The Week in Women
Greece legalizes gay marriage, Jeffrey Epstein victims sue FBI, Trump support for 16-week abortion ban
Hi readers, and welcome to The Week in Women, a rundown of this week’s major women’s rights stories from around the world. Here we go!
Greece became the first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same sex marriage.
Trump has privately told advisors and allies that he supports a 16-week federal abortion ban, with exceptions for rape, incest, and to save the life of the pregnant person.
A new study released this week found that abortions by telemedicine and mailed pills are as safe and effective as in-person care.
“Dark Valentine” vigils were held in six cities across Kenya to mourn and protest more than 30 instances of femicide since the start of 2024.
Almost a dozen Jeffery Epstein victims are suing the FBI for covering up its neglect to investigate Epstein and allowing his sex trafficking to continue for over 20 years.
Missouri’s Supreme Court ruled against a Republican fueled effort to block taxpayer dollars from going to Planned Parenthood.
…and that’s it for now. Have a great week ahead!
xx Tamar + Jill
The Week in Women comes to you thanks to research from Tamar Eisen (she/her/hers), an advocate for reproductive justice and gender equity. She lives in New York City where she works for the Center for Reproductive Rights and teaches yoga.
This may not sound like a women’s issue at first glance but I believe it is. This week our VP Kamala Harris gave a powerful address at the security conference in Munich to reassure our allies that the US will not betray them to Putin after trump promised to do just that.
She was impressive and knowledgeable in the q&a afterwards. It barely merited a sentence in an article about Zelensky in the WaPo. Even a news junkie might be excused for not knowing about the hard, serious work of quiet diplomacy she’s been doing in Asia and the Middle East. She only gets coverage when she misspeaks. And the media’s neglect to cover her work and accomplishments has enabled the right wing narrative that she’s an “identity politics affirmative action” hire who is doing nothing. I hear people who should know better talk about what a disaster she is but they can’t name anything she’s said or done that was disastrous. In part it’s Biden’s fault for hanging the border issue around her neck early on and she wasn’t a great campaigner in 2020. But I think misogyny is also at work here. People just assume the woman of color is less qualified unless she forcefully and publicly proves otherwise.