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Burns realizes the importance of women and people of color seeing her in this role. Burns has said: “Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in. That’s why I spend so much time with organizations that help minorities and women gain the education and self-respect they need to take risks, to dream big, and, I hope, to someday pay it forward.”

Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which concerns a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy—the biggest threat to Roe v. Wade in the past 50 years. Roe and its progeny hold that a person’s right to end their pregnancy before viability is a rule of law and a component of liberty that cannot be renounced. 

I am saddened and frustrated to be writing yet again about another attack on women’s reproductive rights.

Lawyers Club applauds Judge Pitman’s decision and will continue to fight for reproductive justice. Please join us at the Advocacy & Reproductive Justice event on November 18, 2021.

On Saturday, October 2, 2021, before the United States Supreme Court reconvenes for its October term, the people of San Diego will join marchers across the nation who are taking to the street and demanding women’s right to reproductive healthcare be protected. 

Yesterday – nine months into the year – was #NativeWomensEqualPayDay.  This means that Native American women had to work until September 8, 2021, to earn what their white, non-Hispanic male colleagues earned on average in 2020—that is 60 cents for every dollar.  This equates to more than $24,000 per year and $1 million over a 40-year career.  

If you are looking to never worry about a 40-year tax (rough estimate of how long women menstruate), then look no further than Scotland.