[[link removed]] Ms. Memo: This Week in Women's Rights
January 11, 2023
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.
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Gov. Maura Healey was declared the victor in Massachusetts minutes after the polls closed (Erin Clark / Getty Images); Gov. Katie Hobbs defeated Trump-backed opponent Kari Lake in Arizona. (Christian Petersen / Getty Images)
BY CAMILLE HAHN | Meet the diverse group of progressive women being sworn in this month—from governors to legislators and more.
After three feminists won gubernatorial contests in the midterms, a record-breaking 12 women will lead U.S. states in 2023, according to the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at Rutgers University. This means, of course, women will serve as governor in about a quarter of states.
The 2022 midterms also saw a net gain of two additional women serving in Congress, with 16 feminist women newly elected to the House.
And in statehouses across the nation, women made slight gains, though they still make up a mere 32.2 percent of state representatives and senators in 2023, according to the CAWP.
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Denying Access to Abortion Is Femicide [[link removed]] FDA Allows Pharmacies to Sell Abortion Pills—But Requires Unnecessary and Burdensome Certification Process [[link removed]]
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We Need to Push Harder for Women’s Representation in Leadership [[link removed]] Biden’s Budget Is an Opportunity to Promote and Protect Abortion Access [[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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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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