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Author: Amy DePoy

Amy DePoy is a student at Yale University and a former editorial intern at Ms. She loves feminism, reading and writing. She also loves all fruits, but especially strawberries.
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Daring to Remember: Ms. Co-Founder Letty Cottin Pogrebin Looks Back on Illegal Abortions Before Roe

Amy DePoy

“I would have killed myself. This isn’t hyperbole. If I couldn’t have had an abortion at 18, I would have killed myself—because I couldn’t see how I could possibly live my life.”

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Daring to Remember: When Ann Called Jane

Amy DePoy

In the years before Roe, the women of the Jane Collective took the fight for abortion access into their own hands—literally.

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Jacinda Ardern’s Maternity Leave is a Milestone

Amy DePoy

When Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, gave birth last week, she became only the second elected world leader to do so while in office—and the first to take maternity leave.

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Feminists Fought Back Against Family Separation in Los Angeles

Amy DePoy

Activists at demonstrations across the country have been demanding justice for immigrant families torn apart at the border due to Trump administration policies. In Los Angeles, women formed the front line.

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House Lawmakers Want to Codify Trump’s Attacks on Migrant Domestic Violence Survivors

Amy DePoy

In the wake of a border crisis created by the Trump administration, Republicans in the House introduced two bills that would codify its immigration policies—and leave domestic violence survivors seeking asylum without recourse.

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Federal Agents Seized an Infant from Her Mother at the Border—While She Was Breastfeeding

Amy DePoy

A woman from Honduras was breastfeeding her daughter in a detention center in Texas when federal agents took her child away from her—and handcuffed her when she fought back.

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Rep. Leanne Krueger-Braneky is Fighting for a #MeToo Moment

Amy DePoy

“By far our state capitol is the most misogynistic place I have ever worked,” Pennsylvania state Representative Leanne Krueger-Braneky (D-161) told Ms.

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Gearing up for Revolution in Saudi Arabia

Amy DePoy

Saudi Arabia’s ban on women driving will finally be lifted later this month—and one woman is already showing them the rules of the road.

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Feminists are Fighting the Trump Administration’s Deadly Immigration Policies

Amy DePoy

The Trump administration’s immigration policies for domestic violence survivors and families have devastating consequences—and feminists are fighting back.

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