While American women reach new milestones, including holding a record number of seats in the Senate, their representation in national legislative office still lags behind a hundred other countries, including falling two places below Saudi Arabia, which is notorious for its terrible treatment of women.

In three cases of undocumented minors needing abortions, the government has argued that merely allowing the women to physically leave a detention facility would amount to facilitating their abortions, even though no one is asking the government to transport the women to clinics or to pay for their abortions.

As the administration continues to absorb legal blowback and fight cases in federal courts, Trump has quietly pushed ahead with his mission to remake the federal judiciary in his image: one that is very white, very Republican, and very male.

Tweaking just a few words in a sentence can change its meaning entirely. The Trump administration recently did just that—and the tiny edit may have drastic repercussions for women.

No one is heralding Trump as a feminist hero. Yet on October 6, the president signed into law an act advocates say will make feminist history.