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What We Can Learn From the First Woman-Run, Legal Abortion Clinic
Founded before Roe v. Wade, the Vermont Women’s Health Center helped make abortion safe and accepted, showing that women’s liberation is connected to freedom for all
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The Real Dividing Line on Abortion
“Abortion is becoming personal for people who see it as a proxy for men, largely white men, taking away power from women. It’s not about a procedure. It’s about women’s place in the world.”
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Disaster patriarchy and the global war on women
I have fought my entire life not to believe I am nothing. Not to believe I am stupid. To fight to believe I have a right to be here
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Oklahoma’s Total Abortion Ban Will Mean Surveillance, Criminalization, and Chaos
The state’s new ban is the most extreme in the country, going further than Texas’s notorious S.B. 8 by banning abortion after fertilization
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Overturning Roe Will Lead to a Human Rights Crisis for All Americans
Generations have fought for these fundamental rights, and now is not the time to regress. No one is immune to this abuse of power, so all of us need to fight it
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Abortion Activists Need to Win Back the Culture Before We Can Win Back the Court
Make abortion normal again
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Thousands in the streets for ‘Bans Off Our Bodies’ rallies in hundreds of cities
In cities large and small, people came out into the the streets
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Afghanistan Is Starving, but the Taliban Can Only Govern Women’s Clothing
There is an unprecedented economic and humanitarian crisis as the Taliban, divided and without a strategy, rely on edicts against women and repression
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‘It’s a Fight They’ll Get’: Defenders of Abortion Rights March Nationwide
One speaker at the Ban Off Our Bodies rally in the nation's capital said that Saturday was just "day one of a 'Summer of Rage' where we will be ungovernable. Ungovernable!"
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Why is the Supreme Court using religious belief to alter secular law?
Alito's draft opinion is full of specious legal and historical language — but it's just religious doctrine in drag
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We Failed to Protect Abortion Rights. We Need a Labor-Based Strategy
We should honestly assess our failures — and then build a movement that ties together labor, feminists, and health care organizing
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The Devastating Economic Impacts of an Abortion Ban
The legalization of abortion, had dramatic effects on the ages at which and the circumstances under which women became mothers
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GOP Ended Filibuster to Pack Supreme Court: Dems Must End It to Save Abortion Rights
"If Republicans can end the filibuster to install right-wing justices nominated by presidents who lost the popular vote in order to overturn Roe v. Wade, Democrats can and must end the filibuster to make abortion legal and safe."
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Right-Wing Court’s Attack on Abortion Rights Is Call for Mass Revolt
The justices making up the majority are clearly partisans representing a zealous minority. The people must respond with mass action, litigation, legislation, and voter registration
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Abortion rights mobilizations continue over the weekend
“I’m astonished that in 2022 we’re still fighting over the right to abortion as healthcare and that it’s been turned into such a taboo."
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Activists defy bans on abortion pills
This right was not handed to women and other pregnant people. It was won through mass demonstrations, teach-ins, takeovers and sit-ins
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The Growing Criminalization of Pregnancy
The end of Roe v. Wade will accelerate an existing effort to criminally punish people for their abortions, stillbirths, and miscarriages
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Will Demise of “Roe” Be a Death Knell for Contraception, Marriage Rights?
As the United States moves, terrifyingly, toward a Christian theocracy that has methodically and finally seized control of the Supreme Court, we must remain vigilant and take action
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With Roe on the Ropes, Students Stage Nationwide Walkouts
"People might look at us like we're young, but I genuinely feel like we can make the most change," said one Maine high school student. "Most of us are voting next year or this year."
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The End of Roe v. Wade Is the Culmination of Years of Right-Wing Efforts
For decades, the American right has eroded the federal right to an abortion, while Democrats have failed to safeguard it
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Abortion Rights are Workers’ Rights
The Supreme Court’s plan to strike down reproductive freedom is an attack on workers everywhere. The labor movement should treat it that way—by taking urgent action
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Nothing Is More Personal Than the Right to Control Your Own Body
Roe doesn’t just protect abortion rights. It’s the keystone that keeps politicians out of the most intimate aspects of our lives
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An entire gender was degraded, the fertilized egg was declared a human being, and all citizens are now conscripted to follow a vicious edict of the Catholic Church
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AOC Says Democrats Must ‘Leave It All on the Field’ to Defend Abortion Rights
Other progressive lawmakers echoed that message, with Rep. Cori Bush declaring: "Abolish the filibuster. Codify Roe. Expand the Supreme Court. Protect abortion rights by any means necessary."
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A Feminist Blueprint for Saving Democracy in the U.S.—and Beyond
Feminists know that building transnational solidarity is often crucial when trying to counter domestic oppression
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There’s No Such Thing As Legitimate Rape, Because There’s No Such Thing As Rape
For weeks on end, we heard about no pregnancy rape, bad weather rape, no rape in marriage, forced rape, gray rape—sex that falls between consent and denial—and date rape.
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Saudi’s Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS
The bogus trial against Loujain al-Hathloul should compel governments around the world to put more pressure on the Saudis and demand al-Hathloul’s immediate and unconditional release
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Millions of Women in Mexico Join “Day Without Us” Strike to Protest Gender-Based Violence
“In Mexico it’s like we’re in a state of war; we’re in a humanitarian crisis because of the quantity of women that have disappeared or been killed”
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On 8 March 2018 women across the world are going on strike. This is a call to action for women in the UK to join the strike. We will refuse to work. We will be on the streets. We will shut things down and disrupt business as usual
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In Baltimore and around the world the second anniversary of the Women's March on Washington prompted calls for unity in resisting the policies of the Trump Administration
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Feminist Frequency – XOXO Festival
Talk at XOXO, an arts and technology festival in Portland, Oregon celebrating independent artists using the Internet to make a living doing what they love
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The Santa Barbara Massacre & Viral Response to Misogynist Violence
"Violence doesn’t have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender"
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In International Women's Week, the Guardian asks 'who are the heroines of literature?'...
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Dr.Vandana Shiva, India’s preeminent environmentalist, eco feminist, author, and winner...
Blogs
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Down with (‘Occupy’) Materialism, Up with Diversity and Holism
Cross posted from Future Economy Blog. It’s barely secret that...
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Violent Crackdown in Morocco Fails to Halt Movement
After posting this optimistic report, we received disturbing news of...
Books
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Palestinian Women: Narrative Histories and Gendered Memory
About the Book Palestinian Women is the first book to...
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Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present
This critical historical analysis of U.S. social welfare policy argues...
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Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States in the Twentieth Century
As its title suggests, Sheila Rowbotham’s A Century of Women:...
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For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts’ Advice to Women
This dense, well-argued classic underscores the need to take expert...
