Historic Milestones
Ms. made history in 1972 when it published the names of women admitting to having had abortions when the procedure was still illegal in most of the United States. A year later, Roe v. Wade would legalize abortion throughout the country.
A 1976 cover story on battered women made Ms. the first national magazine to address the issue of domestic violence. The cover photo featured a woman with a bruised face.
Ms. magazine's credibility was damaged in the 1980s and 1990s when it became swept up in the day care sexual abuse frenzy and moral panic about Satanic ritual abuse.
The "We Had Abortions" petition appears in the October 2006 issue as part of the issue's cover story. The petition contains signatures of over 5,000 women declaring that they had an abortion and were "unashamed of (the) decision", including actresses Amy Brenneman and Kathy Najimy, comedienne Carol Leifer, and Steinem herself.
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“We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in “the social” our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial cosiness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)