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Today at Ms. | May 20, 2025
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Sean Combs’ Defense Leans on Familiar Tropes About Women. Will the Jury Believe His Accusers? [[link removed]]
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By Deborah Tuerkheimer | Casandra Elizabeth Ventura has described years of alleged physical and sexual abuse at the hands of Sean “Diddy” Combs. Combs has denied the charges, insisting that the sex acts were consensual.
The women’s credibility is therefore critical to the trial’s outcome.
As Combs’ lawyer already previewed, his team will endeavor to convince the jury that the accusers are lying. The courtroom becomes a stage for the oldest stories we tell about women and truth.
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More Women Are Landing Construction Jobs. Trump’s War on DEI Could Change That. [[link removed]]
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By Ariel Gilreath, The Hechinger Report | The Trump administration has revoked executive orders encouraging the hiring of women and cut funding for groups dedicated to helping female workers enter the trades.
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Republican Efforts to Defund Planned Parenthood Would Increase Budget Deficit $300 Million [[link removed]]
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By Carrie N. Baker | The House Rules Committee is set to meet at 1 a.m. ET on May 21 to discuss Medicaid funding cuts that would essentially defund Planned Parenthood.
The provision would stop Planned Parenthood from being able to be reimbursed for providing services to people insured by Medicaid or those eligible for free or reduced fee services through the Title X program. The provision would affect access to pap smears, breast cancer screenings, STI tests, birth control and more to the 2 million people currently served by the close to 600 Planned Parenthood locations across the country each year.
“The fact of the matter is, if Republicans get their way—if they succeed in shutting the doors of Planned Parenthood clinics across the country—millions of women will have nowhere else to turn,” said Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.). “After all, two-thirds of Planned Parenthood health centers are in rural and medically underserved areas—places where there’s already a shortage of clinics and healthcare professionals. And for a lot of these patients, Planned Parenthood is literally the only provider in reach and in budget. They literally can’t afford to lose this care.”
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In this emergency episode, we’re ringing the alarm bells: We just learned that in the state of Georgia, a woman named Adriana Smith, who passed away in February, and has been declared brain-dead, is being forcibly kept on a ventilator due to the state’s strict abortion ban, against her family’s wishes. Dr. Michele Goodwin breaks down Adriana Smith’s case, and the cases of other women who, like Smith, have been disrespected and desecrated in death thanks to abortion bans and pregnancy exclusion laws.
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