Fasten your seatbelts
It’s All Saints’ Day, and we’re gonna need every last one of them, ‘cause
Today at 10am ET, the Supreme Court hears two challenges to that very bad, no good Texas abortion ban. And I have a big-deal meeting this afternoon.
Tomorrow! Virginia votes at last. And the kids are off school, meaning I won’t have to drag them out of bed, but they’ll be here interrupting every 3 minutes and 24 seconds.
Wednesday at 10am ET, Supreme Court hears a huge gun law case. And the 12yo has an appointment to maybe have her cast removed.
Thursday, kids are off school because end of term.
Friday morning, jobs numbers, and I have a doctors appointment in the afternoon.
It IS National Calzone Day, though, so.
Abortion
SCOTUSblog | Supreme Court set to hear arguments in two challenges to Texas law that bans most abortions | Amy Howe
More from Kaiser Health News, NBC, New York Times, NPR, USA Today, Washington Post
Los Angeles Times | The Supreme Court has to save more than abortion access in Texas. It has to save itself | Editorial
CNN | Overturning Roe could mean women seeking abortions have to travel hundreds of miles | Tierney Sneed, Priya Krishnakumar
Reuters | Texas abortion law critics warn conservatives of unintended consequences | Lawrence Hurley, Andrew Chung
Newsweek | Texas Doctors Call on U.S. Supreme Court to Overturn 'Ridiculously Written' Abortion Law | Xander Landen
Jezebel | The Man Defending the Texas Abortion Law at the Supreme Court Is Truly Awful | Susan Rinkunas
More from Vanity Fair
Los Angeles Times | We can’t count on the Supreme Court to save abortion rights. We’ll have to do it ourselves | Robin Abcarian
New York Times | Abortions Fell by Half in Month After New Texas Law | Claire Cain Miller, Quoctrung Bui, Margot Sanger-Katz
More from The Austin Chronicle, Axios, The Hill, Houston Chronicle
Los Angeles Times | The Texas abortion ban is already harming reproductive rights beyond Texas | Sylvia Ghazarian
UPI | Texas abortion law further complicates difficult pregnancies | Bekah McNeel
Washington Post | This Texas clinic stopped performing abortions, but the antiabortion activists haven’t left | Casey Parks
The 19th | Abortion clinic wait times surge in states surrounding Texas | Shefali Luthra
Ms. | Crisis Pregnancy Centers Endanger Women’s Health-With Taxpayer Dollars and Without Oversight | Carrie Baker, Carly Thomsen
The 19th | Crisis pregnancy centers provide ultrasounds. The stakes around their accuracy are high in Texas. | Jennifer Gerson
LGBTQ
Salon | Co-opting the message: How anti-trans activists hijacked a tool meant to help trans people | Jon Skolnik
UPI | LGBTQ youths, adults face gaps in care due to gender identity | Brian Dunleavy
Florida
Orlando Sentinel | Florida school board member gets death threats after kindergarteners' field trip to gay bar and grill | Scott Travis
Pregnancy & Parenting
Axios | The changing cultural dynamics behind falling fertility rates | Bryan Walsh
The Daily Beast | Why Didn’t Someone Tell Me About Motherhood's Dark Side? | Alena Dillon
TODAY | For some parents, the pandemic was the perfect time to have a baby | Danielle Campoamor
Reproductive Health & Justice
InStyle | Domestic Violence Isn't a "Private Family Matter" | Danielle Campoamor
Texas
Newsweek | 2 Texas School Districts Defy GOP Lawmaker's 'Disturbing' Probe Into Books on Race, Sexuality | Fatma Khaled
More from KVUE-TV
KBMT-TV | Texas book inquiry: What are the consequences if a district has one of the 800 titles identified? Rep leading the charge won't say | Berna Dean Steptoe
Work & Money
The Atlantic | American Parents Don’t Get How Much Life Is About to Improve | Elliot Haspel
BuzzFeed | Democrats Are Still Fighting To Get Paid Leave And Lower Drug Prices In The Build Back Better Act | Paul McLeod
CNN | It's shameful that paid leave is stuck in limbo | Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Forbes | 80% Of Women Demand An End To Systemic Discrimination | Mary Beth Ferrante
New York Times | What if It Never Gets Easier to Be a Working Parent? | Sydney Ember
New York Times | What the Democrats’ Plan Would Do for Parents | Claire Cain Miller
Romper | Paid Leave Is Out, But There Are Still Some Wins For Parents In Biden’s Spending Bill | Jamie Kenney
Washington Post | Most Americans want Congress to support childcare and elder care, our research finds - even many Republicans | Rachel VanSickle-Ward, Sarah Hayes, Jennifer Merolla, Jill Greenlee, Ivy A.M. Cargile
Washington Post | Unpaid caregivers spend a quarter of their annual income providing help. A new caregiver tax credit was axed from Biden's budget plan. | Michelle Singletary
Colorado
Denver Post | “It feels like your life doesn’t matter”: How anti-prostitution laws may make sex workers less safe | Alex Burness
Montana
Daily Montanan | UM professor: Discrimination allegation deemed 'non-workplace issue' | Keila Szpaller
Wisconsin
Wisconsin State Journal | Menstrual rights are human rights | Melissa Sheth