Feminism

Oakland (Special to Informed Comment) – The leaked SCOTUS draft to overturn Roe v. Wade leaves a lot to unpack. For Jews, Muslims and other religious minorities, this is a threat to religious liberty in general. Jewish law, (Halacha), does not consider the fetus to be a being with a soul until it is born, […]

Feminism

Nothing Is More Personal Than the Right to Control Your Own Body

Olivia Alperstein

( Otherwords.org ) – The personal, as they say, is political. And there’s nothing more personal than the right to control your own body. So as a human with reproductive organs, the leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion overruling Roe v. Wade — and the constitutional right to abortion — is obviously personal to […]

Featured

Occupied Bodies: How SCOTUS’ repeal of Roe and the Israeli Supreme Court’s Expulsion of Palestinians are Similar

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – This week a leaked opinion by far right wing Justice Samuel Alito revealed that the Trump-Bush majority on the Supreme Court intended to reverse Roe v. Wade and allow states to make abortion illegal. Throughout Alito’s opinion ran a subtext, however, of denying the constitutional right to privacy, a notion […]

Evangelicals

Who is More Advanced? 29 Muslim-Majority States will Have more Liberal Abortion Laws than much of America if Roe Falls

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The American Religious Right as a political force is in some ways a creation of the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that made abortion a woman’s right grounded in Americans’ constitutional right to privacy. Opposition to abortion and to a right to privacy united previously divided factions within […]

Bill of Rights

State Power will replace Roe Abortion right if leaked Alito opinion prevails in Supreme Court

The Conversation

By Morgan Marietta, UMass Lowell | – Draft opinions circulated among Supreme Court justices are meant to allow for deliberation and editing before a final version is released. They are not the last word, nor ready for public reaction. But on the evening of May 2, 2022, Politico published a bombshell: a leaked draft of […]

Feminism

Vladimir Putin, the Czar of macho Politics, is threatened by Gender and Sexuality Rights

The Conversation

By Valerie Sperling, Alexandra Novitskaya, Janet Elise Johnson, and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom | – Vladimir Putin has mentioned “gender freedoms” more than once to justify Russia’s war against Ukraine and simultaneously crack down on its own citizens. Most directly, he alleged that Russian citizens who seek “gender freedoms” (alongside foie gras and oysters) are part […]

Arab World

Systemic Change Is Coming to the Arab World Thanks to Gen Z Women

Suzan Kanoo

Manama (Special to Informed Comment) – Change is coming, I promise. Even as the pace of modernization in the Arab world shows some signs of acceleration, we all must recognize that deep-rooted cultural norms around women’s roles and rights are slow to evolve. Guess who is going to change that? The women of Generation Z. […]

Feminism

Ukraine’s women fighters reflect a cultural tradition of feminist independence

The Conversation

By Mia Bloom, Georgia State University and Sophia Moskalenko, Georgia State University | – Tens of thousands of Ukrainian women have taken up arms during the war sparked by Russia’s invasion. According to media reports, women constitute as much as 15% to 17% of the Ukrainian fighting force. In the first two weeks of the […]

Feminism

Combating Honor Killings among Kurds: Is a New kind of Education Needed?

Alex Poppe

(Special to Informed Comment) – Four women were victims of honor killings during the week of February 17, 2022 in Iraqi Kurdistan. The following week, a fifth woman died after being burned alive by her husband. Despite the launch of an app to combat violence against women, the establishment of a support hotline for gender-based […]