The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s decision that the defendants in USA v. ALAW (Pat Mahoney) violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE). In 1998, the defendants sat within five feet of one of the doors of the Capitol Women’s Center in Washington D.C., forcing patients to enter […]
Led by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), 13 U.S. senators joined in a letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell urging the U.S. to immediately send $30 million in emergency relief funds to aid the hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees, primarily women and children, who have fled their homes to escape the brutal rule of […]
Today Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) will introduce legislation to the House Foreign Relations Committee that could reverse President Bush’s re-instatement of the Mexico City Policy, or “Global Gag Rule,” that prohibits recipients of U.S. international family planning assistance from counseling women on abortion or engaging in political speech on abortion. The legislation has two primary […]
In the annual meeting of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Dr. Thomas F. Purdon, the College’s incoming president, urged the 40,000 obstetricians-gynecologists practicing in the U.S. to routinely offer patients an advance prescription for emergency contraceptive (EC) pills. Providing women with advance prescriptions for EC pills would make preventing pregnancy in the event […]
An article in today’s Washington Post exposes what feminists have long known – the connections between the George W. Bush administration and the far-right Independent Women’s Forum (IWF). IWF’s founding members include the wives of prominent right-wing politicians including Lynne Cheney, wife of Dick Cheney; Wendy Lee Gramm, wife of Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX); and […]
One thing that George W. Bush’s appointment to the presidency has done is infuriate a good portion of the populace. Since activism is more productive than anger, in the next few months Ms. will offer several installments of this activist guide. The guides will provide information on organizations that are working to make a difference. […]
The U.S. State Department’s new report by the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterroism demonstrates that Pakistan has increased its support of the fundamentalist Taliban regime, which has forced the women and girls of Afghanistan into a state of virtual house arrest. Reliable reports have confirmed that Pakistan provides the Taliban with material, fuel, funding, […]
The HAMLINE UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE was presented with the Outstanding Leadership Award at their annual Student Leadership Banquet. This award honors leaders who “served the student body and the entire campus community with distinction, dedication and excellence.” Congratulations!
CERRITOS COLLEGE LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE members Nassrin Bonyadloo and Sara Mayorga were recently elected as President and Vice-President, respectively, of their Campus Student Government Association! Congratulations to Nassrin and Sara for all of their hard work!
Kelly Adams and Jennifer Heitel, officers of the LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE at GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, wrote an opinion editorial on the current debate around their campus Sexual Harassment Policy that was printed in a local newspaper. Their article rallied support among students and faculty for the newly revised policy which would improve the enforcement of sexual […]
The BROWN UNIVERSITY FMLA held a Take Back the Night Rally for campus safety and non-violence this month. Students tabled with facts, ribbons, and pledge sheets and marched to a site with a symbolic graveyard that they created to remember victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. They concluded the march with a candlelight vigil, […]
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Hundreds of Leadership Alliance activists from over 40 campuses nationwide rallied with the Feminist Majority Foundation during NOW’s Emergency Action For Women’s Lives in DC last Sunday April 22nd. FMF President Eleanor Smeal and representatives from other organizations including the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, the National Abortion Federation, and the National Black Women’s Health […]
President Bush has nominated anti-women’s rights founder of the National Fatherhood Initiative Wade Horn to be Assistant Secretary for Family Support at the Department of Health and Human Services. In this position, Horn would have authority over welfare, welfare reform, child care, child welfare, foster care, and adoption. The NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund […]
The infamous anti-gay radio and television talk show host “Dr.” Laura Schlessinger is at it again, this time with a harsh diatribe against Planned Parenthood. On her radio show aired in Washington DC this morning, Schlessinger argued that Planned Parenthood promotes sex , even among eight-year-olds. Schlessinger also claimed that Planned Parenthood is “discriminatory” because […]
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of California San Francisco are developing a new drug that could stop the bone-thinning condition Osteoporosis and trigger the re-growth of strong bone tissue. This news is an important advance in women’s health, as 8 million women–mostly women over 50–suffer from Osteoporosis, and millions more are at […]
With a 252 to 172 vote, the House of Representatives passed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act on Thursday, which makes knowingly or unknowingly harming or killing a zygote, embryo or fetus while attacking a pregnant woman, during the commission of a federal crime, a separate and punishable crime. The bill also gives personhood and […]
A victory for women’s rights and abortion rights came Thursday when appeals courts in Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin overturned the states’ abortion procedure bans. The law in each of these states also penalized the doctor who would perform the procedure with harsh criminal sentences up to life in prison. The decisions by the states’ appeals […]
Two studies published in the April 27, 2001, issue of the medical journal Science, show strong potential for embryonic stem cell to be an effective method of curing diseases like diabetes and Parkinson’s disease. The two studies were performed on stem cells from mice. In one study at the Nation Institutes of Health (NIH), the […]
Throughout the 1990s, the Detroit Police Department’s rape squad looked great, consistently reporting the nation’s highest arrest rates, always at least double the national average. Women’s advocates are alarmed and say the phony numbers gave them a false sense of security. Now, the city’s shame-faced police department acknowledges that the statistics were wrong and its […]
