(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . This Week in the War on Women [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-04-01 Violence and harassment: Up to 500,000 women and children in danger of systemic rape and trafficking while fleeing North Korea for China. Powerful docuseries highlights missing & murdered Indigenous women. Welsh man convicted of murdering confused 71-year-old woman who mistook his home for a bed & breakfast. Catholic Community Shattered: An internationally lauded federation that provides community care for people with intellectual disabilities is grappling with revelations that its late founder perverted Catholic doctrine to justify his sexual abuse of women. Actor Jonathan Majors was arrested on domestic violence allegations. His attorney released some texts, allegedly between him and his girlfriend. In them, the girlfriend references her injuries, says she was at the hospital, and says, “It was my fault for trying to grab your phone.” Apparently the attorney thought this would make Majors look better? Allegations have resurfaced about House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (QOP-KY) assaulting an ex-girlfriend and taking her to get an abortion. I’m starting to think the London Met needs its own category in these diaries. After multiple scandals, including a rapist-murderer officer whose red flags were ignored, the London Metropolitan Police were the subject of a damning 300-page report detailing racism, homophobia and sexism, including 12% of women working there saying they were harassed or assaulted at work. Meanwhile, the Met has been using “community resolution” (AKA “restorative justice”) to let offenders who “take responsibility” to walk away with no record and essentially no punishment after issuing an apology. Which might make sense in a petty-theft or trespassing case, but they’ve also used it in rape cases when the victim could be talked out of prosecuting, including some child rape cases. Reproductive rights: Tennessee considers $100 million for anti-abortion “clinics.” NPR: California is among the handful of states --Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, Maryland and Vermont-- considering or passing legislation that protects their medical practitioners (and possibly even their citizens) from legal action --e.g., extradition, fines, etc--- on the part of states with laws making illegal to facilitate or provide abortion. Via Jessica Valenti: Anti-abortion activists who pretended to be fetal researchers in order to meet with and secretly record abortion providers will go on criminal trial in California. The activists released heavily-edited versions of the conversations—which were illegally recorded—that led to harassment and death threats against Planned Parenthood doctors and staff. Planned Parenthood has already won a $2 million judgement against the two defendants in a federal court. More from Jessica Valenti: In Arkansas, where abortion is already banned, legislators rejected an exception for raped children. A second Idaho hospital has shut down it’s labor & delivery services because few doctors are willing to risk practicing under Idaho’s draconian laws. And North Dakota classrooms will be required to show a 3-minute ultrasound video to classrooms to urge them against abortion. x Helpful pro-abortion things for you and your friends to do instead of counter-protesting protestors at abortion clinics, a thread! — Don't post about crimes (@KateRoseBee) March 29, 2023 Health: Via Jessica Valenti: Really terrible news: Today, a federal judge in Texas reversed an Obamacare provision that required health insurers to cover preventative care—including pregnancy care and cancer screenings. Chris Geidner has more at Law Dork, where he points out that at least the contraceptive coverage mandate stands for now. (The plaintiffs are expected to appeal in order to get that birth control coverage reversed, as well.) Women appear to be at higher risk for long COVID. 10 women founders taking the world of synthetic biology by storm. Gender Pay Gap Research found female physicians with children earn on average $3 million less than male physicians with children over a 40-year career, an approx. 25% gap. Another study found the average annual female:male gap to be nearly $110,000 per year less Media: What’s wrong between Men & Women: The thriller igniting debate about femicide. Action items: 3 women coordinating relief efforts for flooding in Allensworth, California. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/1/2160796/-This-Week-in-the-War-on-Women Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/