Welcome, subscribers, to episode #2 of The Week in Women, which you have early access to (thank you for subscribing!). This week, headlines include international shock and outrage as the US violates the rights of women and girls, progress on abortion rights in Sierra Leone, a dystopian hellscape for child rape victims in America, and much more.

I also speak with Dana Johnson, a researcher focused on self-managed abortion, about what self-managed abortion is, whether it’s safe, and how to do it.

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Show Notes

Sources for this episode include:

International Shock and Outrage as the US violates the rights of women and girls:

https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements/2022/07/access-safe-and-legal-abortion-urgent-call-united-states-adhere-womens-rights

https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/3547465-un-urges-us-to-adhere-to-womens-human-rights-convention-after-overturn-of-roe-v-wade/

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/06/24/1107370547/global-reproductive-and-womens-rights-groups-react-to-overturn-of-roe-v-wade

Ukraine signs the Istanbul Convention:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/06/ukraine-historic-victory-for-womens-rights-as-istanbul-convention-ratified/

Women and Climate Change:

https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/06/1121442

https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements/2022/06/annual-full-day-discussion-human-rights-women

China pushes childbearing:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/business/economy/china-reproductive-rights-women.html

Sierra Leone moves to liberalize its abortion law:

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jul/06/sierra-leone-backs-bill-to-legalise-abortion-and-end-colonial-era-law

Breastfeeding Guidelines:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/opinion/breastfeeding-guidelines.html

https://19thnews.org/2022/06/senate-fails-to-pass-breastfeeding-law-for-9-million-working-parents-despite-calls-for-flexibility-amid-formula-shortage/

Support for Abortion:

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-biden-nancy-pelosi-womens-rights-government-and-politics-c410dbe9a8321b35a4e779b2fb226de5

Abortion Dystopia in the US:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/03/ohio-indiana-abortion-rape-victim

Brittney Griner pleads guilty to absurd charges in Russia:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/world/europe/brittney-griner-russia.html

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