[[link removed]] Ms. Memo: This Week in Women's Rights
March 16, 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.
Hangover Remedy: Passage of a Permanent Repeal of the Global Gag Rule Is the Cure [[link removed]]
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BY REBECCA DENNIS | It’s been a year since the Biden administration announced the rescission of the global gag rule (GGR), but a nasty hangover of its harmful effects remains. The only way to ensure we, as a global community, don’t end up in this situation again is for Congress to take action to permanently bring an end to this policy.
PAI surveyed civil society organizations and implementing nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda and Zambia, and the evidence was clear: The stroke of a pen does not undo the harm of a policy designed to deny women access to comprehensive reproductive health services. Qualified and highly skilled foreign NGOs that lost funding and partnerships remain unable to reopen shuttered clinics, rehire staff or bring back key services lost due to noncompliance with the policy. High stockouts of family planning supplies at facilities are leaving women without access, as programs that offered buffer stock and distribution of commodities remain disrupted. Projects serving vulnerable communities including youth, people living with HIV/AIDS and rural populations that were abruptly closed may never be restored, leaving those groups without vital services.
The back and forth of the GGR has a chilling effect on family planning and reproductive health programs. When the GGR is in effect, NGOs that comply with the policy are required to not provide information, referrals or services for legal abortion or to advocate for the legalization of abortion in their country with their own non-U.S. funds. It inadvertently pits organizations working to provide comprehensive health care against one another. Service providers, advocates and donors who were divided along the lines of compliance versus noncompliance may be cautiously reapproaching each other to rebuild relationships and networks but many report they are hesitant to collaborate out of fear the policy will return.
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Texas Supreme Court Ends Federal Court Challenge to State’s Abortion Ban [[link removed]] Local Implementation of CEDAW Is at an Inflection Point [[link removed]]
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The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Reached a Historic Equal Pay Settlement—But the Fight to Close the Pay Gap Is Far From Over [[link removed]] Is It 2157 Yet? How Businesses and Policymakers Can Accelerate the Timeline for Equal Pay [[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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"Sarah
Bloom
Raskin
Withdraws
Her
Nomination
to
the
Federal
Reserve
Board"
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The
New
Yorker
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"Abortion
in
the
Surveillance
State"
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Jezebel
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Threats,
vitriol
aimed
at
women
in
positions
of
power"
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AP
News
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"M
issouri
lawmaker
seeks
to
stop
residents
from
obtaining
abortions
out
of
state"
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The
Washington
Post
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President Biden has announced Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the nominee to succeed Justice Stephen Breyer on the United States Supreme Court. Who is she? What’s her background? And why is she one of the most qualified and prepared nominees that this process has seen in nearly a century? New from our "Road to Confirmation" series: We unpack Judge Jackson’s qualifications and examine what’s next in the process.
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