An extensive study scheduled to begin next year is being touted as what will become the largest breast cancer study ever. The announcement was made by President Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton Wednesday. Government researchers plan to test the drugs tamoxifen and raloxifen to determine their effects on breast cancer prevention. Tamoxifen has […]
Despite efforts by the Taliban militia to lobby United Nations officials, the international body’s credentials committee members have again recommended against recognizing the regime as the legitimate government of Afghanistan. Both the Taliban and the previous Afghanistan government, led by President Burhanuddin Rabbani, had applied to the UN in an effort to secure Afghanistan’s UN […]
The House Republican Conference, made up of members of the U.S. House of Representatives Republican leadership, has proudly claimed responsibility for having “stopped” passage of the Hate Crimes Bill. In a document obtained by Wired Strategies, the group allegedly stated that the negative fate of the legislation is “a win for conservative priorities” and a […]
A company famous for its blue jeans, Levi Strauss & Co., will begun marketing to gay men and lesbians through ads purchased in Out magazine next month. The magazine will feature a 12-page insert of photos of 10 gay men and lesbians in Dockers-brand khaki pants. Actors Guinevere Turner and Wilson Cruz and photographer Eve […]
A ruling handed down by France’s Supreme Court Wednesday declared that women are incapable of rape because they lack a phallus with which to sexually penetrate men. “The material element of the crime of rape is only realized if the perpetrator commits the act of sexual penetration on the person of the victim,” the judgment […]
Mavis and Jay Leno today presented a gift of $100,000 to the Feminist Majority Foundation to expand its Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan and to restore women’s rights to work, education, healthcare and freedom of movement. Mavis Leno will chair the national effort. “Our contribution kicks-off an expanded organizing drive to mobilize public […]
Congressional auditors have concluded that restricting women from direct combat roles makes them ineligible for one in six military jobs. On present battlefields, such as those in Bosnia and Somalia, the battle lines for soldiers are not as clear cut as they once were. In World War II, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf War it […]
For the first time in over 30 years, the Conservative branch of Judaism has produced an updated manual for rabbis. The manual contains gender-neutral language, modern versions of prayers, ways of conducting end-of-life medical decisions, and a brand new “grieving ritual” for couples after an abortion. The Rabbinical Assembly, responsible for publishing the manual, is […]
Research collected over a thirty-year span has given physicians better insight into the effects epileptic drugs have on women’s contraception, pregnancy, and breast feeding. “The issues are complex for the more than one million women with epilepsy in the United States,” said Dr. Catherine Zahn, a neurologist at the University of Toronto that co-authored new […]
A heart transplant candidate and Medicaid recipient from Louisiana was denied insurance coverage for an abortion, despite the fact that the pregnancy would likely claim her life. Doctors also noted that the heart medicine she needed to survive would likely harm the fetus. Abortion rights supporters around the country expressed their outrage and made donations […]
Chinese women over 35 are finding themselves being laid-off frequently and re-hired seldomly, more so than any other group in China. Efforts to form a market economy have simultaneously hurt women in China aged 35 and older that have little skills. They are being fired from factory jobs and turned down for new jobs. Clear […]
In the past decade, girls’ enrollment in school has increased around the world. Girls even outnumber boys in secondary schools in 18 countries, according to a new report by Population Action International. The report also noted that many gender gaps still exist. A total of 51 countries showed evidence of a severe gap between girls […]
The US Supreme Court turned away anti-abortion protesters Monday, attempting to challenge a court-ordered “buffer zone.” The buffer zone limits picketing outside a doctor’s home. The protesters claimed the buffer zone violated their right to free speech. Justice Antonin Scalia said the ruling on the case from a lower court “makes a mockery of First […]
UN Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi held talks last week with the Taliban militia in an attempt to ease the tension between Afghanistan and Iran. The build-up of troops along the Iranian-Afghan border has continued to increase since August, when members of the Taliban killed eight Iranian diplomats while taking control of Mazar-i Sharif in northern […]
The House and Senate agreed to a provision Friday that would mandate federal employee health care plans to cover five widely-used contraception methods. The provision was included in budget negotiation deals and will expand contraceptive coverage for approximately 1.2 million women. Conservative House Republicans promised an attempt to repeal the measure next year. Nita M. […]
Last Friday, three minor league players for the New York Mets were found guilty of gang-raping a girl, then 17 years old, while she was vacationing in Florida. The defendants, eighteen-year-old Jose Brea-Tousand, Natividad Tavarez, and Milton Gonzalez, were charged and convicted of sexual battery from the April assault. Assistant state attorney Steve Levin told […]
A jury is now considering sentencing a Texas woman to life in prison after convicting her on two counts of injury to a child by omission for failing to protect her children from her ex-boyfriend’s murderous rage. Thirty-seven year-old Schwana Patterson’s daughter died from the attack, and her son was badly beaten. Bobby Wayne Woods […]
The national board of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority has agreed to shut down its Colorado State University chapter after the group co-sponsored a vicious, anti-gay float in the school’s homecoming parade. Featuring a hanging scarecrow with the words “I’m gay” painted on its face, the float mocked the recent beating death of Matthew Shepard, […]
A new study conducted by Dr. Walter Kaye of the University of Pittsburgh has found evidence suggesting that bulimia does not result solely from society’s pressure to be thin. Kaye’s research has linked high levels of serotonin in the brain to cases of bulimia in women. In fact, bulimics in the study showed double the […]
Abortion Rights Mobilization (ARM) announced plans Wednesday to test mifepristone (the drug also known as RU 486) on cases of endometrial cancer and on inducing quicker labor in difficult childbirth. The organization has already begun tests on the effectiveness of mifepristone on brain tumors, and has received positive results. ARM believes that use of mifepristone […]
