The Week in Women Ep. 3
Conservatives attack a traumatized child, Iranian feminists stand up for their rights, and experts worry that abortion restrictions will be economically disastrous.
Welcome to Episode #3 of The Week in Women. This week, headlines include shameless right-wing attacks on a ten-year-old rape victim and the doctor who helped her end her pregnancy; feminists urging women to reject mandatory hijab in Iran; a state-by-state rundown of challenges to various laws criminalizing abortion; how French feminists are seizing this moment to enshrine their own abortion rights into their constitution, and much more.
I also speak with my friend, the feminist writer and Teen Vogue Sex & Love columnist Nona Willis Aronowitz, who has an excellent book coming out next month called Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution. We talk about — you guessed it — bad sex, but also the legacy of second-wave feminism and how Nona, a new mom, thinks about the right to abortion as part of the right to sexual freedom and pleasure.
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SHOW NOTES:
Ten-year-old child becomes the center of a right-wing media storm:
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/13/indiana-doctor-10-year-old-rape-victim-00045764
DOJ launches a reproductive rights task force
State law rundown:
Arizona: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/12/us-abortion-rights-arizona-judge-blocks-personhood-law
North Carolina: https://www.wfxrtv.com/news/regional-news/north-carolina/nc-gov-roy-cooper-signs-executive-order-to-protect-womens-rights-to-abortion/
Louisiana: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/12/us/louisiana-abortion-legal-trigger-ban.html
Utah: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2022/07/11/these-utahns-plan-get-abortions/
Indiana: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/08/judge-indiana-abortion-ban-00044696
Mississippi: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/06/missisppi-abortion-clinic-closure/
West Virginia: https://www.theintelligencer.net/news/top-headlines/2022/07/morrisey-files-response-in-state-abortion-law-case/
New Mexico: https://www.abqjournal.com/2514685/lawsuit-seeks-anti-abortion-ruling-in-nm.html
Death by stoning in Sudan:
Poland prosecuting abortion rights activist:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/07/13/poland-end-prosecution-abortion-activist
Reproductive rights and the economy:
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/10/women-workforce-economy-raimondo-00044890
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/11/us/politics/abortion-ban-states-businesses.html
Iran cracks down on feminists, women push back:
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202207131839
France and abortion:
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2022/0708/US-abortion-ruling-puts-women-on-alert-worldwide