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Ms. launched with a bold declaration: Women were having abortions, and the law should allow for it. In the more than 50 years since, abortion access, abortion laws, anti-abortion violence, and abortion’s connection to larger feminist issues have remained core to the magazine. 

This episode of “Looking Back, Moving Forward” traces the feminist fight for bodily autonomy — from Roe to Dobbs and beyond. Tune in to hear how feminists are organizing to defend and expand reproductive freedom in this challenging moment, and what lessons from the pages of Ms. can inform our fight forward.

Featuring We Testify founder and executive director and Liberating Abortion co-author Renee Bracey Sherman, Co-Faculty Director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and author of Policing the Womb Michele Goodwin, Plan C co-directors Angie Jean-Marie and Amy Merrill, Women’s Law Project Executive Director Susan Frietsche, Massachusetts Governor and Reproductive Freedom Alliance executive committee member Maura Healey, and yours truly.