Brett Kavanaugh’s Yale Classmates Rally for Reproductive Rights at Class Reunion: ‘Keep Your Hands Off My Rights!’

PUBLISHED 6/8/2022 by

Brett Kavanaugh was nowhere to be seen last Saturday when his Yale classmates attending their 35th college reunion held a rally to express their anger and frustration with their former classmate—as Kavanaugh is likely to join with other conservatives on the Supreme Court to reverse Roe v. Wade and end constitutional protections for the right to abortion.

Supreme Court conservatives Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh all graduated from Yale Law School. “What the hell are we doing here? How are we producing people who are taking away our longstanding constitutional rights?”

Enforcing Criminal Abortion Bans Post-Roe: ‘A Massive Escalation of Surveillance’

PUBLISHED 6/7/2022 by

Anti-abortion governments and private entities are already using cutting-edge digital technologies to surveil women’s search history, location data, messages, online purchases and social media activities by using geofencing, keyword warrants, big data and more.

“Every aspect of pregnant people’s digital lives will be put under the microscope, examined for any hints that they sought (successfully or otherwise) to end their pregnancy.”

The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Just Won Equal Pay—Cue the Misogynist Backlash

PUBLISHED 6/7/2022 by

The U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team announced a deal that guarantees women and men who play for the national teams will receive the same compensation opportunities. While feminists and USWNT fans celebrated the decision, not unexpectedly, misogynists came roaring back with cries of “Unfair!” “Wokeness!” “Biology!”

It seems a number of men on the internet are outraged by the very suggestion that women athletes might be deserving of equal pay.

Sexual Abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention Points to Subordination of Women and Girls

PUBLISHED 6/6/2022 by

The recently released investigative report on the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) mishandling of clergy sex abuse allegations is damning. Research suggests a strong correlation between perpetrator beliefs about gender, social context and sexual abuse.

“Why should it be up to the men to decide what constitutes justice for the women and children, while the women are expected to abide by the decisions made for them?”

Funding Abortion Pills By Mail: ‘Abortions Don’t Wait’

PUBLISHED 6/3/2022 by

When the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade later this month, clinics in states with legal abortion will be inundated with patients, creating long waits for in-clinic abortion care.

To address this anticipated influx of patients, California-based Women’s Reproductive Rights Assistance Fund (WRRAP) has created a new “abortion pills by mail” program to fund telehealth abortion providers in 20 states.

Ranked-Choice Voting Brings Record Number of Women Elected in Australia: Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation

PUBLISHED 6/3/2022 by

Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation. 

This week: The historical impact of Title IX extends far beyond the reaches of sports; ranked-choice voting leads to a record number of women elected in Australia; the importance of women in addressing the climate crisis;