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Breasts Yes, Vaginas No? Race for the Cure Group's Bizarre Capitulation to Right-Wingers (And How to Hit Them Where it Hurts)

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Amanda Marcotte - Feb. 01 (News Report) - Despite Komen’s lame attempts to claim otherwise, it was widely understood that this was about Komen aligning itself with the anti-choice movement, despite the anti-choice movement’s long history of opposing not just safe and legal abortion, but also access to contraception and even the prevention of cervical cancer through the use of the HPV vaccine.

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Kathleen Sebelius Pressed On Plan B Decision By 14 Democratic Senators

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Amanda Terkel - Dec. 14 (News Report) - Fourteen Democratic senators, led by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), sent the Obama administration a letter on Tuesday asking for the scientific basis behind its decision to limit access to emergency contraception. Last week, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius rejected the Food and Drug Administration's conclusion that the Plan B One-Step pill was safe enough to be placed on pharmacy shelves without an age limit. The decision raised eyebrows because HHS has never before overruled the FDA on a drug recommendation. Many reproductive rights groups openly questioned whether the Obama administration was putting electoral politics above sound science ahead of next year's election.

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House Passes H.R. 358, the "Let Women Die" Act of 2011

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - Oct. 14 (News Report) - Yesterday the GOP-led House of Representatives, with the blessings and encouragement of the United States Council of Catholic Bishops and extremist religious groups such as the Family Research Council, passed a bill in a vote of 251 to 172 that would, among other things, allow doctors and hospitals to "exercise their conscience" by letting pregnant women facing emergency medical conditions die.

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Michele Bachmann says HPV vaccine can cause mental retardation

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson - Sep. 16 (Fact Check) - After criticizing Texas Gov. Rick Perry for mandating a vaccine for school girls, Rep. Michele Bachmann added some scary charges: She claimed to have just met a woman whose daughter suffered mental retardation from the vaccine, that it has "very dangerous consequences" and that it puts "little children's lives at risk." In the CNN/Tea Party Express debate in Tampa on Sept. 12, 2011, Bachmann blasted Perry for mandating a vaccine for school girls to guard against human papilloma virus, or HPV, which can cause cervical cancer. The vaccine can prevent the virus, but the virus is sexually transmitted, which makes ...

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Almost everything is getting better

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Long Now Foudation - By Kirk Citron - Aug. 10 (News Report) - Last week The Millennium Project released its 02011 State Of The Future report, looking at trends for the past twenty years and projecting ahead for the next decade. (Not the 10,000 year future, but still of interest.) You can read an executive summary of the report here. While the report finds many things to worry about – global warming, terrorism, corruption – overall the trends are surprisingly hopeful, as shown in their chart called “Where we are winning”

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15-Year-Old Girl Faces Life in Prison for a Miscarriage

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Ed Pilkington - Jul. 04 (Special Report) - Rennie Gibbs is accused of murder, but the crime she is alleged to have committed does not sound like an ordinary killing. Yet she faces life in prison in Mississippi over the death of her unborn child.

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Sheconomics: Why more women on boards boosts company performance

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

significancemagazine.org - By Karen Pine - Jul. 01 (Investigative Report) - How many women does it take to make a company more profitable? Just three. Karen Pine finds a remarkable statistic that is being ignored in city boardrooms worldwide.

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“There is a Women's Spring Beginning”: Playwright Eve Ensler and Congolese Activist Christine Schuler Deschryver on Gender Violence in Congo

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Christine Schuler Deschryver, Eve Ensler - Jun. 07 (Special Report) - A newly published study in the American Journal of Public Health estimates more than two million women have been raped in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 2006. But women’s advocates say there is also positive news coming from the DRC. The group V-Day, a global movement to stop all forms of gender-based violence, recently held the opening ceremony for the City of Joy, a groundbreaking new community that will be run by women survivors of gender violence in the Congo. We speak with V-Day founder, Eve Ensler, the bestselling author and playwright behind The Vagina Monologues, about gender violence in DRC. We are also joined Christine Schuler Deschryver, director of V-Day Congo and the City of Joy, about the growing number of rape prosecutions in DRC.

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Kansas Lawmaker Says Women Should Plan Ahead For Rape: ‘I Have A Spare Tire’

Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Tanya Somanader - May. 25 (News Report) - DeGraaf’s belief that women should plan and prepare for their own rape is more than groan-worthy, it’s woefully out-of-touch. As Jezebel’s Margaret Hartmann notes, DeGraaf is basically telling sexual assault victims that “the state isn’t AAA” so a Kansas woman is responsible for the consequences of her attacker. And by comparing it to life insurance, DeGraaf goes further to insinuate that rape is as inevitable as death. Unfortunately, this Boy Scout dismissal of rape and incest victims is as galling as it is common among the GOP.

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Cry Me a River

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

populationconnection.org - By Stacie Murphy - May. 10 (Special Report) - Since the current legislative session started on January 5th, John Boehner's House of Representatives has never missed an opportunity to attack reproductive rights and access to family Planning ---often in jaw-dropping fashion.

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10 Worst States To Be a Woman

Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Amanda Marcotte - May. 09 (Special Report) - In a time of war and record unemployment, the GOP is sending a message: fertile women are the country’s number one enemy, and their freedoms must be quashed at all costs. State Republican (and some Democratic) legislators have introduced nearly 1,000 laws restricting women’s reproductive health access on the state level, and this is on top of decades of reproductive health policies that have made women second-class citizens in many states.

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Do Red State Republicans Want More Divorces, STDs and Abortions? Their Policies Suggest "Yes"

Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Amanda Marcotte - May. 06 (News Analysis) - Republicans lost the first battle in their newly invigorated war on contraception and other health services for sexually active people, such as STD testing and treatment, when the Democrats called their bluff in the federal budget standoff. Planned Parenthood avoided the ax, but that doesn’t mean that Republicans are prepared to give up on doing everything in their power to separate women, especially low-income women, from access to contraception services. In lieu of cutting family planning subsidies on the federal level, Republicans have devised a plan to cut them on the state level, where they face fewer meddling pro-choice Democrats.

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MADRE :: Press Room :: Getting Stronger Every Generation: Six Women's Stories

Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

madre.org - May. 02 (Special Report) - Great popular change is the result of years of sustained organizing, education and activism. Six women’s lives can tell this story. These are women who came together across generations to demand their rights and to fight for the safety and health of their communities.

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Increasing Numbers of Women Face Jail Time for Wanting an Abortion

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Michelle Goldberg - Apr. 28 (News Report) - Utah prosecutors and conservative politicians are determined to lock up the young woman known in court filings as J.M.S. for the crime of trying to end her pregnancy. Her grim journey through the legal system began in 2009, when she was 17 and pregnant by a convicted felon named Brandon Gale

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Nuclear Catastrophe in Japan “Not Equal to Chernobyl, But Way Worse”

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Thomas Breuer, Amy Goodman - Apr. 12 (News Analysis) - Japan has raised the severity rating of its nuclear crisis from 5 to 7, the highest level, matching the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. We go to Tokyo for an update from Thomas Breuer, head of the Climate and Energy Unit for Greenpeace Germany and part of a field of radiation monitors in Japan. He notes that unlike Chernobyl, the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is in a densely populated area. “We warned the government that there are a lot of cities and villages outside the 20-kilometers evacuation zone where the radiation levels are so high that people need urgently to be evacuated, especially children and pregnant women, because they are the most vulnerable part of the population to radiation,” says Breuer. [includes rush transcript]

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10 States With the Most Shocking Anti-Woman Legislation

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Amanda Marcotte - Apr. 07 (News Analysis) - Sadly, this is just a sample of the number of bills that have cropped up across the country in a nationwide attempt to wipe out women’s right to abortion--and in some cases, contraception--once and for all.

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Father Roy Bourgeois Facing Excommunication

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Joshua J. McElwee - Apr. 07 (News Report) - Maryknoll Fr. Roy Bourgeois, the longtime peace activist and founder of SOA Watch, has received a letter from his order giving him 15 days to “publicly recant” his support of women’s ordination or face dismissal from the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers.

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Ohio Lawmakers Pass Anti-Union Bill

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Steven Greenhouse - Mar. 31 (News Report) - The two houses of the Ohio Legislature approved a far-reaching bill on Wednesday that would hobble the ability of public-employee unions to bargain collectively and undercut their political clout. They sent the bill to Gov. John R. Kasich, a Republican, who lawmakers said would sign it in the next few days.

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Justice for Betty Dukes and the Women of Wal-Mart?

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Liza Featherstone - Mar. 31 (News Report) - Dukes, who still works at Wal-Mart, is the lead plaintiff in Betty Dukes vs. Wal-Mart Stores, the largest civil rights class action suit in history, which accuses the retail giant of sex discrimination in pay, promotions and hiring. The potential class has at times included more than a million women (recently, though, estimates have run closer to the hundreds of thousands). Dukes and her colleagues have yet to have their day in court, all these years later, and if an army of right-wing opponents has its way, they never will.

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GOP Campaign Against Birth Control Officially Too Crazy for Scaife

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

theittlist.com - By Lindsay Beyerstein - Mar. 03 (News Report) - We all have our limits. The GOP’s crusade against Planned Parenthood is officially too crazy for right-wing philanthropist and media baron Richard Mellon Scaife. In a recent op/ed column, Scaife broke with House Republicans over their resolution to de-fund Planned Parenthood and the entire Title X family planning program, Scot Kersgaard reports in the Minnesota Independent.

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LOGAN'S NON-RUN

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

steynonline.com - By Mark Steyn - Feb. 22 (News Analysis) - What's striking about this story is not so much that her own employer, CBS News, chose not to run it until over three days later - on the following Monday - but that in the intervening period they pumped out the same sappy drivel as everybody else - "Egypt's New Age Revolution" (60 Minutes), "Egypt Proved Change Is Possible, Sexy And Cool!" (CBS Sunday Morning) - even as they knew there was another side to the story, and that their own correspondent was lying in the hospital traumatised because of it.

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The Broadening of the Libertarian Movement

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Volokh Conspiracy - By Ilya Somin - Feb. 20 (News Analysis) - With the proliferation of libertarian blogs and other websites on the internet, any high school or college student who has a strong interest in politics is likely to become aware of libertarianism as a potential alternative to liberalism and conservatism. The fact that these people learn about libertarianism while they are still young is critical; most people become less receptive to new ideas as they get older, especially if they go against their preexisting views.

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Gates, Rumsfeld Sued Over US Military's Rape Epidemic

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By Jesse Ellison - Feb. 15 (News Report) - 'A landmark lawsuit filed Tuesday against Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld, alleges that the military's repeated failures to take action in rape cases created a culture where violence against women was tolerated, violating the plaintiffs' Constitutional rights.'

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Landmark State Law Protecting Domestic Workers Takes Effect

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Gotham Gazette - By Emily Jane Goodman - Nov. 29 (Special Report) - the first in the united states becomes the law.....more than 200000 domestic workers in the metropolitan area--housekeepers, nannies, home aides - -a package of limited rights and benefits previously denied them.

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Republicans Block An Up-Or-Down Vote On The Paycheck Fairness Act

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Amanda Terkel - Nov. 18 (News Report) - Senate Democrats were unable to overcome a Republican filibuster of the Paycheck Fairness Act on Tuesday, with the chamber falling two votes short of the 60 needed to end debate and proceed to a vote on the measure that would help combat wage discrimination on the basis of gender.

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