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Today at Ms. | June 1, 2022
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What My Ancestors Might Think of This Moment in U.S. History [[link removed]]
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Abortion rights activists during a Bans Off Our Bodies rally and march to the Supreme Court on May 14, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
ALETHA Y. AKERS | I read the draft decision by the Supreme Court in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and wondered what my ancestors would think of us—the U.S.—at this moment.
I knew immediately what one might think. Her name is Lillie and her story motivates my work as an obstetrician-gynecologist and as an advocate for sexual and reproductive rights globally. She would say that history is repeating itself after learning little from its past.
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‘Wake Up, America’: Remembering Dr. George Tiller, Assassinated Abortion Practitioner [[link removed]]
BY DR. WARREN HERN | Dr. George Tiller is one of many American abortion doctors to be assassinated by “pro-life” anti-abortion fanatics. Others, such as Emily Lyons, have been maimed for life.
Dr. Tiller’s crime was not that he killed children—which he did not—but that he brought liberty and health to women. He saved their lives and futures. That’s why every doctor in America who does abortions lives under a death threat.
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Racial Justice Tops the Agenda of Young AAPI Women Candidates [[link removed]]
BY DIANA HWANG | As a 20-year-old college sophomore, Zainab Khan first started working at the Georgia State Capitol as a legislative aide for former state Representative Brenda Lopez-Romero in 2018—she had high hopes to find her way. She was eager to contribute to shaping the future of her Muslim community, but often found herself the only AAPI woman and person of color in the room. Meetings with lobbyists who would refuse to shake her hand, and racist comments and microaggressions wore her down. Eventually, she had enough and left.
Khan’s story reminds me of my own. When I got my first job out of college as a legislative aide at the Massachusetts State House, I remember telling my dad I got my dream job. Instead of being excited for me, he said, “You’ll never be one of them.” His response stung, but I understood it was rooted in his immigrant experience—the feeling of not being seen or heard, of being rendered silent to survive and fit into a country that never seemed to accept him.
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