[[link removed]] Ms. Memo: This Week in Women's Rights
May 4, 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.
‘This Is An Emergency’: Abortion Supporters Left Reeling in Wake of Likely Roe v. Wade Reversal [[link removed]]
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Activists in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Building on May 3, 2022. In a leaked initial draft majority opinion obtained by Politico, and authenticated by Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the cases Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey should be overturned, which would end federal protection of abortion rights across the country. (Miki Jourdan / Flickr)
BY ROXY SZAL | Late Monday night, shock waves could be felt across the U.S. after a leaked draft opinion signaled the Supreme Court’s majority decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case concerning a 15-week abortion ban out of Mississippi. The leaked opinion, if and when it takes effect at the end of the Supreme Court’s term (likely in June), represents the biggest blow to women’s constitutional rights in the last 50 years.
Most court watchers expected the Court would rule in this way after reviewing comments from the conservative justices during December’s oral arguments in the Dobbs case. Even still, after the news broke, the continued mood among feminists and abortion supporters has been one of collective shock and outrage. Hundreds of protesters flocked to the U.S. Supreme Court steps to stage peaceful demonstrations on Monday which carried into early Tuesday morning; crowds chanted “abortion is healthcare” and “we’re not going backwards.” Protests across the country are expected to continue in the coming days and weeks.
Reactions from feminists, lawmakers, reproductive rights advocates and legal scholars have been pouring in as America begins to grapple with the gravity of what abortion access will look like in a post-Roe world.
Many are shocked at the bold language used by Justice Samuel Alito, who penned the leaked majority draft opinion. Prior to the leak, the general consensus among reproductive and legal commentators was that the Court was poised to uphold the 15-week Mississippi ban. This would de facto overturn Roe, which guarantees the right to an abortion up to 26 weeks—but most abortion advocates anticipated a more tempered response where the justices would not admit they were overturning Roe outright. Alito’s opinion, on the contrary, spells out boldly its intention to abandon settled opinion (known as “stare decisis”): “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. … We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled.”
“While we anticipated this potential outcome, we share in the stun, insult and outrage cascading across the country,” said Debasri Ghosh, managing director of the National Network of Abortion Funds. “Whatever happens next, abortion funds will continue doing what they do best—helping people get the abortion care they need, when they need it.”
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No Picket Lines at the Virtual Abortion Clinic [[link removed]] Why Roe Was Never Enough—and What Comes Next [[link removed]]
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The Fate of Women’s Rights Is Tied to the Fate of Democracy. How Can We Secure Both? [[link removed]] The Patriarchs’ War on Women [[link removed]]
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New Report Reveals Six ‘Sinister’ Tactics of Extremist Anti-Abortion Centers [[link removed]] A Visit to the Mississippi Clinic at the Center of the Abortion Case Before the Supreme Court [[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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"Amazon’s
Abortion
Travel
Benefit
Doesn’t
Include
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Most
Vulnerable
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"The
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"Planned
Parenthood
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Abortions
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Georgia
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