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I was 12 when the Whitlam government was elected, and not aware of all of this stuff. But “I am Woman” was released that year, and I’m not sure that any song has ever impacted me so strongly. I hadn’t realised that so many of the Whitlam government’s reforms were straight from WEL.

“Women’s Studies” was one of my majors in the 90s, but by then the “f -word” was disappointingly out of vogue.
#Feminism
#AbortionRights
#Activism

abc.net.au/news/2025-04-20/bea

ABC News · How Beatrice Faust founded the Women's Electoral Lobby and made female votes count at the ballot boxBy ABC News

Missouri house passes amendment re-establishing abortion ban

In addition to the abortion language, the proposed amendment also would place in the constitution a ban on transgender youth accessing gender-affirming health care.

stlpr.org/government-politics-

Rep. Brian Seitz, a Branson Republican, speaks during House debate on Feb. 11.
STLPR · Missouri House passes amendment that would re-establish a state abortion banBy Sarah Kellogg

While #Trump is illegally ignoring Supreme Court decisions in order to advance his #fascist agenda, #PierrePoilievre, as Prime Minister, would seek to use, for the first time ever by the federal government, the Canadian Constitution's #NotwithstandingClause in order to end what he calls "#WokeCulture" in the #PublicService and in the #military.

But he denies being a "mini-Trump"

#NeverPoilievre #LGBTQrights #AbortionRights #HumanRights #NeverVoteConservative
#Never51

#Trump administration refers #Maine to #DOJ over #TransgenderAthletes

by Brooke Migdon - 04/11/25

"The Department of Education on Friday referred a #TitleIX investigation into Maine schools to the #JusticeDepartment after the state failed to reach a resolution with the Trump administration over a finding that it violated federal anti-discrimination law by allowing transgender students to participate in girls’ sports.

" 'The Department has given Maine every opportunity to come into compliance with Title IX, but the state’s leaders have stubbornly refused to do so, choosing instead to prioritize an extremist ideological agenda [sic] over their students’ safety, privacy, and dignity,' said Craig Trainor, acting assistant Education secretary for [WHAT A JOKE] civil rights.

"The Education Department in its announcement said it will also initiate administrative proceedings to determine whether to terminate federal #K12 education funding for Maine’s state education department, including formula and discretionary grants.

"'The Maine Department of Education will now have to defend its discriminatory practices before a Department administrative law judge and in a federal court against the Justice Department,' Trainor said. 'Governor [Janet] Mills would have done well to adhere to the wisdom embedded in the old idiom — be careful what you wish for. Now she will see the Trump Administration in court.'

"Both the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which recently began investigating schools and states that allow transgender athletes to compete in girls’ sports, said in March that Maine had violated Title IX, the federal civil rights law against sex discrimination that the Trump White House says prohibits trans athletes from competing on girls’ and women’s teams."

Read more:
thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/524

#TransgenderRights #FollowTheScience #Transphobia #TransErasure #ProtectTransYouth #MaineResists #TrumpIsABully #SeeYouInCourt #AbortionRights? #WomensRights? #ArrestingMiscarryingWomen? #TrumpDoesntGiveAShitAboutWomen

'#HandsOff' rally in #PortsmouthNH: Thousands slam #Trump and his policies

by Ian Lenahan
Portsmouth Herald
Updated 3:19 p.m. ET April 5, 2025

PORTSMOUTH — "Large crowds of protesters gathered Saturday at "Hands Off" rallies in Seacoast New Hampshire and Maine and across the nation, speaking out against President Donald Trump and his administration's actions.

"Large crowds in downtown Portsmouth lined both sides of the length of Congress Street, spilling into side streets, exceeding expectations for city police.
Protesters have focused on issues like Trump's tariffs, Trump's actions to end protections for immigrants and transgender people, the dismantling of the Department of Education, cuts to the Veterans Administration, and layoffs of thousands of federal workers.

"Protesters in Portsmouth called for the Department of Government Efficiency to be dismantled, for the federal government to protect #teachers, public #school staff, #Abortionrights, #FederalWorkers, #WomensRights and #LGBTQ+ rights, labeled Trump “#orangeMussolini,” and called for preserving #Medicaid, #Medicare and #SocialSecurity.

“Hands off the Constitution,” one sign said. “Democracy is not for sale!”
Portsmouth crowd grows to thousands

Read more, view photos:
usatoday.com/story/news/local/

Archived version:
archive.ph/VtjVe
#NewHampshireResists #HandsOff2025 #April5th #BadDOGE #ResistFascism #USPol

USA TODAY · 'Hands Off' rally in Portsmouth: Thousands slam Trump and his policiesBy , USA TODAY

West Alabama Women's Center to their patients, after a recent court order:

After three years of silence, they can "now allowed to tell patients ALL of their options for their pregnancies without fear of being prosecuted for "criminal conspiracy" by the Alabama Attorney General."

#AbortionIsHealthcare #AbortionRights #Abortion #Alabama

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wawchealth.dm.networkforgood.comAlmost Three Years of Silence is OVER!

Stephanie Kirchgaessner: US doctors describe three patient deaths that could have been prevented with #abortion access in new study: Doctors in states with abortion bans say patients were not told of abortion care as option for fear of legal consequences

#healthcare #health #AbortionRights #law #uspol
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

The Guardian · US doctors describe three patient deaths that could have been prevented with abortion access in new studyBy Stephanie Kirchgaessner