[[link removed]] Ms. Memo: This Week in Women's Rights
March 2, 2022
Right now, we face critical challenges to women's equality, both in the U.S. and around the world—but it can be hard to keep up. In this weekly roundup, find the absolute need-to-know news for feminists.
After Six Months of Living Under Abortion Ban, Texans and Abortion Providers Desperate for Relief [[link removed]]
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BY ROXY SZAL | I t’s been six long months since Texas’s six-week abortion ban, Senate Bill 8, took effect. The devastating impact the law has had around the state, and the reverberations felt around the country, cannot be overstated.
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The
average
round
trip
to
obtain
an
abortion
outside
of
Texas
has
jumped
from
807
to
1,160
miles
since
S.B.
8
took
effect,
according
to
Fund
Texas
Choice,
the
largest
practical
abortion
support
fund
in
Texas.
Their
call
volume
increased
fivefold,
and
the
vast
majority
(around
73
percent)
of
these
callers
are
people
of
color.
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Clinics
in
surrounding
states
like
Oklahoma
and
Louisiana
are
now
overloaded
with
Texas
patients.
(A
copycat
abortion
ban
is
working
through
the
Oklahoma
state
legislature
too,
so
this
option
may
not
be
available
for
Texas
abortion
seekers
in
the
future.)
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Daily,
clinic
administrators
on
the
ground
are
forced
to
turn
desperate
people
in
tears
away.
“The staff is exhausted. The phone calls are nonstop,” said Kathaleen Pittman, clinic administrator at Hope Medical Group for Women in Louisiana, who estimates more than 60 percent of patients at Hope Medical are from Texas. “The amount of control the state of Texas has over these women is horrific.”
Admittedly “every abortion ban creates a human rights tragedy,” said Amy Hagstrom Miller, president and CEO of Whole Woman’s Health, which operates four clinics in Texas. But with S.B. 8, Texas achieved something no other state has: the banning of abortion at just six weeks gestation—making it the most extreme abortion ban to take effect in the U.S. since abortion was legalized in 1973.
Marc Hearron, senior counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), calls the continuation of S.B. 8 “a grave warning for the rest of the country” and “a preview of what will happen on a much larger scale if Roe falls.”
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International Telemedicine Abortion Service Is ‘Safe, Effective and Acceptable,’ Says New Research [[link removed]] Online Abortion Pill Orders Surged After Texas Ban. Researchers Say This is Only the Beginning. [[link removed]]
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Feminists React: Biden Nominates Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court—the First Black Woman Nominee [[link removed]] Texas Governor Calls Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth ‘Child Abuse’ [[link removed]]
What we're reading:
We know it's hard to keep up with everything going on in the world right now. That's why going forward, we'll provide a weekly roundup of the stories we think are important that Ms. may not have covered. Here's what we're reading this week:
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#1701:
Happy
Birthday,
Harriet
Tubman
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WAMC
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How
Black
Feminists
Defined
Abortion
Rights
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The
New
Yorker
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