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This Week in the War on Women [1]
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Date: 2025-09-20
I don’t have a lot to say about this week, other than: don’t let them push the Epstein files out of the headlines. Those girls deserve justice, and the men who abused them deserve accoutability.
As always, this diary is a group effort. Thanks to elenacarlena, mettle fatigue, Angmar, Clio2, and the WOW crew for links and discussion.
Reproductive Rights and Health:
Appeals court allows the administration to defund Planned Parenthood.
Medscape Twofold risk for Meningioma [a brain cancer] in women on Depo-Provera contraception, amid ongoing lawsuits alleging that manufacturer Pfizer failed to inform users about this risk.
In states with abortion bans, infant mortality is on the rise.
Florida AG James Uthmeier pushes junk science about abortion pills.
Dozens of women’s rights activists have rallied near the U.S. Embassy in Brussels to protest what plans by President Donald Trump's administration to destroy millions of dollars in family planning supplies meant for women living in hardship in Africa.
Studies from US and UK universities have found that large language models (AI) used in healthcare underplay female symptoms and show less empathy toward Black and Asian patients.
Violence and Harassment:
Probation Service in England and Wales failing to assess thousands who pose risk to women, watchdog says. Chief inspector of probation says it is inevitable there will be more murders and rapes without an improvement.
The “go-to trope:” how the far rights is exploiting violence against women and girls.
Oxford surgeon returns to work after a 1-year suspension for repeatedly harassing female colleagues during surgeries.
Workplace Issues:
TheConversation Scholars say US women narrowed the pay gender gap to 85% in 2024, in part by having fewer kids.
Education:
Transphobia harms ALL girls and women: Early dropoff in girls' school sports linked to new gender confirmation forms. 'Girls are taking a hard hit, while nothing is happening with the boys.'
"Even in comparatively liberal spaces, such as my high school, girls who wince at locker room talk risk exclusion."
Taliban bans books by women in Afghanistan’s universities.
Politics:
Lisa Cook wins appeal of her firing from Federal Reserve Board. TFG is now trying to take it to the Supreme Court.
Maurene Comey, a former federal prosecutor who brought criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell and music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, sued President Donald Trump's administration on Monday over her abrupt July firing.
Facts & Figures: women’s political leadership & participation worldwide.
Former Ambassador & Senator Tom Udall endorses Deb Haaland for Governor of New Mexico.
Media:
Book Review: Jill Lepore Thinks the U.S. Constitution Might Break America: In “We the People,” the Harvard historian worries that the glacial amendment process is leading the country to crisis.
Karen Attiah: The last Black opinion columnist at the Washington Post says she was fired over her posts about Charlie Kirk and political violence.
Ha'aretz - no paywall Opinion | Three Films, Three Women [film auteurs], One Message: At the Oscars, Palestine Will Not Be Erased - the official Oscar submissions of Jordan, Tunisia and Palestine.
Uncategorizable:
'Allah is lesbian' shirt sees feminist jailed for 30 months in Morocco, courts cite harm to Islam: Ibtissame Lachgarwas also ordered to pay a fine of 50,000 Moroccan dirhams (approximately $5,500).
Action Item:
From Dr. Rachel Rubin: Tell the FDA they are wrong about estrogen.
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