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Today in Labor History March 22, 1972: U.S. Congress sent the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification. It failed. And to this day, women earn 84% of what men do. One of the exceptions is public education, where teachers’ unions have fought and won the right to collectively bargain salaries based on years of experience, not gender. The first ERA was introduced to Congress in 1923. The 1972 had wide bipartisan support, including by presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter, and seemed destined to pass. However, Phyllis Schlafly mobilized conservative women against the amendment, arguing that it would disadvantage housewives, make them eligible for the draft and cause divorcees to lose custody of their children. This killed the ERA in the 1970s. From 2017-2020, several states have ratified the ERA. However, it is uncertain whether these ratifications are legal, since they occurred after the deadlines. Schlafly went on to become a major player in the anti-abortion and anti-feminist and anti-LGBTQ rights movements.

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I'm just going to leave this paragraph here for you to decide if a has formed:

*** Physicians at Idaho’s largest health system will continue to be shielded from criminal prosecution for providing abortion care in an emergency after a federal court judge issued a new protection order Thursday in a lawsuit over the state’s abortion ban. ***

What do you think of this ...

idahocapitalsun.com/2025/03/21

"A first-of-its-kind analysis by ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% after #Texas’ near-total #abortion ban went into effect in September 2021. The analysis also identified at least 120 in-hospital deaths of pregnant or postpartum women in 2022 and 2023 — an increase of dozens of deaths from a comparable period before the COVID-19 pandemic."

propublica.org/article/texas-m

ProPublicaTexas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
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‼️ BREAKING: Texas Makes First Arrests Under Abortion Ban‼️

Three people were arrested this month for allegedly performing abortions in the Houston area, marking the first arrests of health care providers under Texas’ abortion ban.

pslweb.org
 
Women’s Rights in Cuba: pixelfed.social/p/Rex_Tail/803

In Cuba, abortion and all healthcare is free, and enshrined in a constitution democratically voted on by the people: geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/0

#texas#abortion#usa
‼️ BREAKING: Texas Makes First Arrests Under Abortion Ban‼️

Three people were arrested this month for allegedly performing abortions in the Houston area, marking the first arrests of health care providers under Texas’ abortion ban. The charges and arrests involved a months-long investigation led by Texas’s Office of the Attorney General.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Governor Greg Abbott, and the entire far-right leadership of Texas have spearheaded the misogynist, anti-abortion crusade even years before the overturn of Roe v. Wade — with these arrests, they hope to set the example.

This repression will not shut us up. We must not accept this repression — we must defend our hard won rights, and keep fighting to expand them. Stand up, fight back ‼️

Photo credit: @houstontxpsl on Instagram

https://pslweb.org
 
Women’s Rights in Cuba: https://pixelfed.social/p/Rex_Tail/803136383337822944

#texas #abortion #usa #us #USPolitics
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Today I learned that the Hyde Amendment has to be RENEWED EVERY YEAR. Like, what? The US could just NOT fucking restrict abortion access for Medicaid recipients if we decided not to? We could've been doing differently anytime since the 1980s? WTAF!

I'm also really into this 2016 Hillary Clinton quote: "Any right that requires you to take extraordinary measures to access it is no right at all."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Ame

en.wikipedia.orgHyde Amendment - Wikipedia
#TIL#USPol#USpoli

"...some Democratic attorneys general are visiting abortion clinics to hear their workers’ fears and requests, and training law enforcement on how to respond when demonstrators break the law.

The moves come in response to President Donald Trump pardoning abortion protesters convicted of federal crimes and reducing enforcement of a decades-old law that prohibits interference with anyone seeking reproductive health services."

politico.com/news/2025/03/19/a