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Today at Ms. | June 14, 2022
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January 6 Hearings and the Big Lie’s Ongoing Damage to Democracy [[link removed]]
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Democratic leadership and others take part in a vigil on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to mark the one-year anniversary of the January 6 insurrection on Jan. 6, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Matt McClain / The Washington Post via Getty Images)
BY LAUREN MILLER and WENDY WEISER | The January 6 hearings are proving that legislation is necessary to protect our democratic system and stop future attacks. A direct through line exists between 2020 elec­tion denial, the elec­tion sabot­age scheme behind the insur­rection and ongo­ing efforts to thwart the demo­cratic process.
The Big Lie that incited the insur­rec­tion contin­ues to rever­ber­ate across the coun­try, driv­ing bids to undermine voting rights, inter­fere with elect­oral processes and attack impar­tial elec­tion admin­is­trat­ors.
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Leaked SCOTUS Opinion Relies on Misinformation and Tropes of the Anti-Abortion Movement [[link removed]]
BY RACHEL REBOUCHÉ and MINDY ROSEMAN | In the leaked opinion, Justice Alito’s use of the language “abortion-on-demand” is intentionally stigmatizing—it forwards the idea that pregnant people make capricious, immoral decisions to terminate their pregnancies. But abortion access is not the free-for-all that Alito intimates.
In fact, abortion law, in the U.S. or across the world, has not been a story of long criminalization with the blip of Roe over the last 50 years. Rather, the trend, on the whole, has been support for abortion rights and laws that reflect it.
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Reimagining the Future of the Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice Movement [[link removed]]
BY AMBER GAVIN and ISRAEL COOK | Amber Gavin works at independent woman-owned abortion clinic, A Woman’s Choice. Israel Cook is a state legislative fellow at the Center for Reproductive Rights. Both women share what makes them hopeful for the future of abortion care.
“Many people already live in a post-Roe reality. Yet this does not have to be our future. Advocates, providers, lawyers and everyday people across the country can build a future where we uplift and center the voices and ideas of Black people, people of color, disabled people, immigrants, young people and more.”
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