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The battle over diversity and inclusion has always been about labor. But Trump was able to frame it as something else.

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Since the very earliest days of the United States, class was a central lens through which Americans interpreted politics . . . in the 1960s politicians began to focus on race and gender . . . Now, with Trump . . . class appears to be back . . .

“This executive order is essentially a Trojan horse for embryonic and fetal personhood,” says Kulsoom Ijaz, senior staff attorney at Pregnancy Justice. “They are smuggling this ideology into federal policy.”

In a time of heightened threats to reproductive rights, a women’s health scholar and mother of two comes face to face with her uterus.

White and Black women have joined together to power progressive causes — from abolition to civil rights — but it’s a tenuous alliance.