By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

The Senate is voting on a 20-week abortion ban tomorrow.

How deporting immigrants hurts their kids. 

American troops have instructions to ignore child sexual abuse in Afghanistan.

One women’s story of terminating a much-wanted pregnancy at 12 weeks.  And another’s of doing so at 20 weeks.

A teen boy was charged with sexual exploitation for having sexually explicit photos of a minor on his phone — the “minor” in this case was himself.

Ann reviews a new book on the history of female friendship.

St. Paul, MN

Maya Dusenbery is executive director in charge of editorial at Feministing. She is the author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (HarperOne, March 2018). She has been a fellow at Mother Jones magazine and a columnist at Pacific Standard magazine. Her work has appeared in publications like Cosmopolitan.com, TheAtlantic.com, Bitch Magazine, as well as the anthology The Feminist Utopia Project. Before become a full-time journalist, she worked at the National Institute for Reproductive Health. A Minnesota native, she received her B.A. from Carleton College in 2008. After living in Brooklyn, Oakland, and Atlanta, she is currently based in the Twin Cities.

Maya Dusenbery is an executive director of Feministing and author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm on sexism in medicine.

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