ABCNews In 2019, Doug Mastriano said women who violated proposed abortion ban should be charged with murder.
In an interview with Pennsylvania radio station WITF, Mastriano was pressed about a bill he sponsored that would generally bar abortions when a fetal heartbeat could first be detected, usually around six weeks. Mastriano’s remarks in that interview were previously unreported….
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defenseone.com Democrats Introduce New Path To Protect Troops’ Abortion Access
An [National Defense Authorization Act 2022] amendment that would give troops the time and money to cross state lines for an abortion has 23 Democratic co-sponsors...
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cincinnati.com Affidavits: 2 more pregnant minors who were raped were denied Ohio abortions
At least two more minors made pregnant by sexual assault were forced to leave Ohio to avoid having their rapists’ babies, according to sworn affidavits filed by abortion providers…
...If true, the affidavits show that a 10-year-old from Columbus was not the only child or teen rape victim forced to leave the state [for care].
They also describe more than two dozen other instances in which [the law denying abortion] put women under extreme duress.
... three women threatened suicide ... two women with cancer who couldn’t terminate their pregnancies also couldn’t get cancer treatment while they were pregnant… Another three … whose fetuses had severe abnormalities or other conditions that made a successful pregnancy impossible … cases [of] debilitating vomiting caused by pregnancy ‒ one so bad that the woman couldn’t get up off the clinic floor ...
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https://reproductiverights.gov/ REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS.GOV
Know Your Rights: Reproductive Health Care
Reproductive health care, including access to birth control and safe and legal abortion care, is an essential part of your health and well-being. While Roe v. Wade was overturned, abortion remains legal in many states, and other reproductive health care services remain protected by law. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is committed to providing you with accurate and up-to-date information about access to and coverage of reproductive health care and resources. Our goal is to make sure you have appropriate information and support [including on the following, detailed at the webpage]
🇺🇸 Your right to emergency care
🇺🇸 Your right to birth control
🇺🇸 Your right to medication
🇺🇸 Your right to access abortion services
🇺🇸 Your right to access other preventive health services
🇺🇸 [Resources for] If you don’t have health coverage
🇺🇸 How to file a HHS complaint If you believe that your or
another person’s civil rights or health information
privacy rights have been violated
🇺🇸 Patient privacy
🇺🇸 Department of Justice Resources...
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Since women are more and more the majorities in these demographics as time goes on and as birth cohort ages … HHS.gov for release Sept 29 Biden-Harris Administration Announces Lower Premiums for Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plans in 2023
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AP news LGBTQ-friendly church OK with getting Southern Baptist boot
When her teenage daughter came out as a lesbian several years ago, one of the first things Caroline Joyce did was to Google, “Can you be gay and be a Christian?”
The family was attending a conservative Southern Baptist church in the Greensboro, North Carolina, area that considered homosexual activity to be sinful.“We had been taught one thing, but we knew our daughter loved Jesus,” Joyce said. “She was very open with us during her struggle to figure out what was going on with her.”
And Caroline and her husband, Chuck, began their own struggle. Their daughter and a younger sibling found a gay-friendly church, College Park Baptist Church in Greensboro. They “started attending with our blessing because we knew if she continued attending our church, she’d be totally turned off to God,” Caroline Joyce said.
The College Park church found itself in the news last week when the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee voted to remove it from its rolls...
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ReligionNews The death of Mahsa Amini in Iran demands consequential diplomacy by US: Statements of condemnation are essential but not enough.
Mahsa Amini’s death in Iran for [nt wearing hijab] is part of a long line of repression by Tehran. The regime forces its religious views on all, which violates international norms on freedom of expression, women’s rights and freedom of religion or belief. To see a change in behavior, however, more than statements of condemnation are needed.
On September 13, the so-called morality police in Tehran arrested Amini during a family vacation to the capital. Her family reports police beat her while in custody at a jail holding dozens of other women. She was rushed to a Tehran hospital with severe brain injuries, resulting in a coma and her ultimate death....
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indianexpress.com India’s Supreme Court rules that all women, regardless of marital status, have the right to safe and legal abortion
...up to 24 weeks into pregnancy.
...[The court ruled that’ Article 21 of the Constitution “recognises and protects the right of a woman to undergo termination of pregnancy if her mental or physical health is at stake. Importantly, it is the woman alone who has the right over her body and is the ultimate decision-maker on the question of whether she wants to undergo an abortion… Depriving women of autonomy not only over their bodies but also over their lives would be an affront to their dignity,” it said.
The bench also said that the meaning of rape must include marital rape...
(emphasis added)
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ABCNews NY man accused of punching 67-year-old Asian woman 125 times pleads guilty to hate crime.
Tammel Esco, 42, will be sentenced in November to more than 17 years in prison, the Westchester County District Attorney's Office said....
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Vulture.com Profile of Cathy Park Hong, Author of Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning,
...Hong, who is 46, is a poet by trade. Since 2002, she has published three collections themed around empire, civilizations, and invented languages, which have earned her a small, dedicated fandom in the world of avant-garde poetry. But in 2020, her career changed radically with the release of Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, a collection of essays that explore her experience as a Korean American and a poet. The book, Hong said, was an attempt to “articulate Asian American interiority” as well as a broader effort to recast and refine conversations about Asian Americanness. In one essay, about her relationships with other Asian women, Hong tries to show Asian friendships that are messy and flawed, while another, about the rape and murder of poet Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, becomes an exploration of the erasure of Asian American women artists. The book’s title was borrowed from the cultural theorist Sianne Ngai’s “ugly feelings”; in Hong’s essay about stand-up comedian Richard Pryor, she defines “minor feelings” as “the racialized range of emotions that are negative, dysphoric, and therefore untelegenic.” The collection came out four days before the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in New York. Hong’s planned tour went to Zoom, and she anticipated that her book would get buried like so many others….
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Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Michigan
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From the office of the Governor: California Advances Commitment to Pay Equity and Supporting Women
SACRAMENTO – Gov. Gavin Newsom and First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom today met with leaders from the Legislative Women’s Caucus to highlight a package of priority legislation signed by the Governor to strengthen California’s commitment to advancing gender equity and protecting the rights of women…
...SB 1162 requires the disclosure of salary ranges on job listings and expands pay data reporting requirements…
...AB 1287 prohibits the discriminatory “pink tax” on products marketed to women...
...Additional measures expand supports for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault...
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from TheConversation Why it’s so significant that Alla Pugacheva, ‘the tsarina of Russian pop,’ came out against the war in Ukraine
[from TheConvo email] When Russian pop star Alla Pugacheva posted a message on Instagram earlier this month decrying the war for “worsening the life of our citizens,” it was no ordinary anti-war missive.
Olga Partan, an associate professor of Russian studies at the College of the Holy Cross, has studied Pugacheva’s 50-plus-year career. Millions of everyday Russians, Partan explains, are fans of the singer – the young and the old, city dwellers and rural folk, the poor and the rich. While President Vladimir Putin may wield outsized political power, Pugacheva possesses a potent brand of cultural clout.
Since the Soviet era, her popularity among everyday Russians has emboldened her to occasionally criticize or poke fun at the Kremlin. Eager to share the spotlight, the Kremlin usually looks the other way, routinely lavishing her with awards at state ceremonies.
Pugacheva’s recent statements, though, signal the greatest challenge yet to the tenuous relationship between Putin’s regime and popular culture in wartime Russia….
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magicseaweed.com
Women surfers in plant-
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NativeNewsOnline.net Native American Pro Soccer Player Excited to Be the First, But Not Last
Being the first and only Native American in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) excites Madison Hammond, but there’s something even more compelling to her.
“I’m really excited to be the first Native American to play in the NWSL,” Hammond said, “but I'm more excited not to be the last.”
The third-year pro, a Navajo and San Felipe Pueblo woman, wants to inspire young Native American soccer players to chase their dreams. And she wants them to understand that her own dream-chasing on the soccer pitch has been fueled by strength she draws from her Indigenous ancestry and her Native community.
“For me, my Native ancestry is what gives me strength and resilience to chase whatever dream or goal that I have,..”
from February:
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Mlive.com - Public Interest Misogynist ethnic slur against Native American Women finally removed from federal landmarks.
[The word “s_ _ _ _w”, a derogatory term] for a Native American woman, has been removed from all geographic features in federal use by the Department of Interior. There were more than 650 landmarks that used the term nationwide, according to a database by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names,...
See also at WashingtonPost (paywall if you’re out of free reads)
America’s public lands belong to all of us, and we have a responsibility to ensure that these lands are accessible and welcoming to everyone. However, over the course of our history, many such lands were named using a hateful and derogatory term for Indigenous women. It’s a word that carries with it a history of brutality, misogyny and dehumanization….
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www.space.com/ <big>NASA astronaut Nicole Mann will reach orbit as commander of SpaceX's Crew-5 mission for NASA, slated to lift off on <big>Oct. 4.</big></big>
...Nicole Mann will become the first Native American woman to fly in space when SpaceX's Crew-5 mission for NASA launches from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. That liftoff is currently scheduled for Oct. 4, though Hurricane Ian could end up pushing it back a bit….
Mann, a member of the Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes in northern California, said that her community is eager for the chance for orbital representation on board Crew-5's destination, the International Space Station. [where Mann] is slated to spend half a year ... Mann will bring a dreamcatcher into orbit…...
Wikipedia
Nicole "Duke"[1] Victoria Aunapu Mann (born June 27, 1977) is an American test pilot and NASA astronaut. She is an F/A-18 Hornet pilot, and a graduate of the Stanford University, the US Naval Academy, and the US Naval Test Pilot School.[2][3] She has over 2,500 flight hours in 25 types of aircraft, 200 carrier landings, and has flown 47 combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mann completed astronaut training in 2015 and was assigned in August 2018 to Boe-CFT, the first crewed test flight of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner,[2][4][5] but subsequently reassigned to the SpaceX Crew-5, becoming the first female commander of a NASA Commercial Crew Program launch.
Her first spaceflight is scheduled for October 2022 and will make her the first Native American woman in space.,,,
Nicole Aunapu Mann, 5th from left, 2013. Hover for the names of the rest of NASA’s Group 21.