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One-Two Punch: Trump Administration Blocks Lifesaving Abortion Care and Announces Mifepristone Safety ‘Review’-All in One Day

2 days ago | msmagazine.com | Carrie Baker

After the Supreme Court terminated the constitutional right to abortion in 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued guidance clarifying that hospitals must still follow the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). This law requires hospitals receiving federal funds to provide health-saving and lifesaving abortion care to patients experiencing medical crises, even when state law bans abortion. On Tuesday, June 3, the Trump administration rescinded this guidance.
Rest in Power: Étienne-Émile Baulieu, Abortion Pill Inventor and Women’s Rights Advocate

2 days ago | msmagazine.com | Carrie Baker

Millions of women around the world gained safety, dignity and autonomy over their bodies thanks to Étienne-Émile Baulieu. The visionary biochemist, feminist and fearless innovator—best known for developing and championing “RU-486,” now known as mifepristone—died at his Paris home on May 30 at the age of 98.
Lawsuit Challenges Kansas Law That Voids Living Wills for Pregnant Women

3 days ago | msmagazine.com | Carrie Baker

Reproductive freedom advocates filed a lawsuit, Vernon v. Kobach, on May 29 challenging the constitutionality of a Kansas law that automatically invalidates a person’s end-of-life treatment decisions in their living will if they are pregnant. The case argues that this law violates pregnant patient’s constitutional rights to bodily autonomy, privacy and equal treatment under Kansas law.
The Feminist Leadership Syllabus: Where History, Politics and Pedagogy Meet

5 days ago | msmagazine.com | Janell Hobson

This is Part 2 of a two-part series on women leaders and feminist leadership. Part 1—out last week—breaks down Angela Bassett’s role as U.S. president in the latest and final installment of Mission: Impossible, and how her representation on screen blurs the line between the impossible fictions and possible realities of women’s power in American politics. In the last 10 years, the United States came very close to electing our first woman president.
Documenting Harriet Tubman’s Leadership: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Edda L. Fields-Black on the Combahee River Raid

5 days ago | msmagazine.com | Janell Hobson

Black Feminist in Public is a series of conversations between creative Black women and Janell Hobson, a Ms. scholar whose work focuses on the intersections of history, popular culture and representations of women of African descent. June 2 marks the 162nd anniversary of the Combahee River Raid, which represents the first time a woman led a military raid in U.S. history.
When News Out of the Nation’s Capital Feels Like Too Much to Bear, Take the Fight Local

1 week ago | msmagazine.com | Jennifer Weiss-Wolf

This story was originally published by The Contrarian. Last week was another raucous week in Congress, with continued discord over the fiscal, social and societal implications of President Donald Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill” as it heads to the Senate. Meanwhile, the wheels continue to spin in dozens of statehouses across the country, many of which are at the height of their own legislative sessions.
Could Hollywood’s Vision of a Black Woman President Help Make It Possible?

1 week ago | msmagazine.com | Janell Hobson

This is Part 1 of a two-part series on women leaders and feminist leadership. Part 2—out Monday, June 2—continues with a public syllabus. Spoiler alert: This piece contains plot details from Mission: Impossible–The Final Reckoning. The Final Reckoning—the eighth and final installment of Mission: Impossible—went toe-to-toe with Disney’s live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch in a global mega blockbuster blowout for the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
Orwell’s '1984' Is Now-Thanks to Trump's Playbook of Reversal, Gaslighting and Control

1 week ago | msmagazine.com | Carrie Baker

This post was originally published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette, with the headline “‘War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength.’ — 1984 in 2025.”As someone who has taught and fought for women’s rights for close to four decades, I find it intensely frustrating how the Trump administration is weaponizing feminist rhetoric and law to attack women’s rights.
This Public School Program Is Grooming Kids to Hate Through Bible Study

2 weeks ago | msmagazine.com | Tom Sayers

This story was originally published by Uncloseted Media, an LGBTQ-focused investigative news outlet. When you think about Bible study, images might pop into your head of kids learning principles like forgiveness or loving thy neighbor, and that’s just what LifeWise Academy advertises on its website: “a supportive and inclusive atmosphere where everyone feels valued.”But for many parents and LGBTQ kids in at least 591 American public schools with LifeWise programs, that’s far from the truth.
Federal Court Considers Removing Medically Unnecessary FDA Restrictions on Abortion Pills

2 weeks ago | msmagazine.com | Carrie Baker

Over 7.5 million women have safely used the abortion pill mifepristone since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the medication in 2000—yet the antiabortion movement has fought relentlessly to restrict or ban the medication, falsely claiming it is unsafe. In late 2023, they filed a lawsuit to do just that: Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, which the Supreme Court dismissed last summer, and three states are now trying to revive.