More than 170 clinics from 14 states and the District of Columbia received threatening letters yesterday containing a white powder. The letters stated, “You have been exposed to anthrax. We are going to kill you. Army of God, Virginia DARE Chapter.” Clinic workers opened envelopes believing that they came from the U.S. Secret Service and […]
The Pro-Choice Public Education Project (PEP) is a collaborative project led by the country’s leading national pro-choice organizations dedicated to building the next generation of pro-choice leaders and supporters. In an effort to raise awareness among young women about threats to their reproductive rights and to encourage them to defend those rights, PEP has launched […]
MillennialPolitics.com is a non-partisan site dedicated to educating and motivating people about youth activism. The organization wants to hear from pro-choice students from across the country to include their perspectives in a new book about youth activism. Sign up for their newsletter, learn more about “Team Millennial,” a group of over 220 activists contributing to […]
Third Wave wants your ideas on organizing and activism for an anthology on violence against women in the U.S. The book will be by and for young women activists with a combination of theoretical and experiential perspectives on activism and community organizing. Email questions to thirdwavevaw@hotmail.com and join the discussion online.
Employees filed a class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. charging that the company was violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by not providing insurance coverage for prescription contraceptives. Wal-Mart’s employee benefit plan covers other prescription drugs and devices. Last year, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ruled that an employer’s […]
The Florida Department of Health test results of a white substance, claimed to be anthrax, found in a letter sent to a Florida abortion clinic came back negative for the presence of anthrax. Initial field tests of the substance were positive, however, field tests often produce false-positive results. More than 160 reproductive health clinics have […]
Taliban soldiers on Tuesday seized United Nations World Food Program warehouses in Kandahar and Kabul. Brandishing guns, the soldiers entered the buildings and ordered staffers to leave. No one has been reported injured. The food warehouses stored a total of 7,000 tons of food. The Taliban has since returned to WFP the warehouse in Kabul. […]
Initial field tests from a letter received by a Florida abortion clinic have come back positive for anthrax spores. However, field tests produce many false positives and false negatives, so the accuracy of the results is unknown. More sophisticated tests have been ordered and more definitive results will be available tomorrow. More than 170 reproductive […]
Iowa State Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance member Abby Hansen told the Des Moines Register that her campus needs access to mifepristone, and students would demand the early abortion pill if they knew more about it. Her comment came on the heels of student health center chief of staff Dr. Marc Shulman’s recent announcement that the […]
Claiming that, “One knows for sure there are many moderate elements within the Taliban communities,” Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, during Secretary of State Colin Powell’s visit to Pakistan yesterday, suggested that so-called moderate factions of the Taliban should play a role in the formation of a new Afghan government. Powell has also suggested that aspects […]
An Islamic court in Sokoto state in northern Nigeria last week sentenced Safiya Hussaini Tungar Dudu to death by stoning for having pre-marital sex. She is the first woman to receive this punishment since Sokoto adopted sharia, Islamic law. The woman is pregnant, but the court claimed that it could not find enough evidence to […]
More than 170 clinics from 14 states and the District of Columbia received threatening letters yesterday containing a white powder. The letters stated, “You have been exposed to anthrax. We are going to kill you. Army of God, Virginia DARE Chapter.” Clinic workers opened envelopes believing that they came from the U.S. Secret Service and […]
Just off a dirt road that snakes through the banana and coffee fields of Kitenga, a village in southern Uganda, lies the home of 65-year-old Namayanja Paulina. Behind it rest the graves of her six sons, all of whom died from AIDS. Paulina is now the sole provider for her 16 grandchildren. But thanks to […]
Secretary of State Colin Powell met with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to discuss, among other issues, the future of Afghanistan if the Taliban is ousted as a result of the U.S.-led war on terrorism. While Powell openly condemned the Taliban, according to the Washington Post, he also suggested that aspects of the Taliban may be […]
Britain became the 42nd country to ratify the International Criminal Court (ICC) Treaty, increasing pressure on the United States, one of the few Western nations not to ratify the treaty, to follow suit. The ICC would be a permanent court designed to prosecute war criminals, genocide, and crimes against humanity. Article 7 of the Rome […]
Governor Gray Davis of California signed into law yesterday measures to protect women’s reproductive health by increasing clinic safety and accessibility to emergency contraception. California, which has the highest rate of anti-abortion clinic violence of any state in the nation, will now require more training for law enforcement on clinic violence and how to guard […]
James Charles Kopp, charged with the 1998 sniper-style assassination of Dr. Barnett Slepian, an Amherst, New York obstetrician-gynecologist who performed abortions, has lost his latest appeal in the French courts to avoid extradition back to the United States. Formerly on the FBI’s “Most Wanted” list, law enforcement officials captured Kopp in Dinan, France earlier this […]
An eyewitness to the bombings in Kabul reported that Afghans greeted the U.S.-led military strikes in Afghanistan with silent enthusiasm. According to the eyewitness [as reported in the New York Times], a twenty-five year old man now living in a Pakistani refugee area, Afghan women were the most hopeful that U.S. attacks would lead to […]
Jeffrey Ziegler, President of the National Reform Association (NRA), a Pittsburgh, PA based Christian Reconstructionist organization, has announced plans to form a political action committee and public policy organization, officially entering Washington’s world of politics. The NRA hopes that through “Operation Potomac” it can begin lobbying, developing political campaigns, and grooming potential candidates to run […]
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Waffle House, a case that could limit the ability of employees who sign arbitration agreements to get money damages if they are discriminated against by their employer. Last term, the Supreme Court decided that employees who sign arbitration agreements cannot sue in federal […]
