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Erica Sheppard before death row. Left: with Sister Helen Prejean in the late 1990s. Right: at age 17 holding Haybert—prosecutors labeled her a ‘bad mom.’

BY NATALIE SCHREYER | When Erica Sheppard wakes up in solitary confinement every morning, she can’t escape her first thought: “Lord, give me the strength to make it through another day.” Her days inside a tiny Texas prison cell have turned into years—27 years—waiting to die for her unwilling role in a robbery gone wrong.

At a time when nearly half the states have repealed the death penalty, Erica’s story illuminates the lives of many of the women who remain on death row and exposes the depravity of sentencing people to death. 

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BY SUSAN SHAW | Brenda VanLengen is a TV sports analyst and play-by-play announcer for college women’s sports. “I’m so fortunate that [Title IX] happened when it did,” she told Ms. Without it, she explained, “I wouldn’t have the life that I do or the career that I do.”

This year, she’s embarked on a new venture to produce a docuseries about the women who grew the sport of women’s basketball before Title IX, If Not for Them.

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BY MICHELLE MOULTON | Without the protections of Roe v. Wade, state laws—rather than federal law—now regulate whether people across the nation can receive abortion care. This grim moment also means that state supreme courts will be much more crucial in deciding state laws on abortion access.

Re:power, an organization dedicated to a future of inclusive politics, challenges the public to look at the power of state courts and speak truth to it. “The only way out is through.”

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