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This Week in the War on Women, 7/13-19/25: With a POLL! [1]
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Date: 2025-07-19
I like to open with some good news, to help empower us for the War.
The AAUW (American Association of University Women) has a Take Action page, www.aauw.org/…
Women for Women International has a Take Action page, www.womenforwomen.org/…
Equality Now has a Get Involved page, equalitynow.org/…
Ms. Magazine explains $Rump’s latest bid to destroy millions worth of contraceptives along with food designated for USAid, msmagazine.com/… Democrats Shaheen and Schatz have filed the “Saving Lives and Taxpayer Dollars Act” to save food, medicine, etc. that taxpayers have already paid for and to distribute them before they expire, www.foreign.senate.gov/.... You can fax your reps and Senators and urge them to support this legislation here, faxzero.com/… If they are GOP, emphasise that this should not be a partisan issue, the tax money is already spent!
More groups, resources, and ways to get involved in my last WoW diary here, www.dailykos.com/…
Heads up!
Kos says DKos will be migrating to WordPress by January 2026, this current platform is too creaky to survive much longer, www.dailykos.com/… We have no idea what will be preserved and what will be lost along the way. I plan to make sure my most valuable photos and diaries and comments (at least to me!) are copied onto my hard drive. I encourage you to do the same for yours. Yes, we occasionally have reason to revisit all these!
In Other News
Abortion Rights
In Poland, 3 doctors delayed abortion care for a woman with a life-threatening pregnancy because of the country's strict abortion laws. The patient died, and after a national uproar, the doctors are going to jail.
ice arrests
Vanity Fair: “Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison: Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up for the first time about her shocking arrest and 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility. She recalls the generous and compassionate women who helped her through this harrowing ordeal.
Never did I expect to find myself as a prominent prisoner, just as I never anticipated making friends inside an ICE prison. During the six and a half weeks I was held there, I faced numerous hardships. Yet, unlike what the media would lead us to believe, none of that pain came from the immigrant women around me. Instead, I survived thanks to their kindness, care, and compassion. How is it possible to feel both unlucky and fortunate at the same time? How can suffering and compassion coexist in the same environment?
I want to preserve this story in a time capsule and send it adrift in the vast ocean of essays. This narrative of human suffering, set in 2025, is filled with tears and resilience. It is a story of women. It is our story. It could very well be your story too.
Ms. Ozturk now works with the ACLU.
Trafficking
Moira Donegan on the latest with TFG and Epstein:
No one knows better than sexual violence victims, who are routinely disbelieved, dismissed, or punished for telling the truth, what it means for the facts of your own life not to matter as much as the passions and prior commitments of your audience. What people tend to forget about Epstein’s life – clouded as it has been by all the speculation about his death – is that much of what he was doing to those women and girls was out in the open. Epstein had already been convicted and served prison time on charges pertaining to his sexual abuse; when he’d gotten out, he’d resumed his place among the rich and famous: his status was undiminished by the revelation of his violence.
Medicine
Medscape The Antidote to Medical Gaslighting: Validate Patients’ Concerns The author of this article is female, with appalling firsthand experience.
Medscape Violence Against Nurses, Not Part of the Job Description
Tennessee woman had to travel to Virginia for prenatal care because she was unmarried and in TN, doctors can refuse care for anything if they call it a "religious belief."
https://bsky.app/...
Brief Profile in weirdness
Pam Bondi is often in the news currently as $Rump’s attorney general. How does someone become $Rump’s mouthpiece and one of his prime liars, to be thrown to the wolves if it becomes convenient (he hasn’t quite yet, but I’m predicting)?
According to Wiki:
1965: Born in Florida.
1987: Received her BA in criminal justice.
1990: Received her Juris Doctor.
1991: Passed the bar exam in Florida.
Next: Prosecutor and assistant state attorney (no start date given).
2010: Elected as FL’s first female attorney general. In a crowded primary, supported by Sarah Pain and Sean Hannity, with several appearances already on the Faux Network.
2011-2019: As FL AG, tried to overturn Obamacare, ban same-sex marriage, opposed medical marijuana, again spent time on Faux. Accepted donations from $Rump, refused to investigate fraud related to $Rump “University”.
2019: Lobbied for Qatar and Kuwait. Later that year, joined $Rump’s defense team during his impeachment.
2020: Spoke at the RNC and supported “election fraud” claims after $Rump lost the election.
2020-2024: Appointed to the Kennedy Center board and worked for the America First Policy Institute, helping get $Rump re-elected.
2025: US Attorney General.
Now you know.
Books
Vogue: 13 Feminist Books That Deserve a Place on Your Nightstand by Emma Specter:
Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female With the Mass Media by Susan J. Douglas (1994)
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (2019)
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay (2017)
Wages Against Housework by Silvia Federici (1975)
and many more, including SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas (1967):
Overthrow the patriarchy and stop letting men occupy almost all the positions of power in global society. Is this one quite radical? Sure. Does it feel more relevant than ever in our current hellscape? Absolutely.
LOL!
And one more book:
A Cross-Cultural Journey Through Gender, Identity, and Feminism: Interview with Marianna Marlowe, author of Portrait of a Feminist: A Memoir in Essays.
This Week in the War on Women provides a weekly summary of news on women's issues and information on current political actions. We welcome all who are interested to join, to write for us, and/or to provide relevant links and stories.
As always, this is a group effort. Many thanks to Tara, mettle and Angmar for items and discussion this week!
And finally, a pootie as a news cleanser:
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