Keeping Score: Abortion Bans Cost $140B Per Year; Federal Courts Protect Trans Youth and Incarcerated Trans Women; Feminists React to FBI Raid on Ohio Voting Rights Organization

In every issue of Ms., we track research on our progress in the fight for equality, catalogue can’t-miss quotes from feminist voices and keep tabs on the feminist movement’s many milestones. We’re Keeping Score online, too—in this biweekly roundup.

House Democrats Move to Force Contraception Rights Vote: “The Trump administration has made it clear that they will chip away at reproductive rights until they have total control over our bodies, our lives, and our futures. Attacks on reproductive health care, including contraception, are clearly laid out in Project 2025, and we have already seen the devastating consequences of these attacks. To protect our bodily autonomy and freedom, Congress must act quickly to stand with the vast majority of Americans who believe contraception is vital healthcare, not with the extremists who seek to take it away.” —Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center.