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Women Marines Pass Tougher Standards in Latest News Roundup

Original: Keeping Score: Women Marines Pass Tougher Fitness Standards; Congressional Candidate Hopes Rape Survivors ‘Have the Baby’; Sotomayor Questions Colleagues’ Understanding of First Amendment

Women Marines have met newly toughened fitness standards, drawing attention to the changing demands placed on female service members. The news cycle also features a congressional candidate saying rape survivors should 'have the baby,' a remark stirring backlash in the abortion debate, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor questioning whether her Supreme Court colleagues fully understand the First Amendment. Together the stories touch on women's rights, reproductive politics and constitutional interpretation.

Why now: The roundup combines several contentious political stories about women, abortion and the Supreme Court that are driving debate.

US Marine CorpsSonia SotomayorUS CongressMs. Magazine

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• Keeping Score: Women Marines Pass Tougher Fitness Standards; Congressional Candidate Hopes Rape Survivors ‘Have the Baby’; Sotomayor Questions Colleagues’ Understanding of First Amendment · Ms. Magazine

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