[[link removed]] Ms. Memo: This Week in Women's Rights
August 17, 2022
From the ongoing fight for abortion rights and access, to elections, to the drive for the Equal Rights Amendment, there are a multitude of battles to keep up with. In this weekly roundup, find the absolute need-to-know news for feminists.
The Inflation Reduction Act Is a Much-Needed Win for Women [[link removed]]
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) signs the Inflation Reduction Act after the House voted 220-207 to pass it on Aug. 12, 2022. President Biden’s sprawling climate, tax and healthcare plan is a major win for Biden—and for women—that includes the biggest ever American investment in the battle against global warming. (Olivier Douliery / AFP via Getty Images)
BY MARTHA BURK | Democrats in Congress celebrated a huge win last week with final passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, officially signed into law on Tuesday by President Biden. Originally dubbed Build Back Better, the bill was festooned like a Christmas tree with provisions ranging from slowing climate change, to child tax credits, and a variety of other measures to beef up support for working families. But in the end, it had to be trimmed to squeak through the Senate, with all Democrats voting in favor and Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote. The bill also passed the House with zero help from Republicans. Major elements to slow global warming and help for Americans with health insurance and sky high drug prices survived.
Okay, so we didn’t get universal pre-kindergarten, lower childcare costs, paid family and sick leave and the enhanced child tax credit—all provisions that got dropped in the spirit of “compromise” with Republicans who insisted on tax protection for their mega-million corporate cronies. (Funny how those so-called compromises always seem to throw women—and children—overboard first.) But overall, women can celebrate the passage of legislation that will benefit them for years to come.
There’s quite a bit of good news. Women are the big winners when it comes to the healthcare provisions in the new law, which makes the most substantial changes to national healthcare policy since passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010. For starters, it will limit the amount Medicare recipients have to pay out of pocket for drugs to $2,000 annually—a major benefit for older women, because they’re the majority of older Americans, outnumbering men on Medicare 55.6 to 44.4 percent.
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‘Dark Prison Mirrors the Dark Future of Afghan Women’: A Firsthand Account of a Former Taliban Prisoner [[link removed]] War on Women Report: Texas Teen Raises $2.2 Million for Abortion Funds; 43 Abortion Clinics Closed; WNBA’s Brittney Griner Sentenced to Nine Years [[link removed]]
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The Dobbs Decision Reminds Us Feminism Must Be Global and Intersectional [[link removed]] Abortion Restrictions Harm LGBTQ People Now [[link removed]]
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Because it's hard to keep up with everything going on in the world right now. Here's what we're reading this week:
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After a Supreme Court term unlike any other in nearly a century, confidence in what was once a revered body has sunk to a historic low. On the latest episode, we’re recapping the recently ended Supreme Court term—exploring a slate of critical rulings that will have wide-ranging impacts from abortion access to climate change and beyond.
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