Mississippi Solicitor General Scott Stewart told the nation’s high court that Roe v. Wade and a follow-up case in 1992 that affirmed it, Casey v. Planned Parenthood, had “haunted” the nation. Mississippi wants the court to overturn Roe v. Wade and uphold a 2018 law it passed banning abortions after 15 weeks.
When Magnolia State state residents rejected the Personhood Amendment ten years ago this week by a 58%-to-42% vote, they defied national expectations. The Personhood Amendment, also known as Amendment 26, would have enshrined a definition of the word “person” in the state constitution that would have included even fertilized human eggs, theoretically banning all abortions.
Both Fire Chief Deedra Burton and firefighter Lavonda Aldrich say women’s presence in the workforce can be helpful in and out of the fire-response field. They have each come to learn that women who are domestic-violence victims often feel more comfortable sharing sensitive details of abuse they’ve suffered at the hands of a loved one with another woman. They also attest that a woman firefighter can better assist little girls who tend to look for nurturing, motherly figures in trying times.
Dozens of Mississippi abortion-rights supporters gathered in the capital city over the weekend to organize and warn others about the impending peril to Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that found women have a constitional right to abortion care.
Domestic violence has economic impacts on survivors throughout their lifetimes. Additionally, women living in poverty experience domestic violence at twice the rate of those who do not, which furthers the causal relationship between abuse and economic hardship.
Ending most legalized abortions will “empower” more women to pursue careers while also raising children, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch told a Catholic television host late last week.
Fetal deaths have doubled among unvaccinated pregnant women who suffer COVID-19 infections, State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs said during a Mississippi State Department of Health press conference today.
Multiple pregnant women died of COVID-19 in recent weeks at a single hospital, two Mississippi health leaders say. “I know at one of the major hospitals here in Jackson, there have been several pregnant women die with COVID within the past couple of weeks.”
What difference can one un-sexist man make? My colleagues and I had a hunch that the actions of individual male allies–even through simple acts such as highlighting the strengths of female colleagues or checking in on their well-being–might serve as a counterweight to the negative effects of everyday sexism. But not only that, we decided to study how that might impact men as well.
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