Today at Ms. | December 15, 2021


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Apparently We Don’t Need Abortion Because of Adoption … “or Whatever” [[link removed]]

BY SHANTA TRIVEDI | In Dobbs v. Jackson , Amy Coney Barrett said the right to an abortion is unnecessary because of safe haven laws. This argument ignores the fact that pregnancy itself has a profound impacts on a woman’s life and comes with many risks, especially in a state like Mississippi that has an exceptionally high maternal mortality rate.
To suggest that adoption is a simple or equivalent alternative to abortion is shocking. To have that suggestion come from a mother of seven children, who has both been pregnant and been through the process of adoption, is dangerous.
For many children, even if eventually adopted, some time will be spent in foster care. And foster care is not always a safe haven.
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Rest in Power, bell hooks—Iconoclastic Writer and Activist Who Reminded Us “Feminism Is for Everybody” [[link removed]]
BY JENNIFER WILLIAMS | We were devastated to hear bell hooks—scholar, writer, activist and feminist legend—died on Wednesday, Dec. 15, at her home. She was 69.
In this beloved interview from the Spring 2011 issue of Ms. between hooks and Jennifer D. Williams, hooks frankly shares her bold takes on the past, present and future of feminism, and how to live it—not just think it.
“On one hand we’re being told that feminism failed, but if it failed why do people want to go back and take away some basic successes of the movement?”

Many People With Disabilities Are Paid Just Pennies. Build Back Better Could Help End That [[link removed]]
BY CHABELI CARRAZANA | A little-known provision in the Build Back Better Act being negotiated in Congress could help catalyze the full federal repeal of the subminimum wage for people with disabilities.

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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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