Me yesterday
And me today!
Also today… is the birthday of Aimee Stephens (1961-2020), plaintiff in the Supreme Court decision affirming that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects trans people from employment discrimination. (Side note: How was that just a year ago?)
Abortion
CNN | Our story of pregnancy loss shows the trauma state abortion bans could cause | Josh Replogle
The Hill | Abortion access for 65M women at stake | Justine Coleman
Rolling Stone | Conservatives Are Tearing Down Roe. That's Extreme -- and Just the Beginning | Alex Morris
The American Prospect | Abortion and the Beginning of the End of the Right to Privacy | Gabrielle Gurley
Los Angeles Blade | Does a potential overturn of Roe v. Wade imperil LGBTQ+ rights? | Brody Levesque
– More from The Advocate, Alternet, Gay SonomaUSA Today | Decisions on same-sex marriage, contraception could be threatened by abortion ruling | John Fritze
Ms. | "Tracking the Backlash": Feminist Investigative Journalists Uncover Organized Opposition to Reproductive Rights | Jackie Abramian
New York Times | What an America Without Roe Would Look Like | Claire Cain Miller, Margot Sanger-Katz
More from AP, Bloomberg, Quartz, Washington Post
The American Prospect | Abortion Will Not Be Sent Back to the States | Scott Lemieux
Facing South | Bracing for a Post-Roe South in the Region's Last Three Abortion-Safe States | Elisha Brown
As well as California, Kentucky, Iowa, North Dakota, Oregon
Congress
Mother Jones | The Supreme Court looks ready to gut Roe v. Wade. Amy Klobuchar says Congress needs to make it law—and fast. | Hannah Levintova
More from CNN, The Hill, Insider, NBC, New York Daily News
Salon | Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren demand end to filibuster to save abortion rights | Jon Queally
MSNBC | Susan Collins is bluffing on protecting Roe | Hayes Brown
Business Insider | A GOP senator said he's 'perfectly comfortable' with criminalizing abortion | Cheryl Teh
Mississippi
Mississippi Free Press | Reeves: Mississippi Will Ban Most Abortions From Conception If Roe Falls | Ashton Pittman
More from CNN, The Hill, New Civil Rights Movement, Newsweek, New York Daily News, POLITICO
The New Yorker | The Last Abortion Clinic in Mississippi
USA Today | Mississippi's history of terrorizing Black women continues unabated in abortion ban case
The politics
CNN | Supreme Court decision on abortion could put volatile issue at center of 2022 elections | Gregory Krieg, Rachel H. Janfaza
More from The Hill, POLITICO, Radio Iowa
Washington Post | Twin Republican strategies brought the antiabortion movement to the cusp of victory in the Supreme Court | Michael Scherer
The Week | Democrats are complicit in the looming loss of abortion rights | Ryan Cooper
LGBTQ
Boston Globe | In 2021, another devastating record for deadly anti-transgender violence | Renee Graham
Chicago Sun-Times | Crimes against LGBTQ community deserve thorough investigation | Laura Washington
NBC | Acceptance significantly reduces suicide risk for intersex youths, report finds | Jo Yurcaba
USA Today | 'A matter of fundamental fairness': Same-sex couples could get tax break under Build Back Better plan | Michael Collins
Florida
Florida Politics | Anti-bullying page, including pro-LGBTQ links, removed from Education Department website | Renzo Downey
– More from Los Angeles Blade
Iowa
LGBTQ Nation | School threatens trans teen boy with consequences for using the restroom | Juwan Holmes
– More from Metro Weekly
Michigan
WKAR-TV | Michigan bills would ban so-called gay, trans panic defense | Sarah Lehr
Minnesota
LGBTQ Nation | Vicious parents outed a school board member’s daughter & started insulting the child on social media | Alex Bollinger
– More from KMSP-TV
Virginia
The 74 | In 2020, Virginia’s Legislature Passed a Transgender Students Rights Law. It Largely Hasn’t Been Enforced | Kate Masters
West Virginia
West Virginia MetroNews | No dismissal for defendants in W.Va. transgender athletes case | Brad McElhinny
New York Daily News | Court clears way for trans girl, 11, to challenge West Virginia’s discriminatory youth sports ban | Muri Assunção
Maternal and Reproductive Health
The Lily | The first ‘Momnibus’ bill was signed into law. Other strides for Black maternal health could follow. | Anne Branigin
The Lily | Homicide is a leading cause of death in pregnant people, a new study finds. Black women are at greatest risk. | Cecilia Nowell
USA Today | She was ‘meant to be a mom.’ Her death might save the lives of pregnant mothers in her area. | London Gibson
New Jersey
New Jersey Monitor | Bill expanding contraceptive access advances in N.J. Senate | Dana DiFilippo
Texas
Texas Observer | Texas Legislators Ask Biden Administration to Reinstate Planned Parenthood as a Medicaid Provider | Mary Tuma
Work & Money
Fast Company | This emerging tech-based organization may be key to close the wage gap | Izzy Howell
Newsweek | How Women Are Leading in the Everywhere Workplace | Melissa Puls
New York Times | Women Earn $2 Million Less Than Men in Their Careers as Doctors | Azeen Ghorayshi
Prism | Guttmacher Institute staff say a ‘toxic’ work culture has the reproductive rights research giant in a ‘death spiral’ | Tina Vasquez
Quartz | Girls Who Code CEO Tarika Barrett on what causes tech’s gender gap | Ananya Bhattacharya
Washington Post | As written, Build Back Better could support - or devastate - child care for disadvantaged working parents | Jennifer Bouek