[[link removed]] Ms. Memo: This Week in Women's Rights
April 6, 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.
How Texas’s S.B. 8 Restricts Sexual Abuse Survivor Advocacy [[link removed]]
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Demonstrators rally against anti-abortion and voter suppression laws at the Texas State Capitol on October 2, 2021 in Austin. (Montinique Monroe / Getty Images)
BY MICHELLE SIMPSON TUEGEL | The most restrictive abortion ban in the country, Texas’s S.B. 8, has already had a devastating effect on women’s rights in the state. While the legal fight continues to stop this retrograde legislation, the impacts on women seeking reproductive health care have been obvious and most alarming. However, the devastation has not been limited to this vulnerable community.
As a women’s rights attorney actively fighting against S.B. 8, a potential long-term effect of this law is its aim to silence and restrict advocates like myself until we can no longer do the vital work of helping sexual abuse survivors. Because I have made it clear that I will help women access healthcare resources regardless of the law, numerous women have reached out to me in desperate need of an abortion. Their stories, circumstances and reasons varied, but they all shared a fear that Texas law meant they could be held criminally liable for even seeking information on abortion services. I would tell every woman in Texas what I have told the women I’ve spoken with: No Texas law, including S.B. 8, has that power. Individuals cannot be criminally prosecuted for seeking an abortion in Texas.
Where S.B. 8’s power lies are in its lesser-known provisions that attempt to take the legs out from under the system that provides healthcare to women, undermine advocates’ work and cut off access to resources.
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Universal Pre-K, Childcare and Paid Leave Aren’t Just for Women and Families—They’re Key to Economic Recovery [[link removed]] Chile Becomes First Country in the Americas To Protect Abortion Rights in Its Constitution [[link removed]]
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How Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Nomination Is Balancing the Scales of Justice [[link removed]] Taliban Reverses Pledge and Keeps Girls’ Schools Closed: ‘Why Are They Playing With Our Future?’ [[link removed]]
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Congress, Bring Down Childcare Costs for Families [[link removed]] South Korean Election Could Be a Turning Point for Women’s Rights [[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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"The
Last
Word
with
Lawrence
O'Donnell:
"GOP
‘manufactured
objections’
to
Judge
Jackson’s
confirmation"
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"What
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Canada,
France,
Germany,
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Sweden
Owe
Afghan
Women?"
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"Ms.
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voices,
ideals"
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It's
All
Journalism
podcast
(feat.
Ms.
executive
editor
Kathy
Spillar)
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[link removed] [[link removed]] 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]] .
Last month, we tuned in to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's hearings in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. How did a process meant to be rigorous, but respectful and fair turn into days of badgering, bullying, and a litmus test on religion? And what happens next in the confirmation process? Join us to break it all down with leading legal experts.
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