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A protest for Mahsa Amini, in Tehran, Iran, on Sept. 19, 2022. (Stringer / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

BY PARISA SARANJ | Earlier this month, a few major news outlets erroneously reported that the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran had abolished the morality police—the infamous government body in Iran designed to harass and control women for such crimes as wearing an improper hijab or walking in public with a male friend. But it seems the news of its death has been greatly exaggerated.

The eyes of the world are on Iran. That’s why it’s crucial, Dr. Yalda Hamidi, assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at Minnesota State University, warned, not to “pay attention to what a single Iranian politician does” but “what people are doing and reporting, despite internet shutdowns and censorship.”

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Lisa Sales, Eleanor Smeal, Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) at a news conference Sept. 28, 2022, held by House Democrats to discuss support for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, following oral arguments in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals over an ERA-related lawsuit. (Alex Wong / Getty Images)

BY DON W. WILSON and LISA SALES | Looking back on 2022, we moved through multiple Equal Pay Days and April’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month… July’s Anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention… August’s Women’s Equality Day… October’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month… and, just last week, United Nations Human Rights Day. Maybe one day, we won’t need all these special monikers (and painful reminders of just how unequal women are) for these months of the year.

Correct the record, and publish the 28th Amendment once and for all.

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U.S. Army soldiers on Nov. 10, 2009, in Fort Hood, Texas. Up to 7,400 active-duty service women and military-employed civilian women who seek abortion services each year are stationed in states with abortion bans. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)

BY CARRIE N. BAKER | Forty percent of active-duty service women in the U.S. are stationed in states with abortion bans, as are 43 percent of civilian women working in the military. The time, cost and stress of traveling out of state will no doubt take a tremendous toll not only on women seeking abortion, but on the military itself and national security.

“Women who are active-duty service members do not get to choose what state they live in, which means they could lose abortion access at the whim of any state with an abortion ban.”

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Before Roe v. Wade, if you were in need of an abortion in Chicago, there was a number you could call, run by young women who called themselves Jane. They’d provide abortions to women who had nowhere else to turn. It was started by Heather Booth when she was 19 years old. In this episode, Booth joins Dr. Goodwin to discuss the history of the Jane Collective and the connections between our pre-Roe past and post-Roe future. Where do we go from here?

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