misogyny – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

30 Apr

US Abortion Restrictions Causing Preventable Deaths

AlanLatest NewsAnti-abortion, GOP, misogyny, Preventable Deaths, Red States

State Restrictions Worsening Inequality

29 Apr

Red States Thought They Could Stop Abortions. They Ended Up Stopping Only the Lifesaving Ones.

AlanLatest NewsAnti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, misogyny, Red States, Reproductive rights, Safety Net, Trump, United States

Abortion rates have increased nationwide since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

27 Apr

The fight against ‘medical misogyny’ is far from over

ChaseLatest NewsHealthcare, misogyny, Reproductive rights

Ethnicity, culture and access continue to shape who is believed, how quickly, and with what outcome, says Vanessa Haye I welcome the relaunched women’s health strategy (Streeting relaunches women’s health strategy to tackle ‘medical misogyny’, 14 April) but with caution. The system appears responsive, but the root causes in health inequality outcomes remain untouched.

26 Apr

Anti-abortion lawmakers seek to redefine ‘abortion’ to exclude medical treatment

ChaseLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, misogyny, Red States, Reproductive rights, Trump

Some anti-abortion state lawmakers are pushing to revise the definition of “abortion” so abortion bans don’t apply to cases in which the death of an “unborn child” is the result of medical care provided to the pregnant woman. South Dakota is the first state to enact such a law, and Missouri and Utah introduced a similar bill. Reproductive rights advocates and many OB-GYNs say the real purpose of the bills is to fortify abortion bans, and the laws are still too vague because they rely on the intentions of individual physicians.

16 Apr

She Was Put in Jail in Texas for an Abortion. Blame the Supreme Court for What Happened Next.

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Anti-abortion, GOP majority, Healthcare, misogyny, Post Dobbs, Reproductive rights, SCOTUS

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, conservative states have stressed that they won’t prosecute women, whom they describe as abortion’s “second victims.” That was the message Texas hoped to send when prosecutors in Starr County dropped charges against a woman named Lizelle Herrera for ending her pregnancy. But Herrera’s case is now communicating something else entirely: Prosecutors who target women for abortion often won’t face any consequences, even when they ignore the law.

28 Apr

WHO issues new recommendations to end the rise in “medicalized” female genital mutilation and support survivors

CoreyLatest Newsfemale mutilation, Healthcare, International, misogyny

Urgent measures are needed to curtail the rising “medicalization” of female genital mutilation (FGM) and to engage health workers to prevent the practice, according to a new guideline published today by the World Health Organization (WHO).

14 Apr

Declining Support for Workplace Inclusion Jeopardizes America’s Nursing Mothers and Their Babies

DoryLatest NewsDEI, misogyny, United States

The loss of DEI policies promoting full inclusion of all employees jeopardizes another group: America’s breastfeeding mothers and their babies.

13 Apr

Will the SAVE Act make it harder for married women to vote? We ask legal experts

DoryLatest NewsElections, misogyny, Reproductive rights, United States

As the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act heads to the Senate, there has been growing debate on how the bill may affect voting for millions of married women, particularly those who have changed their last names, if it becomes law.

15 Mar

Political climate linked with Georgia women’s mental health outcomes, Emory study finds

ChaseLatest NewsGeorgia, Healthcare, Mental health, misogyny, United States, Women's Health

While politicianscan make decisions that have direct effects on keeping the public healthy, new research from Emory University highlights how policymakers may also have indirect impacts on their constituents’ wellbeing.

05 Mar

Women for Sale: What Anora’s Success Tells Us

ChaseLatest Newsmisogyny, Sexual Assault, Sexual violence, United States

While Anora is praised for inspiring an end to stigma, it actually reinforces the lack of empathy for what women suffer in all forms of sexual violence.

04 Feb

The Time for Mercy is Now: A Call for Mass Clemency for Incarcerated Women

AlanLatest NewsIncarceration, misogyny, physical violence, Sexual violence, United States

Up to 90% of women sentenced to prisons in the US are survivors of sexual and physical violence, either in childhood, adulthood or both.

26 Jun

‘I begged them not to harass me’: Women Accuse Taliban of Sexual Assault After Arrest for ‘Bad Hijab’

AlanLatest NewsAfghanistan, International, misogyny, Sexual Assault, Taliban

“What I experienced in the prison was horrible, but you know what is worse than that? It is that we can’t speak about our experiences.”

18 Jan

Recent Abduction of Women Reveals the Taliban’s Goal of Completely Removing Females from the Public Sphere

BarbraInternationalAfghanistan, gender, misogyny, Taliban, World

Gender – specifically femininity and womanhood – has been turned into a criminal matter in Afghanistan.