Can President Trump Delay the Elections?
With polls showing Trump trailing former Vice President Joe Biden, it is widely rumored that the president might seek ways to postpone the election in order to remain in office. Such a move would be blatantly illegal.
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Episode 3 — June Medical and the Future of U.S. Abortion Rights
In June Medical, the Supreme Court struck down a challenge to abortion rights in Louisiana, a state in which reproductive health care access is already fraught. Even though this case put challenges to rest, lawmakers in Louisiana have effectively undercut women’s access to reproductive healthcare, causing clinic closures and more. As our guests—Yamani Hernandez, Nancy Northup, Kathaleen Pittman and Mary Ziegler—make clear, Roe is not enough.
But it’s not just abortion rights or pregnancy at stake: Reproductive justice matters, and bringing that lens into these conversations is urgent. The rise in criminalization of pregnant women for failing to comport to the state’s standards for behavior during pregnancy is alarming: Women have been threatened with arrest for refusing C-sections, falling down steps and attempting suicide during pregnancy. What’s the future of Americans being able to exercise control their own reproductive futures, given the aggressive attacks at the state and federal levels? We close considering how organizations, doctors, lawyers and activists are fighting back.
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Tools of the Patriarchy: Should Chivalry Be Dead?
While accepting a polite gesture should come easily, it is natural that polite actions created off of a basis of gender inequality may make women squirm—it certainly does make us.
“The fact is, chivalry is a standard that is based on sexist ideals—created during a time when women were referred to as damsels in distress, and when men with power were so out of control they needed a clear set of rules to tell them not to rape any woman they saw.”
