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 Fake Medical Centers Fool College Students
A new Ms. investigation found that a startling 48% of college health centers refer students to so-called "pregnancy resource centers"--fake clinics that harangue women about the "dangers" of abortion. And some of these centers are taking in millions of government dollars. more...
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Global Gag Rule Revisited
For many years, Ms. has been sounding the alarm about the harm caused by the global gag rule—a Reagan-instituted policy that forbids international family-planning organizations receiving U.S. money from speaking of abortion. Our Summer 2003 article “Global Sex Rules” is an exhaustive study of how the Bush administration’s escalating war against reproductive rights was harming—even killing—hundreds of thousands of women around the world. more …
In “Dying in the Backstreets” (Winter 2008), Ms. sent a reporter to a last-chance Nairobi hospital where Kenyan women victimized by unsafe abortions end up—if they’re lucky. Blame the global gag rule, not just local law and culture. more …
*READ UPDATE: Under Obama, global gag may soon be lifted* |
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11/21/2008:Senate Bill Challenges Bush Rule Limiting Reproductive Health Care
11/21/2008:Discrimination Lawsuit Settled Against eHarmony, New Suit Looms
11/21/2008:Phillipine Reproductive Health Bill Likely to be Defeated
11/20/2008:California Supreme Court Will Hear Arguments on Proposition 8
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Summer 2008 |
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 Carswell Prison Blues
The term “cruel and unusual punishment” takes on a whole new meaning at Texas’ Carswell Prison hospital, the nation’s only federal hospital for women prisoners. more… |
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Survival Sex
In Syria, refugee women from the Iraq war turn to prostitution as their only means of staying alive. more… |
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 Where Are Irish Women Now? Nuala O’Failain’s last words
Before lung cancer took her life earlier this year, the famed Irish author answered this question with dark honesty. more…
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 In Praise of Baadasssss Supermamas
“You’re under arrest, Sugah!” In the 70’s, kickass, gun-toting black women such as Pam Grier and Tamara Dobson ruled movie screens as blaxploitation heroes. What sort of weapon would today’s supermama wield? more…
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 Three Pillars of Maternal Health
Every minute a woman in the global South dies from preventable pregnancy-related causes, while simple medical solutions would not only save money but save lives. more…
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Academic Freedom Turned Upside Down
A professor reveals how ultraconservative activists are attacking women’s studies departments in an attempt to restore “traditional” values to the classroom. more… |
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 Pathologizing Your Period
Are you moody and bloated? Get migraines? Breast tenderness? Feel edgy or tearful? If you have experienced any or all of these symptoms—and virtually every women has during her menstrual cycle—you may be deemed as having a mental disorder, according to the American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic manual. more…
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 “Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated”
The New York congresswoman, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, looks back at the struggle for women’s equality in the workplace and cautions that women aren’t as far along as we may think. more…
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Fall Girls
The “D.C. Madam” took a prostitution rap, then took her own life. But her alleged johns—including sanctimonious U.S. senator David Vitter—walked away uncensored and unscathed. more …
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 Behind the Cloak of Polygamy
What’s life like inside in polygamous fundamentalist sects like FLDS? According to Andrea Moore Emmett, it’s an authoritarian existence that requires women’s complete servitude to their husbands and fathers and includes arranged marriages for very young girls, incest, violence and hard labor. More...
Recent Update- Available only online.
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