(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.'] Date: 2023-10-21 One of our own, Denise Oliver Velez, has a gofundme to help defray the cost of cancer treatment. And I’m sure she wouldn’t mind if you drop her a word of encouragement. As always, this diary is a group effort. Thanks to mettle fatigue, elenacarlena, Angmar, and the WOW crew for links & discussion. Reproductive Rights: Via Jessica Valenti: the next big push in the anti-abortion movement is to pressure women to carry non-viable or potentially dangerous pregnancies to term. They are discouraging women from getting prenatal testing (I’ve already seen this on social media), and providing “counselors” who exaggerate the danger of abortion while downplaying the harm of having to continue a doomed pregnancy. The climate crisis is not gender neutral. Only a third of countries with climate crisis plans include access to sexual, maternal and newborn health services, UNFPA report finds. UK women still being harassed at abortion clinics despite buffer zone law. With the destruction of the only family planning center, the Palestinian Family Planning and Protection Association (PFPPA), pregnant women in Gaza are unable to get care. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin doesn’t want anyone calling his proposed 15-week ban on abortion a ban. No matter what euphemism they use, if Republicans flip the democrats’ narrow majority in the state senate, Virginia will become the final Southern state to severely limit abortion. San Antonio, Texas, approved a “reproductive health fund” that can be used for things like STD testing, health training — and possibly helping people leave the state for abortions. Texas Right to Life is now trying to sue over it. Violence: A judge in Maryland was shot dead in his driveway this week. The suspect is a man who followed him home after the judge decided against him in a custody case. The wife had previously filed a domestic violence petition. How antisemitism and Islamophobia make reporting sexual misconduct and abuse of power harder for Jewish and Muslim women. Angelyn Aguirre, 32-year-old Filipina caregiver, killed in Hamas attack after she wouldn’t leave her elderly patient. Sexual abuse, and the silence around it, can affect boys too. John Stamos reveals his own history of abuse in a new memoir. Five women alleging sexual assault by fashion mogul Peter Nygard describe a similar pattern: being invited to a “meeting” at his office, him offering them a tour of the building, then luring them into a hidden bedroom and trapping them there. A Philadelphia police officer pled guilty to multiple crimes including kidnapping, sexual assault and child sexual abuse. He targeted runaways, arrestees, and other vulnerable girls and women, with at least 48 identified victims. Workplace Issues: NY lawmakers propose multi-agency study of caregiver shortage. The #1 reason for women leaving academic jobs: toxic workplaces. Study finds the military has more work to do integrating women. The “Musk double standard”: risk-taking and nonconformity are praised in men, criticized in women. Droves of cis men take over women’s tech conference. Health care: It took 35 years of seeking help from the NHS for debilitating periods before Naga Muchetty was finally diagnosed with adenomyosis. Doctors kept telling her that her pain was normal. Strokes are more common, and more serious, in women than men. Media: Julia by Sandra Newman is based on George Orwell’s 1984, but told from the point of view Winston Smith’s lover Julia. (As long as we’re on the subject of dystopian books, let me mention Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin, which was written before 1984 and has many parallels. It imagines a world centuries after a Nazi victory, where women are reduced to literal breeding chattel.) Women are forming groups on social media to out cheaters or abusers. Uncategorizable: Rethinking assumptions about “man the hunter, woman the gatherer.” [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/21/2200851/-This-Week-in-the-War-on-Women?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=latest_community&pm_medium=web 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/