Weekend Reading on Women's Representation: Women Leaders Reckon With a Loss of Abortion Rights; The Lack of Women at G7

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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in Thursday, becoming the first Black woman to serve on the highest court in the land — the 116th justice to serve, but only the sixth woman to do so. More in this weekend's reading on women's representation:

decision, but three articles in the Sunday Review section of The New York Times offer interesting perspectives:I’m struck that while the majority opinion repeatedly gives great weight to the importance of protecting fetal life, it fails to discuss the effect of its ruling on women’s lives and health.

On Jan. 25, 1970, The New York Times Magazine published my article under the headline “Constitutional Question: Is There a Right to Abortion?” It was, I believe, the first article in a general-interest publication to survey the nascent constitutional arguments, and it has been quite widely reprinted.

Those pesky women will keep coming up with problems: What about pregnancy-related medical issues short of imminent death? Rape? Incest? Fetuses doomed to die in the womb or shortly after birth? Will young teens be forced to bear children? Will women who receive a prenatal diagnosis of a serious fetal anomaly be forced to bring a child into the world whom they can’t care for adequately and in whom the state has little postnatal interest? What happens when states start prosecuting not only...

 

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You forgot to list your lack of support to the women (& men) of MillsCollege when they needed you to raise awareness to SaveMills and challenge the questionable record keeping by the board’s treasurer and president. A women’s college died on 6/30/22 & where was ?

Thomas Alito Barrett come out with AR-15s to our constitutional rights. Biden comes out with (as per usual 4 Dems) a soup spoon. He doesn’t really care. No try at expanding it/no federal clinics/no military base clinics/no stipend to travel 2 seek care/no liar tyrants impeached.

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