I'm alive
…mostly.
You may recall, last week was the kids’ spring break, so we decamped to Virginia Beach for a few nights. That was lovely.
Less lovely is the cold the 13yo brought back and shared with me and his sister.
Marking National Garlic Day in a big way - bigger than my every day, I mean - should help a lot.
Abortion
Jezebel Scientists Now Free to Use Fetal Tissue to Find Life-Saving Treatments Under the Biden Administration | Marie Solis
New York Times | Biden Administration Ends Limits on Use of Fetal Tissue for Research | Apoorva Mandavilli
New York Times | I’m the Head of Planned Parenthood. We’re Done Making Excuses for Our Founder. | Alexis McGill Johnson
Rewire News Group | How Politicians Exploit Fears About Death to Attack Abortion Care | Caroline Reilly
LGBTQ
BuzzFeed | The Science Behind Those Anti-Trans Healthcare Bills Is Bullsh*t, According To Experts | Aviva Stahl
VICE | Anti-Trans Bills Are Wildly Unpopular. But Here's Why the GOP Keeps Passing Them. | Carter Sherman
Washington Post | Lawmakers targeting trans youth demonize kids to pander to fearful voters | Kevin B. Blackistone
Arkansas
AP | Treatment ban creates uncertainty for trans youth, families | Andrew DeMillo, David Crary
Florida
Orlando Sentinel | Why are Florida politicians trying to ban transgender athletes who aren’t even a problem? | Mike Bianchi
Louisiana
The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate | The market is speaking on voting and transgender rights. Louisiana's business-minded Legislature should listen. | Stephanie Grace
North Carolina
Axios Charlotte | Charlotte is among the worst cities in violence against trans women | Emma Way
The State | When an NC business denies service to LGBTQ patrons, state law offers little recourse | Martha Quillin
Wisconsin
WISN-TV | Vos says bill to ban transgender athletes will get vote in Assembly | Matt Smith
Pregnancy & Parenting
The Hill | Harris highlights 'urgent' need for better Black maternal health care | Joseph Choi
In The Times | The Struggle for Unhoused Pregnant Women to Find Shelter | Candace Montague
Washington Post | The pandemic gave parents the chance to work from home. Now they don’t want to give it up. | Ellen McCarthy
Colorado
Colorado Sun | It's time to pass legislation to improve maternal health outcomes in Colorado | Sen. Janet Buckner
Reproductive Health & Justice
Axios | How telehealth can narrow racial disparities | Marisa Fernandez
MarketWatch | Here’s what we know about COVID-19 vaccine side effects in women | Meera Jagannathan
Work & Money
Business Insider | Women are taking a 'rain check' on babies, and it could change the shape of the economy | Hillary Hoffower
Changing America | Biden administration asks Supreme Court to drop constitutional challenge to all-male military draft | Adam Barnes
CNN | Joe Biden's infrastructure plan could leave too many women behind | Anneken Tappe, Alicia Wallace
The Hill | Addressing racial health inequities includes addressing the minimum wage | Ashley O'Donoghue, Nancy Oriol, Kashmira Chawla
MarketWatch | ‘We’re still blazing the trail’: Joe Biden wants to create millions of infrastructure jobs - but will his plan help women rejoin the workforce? | Elisabeth Buchwald
Mother Jones | Planes, Trains, and Working Women | By turning care work into infrastructure, Biden is doing something unprecedented: He’s taking women’s economic plight seriously. | Kara Voght
Tallahassee Democrat | Economic insecurity is highest among single mothers and women of color | Kelly Otte
North Dakota
Grand Forks Herald | For many, paid maternity leave is a necessity | Jim Shaw