Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will resume abortion services in its Milwaukee and Appleton clinics Friday, despite concern that a vaguely-defined law banning certain surgical abortion procedures could subject doctors to life-long prison sentences. All of Wisconsin’s abortion clinics stopped performing surgical abortions late last week, when the new law took effect. The Summit Women’s Health […]
A report published in Maclean’s, a popular Canadian news magazine, alleges that rape and sexual harassment are pervasive in the Canadian military. Maclean’s interviewed 13 military women who said they had been sexually harassed and uncovered at least 27 cases in which women were sexually assaulted by their peers or superiors. “The cases also reveal […]
Chilean Women’s Affairs Minister Josefina Bilboa called for greater awareness of how gender discrimination is linked to poverty, domestic violence, unhealthy socialization and stereotyping of women, and the lack of political voice that plagues women there in remarks made at the 27th Session of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean […]
One of Wisconsin’s six clinics offering abortion services reopened after a state district attorney presented doctors and staff of the Summit Women’s Health Organization with a signed affidavit stating that the clinic’s employees would not be prosecuted for performing early-term abortions. Last week, all six of Wisconsin’s clinics were closed down after a law that […]
Three Central Florida abortion clinics opened their doors Monday after vandals poured acid inside the clinics this weekend. Directors of the clinics pledged to keep their doors open. Authorities believe that anti-abortion vandals used butyric acid in the attacks. Butyric acid has been linked to 79 incidents of vandalism leading to $863,000 in damages since […]
Taxol, a drug derived from the needles and twigs of the yew tree, has been used to treat advanced ovarian cancer and as a last-ditch alternative for women whose breast cancer has not responded to other drugs. Now researchers have found that women with early breast cancer (cancer that has not spread past the lymph […]
Delegates from Africa, Asia, South and Central America were called by Thenjiwe Lesabe, Zimbabwean minister for national affairs, employment creation and co-operatives to meet in the city of Harare for a conference on “gender and good government.” Lesabe proclaimed that women’s involvement in the political sphere is essential and advocated increasing women’s representation in governmental […]
Three abortion clinics in Central Florida were vandalized this weekend, and police suspect that the incidents may be linked. Vandals bored holes through window frames and poured or sprayed substances into each of the three clinics, which included Orlando’s National Women’s Health Organization and Daytona Beach’s Family Planning Center and Women’s Health Center Incorporated. In […]
Bombed dropped by Taliban jets Saturday killed at least 30 people and injured at least 50 others in Taloqan, a city located about 150 miles north of Afghanistan’s capital city, Kabul. The deadliest of the four bombs was dropped into a crowded marketplace. The Taliban reportedly was attempting to bomb nearby military installations held by […]
U.N. officials departed from Afghanistan late last week after 10 days of negotiations with Taliban leaders brought no new concessions. Taliban Planning Minister Kari Din Mohammad said that any past security or accessibility problems experienced by aid organizations and U.N. officials was “unintentional and incidental.” Regarding women’s access to health care, Mohammad claimed that services […]
The newly FDA-approved osteoporosis drug raloxifene may greatly reduce post-menopausal women’s risk for breast cancer, according to several studies of the drug. Doctors and researchers will release extensive data on the drug today at an American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) conference in Los Angeles. In studies originally designed to test the drug’s effects on […]
A survey of more than 10,000 Turkish citizens revealed that “Nearly 25 percent of the Turkish women have been beaten up severely, many of them constantly, by their husbands or other members of their families,” said Istanbul University Professor Necla Arat. Results from the study, conducted by the non-governmental social research group Association to Promote […]
Researchers at Scotland’s Royal Edinburgh Hospital found that the ratio of female to male depression patients is decreasing. In 1980, 1.9 female depression patients were treated for every 1 male patient treated. By 1995, that ratio had dropped to 1.5. The rate of depression for women dropped from 6.1 per 10,000 in 1980 to 5.3 […]
Mr. Martin Griffiths, head of the U.N.’s negotiating team, and Afghanistan’s Acting Minister of Planning, H.E. Maulvi Qari Din Mohammad, recently held a joint press conference in Kabul to discuss their recent 10-day period of negotiations. The two discussed the immunities and privileges of U.N. staff, women’s access to healthcare and education, employment of international […]
According to Beijing’s Southern Weekend newspaper, an average of 474 rural Chinese women commit suicide each day, or over 173,000 each year. Medical doctors reported these findings based on four years of data, gathered from 1990-1994. Approximately 99,266 or 58% of the 173,000 annual victims were young, aged between 15 and 39. Most of the […]
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study found that abuse suffered in childhood often reappears as physical or mental illness and bad health habits in adults. Nine thousand people were interviewed about their childhood experiences, their current health, and health habits. Researchers found that people who had experienced four or more types of […]
A study published in the British journal The Lancet reports that the widely-used breast cancer drug tamoxifen, which is currently given to mostly post-menopausal breast cancer patients, could save as many as 20,000 more lives each year if administered to young women. Women who were given tamoxifen for five years after surgery for breast cancer, […]
The University Texas Board of Regents voted unanimously to appeal a previous ruling that banned affirmative action programs at the school. The “Hopwood” ruling was issued by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1996. U of Texas officials argued that the ruling places them at a […]
A study conducted by the Women’s Sports Foundation found that girls who participated in sports programs were less likely to have sex, had fewer sexual partners, and were more likely to use contraception when they did have sex than girls who did not participate in sports. The Women’s Sports Foundation drew its findings from data […]
A new Wisconsin state law that bans most surgical abortions and requires women to notify the men who impregnated them went into effect today. The punishment for violation of this law is life in prison. Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin and six doctors who perform abortions filed suit against the state on grounds that the law […]
