Any road to the White House runs through moms. But new polling from Demand Justice shows that on the issues moms care most about—women’s rights, gun safety and healthcare—former president Donald Trump has a problem: his stacking of the U.S. Supreme Court with extremist justices.
Misogynist Manifesto: Project 2025 Says Yes to ‘Biblically Based Marriages’ and No to Reproductive Rights
Part one of a three-part series about the 900-plus-page right-wing “misogynistic manifesto”:
Project 2025 promotes traditional heterosexual marriage, stigmatizing single parenthood and same-sex spouses, and cutting programs to support single mothers and their children.
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In the Shadow of Partisanship: The Supreme Court’s Recent Term
The Supreme Court’s latest term—with blockbuster decisions on abortion, the Second Amendment, presidential immunity and more—highlights a looming crisis of legitimacy.
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The ‘New’ Masculinity Is Actually 50 Years Old
Since the presidential campaign shake-up in July, the national conversation about manhood has been abuzz with talk of a “new” masculinity, embodied by good, decent men like Tim Walz and Doug Emhoff. What’s actually new, though, is what’s coming into focus: the consequences of 50 years of men’s hard work to redefine manhood.
A growing number of men across all races and ethnicities have followed women in working to prevent domestic and sexual violence, protect reproductive rights and redefine and transform traditional ideas about manhood, fatherhood and brotherhood. Men are rejecting a fixed definition of masculinity and replacing it with an emotionally rich expression of masculinities.
Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation: The Quest for Gender Parity in the Paralympics; Women’s Critical Role in the Labor Movement
Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: More women are elected to higher office in countries with parliamentary systems than those with presidential systems; Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, and Washington, D.C., all have ballot measures proposing ranked-choice voting this November; a record 45 percent of the total Paralympic competitors are women; and more.
I Refused to Let Texas’ Abortion Ban Decide My Life. Other Women Aren’t So Lucky.
The following is Madysyn Anderson’s personal story, as told to Courier Dallas:
“SB 8 became Texas law on Sept. 1, and I found out about my pregnancy just a couple of weeks later. I didn’t want an unwanted pregnancy to prevent me from completing the biggest achievement in my life thus far. I decided that I wanted to share my experience with abortion and be an educational resource.
“Unless our country gets a reality check about who we elect to office and we educate ourselves on their positions, we women have no hope of deciding whether we want to start a family or not—or if we want to carry a rapist’s child. We stand no chance unless we fight for what we believe in.”
Feminists’ Need-to-Know Ballot Measures
In nearly a dozen states, voters this fall will have a chance to protect abortion rights and advance equality for women.
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The Courts Are the New Frontlines in the War on Abortion
As abortion access is increasingly being decided by state and federal courts, two reproductive rights attorneys make sense of past rulings and the ongoing fight for reproductive healthcare.
September 2024 Reads for the Rest of Us
Each month, we provide Ms. readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups.
Why This Nevada Mom Is Fighting to Protect Abortion Rights in Nevada’s Constitution
Laura Campbell chose to have an abortion after suffering devastating complications during her pregnancy.
Campbell’s traumatizing experience is one of the reasons that she knew that she would be 100 percent on board with helping the effort by the organization Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom to place an abortion rights ballot measure on the November ballot.