Judge Pauses Louisiana’s Mifepristone Restrictions as FDA Review Looms A district court judge has stayed Louisiana’s ongoing attempt to restrict access to the abortion medication mifepristone, to allow time for the Food and Drug Administration to finish its own review…

A district court judge has stayed Louisiana’s ongoing attempt to restrict access to the abortion medication mifepristone—but advocates warn that access to the medication is still in jeopardy.

Mr. President, If You Care About Families, Stop Cutting What They Need to Survive The Trump administration’s agenda forces a narrow definition of family, while cutting basic needs spending Food, Healthcare and Housing.

Great read from Diana Azevedo-McCaffrey in @msmagazine.com. The Trump admin frames its agenda as “family-first,” while cutting food, health care, and housing supports that families rely on.

“Genuine support for families looks like meeting families where they are.” msmagazine.com/2026/04/12/m...

Say Their Names: The Women Who Died After Being Denied Emergency Abortion Care Women Who Died After Being Denied Emergency Abortion: Josseli Barnica, Yeniifer Alvarez-Estrada Glick, Amber Nicole Thurman, Candi Miller, Porsha Ngumezi, Taysha Wilkinson-Sobieski, Nevaeh Crain,…

All of these women should still be here. Abortion is essential, life-saving healthcare, and we must not accept a reality where women are dying preventable deaths because of senseless restrictions. msmagazine.com/2026/04/04/w...

The Antidote to Despair Is Finding our Role in Community Building Hyperlocal organizing, mutual aid and community care can help transform political despair into collective action.

Thanks to our board chair Kerani Mitchell for reminding us that we don't need to look far to find inspiration, hope, people making a difference, and a path to join in.

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Taysha Wilkinson-Sobieski, May 13, 1997-Oct. 12, 2023; Ciji Graham (both center pictures), Oct. 24, 1989-Nov. 19, 2023; and Nevaeh Crain, Nov. 1, 2004-Oct. 29, 2023. (Courtesy of Pinnington Funeral Services; Andrea Ellen Reed / ProPublica; Courtesy of Ciji Graham’s family; Danielle Villasana / ProPublica)

Say Their Names: The Women Who Died After Being Denied Emergency Abortion Care

In states banning abortion, doctors are withholding life-saving care from pregnant patients out of fear of prosecution, putting women’s lives at risk.

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Migrants with Border Patrol agents in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Sept. 21, 2023. The young woman in the front is blind. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Trump Considers Blocking Abortion Access for Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors in Federal Custody (Again)

A looming policy change threatens to undo existing protections and leave pregnant immigrant teens in federal custody without meaningful access to abortion care.

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@msmagazine.com features a co-authored piece by Brigitte Amiri ’99 and Shoshanna Ehrlich ’82 examining the Trump administration's move to roll back abortion access protections for unaccompanied immigrant minors in federal custody. @aclu.org
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Stop Calling Hungary an Authoritarian Playbook Casting Orbán’s attacks on higher education as an “authoritarian playbook” risks treating the erosion of academic freedom as inevitable.

"The playbook metaphor oversimplifies and suggests that the future is inevitable. It’s not."

The White House’s Medical Misinformation Is Harming American Children Amid a war in Iran, the Epstein Files, Americans gunned down in the Twin Cities, the gutting of the Department of Justice, and more, domestic health policy might not be at the top of mind for many. Ye...

"Important lessons can be learned from the recent measles outbreaks and the ongoing coronavirus—namely, protecting a nation’s health means acknowledging political grievances as poor substitutes for rigorous science," writes @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social:

Weekend Reading on Women's Representation: From Dolores Huerta to Cynthia Richie Terrell, Celebrating the Birthdays of the Women Keeping Movements Alive Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector…

This week’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election delivered a decision with significant implications for the right to abortion, voting rights, and the limits of federal overreach in the states. More in the latest Weekend Reading:

A screenshot of a Ms. Magazine article. The headline reads in black, "These fathers of trans children in the U.S. are deconstructing their own masculinity to become better parents. The subheader reads in hot pink, "premiering at SXSW, The Dads follows fathers of trans and nonbinary children as they confront escalating anti-trans policies and reimagine masculinity, parenthood, and what it means to protect their kids in today's America." Below is a still from the movie of the dads standing and wrapping their arms around one another with their backs facing the camera.

@luchinafisher.bsky.social's #TheDadsFilm is a powerful documentary spotlighting fathers of trans and nonbinary kids as they challenge anti-trans policies and dismantle toxic masculinity. @msmagazine.com @eocieslik.bsky.social bit.ly/3QwEu8R

About 80% of breast cancer biopsies turn out benign – new imaging tool promises clearer diagnoses and fewer biopsies Ultrasound is often used in breast cancer screening, but it can often provide inconclusive results. Combining it with near-infrared light can help patients avoid the anxiety and cost of a biopsy.

In the U.S., more than 1 million breast biopsies are performed each year, and about 80% of them are benign. #MsReads via @us.theconversation.com

Making Disability Visible in History: A Conversation With Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Dr. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is a pioneering scholar of bioethics, humanities, disability justice and culture, and professor emerita at Emory University. Widely considered the founder of feminist…

"Women’s bodies have always offered men an opportunity to talk about nations, to talk about themselves, to talk about government."

Trump’s Attack on Birthright Citizenship Echoes a Confederate Playbook The Birthright Citizenship Case at the Supreme Court: Trump’s Modern Day Confederate Playbook

At its core, Trump's executive order is not only a challenge to birthright citizenship but an attack on a nation that fought back against the villainy and evils of slavery and Chinese exclusion laws.

A Government That Chooses War Over Childcare As Trump sends billions to war in Iran, families struggle to afford childcare and states are left without the funding to provide it.

"If we are serious about supporting families and strengthening our workforce, we cannot put the onus on states while making it impossible for them to provide services."

Pulling a Page From the Confederacy: Trump and Birthright Citizenship Transcript: Dr. Michele Goodwin:  Welcome to On the Issues with Michele Goodwin at Ms. Magazine. Now, as you know, we report, rebel, and we tell it just like it is. And in this special episode,

Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a landmark case that seeks to fundamentally rewrite the substance and meaning of one of the most important provisions of the Constitution: birthright citizenship. @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social unpacks the case:

"'First They Came for My College' is, at times, almost unbearable to watch: a slow, procedural dismantling of a public institution. But what stayed with me wasn’t only the anger. It was the stubborn, surprising insistence on community, joy and showing up anyway."

Symptoms, Hormones and the Fight for Better Care: What Every Woman Should Know About Menopause and Perimenopause Symptoms, Hormones and the Fight for Better Care: What Every Woman Should Know About Menopause and Perimenopause

When it comes to the menopause and perimenopause landscape, many women are left navigating symptoms without clear, trustworthy information. We're hoping to change that:

These Fathers of Trans Children in the U.S. Are Deconstructing Their Own Masculinity to Become Better Parents The Dads follows fathers of trans/nonbinary children as they confront anti-trans policies and reimagine masculinity and parenthood in Trump's America.

'The Dads' follows fathers of trans and nonbinary children as they confront escalating anti-trans policies and reimagine masculinity, parenthood and what it means to protect their kids in today’s America.

On March 2, Yanar Mohammed, a leading Iraqi feminist and human rights defender, was killed in an armed attack in Baghdad.

More in the latest Ms. Global:

Community Providers Play a Critical Role in Supporting Sexual and Domestic Violence Survivors Self-Managing Abortions Community networks offer confidential, trauma-informed support to survivors of domestic violence seeking abortion pills.

Existing outside of the formal medical system, community providers mail free abortion pills to tens of thousands of pregnant people each year, and support them to self-manage their abortions.

April 2026 Reads for the Rest of Us The best feminist books written by women, Black, brown, AAPI, LGBTQ, Native, disabled, trans, nonbinary writers in April 2026.

Our April reading list has feminist thrillers, survival guides and rule-breaking books:

Forget the 'Manosphere'—The 'Meno-Sphere' Is the Voting Bloc With Real Power Older women continue to be overlooked, but they could help swing the next election. Democrats and Republicans need to consider these voters.

Who should forward-thinking political strategists and hopefuls turn their attention to? The oft-forgotten, invisible aging woman—or, what we like to call the meno-sphere.

How Cyberattacks on Essential Services Hit Women Harder When cyberattacks disrupt healthcare, schools and transit, women absorb the heaviest burdens, yet policy still treats them as gender-neutral.

When cyberattacks disrupt healthcare, schools and transit, women absorb the heaviest burdens—yet policy still treats these impacts as gender-neutral.

Louisiana Court Pauses Lawsuit Demanding Nationwide Telehealth Abortion Ban Mifepristone manufacturers Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro ask a court to dismiss a Republican-led lawsuit to ban telehealth abortion.

On April 7, a District Court judge granted the DOJ’s motion to stay Louisiana’s case attempting to restrict access to the medication mifepristone while the FDA conducts its own review of the medication based on discredited antiabortion propaganda.

In Iran, Iraq and the U.S., Women Speak Out Against State Repression From Nasrin Sotoudeh to Shelly Kittleson, women who challenge state power are being detained, disappeared and targeted.

🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Time & time again, it is women who speak out in the face of state repression—as journalists speaking truth to power, lawyers fighting for the rights of the oppressed, or everyday women taking to the streets in defiance of regimes.” @msmagazine.com msmagazine.com/2026/04/04/i...

The broken database that could upend the 2026 election President Trump and the election conspiracy theorists he surrounds himself with are determined to exclude people from voting in the 2026 election based on one database: the Department of Homeland…

President Trump and the election conspiracy theorists he surrounds himself with are determined to exclude people from voting in the 2026 election based on one database: the Department of Homeland Security’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE). #MsReads via @popular.info

The Curious Case of Afong Moy: Asian Womanhood and National Belonging In the U.S. The Curious Case of Afong Moy: Asian Womanhood and National Belonging In the U.S.

"The curious case of Afong Moy, a living woman treated as a thing whose fame was only matched by her anonymity, reminds us how the dignity of personhood remains, for many, still a battle to be fought."

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I Want to Be Obsolete. Instead, I’m Afraid to Teach. a gender studies professor describes the growing surveillance, censorship and intimidation reshaping what happens inside her classroom.

A gender studies professor describes the growing surveillance, censorship and intimidation reshaping what happens inside her classroom:

"We risk being placed on watchlists created by men who are threatened by our ability to explain the way patriarchy regulates our students’ lives."

Trump Considers Blocking Abortion Access for Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors in Federal Custody (Again) Trump Considers Blocking Abortion Access for Unaccompanied Immigrant Girls and Minors in Federal Custody (Again)

The government is poised to adopt a de facto ban on abortion care for unaccompanied immigrant minors—putting pregnant immigrant teens in federal custody at risk.