What did access to reproductive choices give you the freedom to build? Share your story: msmagazine.com/thelifeibuilt/

The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America. #MsReads via @nbcnews.com

Summertime—and the fight for democracy—is sizzling, especially in the states. Here’s what is happening across the country.

Medication abortion has become a central focus of antiabortion lawmakers.

From pregnancy and maternal health to gender-based violence, women bear the brunt of the climate crisis. Climate policy must finally reflect that reality.

Protecting students requires more than press releases, Dear Colleague letters and selectively targeted investigations.

SSAIS blog @msmagazine.com. The Department of Education is taking a shot at teachers and unions like L.A. Unified under the guise of protecting students. @rweingarten.bsky.social @rbreich.bsky.social @aft.org @ctulocal1.bsky.social @wearecta.bsky.social @jessicavalenti.bsky.social #TitleIX

FIFA stands to earn billions of dollars from the tournament. But as the organization reaps record revenues, many host communities are bearing significant costs.

Resonant amid the Trump administration’s rollback of gun regulations, Heidi Kasa’s debut poetry collection reminds readers of the lasting human cost of America’s gun violence.

A caved-in roof. A crumbling porch. A memorial water wall in need of restoration. These are just a few areas of the $10 million of deferred maintenance needed at the Women’s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, N.Y.

With a general election approaching in September, Sweden, a country that has long defined itself by gender equality, is watching its male and female voters move in sharply different political directions. This story, and more, in our latest weekend reading:

“I don’t trust a customs official to know how people look different at different stages of pregnancy.” #MsReads via @motherjones.com

Four years after Dobbs, the next battle over abortion access is centered on protecting the clinicians who provide medication abortion through telemedicine.

Blanche “has turned the DOJ into an instrument of Trump’s personal rage and revenge,” the coalition writes. “The role of the Attorney General is not to protect the interests of the President, but to protect the interests of the nation’s people.”

Blanche agreed during his confirmation hearing to review using the 1873 Comstock Act to stop mifepristone from being sent through the mail.

"The Supreme Court says its ruling protects women’s and girls’ sports. That’s not the history I lived—or the law that put my generation on the field."

Blanche “has turned the DOJ into an instrument of Trump’s personal rage and revenge,” the coalition writes. “The role of the Attorney General is not to protect the interests of the President, but to protect the interests of the nation’s people.”

Misinformation about abortion care is rampant and being weaponized at state and federal levels to justify wide-ranging restrictions across the United States.

Civil rights, reproductive justice and LGBTQ+ advocates warned the decision will deepen discrimination against transgender youth while threatening broader equality protections.

A study has found that women under 30 who received the HPV vaccine are at almost zero risk of dying from cervical cancer. Keep score with us:

Our July reading list take us on journeys through diasporas, deaths and diaries.

FIFA markets the World Cup as a symbol of borderless global unity while many of the workers who make these events possible face anti-immigrant policies and economic precarity.

Update: President Donald Trump has paid writer E. Jean Carroll $5.6 million after exhausting his appeals in the civil case in which a federal jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming her.

HR 1 was already devastating. Now the Trump administration is making it even worse by narrowing exemptions and expanding Medicaid work requirements beyond what Congress envisioned.

📺️ In this @msmagazine.com op-ed, @stephherold.bsky.social (@ansirh.bsky.social) draws on her research to argue that television may be the best hope for spreading accurate information about abortion, and one that too often gets it wrong. 🔗 Read: msmagazine.com/2026/06/25/t...

Many pregnant Texas residents now fear losing their lives during pregnancy, after four young women died in the state when they were unable to access medically necessary abortions.

We're proud to be an indie abortion provider. We are deeply appreciative of our fellow indie clinics keeping up the good work. Make sure to support your local independent clinic by donating or scheduling an appt with them. @abortioncare.bsky.social @msmagazine.com bit.ly/4fsLs92

One clinic closing rarely makes headlines. But what happens when none are left? Read this important essay from our co-ED, Erin Grant for @msmagazine.com: msmagazine.com/2026/07/08/a...

“The Ohio Organizing Collaborative has worked for nearly 20 years to expand the electorate in Ohio. That’s not a threat to democracy. That is democracy.” msmagazine.com/2026/07/07/f...

Can You Believe They Put This in Writing? The Wildest Quotes From Heritage's 'Project 2026' msmagazine.com/2026/07/08/h...

Women’s Sports Were Built by Letting Girls In The Supreme Court says its ruling protects women’s and girls’ sports. That’s not the history I lived—or the law that put my generation on the field. msmagazine.com/2026/07/09/t...

✍️ “Women of my generation didn’t fight to be seen as individuals, as athletes, as leaders, as whatever they had it in them to be, rather than as “the way women are,” only to watch that principle eroded now, in their name and over their objection.” Jennifer Levi, writing in @msmagazine.com 🏉🏳️‍⚧️

“It was a flawed design from the get-go.” #MsReads via @motherjones.com

Half of adult Americans disapprove of the way the Court is handling its job. A significant part of that disapproval stems from a specific concern: Nearly half of Americans think the Court’s recent decisions have given the president too much power.

At 17.9 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, U.S. women are dying from pregnancy-related causes at rates unheard of in peer nations—even though medical professionals agree that more than 80 percent of these deaths are entirely preventable.

Republicans, the self-appointed guardians of women’s sports, have in fact spent years blocking efforts to expand women’s access to athletic opportunities.

Judges, lawyers and sexual abuse survivors have raised very strong reasons why it would be reckless and unconscionable for the Senate to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general. One of the under-reported issues, though, is Blanche’s backing from well-funded antiabortion groups.

What kind of people are we becoming if we excuse intimidation, anonymity, and cruelty? Thank you to @msmagazine for publishing my latest article, "The Mask Is the Message."

"Attorney General Todd Rokita sought to resurrect a fifteen-year-old law to keep Hoosiers with low incomes away from providers they trust to receive preventive and essential care like cancer screenings, birth control, STI tests, treatment and vaccinations." #MsReads via @indianacapitalchronicle.com

"When someone covers their face while intimidating another person, threatening a community or committing a crime, the purpose isn’t protection—it’s concealment. It’s a way of saying, I want to do this, but I don’t want anyone to know it was me."

According to the Heritage Foundation, feminism—not economics, not policy—is the root cause of today’s problems.

Four years after Dobbs, the quiet shutdown of independent abortion clinics has become a nationwide crisis—leaving 14 states with zero clinics and countless communities without any nearby, in-person reproductive care.

After nearly a year of being barred from receiving federal Medicaid reimbursements, Planned Parenthood affiliates nationwide can once again bill Medicaid for non-abortion healthcare services, including contraception, cancer screenings and testing for sexually transmitted infections.

At Ms. Studios and Ms. Magazine, we have long recognized that reproductive justice is not a matter that begins and ends with pregnancy. Rather the call for reproductive justice endures after birth, into childhood, and teenage years for so many mothers, especially Black mothers. @msmagazine.com

As abortion bans spread and delays mount, women seeking care later in pregnancy face growing barriers and persistent misconceptions about why they need it.

You—or someone you love—has benefited from contraception, sex education, maternal care, assisted reproduction, miscarriage care or abortion. Four years after Dobbs, we're sharing our stories: msmagazine.com/thelifeibuilt/

Women’s rights have expanded—and been rolled back—through the Supreme Court, making the fight for judicial reform central to the future of feminist democracy.

“They kind of treat us like it’s part of the comment section." #MsReads via @19thnews.org

"Nearly every woman can recall a situation where she technically ‘consented’ to something she didn’t want. … These women all said ‘yes.’ Legally, that holds up. Ethically, it’s another matter entirely."