Carrie Baker

Massachusetts, Northampton

Contributing Editor at Ms. Magazine

Columnist at Daily Hampshire Gazette

Professor @SmithCollege| Contributing Editor @MsMagazine| Columnist @DailyHampGaz https://t.co/QTVMS2Fb74

Articles

Lawsuit Against Crisis Pregnancy Center Leads to Groundbreaking Massachusetts Law Regulating Ultrasounds: 'A Chink in the Armor'

1 week ago | msmagazine.com | Carrie Baker

Antiabortion crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) across the United States receive state and federal funds but have operated with little or no government oversight. CPCs use unsterilized transvaginal ultrasounds wands inside of patients, delay access to lifesaving care by misdiagnosing serious medical conditions and steal patient data from real medical clinics, according to investigative reporting and lawsuits filed against them.
Jackson Katz Calls on 'Every Man' to End Men’s Violence Against Women

2 weeks ago | msmagazine.com | Carrie Baker

In the last two months, Donald Trump has dismantled Title IX protections against sexual assault and harassment on college campuses, defunded domestic violence shelters and rape crisis centers and nominated men accused of domestic violence and child sex trafficking to top cabinet-level posts in the federal government.
Trump Administration Slashes Reproductive Healthcare Funding for Millions

3 weeks ago | msmagazine.com | Carrie Baker

On March 31, the Trump administration sent letters to Planned Parenthood affiliates and other reproductive health clinics in 20 states announcing a freeze of close to $35 million in federal Title X funding as of April 1. Title X is a federal program that provides affordable birth control, cancer screenings and other sexual and reproductive health care to low-income women.
Columnist Carrie N. Baker with Andrea Moore: In defense of higher education and critical thinking

4 weeks ago | gazettenet.com | Carrie Baker |Andrea Moore

E-Edition Advertise Newsletters Subscribe Home News Opinion Sports Business Arts & Life Obituaries Classifieds Calendar Puzzles In 2021, now-Vice President J.D. Vance gave a speech titled ”Universities are the Enemy.” “We must aggressively attack the universities in this country,” said Vance, suggesting it was time to “seize the endowments” and “penalize [universities] for being on the wrong side of some of these culture war issues.” Vance concluded with a quote from Richard Nixon: “The...
Young People Are Fleeing States With Abortion Restrictions

1 month ago | msmagazine.com | Carrie Baker

The National Bureau of Economic Research published a study on Jan. 6, 2025, revealing that nearly 129,000 residents have moved away from the 13 states that have implemented near-total abortion bans since the 2022 Dobbs decision. A new study published on Mar.
GenBioPro Enters Texas Battle to Preserve Mifepristone Access

1 month ago | msmagazine.com | Carrie Baker

The pharmaceutical company GenBioPro filed a motion on Tuesday, Feb. 25, to intervene in Missouri et al. v. FDA, a lawsuit in Texas challenging FDA regulation of the drug mifepristone, which is part of a two-drug regimen for the termination of early pregnancy.
Columnist Carrie N. Baker: Why has abortion increased despite bans?

1 month ago | gazettenet.com | Carrie Baker

E-Edition Advertise Newsletters Subscribe Home News Opinion Sports Business Arts & Life Obituaries Classifieds Calendar Puzzles On June 22, 2022, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion established a half-century before in Roe v. Wade, opening the door to state abortion bans across the country.
New York Times' Shameful Reporting on Planned Parenthood Bolsters Right-Wing Attacks on Reproductive Healthcare Access

2 months ago | msmagazine.com | Carrie Baker |Jenifer McKenna

The New York Times published a 3,000-word investigative report recently, claiming to have found “scores of allegations” against Planned Parenthood for misconduct, medical malpractice, mismanagement and labor violations. Released within a month of Trump’s inauguration, the article appears timed to provide ammunition for the ongoing right-wing attacks on reproductive rights.
Rolling Up Our Sleeves, Part 4: Staying Afloat While Trump Weaponizes Federal Funding

2 months ago | msmagazine.com | Carrie Baker

A fierce feminist resistance is ready to defend women’s rights at the federal level—and creatively expand equality protections in the states. This is the final installment in a four-part series on the steps activists are taking to fight for our rights amid Trump’s attacks on democracy.
Rolling Up Our Sleeves, Part 3: Fighting Trump with State Constitutions

2 months ago | msmagazine.com | Carrie Baker

A fierce feminist resistance is ready to defend women’s rights at the federal level—and creatively expand equality protections in the states. This is the third in a four-part series on the steps activists are taking to fight for our rights amid Trump’s attacks on democracy. Part 1 covered the organization Democracy Forward and its new initiative Democracy 2025, which is working to counter the Trump administration’s antidemocratic acts with swift legal challenges and other strategic responses.