[[link removed]] Ms. Memo: This Week in Women's Rights
October 26, 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.
Abortion Bans Are Already Affecting Young Women’s Personal and Professional Plans [[link removed]]
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Abortion rights protesters at the Tucson Federal Courthouse on July 4, 2022. (Sandy Huffaker / AFP via Getty Images)
BY ROXY SZAL | A significant portion of young women are already making plans about where they are willing to live and work based on whether abortion is protected or banned in states, according to new Ms . magazine and Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) polling by Lake Research Partners across the nine battleground states of Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
* Over half
(53
percent)
have
had
their
future
plans
impacted
in
some
way:
44
percent
have
either
considered
moving
or
are
making
plans
to
move
to
a
state
where
abortion
is
protected;
10
percent
already
have
declined
a
job
in
a
state
where
abortions
are
banned.
Young women voters of all political leanings—and the people close to them—are taking actions to control their reproductive lives, regardless of where they live, such as purchasing or obtaining long-acting birth control, the morning after pill and abortion pills. Taking these actions in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade crosses party lines for young women.
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Citizenship Requires Informed Voting [[link removed]] Voter ID Laws Put Women’s Votes at Risk [[link removed]]
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Doctors on Dobbs: Abortion Providers Bear Witness to the Devastating Effects of Roe’s Overturn [[link removed]] Citizen Petition to FDA Requests Lifting Restrictions on Mifepristone for Miscarriage Use [[link removed]]
What we're reading
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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"Neither
Party
Has
Figured
Out
a
Coherent
Midterm
Message
on
Abortion”
—
The
Daily
Beast
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"‘They
can’t
ignore
us
any
more’:
five
women
on
long
Covid
and
medical
misogyny”
—
The
Guardian
—
The
Guardian
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