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If Only We Valued Women Politicians Like We Admire the Hardcore Heroines of ‘Game of Thrones’
Its women characters—including a literal dragon lady—go after what they want. No apologies, no need to be "likable" for voters.
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‘Abortion Regret’ Shows the Long History of a Favorite Anti-Choice Talking Point
Abortion Regret lays out a history of criminalization as a process that includes sowing stigma, creating systems of surveillance, manipulating or compiling new data, and establishing who gets to be a worthy victim.
Mothers Who Make Liberation: New Book Explores Black Parenting as Political Practice
Dani McClain's We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood is both memoir and a collective parenting primer based on Black women's stories and experiences.
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From Abortion Worker to Anti Icon: Abby Johnson’s Conversion-Story Film Falls Flat
With its obvious polemics, Hallmark Channel acting, and gauzy visuals, the film adaptation of the anti-abortion activist's personal story isn't even skillful propaganda.
No, We Shouldn’t Be Excited About the Fall of ‘Roe’
In one article, a prominent pro-choice advocate and author offers a take that is breathtakingly insulting and obtuse, particularly for us as Black women and reproductive justice leaders living and working in the Midwest and the South, where abortion access is most threatened.
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In Anti-Choice Hands, Abortion Clinic Inspections Become a Weapon
Anti-abortion activists routinely use words like “violation” and “fail” to describe minor deficiencies at abortion clinics, making some administrative errors look like gross violations of patient safety.
