More Than A Magazine, A Movement
Since the start of the 2023 Kansas state legislative session, lawmakers have already introduced four bills that would restrict abortion access statewide. This is in direct opposition to what Kansans voted for in August.
I’m here to ring the alarm bells and warn you that even if you think abortion is safe in your state, it might not be for long.
The U.S. ranks as the 19th most dangerous country for women, 11th in maternal mortality, 30th in closing the gender pay gap, 75th in women’s political representation, and painfully lacks paid family leave and equal access to health care. But Ms. has always understood: Feminist movements around the world hold answers to some of the U.S.’s most intractable problems. Ms. Global is taking note of feminists worldwide.
This week: news from Poland, Iran, Spain, Cameroon, and more.
In a post-Roe United States, we should look to the reproductive justice movement created and led by Black women for the future we want and how to build it. We are far from that vision today. Banning mifepristone would only put it that much farther out of reach.
The 19th, a fellow nonprofit newsroom focused on gender news, will mark January’s consequential milestone with high-level conversations on the legal, historical and cultural impact of Roe, and what the future holds without it. The program will feature thought leaders in the reproductive rights and justice space—including our very own Ellie Smeal, Ms. publisher and president of the Feminist Majority Foundation.
I’m 19 years old, and I just voted in my first midterm election to defend reproductive rights.
Voting remains one of the best ways to advocate for ourselves and make our voices heard. As it turns out, voters across the country believe just as strongly in abortion access and reproductive freedom as I do.
Climate change continues to cause fatal flooding and heatwaves that are devastating the U.S. while the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022—legislation that would put $369 billion towards climate action and clean energy—is still on a tenuous path to passage. This bill would reduce carbon emissions roughly 40 percent by 2030 and mitigate the most devastating impacts of the climate crisis, such as life-threatening illnesses and housing and job instability—all of which affect the health of pregnant people.
He’s been called “the father of the abortion movement” by the Los Angeles Times and a “promoter of filth” by Catholic and evangelical conservatives, but as reproductive justice pioneer Bill Baird readies himself for his 90th birthday on June 20th, he is not thinking about his reputation. Instead, he’s as impassioned about attacks on abortion and birth control as he has ever been and remains a fierce critic of those who want to restrict access.
Baird recently spoke to Ms. reporter Eleanor J. Bader about his career as well as the ongoing struggle for reproductive freedom.
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?”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | MAY 24, 2022 In a new project released today, Ms. magazine has joined with law and policy experts at the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) to publish Beyond Roe: […]
Men must leave the sidelines in this national reproductive rights emergency. The stakes are too high to simply declare abortion a “women’s issue.”
