Her body, along with the bodies of three other women were found in a pit near the Khalid ibn al-Walid town in Mazar-i-Sharif. “


ABORTION | COURTS
Supreme Court Hears Challenges to Texas Abortion Ban [[link removed]]
On Monday, the Supreme Court heard two procedural challenges to SB8, Texas’s six-week abortion ban that was enacted on September 1. The Court heard both United States v. Texas and Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson , both challenging the law.



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