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What Women Want in Uganda

PUBLISHED 7/10/2018 by Faridah Luyiga

Ms. is proud to host the What Women Want blog series—where we will share the reproductive and maternal healthcare demands from women and girls around the world. In our first installment, women from Uganda speak out on pregnancy and childcare.

Daring to Remember: My Mother’s Choice

PUBLISHED 7/10/2018 by Courtney

I think if my mother were here, she would want Roe to remain in place so that no other young woman came close to the potential peril she avoided with the aid of another compassionate woman.

Feminists Can and Must Demand a Supreme Court Justice Who Answers on Roe

PUBLISHED 7/9/2018 by Anna Lipton

Today, Donald Trump is expected to announce a Supreme Court nominee—and women’s rights are at stake. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Yale Law School professor Linda Greenhouse asserts that they deserve an honest answer on Roe.

We Are the Majority: U.S. Voters Across Party Lines and State Lines Support Roe v. Wade

PUBLISHED 7/9/2018 by Rosalind Jones

New studies show that 67 percent of American voters do not want to see the landmark Supreme Court case legalizing abortion nationwide to be overturned—and reveal that there is no single state where a majority of voters oppose abortion rights.

The Lady Parts Justice League Vagical Mystery Tour is Back on the Road

PUBLISHED 7/9/2018 by Hope Lenamon

“There is a power in gathering folks for a really fun evening. If you are laughing, you still have hope.”

Daring to Remember: The Stories of Women Who Died Because They Had No Choice

PUBLISHED 7/9/2018 by The Team

Ms. community members shared the stories of the women in their families who died in the years before Roe from unsafe or self-induced abortions.

Daring to Remember: How Kate Daloz’s Family Lost Her Grandmother

PUBLISHED 7/9/2018 by Amy DePoy

Last May, the author of “We Are As Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America” told the devastating story of her grandmother’s death from a self-induced abortion in The New Yorker. Decades after her death, the story remains as relevant as ever.

The National Women’s Law Center is Suing the Trump Administration and University of Notre Dame for Denying Students Birth Control Coverage

PUBLISHED 7/6/2018 by Rosalind Jones

“There’s really no basis for Notre Dame to be telling students that they have to either pay copays and deductibles for their birth control or that they have no coverage for some methods altogether. It’s preposterous—and so, we’re suing them.”

Women in the Senate are Demanding Accountability—and Solutions—for the Maternal Health Crisis in the U.S.

PUBLISHED 7/6/2018 by Anna Lipton

The Maternal Health Accountability Act passed Tuesday out of committee and is now awaiting a vote on the Senate floor.

Judge Issues Preliminary Injunction of Arkansas Abortion Pill Restrictions

PUBLISHED 7/6/2018 by Hope Lenamon

After two days of expert testimony, U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker issued a preliminary injunction of a law that effectively prevented abortion providers in Arkansas from administering medication abortions.

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