A Michigan Judge has blocked a twelve year old pregnant girl who is a victim of incest from being taken by her parents to Kansas to obtain an abortion Raped by her brother, the girl is twenty-eight weeks pregnant. Her doctor failed to properly diagnose her four times. Michigan outlaws abortions after twenty-four weeks except […]
Human rights organizations that have been investigating reports of rape in Jakarta, Indonesia have received death threats from unidentified men. The organizations estimated at least 168 cases of rape during the riots and several afterwards. Most of the victims were part of the Chinese minority that is often scapegoated in times of crisis. Twenty women […]
As gay youths become more open about their sexual orientation, they are being subject to more “visible” abuse in Washington, DC area schools, according to Linda Shevits, a Maryland education official to whom discrimination cases are reported. In response to this phenomenon, school districts are attempting to form comprehensive programs that include staff training and […]
On the heels of the landmark verdict of liability in NOW v. Scheidler which found that there is a nationwide conspiracy of violence against abortion providers and women who seek reproductive health services, Susan Hill, President of the National Women’s Health Organization, which represents clinics in the case, and Attorney Fay Clayton, Esq., who is […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton praised the early leaders of the women’s movement at a convention in Seneca Falls commemorating the 150th anniversary of the first women’s rights convention in 1848. Urging attendees to “finish the work begun here,” the first lady evoked the names of suffragists such as Lucretia Coffin Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton while […]
The House of Representatives voted on July 16 to require health care plans of federal employees to offer coverage for prescription contraceptives if they offer coverage for other prescription drugs. All five methods of prescription contraceptives would be covered: the Pill, diaphragm, IUD, Norplant, and Depo-Provera. A few health care plans sponsored by the Catholic […]
Taliban planning minister Qari Din Mohammed rejected the UN’s warning that humanitarian groups would leave Afghanistan if their working conditions did not improve. He announced that the foreign aid groups have until Sunday to show a willingness to retreat to the delapidated housing to which they were assigned. “We Moslems believe that God the Almighty […]
In a blow to the young women’s reproductive rights, the House passed a bill yesterday that makes it illegal to transport a minor across state lines to attain an abortion procedure. The bill, which passed by a vote of 276 to 150, failed to gain the two-thirds majority mandated to override a presidential veto. A […]
Rates of domestic abuse are steadily increasing in Poland, where the country’s strict allegiance to the Roman Catholic Church and the sanctity of the traditional nuclear family that reinforces male dominance. Many women are finding it impossible to attain legal or psychological counseling for abuse, especially in a country where a Polish proverb touts “If […]
Semira Adamu, a Nigerian woman who sought refuge in Belgium to avoid being forced to marry a 65-year-old Nigerian polygamist against her will, has won temporary reprieve. Adamu was expected to be forcibly deported to Africa over two weeks ago on SEBENA Airlines, but the airline declined to perform the transport “for reasons of security.” […]
Human Rights Watch, a Washington-based public interest group, recently published a study that found police brutality to be “nationwide” and “institutionalized.” The 400-page report, entitled “Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States,” describes how communities reacted to police brutality in 14 US cities using data from the FBI, the civil rights […]
According to a new study by the American College of Physicians women over age 50 should be screened once every 5 years for thyroid conditions. Authors of the new study, which was published in the July 15th issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, found after reviewing 55 studies that 1 in every 71 women […]
The man believed to be responsible for bombing a Birmingham clinic killing an off-duty police officer and seriously injuring a nurse, emerged from the woods of western North Carolina last week. After over 5 1/2 months in hiding, Eric Rudolph stole a pick-up truck and food from a local resident in the Nantahala Lake area. […]
After Afghanistan’s Taliban regime relocated all private aid organizations to an abandoned and broken down youth hostel outside of the capital, the UN declared that it has lost its patience with the Taliban and will no longer tolerate its lack of cooperation. “[The Taliban] is an organization that hands out edicts to us that prevent […]
A newly released study in the July/August issue of the Archives of Family Medicine reports that all women (96%) who have undergone an early medical abortion with mifepristone (formerly called RU 486) in the Population Council’s U.S. clinical trials would recommend the procedure to others and most (91%) would choose it again themselves. Eighty-eight percent […]
In an effort to highlight the invaluable contributions of women to American civilization, Hillary Clinton’s “Save America’s Treasures” tour points attention to the lesser-known triumphs of extraordinary women. “The last time I looked, women have comprised 50 percent of our population,” Mrs. Clinton said Tuesday in Lenox, Mass.” As we look at the full range […]
A series of full-page ads appearing in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and USA Today described gays and lesbians as patients who can be healed through the help of God. Claiming they were inspired by Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott’s recent comparison between homosexuals and alcoholics, kleptomaniacs, and sex addicts, a coalition of […]
The House Appropriations Committee voted on a health care plan that would allow women quick access to their gynecologists. The panel voted 29-25 to let women designate their gynecologists as their primary health providers and to bypass HMO referrals to see their gynecologists for routine care. “If we can’t deliver on a patient’s bill of […]
As the Taliban’s grip on Afghanistan worsens, so does the oppresion of women. USAID workers are reporting an increase in the cases of women committing suicide, through the use of caustic soda. The unending oppression instituted by the country’s fundamentalist, Islamic code has undoubtedly forced many of these suicides. “Caustic soda burns away the throat,” […]
The Volunteers of Humanity, a prestigious Indonesian human rights organization, has condemed the rapes of (mostly) Chinese women during the riots in Jakarta last month, and claimed that twenty women died after being raped. Seventeen people died during the riots, and three died shortly after the riots ended. Nine victims of rape were abandoned in […]
