May 1 marks the first day that Florida’s law banning abortion after just six weeks of pregnancy takes effect. Here's what you need to know:
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A “six-week ban” on abortion is emphatically not the same as a six-week window to obtain one, writes Jennifer Weiss-Wolf.

It's two weeks, at most.
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At six weeks, the tissue is a little over half an inch.

“In my experience, pregnant people and their partners have felt some relief when they see the tissue, because it doesn’t look like what they’ve seen in anti-choice imagery,' said MYA Network co-founder Dr. Michele Gomez.

The overturning of Weinstein’s conviction emphasizes the degree to which protection of sexual predators & permissibility of male violence against women are entrenched in our institutions

Loved writing this one for Ms. Magazine & Roxy Szal

#MeToo #VAW
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Egg freezing:
🥚 'The chance of a live birth from frozen eggs was 39 percent.'
🥚'The procedure serves as another way for companies to make money from stoking women’s anxieties.'

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Forty-six percent of respondents called the U.S. “a democracy in trouble.”
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'To counter violent right-wing ideas of masculinity, the left must provide men with less cartoonish and more expansive models of strength and moral selfhood.'
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Under bans with no health exception for the pregnant woman, doctors are forced to decide: “Is she sick enough? Is she bleeding enough? Is she septic enough for me to do this abortion and not risk going to jail and losing my license?”
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I haven’t been able to wrap my mind around the fact that my daughter could very well grow up in a world where she has less freedom than her mother and grandmothers had.

So I wrote about it for Ms. Magazine

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ICYMI: In the face of GOP attempts to treat abortion patients & providers as criminals, the Biden administration's new rule helps prevent your private medical information from being shared with law enforcement.

This will go a long way to help protect women AND doctors.

A violent man will also never break his own things in a fit of rage. Always someone else’s.

In 1918, Dr. Rosa Goodrich Boido—Phoenix’s sole woman physician—was arrested and jailed for performing an abortion under a then-54-year-old law. Those days may soon return to Arizona.
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book recs for kids—compiled by the one and only Karla J. Strand, DPhil, MLIS

Abortion Ranks Among Top Issues for Young Women Voters - Ms. Magazine msmagazine.com/2024/04/19/har…

I am tearing up reading this piece from Skye Perryman (she/her) following today’s SCOTUS hearing.

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My Ms. Magazine piece on the #EMTALA case has been updated with my quick take on yesterday's oral argument: msmagazine.com/2024/04/19/ida…

The Liberal Justices Had to Explain Why Pregnant Women Should Be Treated Like Human Beings
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