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So-Called "Abortion Non-Discrimination Act" Threatens Women's Health
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) today challenged President Bush's signing of the Weldon Amendment, or so-called "Abortion Non-Discrimination Act" (ANDA). The legislation, originally proposed by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and added as an amendment to the final version of the omnibus appropriations bill, will allow health care organizations to refuse to comply with existing federal, state or local laws pertaining to abortion....
Posted: Thu, Dec 9, 2004 12:43am PST
Sex Slave Trade: Hundreds of Thousands of East European Women Sold For Sex
Crime syndicates use a variety of methods to capture young women. A girl walking down a road in Moldova is forced into a car. An overflowing Romanian orphanage receives a visit from "social workers" offering "apprentice programs" for adolescent girls. A young Ukrainian woman desperate to help her starving parents responds to a newspaper advertisement for au pairs to work in Germany. An ambitious young graduate signs up with what appears to be a legitimate foreign corporati...
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 7:35am PST
New Report Exposes Dangers of Bush Administration's Abstinence-Only Programming
New Report Exposes Dangers of Bush Administration's Abstinence-Only Programming; Gov't-Funded Abstinence-Only Programs Routinely Teach Untruths...
Posted: Thu, Dec 2, 2004 12:04pm PST
Pro-lifers attack pro-choice activist's character
NARAL President Rejects Catholic Background, Embraces Abortion and the Culture of Death...
Posted: Wed, Dec 1, 2004 11:37pm PST
New Report Finds Abstinence-Only Sex Education Contains False, Misleading Information
New Report Finds Abstinence-Only Sex Education Contains False, Misleading Information; Planned Parenthood Applauds Waxman Study...
Posted: Wed, Dec 1, 2004 9:46pm PST
The war against women
I'm posting this in the anti-war section because it isn't working for me at all, anymore to see the general erosion of reproductive rights and the utter lack of reproductive justice placed within the unnacceptably discreet catagory of women's rights/women's pages....
Posted: Tue, Nov 30, 2004 1:23pm PST
CWA Wins $113,000 Federal Grant for Conference to Fight Sex Trafficking
Concerned Women for America (CWA) received notification today that it is receiving a $113,000 grant from the U.S. State Department to host a conference to fight sex trafficking for Mexican leaders....
Posted: Tue, Nov 30, 2004 12:13pm PST
Congress Passes "Back-Door" Abortion Gag Rule
An anti-abortion provision with potentially widespread impact will remain intact as part of the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Bill for 2005, in spite of efforts by pro-choice Senators to block the measure. President Bush is expected to sign the omnibus spending bill....
Posted: Tue, Nov 23, 2004 12:57am PST
So-Called "Abortion Non-Discrimination Act" Threatens Women's Health
So-Called "Abortion Non-Discrimination Act" Threatens Women's Health; Sweeping Refusal Clause Strips State Autonomy...
Posted: Tue, Nov 23, 2004 12:52am PST
Omnibus Bill Also Promotes Policies That Increase Need For Abortion, Says NARAL
Here's the Other Shoe Dropping: Omnibus Bill Also Promotes Policies That Increase Need For Abortion, Says NARAL Pro-Choice America...
Posted: Tue, Nov 23, 2004 12:23am PST
Republican Legislators Reward Radical Right with Dangerous Anti-Abortion Provision
After heated debate in Congress Saturday night, anti-abortion legislators bullied into law broad new limitations on women's reproductive health care. The sweeping language, which was slipped into the massive budget bill, makes all health care providers eligible for federal dollars — regardless of their unwillingness to provide a full-range of health care services for women....
Posted: Tue, Nov 23, 2004 12:12am PST
Republican Legislators Reward Radical Right-Wing with Blow to Women's Health Care
n a backdoor maneuver of the worst kind, anti-abortion legislators are attempting to destroy a woman's legal right to receive reproductive health care services. House and Senate Republicans sneaked potentially sweeping language into the House spending bill allowing health care providers to use their personal religious opinions to restrict health care services to women....
Posted: Sun, Nov 21, 2004 11:40pm PST
Stealth Anti-Choice Provision Prevails
In an outrageous back-room maneuver, anti-choice legislators inserted a major new restriction on women’s freedom into an omnibus spending bill....
Posted: Sun, Nov 21, 2004 12:16am PST
Stealth Anti-Choice Provision Prevails, Congress to vote on Omnibus Spending Bill
n an outrageous back-room maneuver, anti-choice legislators inserted a major new restriction on women's freedom into an omnibus spending bill. This latest move ensures that a significant piece of the anti-choice agenda will become law without a single hearing or an independent vote in the Senate....
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 3:24pm PST
Florida get out the vote effort focuses on women
Intense Get-Out-the-Vote Effort Targets Florida's Unmarried Women; Women’s Voices. Women Vote and USAction Education Fund Combine Forces to Get-Out-The-Vote of Key, Targeted Voter Bloc...
Posted: Tue, Oct 26, 2004 1:15am PDT
Congressional Leadership Puts Far Right Ideology Ahead of Military Women's Health
House and Senate conferees dropped a provision from the Department of Defense authorization bill that would have ensured access to abortion services for servicewomen and military dependents who are victims of rape or incest....
Posted: Fri, Oct 8, 2004 11:17pm PDT
La ecologista keniana Wangari Maathai gana el Premio Nobel de la Paz
El premio Nobel de la Paz ha sido concedido a la doctora en Biología, Wangari Muta Maathai por su contribución al desarrollo pacífico, ecológico y democrático de su país, Kenia....
Posted: Fri, Oct 8, 2004 7:43am PDT
The Bush Administration's Healthy Marriage Iniative (audio/mpeg 16.8MB)
The Bush Administration's Healthy Marriage Initiative: a solution to poverty or a paternalistic policy aimed at regulating the sexual and reproductive lives of low income women, especailly women of color?? 29:20...
Posted: Thu, Oct 7, 2004 8:46pm PDT
I am a mother . . . The power in the lone feminine voice raised in protest
A voice is rising above the wails of grieving mothers heard around the world. It's a bold and angry voice speaking out against the tyrants who cold-heartedly consume our children in the name of phony "Wars on Drugs" and "Wars on Terror."...
Posted: Thu, Oct 7, 2004 6:02pm PDT
Samira Bellil Memorial (audio/x-wav 13.0MB)
Thirty-one year old Samira Bellil a French Muslim woman whose book recounted being gang raped as a teenager in a Paris suburb, died last week of stomach cancer. The controversial memoir called “In Gang Rape Hell” was published in 2002 and became a best-seller in France. Ms. Bellil explored her violent childhood growing up in a marginalized immigrant community in France. One minute audio memoir....
Posted: Sat, Sep 11, 2004 3:50pm PDT