#WomensRights
End Period Poverty: Make Menstrual Products Freely Available Across the UK
As a woman living in the UK, I have personally experienced the financial burden of having to purchase period products every month. It is disheartening to think that many women and girls face similar struggles, unable to afford these essential items. Therefore, I am starting this petition to advocate for menstrual equality
#Chile's draft constitution calls into question right to abortion
> The #FarRight and right-wing representatives in the Constituent Assembly have introduced the protection of life before birth into the text under preparation. It will be put to a referendum on December 17.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/09/24/chile-s-draft-constitution-calls-into-question-right-to-abortion_6138840_4.html #abortion #womensrights #abortionrights
‘Bantering with Bandits’: Annie Zaidi’s searing truths about Indian preoccupations and peculiarities
This book of essays by @anniezaidi creates a space where the personal and the political fuse to paint an often uncomfortable picture of our sociopolitical reality.
#BookReview #AnnieZaidi #essays #religion #secularism #islam #islamophobia #dowry #caste #WomensRights #ViolenceAgainstWomen #cinema #bollywood #nonfiction #journalism #books #bookstodon #india
https://apnews.com/article/spain-women-rubiales-world-cup-30cac2479fe03b47c6dd32821ca916a6
This...
Make the soccer with less cheating, more kindness, less corruption, and an overall better everything, the default "soccer."
@ned These people have never realized one fundamental fact: human rights aren’t like pie — someone else getting more doesn’t take away from yours. In fact, it increases rights for everyone.
#BLM #Pride #WomensRights
#Brazil's Supreme Court to vote on #decriminalising #abortion
Brilliant AP project on how life has changed in Afghanistan two years after U.S. troops left and the Taliban returned to power.
AP photographer Rodrigo Abd returned this summer and used a traditional Afghan “box camera,” a handmade camera and darkroom in one, to take portraits.
#Afghanistan #Taliban #womensrights #freedom
https://projects.apnews.com/features/2023/afghanistan-in-a-new-light/index.html
Beautifully filmed mini-documentary on Afghanistan two years after the Taliban takeover.
(AP) #Afghanistan #Taliban #WomensRights
https://projects.apnews.com/features/2023/afghanistan-in-a-new-light/mini-doc.html
Who Is Matthew Kacsmaryk? Trump Judge Challenging Right to Birth Control
12/15/22
> The plaintiff [..] argues that as he is raising his daughters as Christians, which teaches that unmarried children should "practice abstinence and refrain from sexual intercourse until marriage," the Title X program violates the constitutional right of parents to raise their children
https://www.newsweek.com/who-matthew-kacsmaryk-trump-judge-birth-control-1767296 #abortion #contraception #birthcontrol #womensrights #abortionrights #christofascism #DonaldTrump
Crisis pregnancy centers, explained
> Many of them are affiliated with national anti-choice organizations, and, across the country, they outnumber actual abortion clinics three to one. In several states, CPCs enjoy generous taxpayer funding. The Associated Press found that, between 2010 and 2022, 13 states gave CPCs roughly $495 million.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/crisis-pregnancy-centers-explained-dobbs #abortion #abortionrights #womensrights #US
All religions should be made illegal. All Churches, Mosques, and temples closed. I'm tired of these evil fvcks.
"A Nebraska woman who acquired abortion pills that her teenage daughter used to end her pregnancy last year was sentenced on Friday to two years in prison." #abortion #religion #Nebraska #CivilRights #WomensRights #atheism #authoritarianism #fascism #Handmaiden #AmericanTaliban 1/2 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/us/jessica-burgess-abortion-pill-nebraska.html
US mother sentenced to two years in prison for giving daughter abortion pills | #Nebraska
> Jessica Burgess, a Nebraska mother accused of helping her teenage daughter use pills to end her pregnancy, was sentenced on Friday to two years in prison.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/22/burgess-abortion-pill-nebraska-mother-daughter #abortion #abortionrights #womensrights #christofascists #farright
America 2023.
Jessica Burgess, a #Nebraska mother accused of helping her teenage daughter use pills to end her pregnancy, was sentenced on Friday to two years in prison.
Burgess and her daughter, Celeste Burgess, stand accused of working together to end Celeste Burgess’s pregnancy in April 2022. #abortion #WomensRights #WomensReproductiveRights
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/22/burgess-abortion-pill-nebraska-mother-daughter
#Ms #Magazine Has Been #Fighting for the #ERA Since Its #Inception.
Last year, a group of over 300 #activists—half of whom were under 25—gathered in #SenecaFalls, #NewYork, to celebrate 100 years since the initial signing of the #ERA.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #WomensRights #Politics #EqualRightsAmendment #Representation #Culture
https://msmagazine.com/2023/09/22/ms-magazine-equal-rights-amendment/
‘There are dozens of Russell Brands’: female comedians say abuse is rife
Many women working in industry say allegations only scratch the surface of its culture of misogyny
“When I was 18 I had an incident with a powerful male comedian in his 30s,” says Lucy (name changed), a female comic in her early 30s. “It was really harrowing and triggering.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/sep/22/russell-brand-dozens-female-comedians-abuse-rife
#ghana #ghanatiktok #ghanatiktok🇬🇭 #ghananews #Africa #Wages #Housing #Unemployment #Salary #Income #USA #SLAVERY #moderndayslavery #laceyshouseEquality #laceyshousepa #laceyshouseburkina #laceyshousetan #laceyshousegh #laceyshouseke #laceyshousenonprofit #laceyshousegha #FocusNewsAfrica #RespectWomen #GirlsAreChildren #LaceysHouseBurkinaFaso
#Women #OccupyJulorbiHouse #WomensRights #Africa #News ➡️ https://LaceysHouse.org
#Women seeking #abortion still experience stigma in #Switzerland
Saudi crown prince unbothered by '#sportswashing' label: 'Call it whatever you want'
#MBSmurderer #SaudiArabia #SaudiArabiaCrimes #Yemen #SaudiArabiaWarCrimes #JamalKhashoggi #SaudiArabiaDictatorship
#HumanRights #WomensRights
Anti-abortion laws in Idaho have hollowed out health care for women. In the town of Sandpoint, the only OB-GYN ward has shut down and doctors are fleeing to states where their work doesn’t put them at risk of criminal charges or lawsuits. Land if the free-to-force-pregnancy-upon-women-while-making-sure-they-get-no-health-care. #FeministFriday #HealthCare #AbortionRights #WomensRights #HumanRights #SandpointIdaho #idaho
#Iran toughens penalties for women who breach dress code
#HumanRights #WomensRights #atheism #atheist #Antitheism
https://www.dawn.com/news/1777050/iran-toughens-penalties-for-women-who-breach-dress-code
The latest webinar at #thefoundation addressed women's rights violations in #Afghanistan through the lens of #Internationallaw.
Keynote speaker Karima Bennoune and panelists Azadah Raz Mohammad and Negina Yari discussed #genderapartheid and the current international legal framework as well as opportunities for guaranteeing #accountability for #womensrights violations in Afghanistan ➡️ https://www.mpfpr.de/2023/09/22/womens-rights-and-gender-apartheid-in-afghanistan/
The webinar was part of a project, generously funded by @AuswaertigesAmt 🙏
Modi Government in Tearing Hurry to Propose but Not to Wed
If the Modi government truly wanted to implement reservation for women, would it not have passed the Bill at the inception of its takeover of state power, giving itself room to accomplish the historic deed? Badri Raina writes.
https://thewire.in/politics/womens-reservation-modi-government-hurry-propose-not-wed
#elections2024 #WomensReservationBill #BJP #UnionGovt #WomensRights #reservations #delimitation #census #CasteCensus #caste #india
#California sues anti-abortion organizations for unproven treatment to reverse medication abortions
> “Those who are struggling with the complex decision to get an abortion deserve support and trustworthy guidance — not lies and misinformation,” Bonta said.
https://news.yahoo.com/california-sues-anti-abortion-organizations-193624256.html #abortion #abortionrights #womensrights
The Independent: "Support for abortion rights hits record high in UK"
Quotes -
🔹 "Researchers at the National Centre for Social Research discovered the overwhelming majority of Britons are in favour of a more liberal position than UK laws stipulate"
🔹 "The British Social Attitudes polling, of more than 2,000 people, found 76 per cent of those surveyed support a woman’s right to have an abortion"
🔹 "The new polling discovered an 'almost universal support for abortions being allowed when the woman’s health is seriously endangered by the pregnancy or when there is a strong chance of the baby having a serious health condition'"
🔹 "While almost three quarters of those polled supported abortions in situations when the couple cannot afford to have more children"
#UK #Healthcare #BodilyAutonomy #WomensRights #Abortion
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/abortion-attitudes-uk-pro-choice-b2415934.html
हिंदू कैलेंडर के मुताबिक पीएम मोदी के जन्मदिन पर ऐतिहासिक महिला आरक्षण बिल राज्यसभा में सर्वसम्मति से पास हो गया
https://www.newsfeedindia.in/2023/09/Historic-womens-reservation-bill-passed-unanimously-in-Rajya-Sabha.html
#WomenEmpowerment
#GenderEquality
#HistoricAchievement
#NariShakti
#WomenInParliament
#WomensRights
#PMModi
#RajyaSabha
#CelebratingWomen
#LegislationForChange
#EmpoweringWomen
#WomenLeadership #WomensReservationBill #womenreservationbill2023
The white camellia was the floral symbol worn by supporters of women's suffrage in New Zealand.
New Zealand women (of all races) gained the legal right to vote 130 years - and three days - ago.
#Bloomscrolling #WomensRights #suffrage #history #NewZealand #vote
#Actress and #WomensRights and #ReproductiveRights #activist #MarthaPlimpton: We Must #Fight for #Abortion and #LGBTQ #Rights—and Our Own #Bodies
The #HumanRight to #bodilyautonomy is #sacrosanct, whether you’re someone who needs an #abortion, #genderaffirming #Healthcare, or simply want to #liveyourtruth #openly.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Allies #Feminism #Activism #Politics #Representation #Culture
#Iran lawmakers vote to toughen penalties for women who breach dress code
#Abortions surged in states near those with new #bans: study
https://www.axios.com/2023/09/07/abortions-surged-state-bans?stream=top
https://reproductiverights.org/maps/abortion-laws-by-state/
#Abortion #abortionbans #womensrights
Russell Brand never hid his misogyny. So why did so many fail to see it?
Iran's Parliament Passes a Stricter Headscarf Law Days After Protest Anniversary
> The bill also extends punishments to business owners who serve women not wearing the mandatory headscarf, known as #hijab, and activists who organize against it. Violators could face up to 10 years in prison if the offense occurs in an organized way.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-09-20/irans-parliament-passes-a-stricter-headscarf-law-days-after-protest-anniversary #Iran #womensrights
Suddenly Woke
White Female Republican Comes To Her Senses
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OpIJWR226pw&si=znjP7Jyy6PB1q1sL
#MeganKelly #DavidFeldman #RussellBrand #RudyGulliani #TuckerCarlson #AndrewTate #ElonMusk #WomensRights #SuddenlyWoke
सोनिया गांधी ने पति राजीव गांधी की विरासत का हवाला देते हुए महिला आरक्षण विधेयक की वकालत की
https://www.newsfeedindia.in/2023/09/Sonia-Gandhi-advocates-Womens-Reservation-Bill-citing-legacy-of-husband-Rajiv-Gandhi.html
#GenderEquality #WomenInPolitics #NariShaktiBill #SoniaGandhi #EmpowerWomen #IndianPolitics #WomensRights #PoliticalEmpowerment #LokSabhaDebate #GenderEqualityMatters #EqualityForAll #TimeForChange
#womenreservationbill #womenreservationbill2023
It is an historical fact that the privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture, but, as we are reminded, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals .
We know, through painful experience that! freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
#CivilRights #InvisibleDisabilityRights #EndAbleism #EndRacism #LGBTQ #WomensRights #StopAsianHate #EndBigotry #TearDownTheWall #IDR
Trump Is the Reason Women Can’t Get Abortions
#TrumpAbortionBan #RoevWade #WomensRights #ReproductiveJustice #AbortionAccess #PoliticalImpact #Politics #News
@sharonecathcart
It’s not just abortion and it’s not just contraception. It’s every therapy related to reproduction that (in their view) MUST conform to religious dogma that has been extant since forever. These prohibitions include LGBTQIA families and equality.
RELIGION MUST NOT WRITE OUR LAWS!
No one said #AllLivesMatter, before they heard #BlackLivesMatter.
No one championed #StraightPride, until there was #GayPride.
No one cared about #WhiteHistoryMonth, before we had #BlackHistoryMonth.
No one mentions #MensRights or #Egalitarian, until there’s talk about #Feminism.
Sorry, the good ol’ days, when women and black people knew their places - and Queer was just the dirty family secret no one ever talked about - are over. Welcome to the 21st century.
Ms. Magazine Wins PEN America’s Impact Award for ‘Contributions to Journalism, Feminism and Social Change’ 👍️ 🙏
https://msmagazine.com/2023/09/20/ms-magazine-pen-america-impact-award-50-years-of-ms/
“It seems audacious, even today, that one could start a revolution by telling stories often ignored in the mainstream, written by voices that have been cast aside. And yet, that is the very model that has allowed Ms. to serve as a catalyst for social change.”
#journalism #InvestigativeJournalism #feminism #WomensRights #advocacy #IndepentJournalism
Iran approves stricter hijab bill targeting those who ‘mock’ dress code
Protestors face 10-year jail terms under new hijab and chastity bill, which UN human rights body says is intended to suppress women into ‘total submission’
UN human rights experts have described it as “tantamount to gender apartheid” with the intention of suppressing women into “total submission”.
#Iran passes stricter #headscarf law days after #protest anniversary
20/09/2023 | 16:30 PM
By Associated Press Reporters
"Iran’s parliament has approved a Bill to impose heavier penalties on women who refuse to wear the mandatory Islamic headscarf in public and those who support them.
"The move came just days after the anniversary of the death of #MahsaAmini, a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by the so-called morality #police for violating the country’s dress code.
"Her death in custody ignited months of #protests in which many called for the overthrow of Iran’s theocracy.
"The 70-item Bill extends punishments to business owners who serve women not wearing the mandatory headscarf, known as the #hijab, and #activists who organise against it. Violators could face up to 10 years in prison if the offence occurs in an organised way.
"The Bill, which was approved by 152 politicians in Iran’s 290-seat parliament, requires ratification by the Guardian Council, a clerical body that serves as constitutional watchdog. It would take effect for a preliminary period of three years.
"The demonstrations sparked by Ms Amini’s death on September 16, 2022, died down early this year following a heavy crackdown on dissent in which more than 500 protesters were killed and around 22,000 detained.
"But many women continued to flaunt the rules on wearing the hijab, prompting a new campaign to enforce them over the summer.
"Iran’s clerical rulers view the hijab law as a key pillar of the Islamic Republic and blamed the protests on Western nations, without providing evidence.
"The protesters said they were motivated by anger over the dress code as well as what they see as the corruption and poor governance of the country’s ruling clerics."
In her soon to be released book “Enough,” Cassidy Hutchinson alleges that Rudy Giuliani groped her before Trump's speech on January 6th.
Right… because Trump and his deviant lot think that they can do whatever they want and get away with it.
It’s up to the rest of us to show them differently… Vote 💙
#Politics #News #MeToo #WomensRights
@davidsjazz It certainly isn’t. It’s important to react to the situation that exists and not be a purist who only sees black and white. Right now the bar is very low. That’s what we are working with and it’s terrible. We have to set stretch goals that are achievable. Today, for Republicans, that’s sadly simply disagreeing with the social conservatives. It’s a risky move for a Republican who wants to keep her job. #womensrights
On this day, 50 years ago (Sept. 20, 1973) Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in a famous tennis match called the 'Battle of the Sexes'.
The highly publicized and viewed match gave a boost to the women's rights movement.
Can you guess where this match took place?
https://www.whereintheworldgame.com/?id=151&type=q
#BillieJeanKing #WomensRights #BattleOfTheSexes #tennis #education #history #histodons #geography
Sonia asks for caste census before Women’s Reservation Bill is passed
Sonia Gandhi demanded the BJP government to conduct a caste census so that reservations for BC, SC and ST women are included in the Nari Shakti Vandan Bill.
#parliament #LokSabha #WomensReservationBill #CasteCensus #SoniaGandhi #reservations #WomensRights #caste #BJP #congress #INC #india
Normal Island News
Russell Brand gains support from the internet's loudest weirdos
including women's rights activist Andrew Tate...
After four women made accusations of sexual assault against alleged comedian Russell Brand, several more women have come forward, and their claims are being “rigorously investigated”. This has prompted an outcry of support from the finest celebrities
Hardcore porn, choking and rape: UK universities left to tackle rising tide of sexual assaults
As on-campus sexual misconduct cases escalate, there are increasing calls to talk openly with young people about sex, pleasure and consent
‘It’s a power game’: students accused in university rape hearings call in lawyers
Iran's women on #MahsaAmini's death anniversary "Things have changed so much since last year," a 20-year-old music student in #Tehran, who we are calling Donya, tells me over an# encrypted #socialmedia platform. She is one of the many women who now refuse to wear the veil in public. "I still can't believe the things I now have the #courage to do. We've become so much bolder and braver. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-66788392 #HumanRights #WomensRights #FreeSpeech #CivilDisobedience
The fact that this content is even needed is a condemnation of America as an unsafe country for women.
10 safest US states for solo female travelers
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/travel/2023/09/11/10-safest-us-states-solo-female-travelers/8385238001/ #womensrights #safety #travel
‘Most women I know don’t want to have sex like men’: Chanel Contos on consent, porn and ‘out-of-fashion’ feminists
Two years ago Contos prompted a national reckoning on sexual consent. Now the 25-year-old is filling venues as she reintroduces radical feminism to gen Z
We need to find a way to operate in society using concepts of consent that aren’t just legal, so it is more human-centric,’ says Chanel Contos.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/16/consent-laid-bare-chanel-contos-interview
‘We get bombarded’: study reveals ‘shocking’ impact of online abuse on girls
Happiness among girls and young women in UK at lowest since 2009 as 37% report being sent upsetting content
“The number of contacts that we’re getting with regards to online sexual harassment, online sex work, exploitation, even online bullying is increasing. It’s something that is really kind of plaguing young girls at the moment.”
Mahsa Amini One Year On
Thanks to a tireless campaign by WFI sister @sarasheridan and @cocteautriplets, we now have ONE monument to a named woman in central Edinburgh! And more importantly, it addresses the multitude of wrongs done to Margaret Hall in her brief life ❤️😢
Normal Island News
Met Police upset they can no longer get away with brutality
They have to compensate their victims now...
As everyone knows, the police force was set up to protect capital int… I mean the people, and no police force does a better job of this than the Metropolitan Police. Therefore, what I’m about to reveal will likely shock and sadden you…
#NormalIslandNews #MetPolice #politics #LawAndOrder #WomensRights
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida banks on women to revive his fortunes
Planned Parenthood to Resume Offering Abortions Next Week in Wisconsin, Citing Court Ruling
> Planned Parenthood says that it will resume offering abortions in Wisconsin next week after a judge ruled that an 1849 law that seemingly banned the procedure actually didn’t apply to #abortion https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/wisconsin/articles/2023-09-14/planned-parenthood-to-resume-offering-abortions-next-week-in-wisconsin-citing-court-ruling #Wisconsin #abortion #womensrights
Spain cuts gang rape convict’s prison term under botched law
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* given latest plan by Mark Lee Dickson - pastor at Sovereign Love Church in East Texas, aimed at halting so-called abortion trafficking - if this dystopic vision of intrastate abortion border guards might someday become a reality
https://persagen.com >> search: "Mark Lee Dickson"
#Texas #abortion #GOP #ChristianRight #neofascism #Gilead #HandmaidsTale #MarkLeeDickson #SovereignLoveChurch #theocracy #DominionTheocracy #WomensRights #neoconservatism #dystopia
Women in #SaudiArabia now have greater access to #abortion than women in many US states following the repeal of “Roe v Wade” by the Supreme Court.
https://www.newarab.com/news/greater-abortion-access-saudi-arabia-us-states
#womensrights #abortionrights
Welcome to Arabia.
YouTube has just removed the dangerously misogynistic and antisemitic streaming show Fresh & Fit from its Partner Program, which allows popular content creators to make millions of dollars a year on the platform.
Unfortunately, Fresh & Fit is just one of dozens of rabidly anti-woman streamers that YouTube continues to subsidize through its Partner Program
Petition:Stop Misogyny on YouTube
https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/manosphere?as_text=1&akid=s1346116..MmHNA4
Greater abortion access in #SaudiArabia than in US states
25 June, 2022
> Women in #SaudiArabia now have greater access to #abortion than women in many US states following the repeal of "Roe v Wade" by the Supreme Court.
https://www.newarab.com/news/greater-abortion-access-saudi-arabia-us-states #womensrights #abortiontights @WahbAllat
Mexico will elect a female president, but Mexican women will still lose
#Florida Judge Deciding Abortion Ban Case Married to Rep Who Sponsored Bill
> Charles Canady refused to recuse himself from hearing arguments last Friday in a lawsuit that could trigger a six-week #abortion ban in the state — despite the fact that his wife, state Rep. Jennifer Canady (R), is a co-sponsor of the ban.
https://truthout.org/articles/florida-judge-deciding-abortion-ban-case-married-to-rep-who-sponsored-bill/ #GOP #Republican #abortionrights #womensrights
The sexual abuse of female surgeons comes as no surprise to me. I quit rather than endure the misogyny
I was assaulted by a consultant and witnessed awful behaviour. Women in healthcare have the right to feel safe
I was determined to be a surgeon after finishing medical school. I carefully picked my first jobs to put me on the path toward a lifelong surgical career.
@Ulrich_the_Elder
I thought the same thing the other day when this nightmare reared its ugly head again.
California has an “Agricultural Inspection Station” on Interstate 80, just past the NV/CA state line, west of the Sierra town of Truckee. In bygone days, officers would actively look through every car’s things for an alien orange or other fruit that could contaminate the entire Golden State. Now they just glance at your license plate and wave you through if you’re a CA neighbor.
I can see in Red states’ dystopian future the exact same thing, where mandatory pregnancy tests and/or ultrasounds would be required of all females - and given the low level of biology comprehension, elderly women would not be exempt.
As Abortion Laws Drive Obstetricians From Red States, Maternity Care Suffers:
Some doctors who handle high-risk pregnancies are fleeing restrictive abortion laws. Idaho has been particularly hard hit.
#GiftArticle
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/us/politics/abortion-obstetricians-maternity-care.html?unlocked_article_code=2pvuypgvpzdQkut9eIHv7Yyre851PQFGz5xFL37RdpMMEmzTyioVntFv1arUrvRLsqzt-NA0RERdg_pheGjDKGvLVU9-4qgycDDIGQ_BhzSUVG20ZLSPopxJhexaEiAUNCmUzJIspEhQZwSjOL-vXeGhsl_5jzOwjf7PNH8rUVXQMQZa5bqwZ9USWv9zhkKa8kREPQLt9glDaA4x01veppDSodg19nzEUbvlOIZwJna8Za2_rcxRA1bAqvE2HtGinQ7mKd_tqXXdvZl_Cq89G6GyTbLmphFk7RNOFu7uuzmrsvi8zWJ9JmWaZfMNbOwgB3TZyk09EnavmdNqkM3wm2cYbQZa-V3r-bpNzKTsUVt_AHA&smid=url-share
Mastodon thread of article: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/111018660511828211
#Women #WomensRights #WomensHealth #Healthcare #Pregnancy #Abortion #RoeVWade
#Idaho #Politics #USPol #USA #News
When the South Carolina Senate voted to ban abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy. State Senator Tom Davis (R) remarked:
“At some point in time, the right of the state to see the unborn child born does take precedent over the woman’s right to her body.”"👀 😡
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/29/south-carolina-women-subjugation/
#GOP #Republicans #Misogyny
#Women #WomensRights #BodilyAutomony #Freedom #Abortion #Healthcare #SouthCarolina #USA #News
""I think one of the most frightening statements, which was at one of the hospitals, the person was trying to be reassuring and she said,
'Oh, well, you know, in the case of a medical emergency, we would try to use the woman's body as an incubator to just try to keep the pregnancy going as long as possible,'" Heisler says."
😡"use the woman's body as an incubator... as long as possible"😡
#WomensRights #WomensHealth #Abortion #AbortionRights #Healthcare #USA
"The testimony also encouraged women in other states to speak out about their experiences...
doctors warned she was at risk for a rare but dangerous condition known as mirror syndrome, in which the mother’s body begins to mimic the fetus’s life-threatening symptoms. But Adkins said they told her the law prevented them from providing an abortion."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/09/12/abortion-rights-lawsuit-medical-care/
#Women #WomensRights #WomensHealth #Healthcare #Abortion #USA #News
"The galvanizing impact this kind of personal testimony can have on public opinion was demonstrated by the #Texas case...
That lawsuit drew widespread attention in large part because of the plaintiffs’ graphic, first-person accounts in court. In one particularly harrowing moment, a woman vomited on the stand when she recalled how abandoned she felt after she learned of her baby’s fatal anomalies."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/09/12/abortion-rights-lawsuit-medical-care/
"The Center for #ReproductiveRights on Tuesday filed legal actions in #Tennessee, #Idaho and #Oklahoma on behalf of #women who say they were denied #abortion care in medical emergencies...
The goal, Hearron said, is twofold — to demonstrate that pregnant people are being denied timely medical care wherever abortion is banned, and to give clarity to doctors who he described as “terrified” of providing the procedure."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/09/12/abortion-rights-lawsuit-medical-care/
The GOP wants to establish religious-based laws in America that restrict a woman’s bodily autonomy – her personal #FREEDOM.
#Republicans don't call it Sharia law, but it is similar to what the Taliban is doing in many ways.
#FreedomOfReligion = Freedom FROM religion
The USA is supposed to be a democracy, NOT a theocracy.
#WomensRights #HumanRights
#WomensRightsAreHumanRights
#GOP #Taliban
#EditorialCartoon #Cartoon
Stripping women of their rights leaves them vulnerable to abuse by men.
In Afghanistan, religious-based laws have made it impossible for a woman to survive on her own....
“The Taliban have created the perfect situation for men seeking revenge [against women]”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/04/afghanistan-taliban-women-marriage-divorce/
Thread of article: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/109965752069270952
How far will the #GOP go in stripping women of their freedom?
#Afghanistan #Taliban #Religion #Conservatives #Misogyny
#Women #WomensRights #USA #News
"But the social and political reality across much of the nation is that women are being shoved back into the metaphoric kitchen where their choices are being systematically reduced."
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar looks at Mexico decriminalizing abortion and concludes,
"While the rest of the world marches forward with progressive social issues, the U.S. stumbles backward."
As he says,
"America gives the impression that it respects and appreciates women by producing TV shows and movies with smart, tough, intelligent women."
Then there's a big "but":
#US #Mexico #women #WomensRights #abortion
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https://kareem.substack.com/p/gop-plot-to-remove-elected-judiciary
‘We all identify with Jenni’: Spanish women share their shocking stories of sexism
Hundreds of women across Spain join Se Acabó movement and open up about ‘micromachismos’ they have suffered
More than 200 women from across Spain have anonymously shared their personal experiences of sexism or abuse of power in the workplace, as the reckoning sparked by Luis Rubiales’ unsolicited kiss spills into other spheres of Spanish society.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/08/jenni-hermoso-rubiales-kiss-spain-sexism-stories
@MMRnmd JFC. the more you learn, the worse it all gets. I knew some of this from the amazing New Orleans Pharmacy Museum, which has an extensive collection of early days of free women of color acting as midwives/doulas with much better success rates than white, male doctors. https://www.pharmacymuseum.org
But FFS, just MAYBE the reason for the difference between health outcomes was hard labor, physical punishment, rape and malnourishment for enslaved people? #blackmastodon #womensrights
“Half of Mexico’s Congress is #female. The cabinet is #gender-balanced. And now, #women have won the primaries of the two leading political blocs—making it likely that this traditionally macho nation will elect its first female president, ahead of the United States…
#Mexico ranks fourth in the world in female participation in national legislatures, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union. The US ranks 71st—just below Iraq.”
Enslaved women forced to reproduce
"African midwives, imported and enslaved as early as the 1600s, attended to the birthing needs of the enslaved and enslavers until the beginning of the 19th century.
But, after 1808, enslavers in the United States could no longer legally import enslaved people.
With this shift, enslavers stepped up the forced breeding of enslaved women. White men raped the Black women and girls they enslaved, and then enslaved the children born from those rapes.
White men also forced the Black women and Black men they enslaved to have sex with one another to generate more babies, who would be born into slavery.
This was a systemic way of ensuring enslaved women bore more children, which would increase profits for their enslavers.
Because the Black midwives and enslaved women often were blamed for or suspected of using birth control and abortions to resist forced pregnancy and the enslavement of their offspring, enslavers turned increasingly away from midwives and to white male doctors to figure out why nearly half of enslaved infants were stillborn or died within their first year of life and why so many enslaved women were infertile..."
#womensrights #abortionrights #blackmastodon #avortement #histodons
"This is not the first period in U.S. history when white men have exercised control over women’s right to bear – or not bear – children, including during slavery. Then, it was a matter of numbers...White men controlled people’s reproductive rights during the 20th century, too, with the American eugenics movement."
#histodons #womensrights #abortionrights #blackmastodon @blackmastodon
Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalizes abortion nationwide
> The court’s sweeping decision comes amid a trend in Latin America of loosening restrictions on abortion, even as access has been limited in parts of the United States.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/06/mexico-supreme-court-decriminalizes-abortion-nationwide-00114327 #Mexico #abortion #abortionrights #womensrights
Spain’s Jenni Hermoso files legal complaint against Rubiales over kiss
The #Taliban has passed laws forbidding #women to travel out of #Afghanistan to obtain the education denied to them in Afghanistan.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66636750
The #GOP is trying to pass laws forbidding American women to #travel to obtain #healthcare denied to them in their states.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/01/texas-abortion-highways/
https://www.wired.com/story/insterstate-travel-abortion-post-roe/
Iran Protests: Women Journalists Given 3-Year Prison Sentences
> Iran’s authorities have handed down three-year prison sentences on two female journalists over their coverage of “Woman. Life. Freedom” protests since last September.
https://eaworldview.com/2023/09/iran-protests-women-journalists-prison-sentences/ #Iran #journalism #womensrights #mysogyny
The #Taliban doesn't want women to travel out of #Afghanistan to obtain #rights they are forbidden to obtain in Afghanistan.
Hmmmm...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/01/texas-abortion-highways/
https://www.wired.com/story/insterstate-travel-abortion-post-roe/
#WomensRights #Freedom #Travel #FreedomToTravel #USPol #USA #News
"Combing through the ordinance that morning, Almond said... She feared the law’s civil enforcement mechanism would turn members of the Llano community against each other. While she’d supported the implementation of the Texas “heartbeat ban,” which relied on the same provision, she said she hadn’t given much thought to how that could pit neighbor against neighbor.
...she didn’t like where the law could lead."
#GiftArticle
https://wapo.st/3L6AGWn
"It was not clear if some of the proposed ordinance’s most ardent proponents in Llano understood what it would do, with several mischaracterizing the measure during interviews...
Pressed on the contradiction between his statement and the language of the proposal, Bishop acknowledged that what he originally said “may not be totally accurate.”
Still, he said, he continues to support the ordinance"
#GiftArticle
https://wapo.st/3L6AGWn
"While these restrictions appear to violate the US Constitution — which protects a person’s right to #travel — they are extremely difficult to challenge in court, said Mary Ziegler, a #law professor... who focuses on abortion. Because the laws can be enforced by any private citizen, #abortion rights groups have no clear #government official to sue in a case seeking to block the law."
#GiftArticle
https://wapo.st/3L6AGWn
#Women #Freedom #WomensRights #WomensFreedom #Misogyny #USPol #USA #News
"in 2019... the men set out to ban abortion city by city... The Texas ordinances relied on the novel enforcement mechanism that empowers private citizens to sue, creating the model for the statewide “heartbeat ban” that took effect exactly two years ago, on Sept. 1, 2021.
Since Roe fell... the team has zeroed in on those helping women leave Texas for abortions — a practice they call “abortion trafficking.”"
#GiftArticle
https://wapo.st/3L6AGWn
"These provisions have already passed in two counties and two cities, creating legal risk for those traveling on major highways including Interstate 20 and Route 84, which head toward #NewMexico, where #abortion remains #legal and new clinics have opened to accommodate #Texas women. Several more jurisdictions are expected to vote on the measure in the coming weeks."
#GiftArticle
https://wapo.st/3L6AGWn
#Women #WomensRights #WomensFreedom #Health #Misogyny #Politics #USPol #USA #News
"ordinances like the one proposed in #Llano... make it illegal to transport anyone to get an abortion on roads within the city or county limits...
Antiabortion advocates... are targeting regions along #interstates and in areas with #airports, with the goal of blocking off the main arteries out of #Texas and keeping pregnant #women hemmed within the confines of their antiabortion state."
#GiftArticle
https://wapo.st/3L6AGWn
#WomensRights #WomensFreedom #Health #Misogyny #USPol #USA #News
Highways are the next antiabortion target. One Texas town is resisting:
A new ordinance, passed in several jurisdictions and under consideration elsewhere, aims to stop people from using local roads to drive someone out of state for an abortion.
#GiftArticle #GiftLink
https://wapo.st/3L6AGWn
In parts of the #USA, religious extremists keep passing laws limiting women's #freedom.
What freedom will they take away next?
Saudi Arabia: Brother of prominent scholar sentenced to death over tweets
#MBSmurderer #SaudiArabia #SaudiArabiaCrimes #Yemen #SaudiArabiaWarCrimes #JamalKhashoggi #SaudiArabiaDictatorship
#HumanRights #WomensRights
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-arabia-saeed-ghamdi-brother-scholar-sentenced-death-tweets
Women’s Equality Day ~
“I continue to urge Congress to act swiftly to recognize ratification of the ERA and affirm the fundamental truth that all Americans should have equal rights and protections under the law.” ~ President Biden 💙
#Biden #ElectionsMatter #HumanRights #WomensRights
Largest U.S. Women's Group Makes Early Biden Endorsement, Citing Abortion Rights Threats
The National Organization for Women (NOW) has offered its earliest-ever endorsement for a presidential re-election campaign.
#Politics #Women #WomensRights #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #HumanRights #sexism #misogyny #patriarchy #voters #voting #elections #BidenHarris #healthcare #health #hate #SexualAbuse #Democracy #Democrats #GOP #Republicans #VoteBlue #VoteBlueToProtectWomen