Today…
…is #NativeWomensEqualPay Day. If you’re reading this, I know you believe that, but can you believe that? And we still have Latina Equal Pay Day coming in October I mean God damn.
is the birthday of Ruby Bridges, who at 67 is only a year younger than my mother, lest I get it into my head that the ‘60s-era work for civil rights is behind us.
Abortion
KENS-TV | The Satanic Temple challenges new Texas abortion law citing religious freedom | Adam Bennett | More from LGBTQ Nation, Salon
Vanity Fair | Greg Abbott Claims Texas’s No-Exceptions Abortion Law Is Fine Because He’s Going to “Eliminate” Rape | Bess Levin
KXAN-TV | Texas abortion 'whistleblower' website shut down a second time | Russell Falcon | More from AP, Ars Technica, The Hill, HuffPost, New York Daily News, People, San Antonio Current, TPM
The cruelty
BeLatina | Legislative Threats to Women’s Right To Choose Doubly Impact Communities of Color | Yamily Habib
The Cut | This is the Moment Anti-Abortion Extremists Have Been Waiting For | Callie Beusman
Jezebel | After Devastating Clinics, Republicans Target At-Home Abortions | Marie Solis
The Lily | Rape counselors in Texas could be sued under the abortion law. They’re preparing for the worst. | Caroline Kitchener
The 19th | How abortion restrictions like Texas' push pregnant people into poverty | Chabeli Carrazana
Salon | Abortion bounty hunters in Texas aren't “whistleblowers” - they’re vicious vigilantes | Norman Solomon
San Antonio Current | Anti-poverty group ranks Texas one of the worst states for working women, regardless of abortion law | Sanford Nowlin
Washington Monthly | The Texas Abortion Law Is a Nightmare for Pregnant Teens | Joanna L. Grossman
AlterNet | UN human rights experts: Texas abortion ban is a violation of international law | Jake Johnson | More from Business Insider
The fight
The American Prospect | We Can Go Back | Felicia Kornbluh
CNN | The scramble to defend against Texas' 6-week abortion ban | Ariane de Vogue
Slate | The Texans Fighting to Keep Abortion Accessible | Mary Wilson
The politics
Rewire News Group | Biden Administration Responds to Texas Abortion Vigilantes—and Somehow Makes It Worse | Jessica Mason Pieklo
More from Axios, Boing Boing, Daily Kos, New York Magazine, New York Times, People, Vanity Fair, Washington Post
Morning Consult | Democratic Women Increasingly Say Abortion Is Among Their Top Issues in Wake of Texas Law | Eli Yokley
MSNBC | Texas' abortion law is the start of the Republican endgame | Joyce White Vance
New York Magazine | Will Abortion Dominate the 2022 Midterms? | Ed Kilgore
Salon | When human life begins is a question of politics - not biology | Sahotra Sarkar
Time | The Tricky Politics of the Texas Abortion Law | Charlotte Alter
Washington Post| There’s only one way for Democrats to win the abortion fight | Paul Waldman
The $$$
CNN | Why Texas's strict abortion law is terrible for the economy | Anneken Tappe | More from Boston Globe
San Antonio Current | AT&T and other corporations funneled millions to lawmakers behind Texas' abortion ban | Sanford Nowlin | More from Newsweek, Popular Information
Vox | Corporate America still isn’t sure what to say about abortion | Emily Stewart | More from The Hill, Houston Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, NPR
The other states
Idaho: Boise State Public Radio | Idaho Planned Parenthood: Texas Restrictions Are ‘Loud Alarm That Access To Abortion In Real Danger’ | George Prentice
Massachusetts: Boston Globe | How a Massachusetts case could end the Texas abortion law | Laurence Tribe, David Rosenberg
Michigan: Detroit News | Whitmer: Michigan Legislature should repeal 1930s law banning abortion | Craig Mauger | More from The Hill, WCMU-FM
Missouri: Kansas City Star | ‘Make it unthinkable’: Missouri Republican will push anti-abortion bill similar to Texas | Jonathan Shorman
Oklahoma: Rewire News Group | Texan Patients Flock to Oklahoma, Where Advocates Are Suing to Keep Abortion Legal
Oregon: The Oregonian | Portland’s planned boycott over Texas abortion law could cost Lone Star State $7M a year | Shane Dixon Kavanaugh | More from AP, Austin American-Statesman, Truthout
Pennsylvania: WHYY-TV | Many of Pa.’s GOP gubernatorial hopefuls see a blueprint in Texas abortion law | Evan Croen
South Dakota: HuffPost | South Dakota Bans Clinicians From Using Telemedicine To Provide Medication Abortions | Sanjana Karanth | More from AP, Argus Leader, The Hill, TPM
The rest
Ms. | Media Repeat Junk Science Behind Abortion Ban Laws: Check the Science-There is No Heartbeat at Six Weeks | Carrie Baker
New York Times | Texas’ Long History of Hollowing Out Women’s Health Care | Mary Tuma
Washington Post | What a post-‘Roe v. Wade’ future might look like | Megan McArdle
LGBTQ
NPR | Human Rights Campaign Fires President Alphonso David Over Report That He Helped Cuomo | Bill Chappell
More from ABC, Axios, Bloomberg, CBS, The Daily Beast, the Grio, HuffPost, LGBTQ Nation, Metro Weekly, The 19th, Reuters, TPM, Time, Washington Post, The Week
The Advocate | Trans Activists March on Broadway For Better Representation | Rachel Shatto
Medscape | Transgender Individuals Twice as Likely to Die as General Population | Becky McCall
Metro Weekly | Nearly 1 in 10 LGBTQ people fear they'll be evicted within the next two months, survey finds | John Riley
New Jersey
New Jersey Monitor | Activists worry new LGBTQ curriculum is not being taught in most schools | Sophie Nieto-Munoz
North Carolina
CBS | Catholic high school wrongly fired gay substitute teacher, federal judge rules | Zoe Christen Jones
More from Bloomberg, Metro Weekly, The New Civil Rights Movement
Reproductive Health & Justice
Quartz | Why midwifery isn’t being taught at America’s Black colleges | Annalisa Merelli
Work & Money
Business Insider | 12 weeks of paid family leave made it into Democrats' early plan for $3.5 trillion in social spending | Joseph Zeballos-Roig, Juliana Kaplan
Forbes | How Discrimination Leads To A Motherhood Penalty In The Labor Market | Adi Gaskell