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  Baroud: ‘Justice is Indivisible’

  Let the screams for help and pleas for mercy of Israa Ghrayeb be our guide as we fight against injustice in all of its forms and manifestations.
• Goldman, Jane Zelikova: Abortion Bans Based on So-Called “Science” Are Fraudulent

  Our silence in the face of new anti-choice laws across the U.S. is deafening
• Emdon: Numsa strike against sexual harassment

  A ‘powerful moment in labour history’
• Moore: Southern states funnel public money to fake abortion clinics

  14 states send tax dollars to so-called "crisis pregnancy centers", which pose as legitimate medical facilities offering free pregnancy testing and ultrasounds when in fact their true function is to dissuade people from seeking abortion
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  Solnit: In Patriarchy No One Can Hear You Scream

  In so many cases rapists have help in the moment and forever after, and the help is often so powerful, broad, and deep—well, that’s why we call it rape culture
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  Gordon: The Personal Is Still Political

  And It’s Planetary, Too
• Lennard: The Structural #MeToo Victories We Need

  This week in New York, victory took the form of some of the most robust anti-harassment, gender equality legislation to be passed in the country
• Pember: #MeToo in Indian Country

  Sexual harassment in Indian Country is an inconvenient and deeply uncomfortable truth
• Conley: ‘Unconscionable’ Abortion Bans

  "What brings us together is our view that as prosecutors we should not and will not criminalize healthcare decisions such as these."
• Reyes: Alabama abortion fund buoyed by outpouring of support

  Interview about what the ban's passage means for her organization's work and about the influx of donations in the wake of the ban's passage
• Gersen: Fetal Personhood Next Stage of the Abortion Wars

  If fetuses are thought to have basic rights as persons do, then a future ruling might reach beyond overturning Roe. It might hold that it is unconstitutional for any state to allow abortions at all
• Yakupitiyage: The Escalating War on Reproductive Rights

  Abortion has long been a contentious issue across the world, and the debate is only heating up, prompting women to stand up and speak out for their reproductive rights
• King: Missouri’s Last Abortion Clinic Faces Imminent Closure

  Meet One of the OB-GYNs Fighting Back
• Kang-Brown: America’s Growing Gender Jail Gap

  In the middle of her senior year at Pomona High in eastern Los Angeles County, Amber Rose Howard was arrested and booked into county jail. Howard had been accepted into several colleges when she was admitted to jail on felony charges
• Burk: The Most Dangerous Time for Women’s Rights in Decades

  Merely banning abortion isn't enough for some on the rabid right — a few are even threatening women with the death penalty
• Heaviside: Making Sure People Have Access to Abortions

  Interview on reproductive rights assaults
• Robinson: 99 Years In Prison For Providing Abortions Under New Law

  Interview with Dr. Yashica Robinson, the medical director of the Alabama Women’s Center for Reproductive Alternatives, one of only three clinics left in the state that offer patients abortion services
• Boseley: Trump takes war on abortion worldwide as policy cuts off funds

  While US statehouses pass extremist anti-abortion legislation, the Trump Administration has taken its war on abortion worldwide, cutting off funding to any overseas organization or clinic that will not agree to a complete ban on even discussing it
• Conley: Warren Introduces Plan to Protect Abortion Rights

  "We must build a future that protects the right of all women to have children, the right of all women to not have children, and the right to bring children up in a safe and healthy environment."
• Marty: What Does a Post-Roe America Look Like?

  As Anti-Choice Laws Multiply, Many Already Are Living In It

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