Candace Gibson, Author at Ms. Magazine https://msmagazine.com/author/candacegibson/ More Than A Magazine, A Movement Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:19:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://msmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-ms-logo-32x32.jpg Candace Gibson, Author at Ms. Magazine https://msmagazine.com/author/candacegibson/ 32 32 No, Abortion Pills Aren’t Polluting U.S. Waterways https://msmagazine.com/2025/12/16/mifepristone-abortion-pills-flush-drinking-water/ Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:18:53 +0000 https://msmagazine.com/?p=390065 Abortion pills are a critical option for people seeking to end a pregnancy, especially those living in U.S. states with abortion bans who cannot travel out of state for care. In 2023, medication abortion accounted for 63 percent of all clinician-provided abortions in states without total bans.

Given the pivotal role of these medications in preserving abortion access, antiabortion policymakers and advocates are resorting to increasingly unscientific, unconventional tactics to spread mis- and disinformation about medication abortion and about mifepristone, one of two drugs used in most medication abortions in the United States.

In a disturbing new strategy, antiabortion policymakers are attempting to weaponize environmental laws and regulations, citing false claims that medication abortion pollutes U.S. waterways and drinking water.

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]]> Government-Issued IDs are Barriers—to Voting and to Emergency Contraception https://msmagazine.com/2012/11/30/government-issued-ids-a-barrier-to-the-vote-and-to-emergency-contraception/ Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:32:41 +0000 http://testdb.msmagazine.com/blog/?p=75013 This past election cycle, we saw the power a government-issued ID can give an individual. In states where voter ID laws were being enforced, individuals who did not have government IDs could not exercise their right to vote. Several communities were adversely affected: transgender people, Latinos, African Americans, students, the elderly, people with disabilities—in short, […]

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