In the News
March 15, 2023
The twice-a-month Keeping Score roundup at Ms. Magazine tracks research on progress in the fight for equality and catalogs can't-miss quotes from feminist voices. It keeps tabs on the feminist movement's many milestones. In this edition, it quotes from Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-N.M.) 's sharing on RepresentWomen's Democracy Solutions Summit. Read the excerpt below:
“President Biden missed an important opportunity to bring abortion justice to his first federal budget since the end of Roe by not eliminating all abortion coverage bans.
“We applaud the exclusion of the Hyde Amendment and ban for D.C. residents, but the fact that other coverage bans that impact federal employees, people in federal detention, and Peace Corps volunteers still remain is simply unconscionable. These policies deny people the freedom to make their own decisions, and they all have to go. Congress must be bolder and introduce spending bills without any coverage bans. Abortion justice can’t wait.”
—All* Above All president Morgan Hopkins on the release of President Joe Biden’s new federal budget, which maintains coverage bans that restrict insurance coverage of pregnancy termination.
“I am humbled and elated to join the Smithsonian as the founding director of the American Women’s History Museum. … I look forward to partnering with colleagues to leverage the Smithsonian’s magnificent portfolio of museums, educational resources and research—and its incomparable collections. Museums play a critical role at the nexus of scholarship and public access. Creating voice for the stories of American women will take intentional conversations, creative inputs and energetic curation.”
—Nancy Yao, the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum’s first director, in a statement on her appointment to the role. The museum was established in December 2020. Yao previously served as the president of the Museum of Chinese in America in New York City.
“Because the only way the arc of history bends towards justice is if we all lean in together to push that arc in the direction of representation, justice and freedom. We are leaning in on democracy. We are leaning in together… Together we can do it.”
—Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-N.M.) during RepresentWomen’s Democracy Solutions Summit on March 9. Day three of the event aimed to unpack systemic explanations for gender disparities in national politics, and proposed possible solutions such as ranked choice voting.
Read the full edition here.
