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U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) at an event about the leaked Supreme Court draft decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on May 3, 2022. (Alex Wong / Getty Images)

BY CARRIE N. BAKER | On Tuesday, just weeks before the midterm elections, Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham (S. C.) and Chris Smith (N.J.) introduced a nationwide ban on abortion at 15 weeks of pregnancy. The move was a reversal for Graham, who recently said abortion regulation should be left to the individual states. Democratic members of Congress and abortion advocates condemned the proposed legislation.

“For the hard right, this has never been about states’ rights,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on the Senate floor. “No, for MAGA Republicans, this has always been about making abortion illegal everywhere.”

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BY BARBARA CROSSETTE | Nations of the world have taken giant steps in recent decades to build international structures and strengthen institutions to deal with mass human rights abusers. At almost every stage, Navi Pillay, a South African lawyer, was there, advancing the rights of political detainees and the protection and status of women.

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BY SHEILA TOBIAS | In 1976, in the pages of Ms. magazine, Sheila Tobias explored the topic of “math anxiety:” the tendency of women to avoid mathematics as it became more difficult, which stemmed, in part, from gender roles in academia.

“A culture that makes math ability a masculine attribute, that punishes women for doing well in math, and that soothes the slower math learner by telling her she does not have a ‘mathematical mind.'”

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