Today at Ms. | December 1, 2021


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Supreme Court Heard Case That Could Deny People’s Ability To Live Life on Their Own Terms [[link removed]]
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BY RAEGAN MCDONALD-MOSLEY | The state of Mississippi is asking the Supreme Court to deny people the ability to decide for themselves what is best for them and their families. The significance of such a decision cannot be overstated.
As an ob-gyn who has included abortion care as part of my practice for almost 20 years, I have seen the harm to a person’s physical and emotional health as a result of denying them the ability to access abortion care.
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Dobbs v. Jackson Recap: Seven Times Justice Sotomayor Stood Up for Abortion Rights [[link removed]]
BY ROXY SZAL and OLIVER C. HAUG | Feminists and abortion advocates went into Wednesday’s oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization with a sense of dread and foreboding at the potential loss of Roe.
Despite a dismal outlook from experts, the pro-abortion Supreme Court justices put up a good fight. Justice Sonia Sotomayor in particular had several remarkable standout moments. Through quick quips and accessible language steeped in facts and research, she repeatedly reminded us why she’s known as “the people’s justice.”

Abortion Bans Violate the 13th Amendment Prohibition of Involuntary Servitude [[link removed]]
BY CARRIE N. BAKER | Abortion bans place pregnant people seeking abortion under state control and require them to perform involuntary labor. This is a violation of the Thirteenth Amendment.

Religion Must Not Substitute Science in the Abortion Debate [[link removed]]
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?
Miscarriage of Justice: The Danger of Laws Criminalizing Pregnancy Outcomes [[link removed]]
BY MADIBA K. DENNIE and JACKIE FIELDING | Reproductive rights are under attack, and that means our rights to participate fully and freely in civic life are too. The criminalization of abortion forces a dual deprivation upon people who can become pregnant: Not only do we lose bodily autonomy, we lose our place in the body politic.
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Tune in for a new episode of Ms. magazine's podcast, On the Issues with Michele Goodwin on Apple Podcasts [[link removed]] + Spotify [[link removed]] .
As the December oral arguments date for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case fast approaches, all eyes are on the Supreme Court. But we’re wondering — what’s happening at the on the ground, at clinics that provide abortions and reproductive health services where persistent, even daily violence against patients and providers goes overlooked and under-addressed?
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