Feminist Majority President Eleanor Smeal and former Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney joined other feminist leaders in New York City today to celebrate Equal Pay Day and draw attention to the ongoing pay inequalities between men and women. The Government Accountability Office released a concerning new report highlighting the underrepresentation of women in management positions as well […]
International Women’s Day 2023: An update on reproductive freedom
As we celebrate this International Women’s Day, it is important that we take time to reflect on the rapidly changing status of reproductive freedom in our country following the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Yesterday, Florida Republicans introduced an extreme 6-week abortion ban in the state legislature, with the Republican supermajority making it almost certain […]
5th Circuit Court ruling allows domestic abusers to own firearms
In the ruling on United States v. Rahimi earlier this month, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a federal law prohibiting individuals facing domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms. This decision is a direct result of last year’s Supreme Court case, New York State Rifle & Pistol v. Bruen, where the conservative […]
Texas lawsuit could ban abortion pills nationwide
Abortion activists are anxiously awaiting a federal judge’s ruling that could decide the fate of mifepristone, the pill that accounts for more than half of all abortions across the country. The Texas judge, Matthew Kacsmaryk, is expected to have a decision on the case to reverse the FDA’s approval of mifepristone by February 24th. The […]
Anti-abortion groups target pharmacies following FDA decision
In response to the FDA’s recent ruling expanding access to abortion pills, or mifepristone, anti-abortion groups have launched campaigns targeting CVS and Walgreens locations throughout the country. The pharmacies announced in early January that they plan to complete the necessary certification to offer abortion pills in their retail locations for the first time. A group […]
Biden issues Presidential Memorandum to protect access to abortion
On what should have been the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, President Biden signed a Presidential Memorandum instructing government agencies to protect access to mifepristone throughout the country. Mifepristone is the FDA approved drug used in medication abortions, which account for the majority of abortions in the country. The president’s memo addresses the Attorney […]
Afghan women continue to face violence and extreme limitations of freedoms
Since the Taliban seized power in 2021, Afghan women have endured increasingly harsh restrictions on their hard-won freedoms as well as physical brutality to force conformity. The most recent policy passed by the fundamentalist Islamist group consists of an order to all NGOs, local and international, to prohibit their female employees from working. Millions of […]
Taliban Rule: Afghan women can no longer attend higher education
In a new order by the Taliban regime, officials issued that public and privatecolleges and universities should no longer allow Afghan women to attend classes. Manystudents returned to school despite the order, but were not allowed to enter. In some schools,female students were told to leave the gate at gunpoint. Since the Taliban takeover of […]
South Carolina’s Supreme Court overturns state 6-week abortion ban
In a striking decision for the historically conservative state, the South Carolina Supreme Court declared the state’s law banning abortions after 6 weeks of pregnancy as unconstitutional. The 3-2 decision was based on the explicit right to privacy granted to citizens in the state’s constitution. “We hold that the decision to terminate a pregnancy rests […]
FDA rings in new year with an expansion of abortion access
Abortion advocates had cause for celebration in the first week of 2023 as the FDA loosened its regulations on mifepristone, a drug used in medication abortions. The rule change allows for the medication to be prescribed by licensed healthcare providers over telehealth and to be dispensed through a wider range of certified pharmacies, either in […]
