FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | APRIL 1, 2024
Spring 2024 issue on Newsstands April 2
The cover of the Spring 2024 issue of Ms. highlights the deadly toll that abortion bans are taking. The cover—which depicts a toe-tag for someone who died of pregnancy-related complications after being denied an abortion in an emergency room—is imagined, but the lives that inspired it are all too real.
In the Spring issue, on newsstands April 2nd, reporter Belle Taylor-McGhee digs into the Idaho lawsuit challenging the state’s two abortion bans—as well as a federal case brought by the Justice Department, which argues that the bans violate the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, or EMTALA. The Supreme Court’s decision, expected in June or July, will have life-or-death ramifications for women suffering from pregnancy complications.
The Supreme Court is also hearing a case that could be the next Dobbs. Ms. contributing editor and author of the forthcoming book History and Politics of Abortion Pills in the United States Carrie N. Baker outlines the potential devastating outcomes of a lawsuit led by a group of anti-abortion doctors and dentists against the FDA’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone.
In a separate article, Baker reports on a huge win for abortion rights: the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that a ban on Medicaid funding for the procedure discriminates against women in violation of the state’s Equal Rights Amendment. “It’s really beautiful,” Susan J. Frietsche of the Women’s Law Project and the lead litigator in the case, tells Ms.
Also in the Spring issue:
- In his article “Explaining Men” leading scholar and expert on violence, media and masculinities Jackson Katz offers American men a new narrative for the fate of our democracy.
- In “Drawing the line,” the Brennan Center for Justice’s Kareem Crayton, Senior Director for Voting Rights and Representation, and Michya Cooper, Program Associate for Voting Rights and Representation, explain how gerrymandering and voter suppression preserves partisan minority rule.
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About Ms. Magazine: Co-founded by Gloria Steinem in 1972 and published by the Feminist Majority Foundation since 2001, Ms. magazine has been a trusted, popular source for feminist news and information in print and online for over 50 years. Ms.’s time-honored traditions of an emphasis on in-depth investigative reporting and feminist political analysis have never been more relevant, bringing a new generation of writers and readers together to share news, analysis, research and strategies for fighting back and moving forward, and for shaping a better future.
