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For our Winter issue, we spoke to some of the many leaders and organizations preparing to safeguard decades of hard-fought gains for women and girls, now threatened by the Trump administration and its Project 2025. Sign up now and you can get a year of Ms. for just $20!

Like FDA approval of the pill a decade earlier, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act “changed the trajectory of American women’s lives” overnight. A new Smithsonian exhibit documents the fight.

“Encouragement, counseling, and emotional support are plainly protected speech under Supreme Court precedent,” a federal appeals court ruled on Dec. 2, “including when offered in the difficult context of deciding whether to have an abortion.”

Some political pundits are arguing that messaging around abortion and the threat of a nationwide ban failed to move a majority of voters in the presidential election. But they should not be so fast to discount the power of the abortion issue in the elections: abortion was still a critical issue when it came to the Senate and down-ballot races.

Individuals with anti-medicine, anti-science and antiabortion stances are being elevated to positions that will fundamentally shape the medical and public health systems as we know it.

“If candidates can win by effectively feminizing their opponents, what does it mean when a woman enters the race?” Two political scientists make sense of Trump’s win.

Last week marked a historic occasion at the Supreme Court: the first time an openly trans lawyer argued before the court. More in this week's Ms. Must-Reads:

Trump supporters’ calling for an end to women’s suffrage may be the canary in the coal mine for further drastic changes to the electoral system.

On Wednesday, Dec. 4, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case challenging Tennessee’s ban on healthcare for trans youth.

"The president-elect’s incoming administration is shaping up to be a who’s-who of notable assailants. Given the track record of the person who chose them, color me unsurprised."