While affirmative action is being attacked around the country as bestowing”special preferences” on minorities and women, many true “specialpreferences” in education and employment are being ignored. The AmericanCouncil on Education has exposed a “preference” for football players at theNaval Academy. The Academy recruits, prepares, and sometimes acceptsfootball players who do not meet the minimum academic […]
The percentage of women and minority officers in the nation’s policedepartments increased slowly in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but are stilldisproportionately low, according to a new Justice Department report. In1993, women were 8.8% of local police forces, compared to 7.6% in 1987. African Americans were 11.3% in 1993, up from 9.3% in 1987, […]
Nobel Peace Prize winner and National Institutes of Health Scientist Daniel Carleton Gajdusek was arrested Thursday (4-4) on charges of sexual abuse. Gajdusek has allegedly brought minors from Micronesia and New Guinea to the United States and was charged for child abuse and perverted practices. In February, one college student who, at age 13, came […]
Two Dallas women who had sued a subsidiary of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. for allegedly getting sick from their breast implants lost their case in a jury trial Wednesday (4-3). They are among thousands of women who claim that leaks from silicone implants and silicone-lined saline implants have caused serious diseases of the immune system including […]
On Monday (4-1), lawyers for Brown University went to court to appeal a 1995 ruling that the University had to enforce Title IX, the 1972 law which prohibits sex discrimination at institutions which receive federal funding. Last March, U.S. District Judge Raymond Pettine agreed with two female athletes who sued the University in 1992 after […]
In a 4-3 decision, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday (4-4) to uphold a state law requiring minors to obtain consent from a parent or judge before having an abortion, marking the first time the Court has upheld a restriction on abortion rights since the state established a constitutional right to privacy in 1972. The […]
The woman beaten by police for crossing the Mexican border into the U.S. along with 19 men said she sought better educational opportunities for her two children. Working odd jobs after the Mexican factory where she once worked had closed, Alicia Saltero Vasquez could not make enough money to provide for her children, who she […]
A newly released survey by the Feminist Majority Foundation has found that clinics reported a sharp decline in anti-abortion violence in 1995, marking the first time violence decreased in all categories. The number of clinics reporting incidents of anti-abortion violence dropped substantially from 51.9% in 1994 to 38.6% in 1995, according to the annual survey, […]
A National Institute of Health panel concluded Wednesday that almost all of the 5,000 women who die of cervical cancer each year could be spared by routine Pap smears and safe sex. Second to breast cancer as the most common malignancy, cervical cancer claims 15,700 new cases in the U.S. each year. The panel concluded […]
Claiming that the New York City Police Department did not treat an organization of gay law enforcement workers equally to other fraternal organizations, gay and lesbian police officers filed suit Tuesday (4-2) against the Department. The complaint, led by GOAL, the Gay Officers’ Action League says the Police Department discriminated against the group by refusing […]
Sandra Antor of Miami has filed suit against South Carolina for the actions of a state trooper who dragged her from her car at gunpoint and harassed her after pursuing her in an unmarked police car. Antor claims that Lance Cpl. W.H. Beckwith was not properly trained. The patrolman was fired after his squad car’s […]
According to a study authored by Alison Spitz of the Centers for Disease Control And Prevention, teen-age pregnancy and abortion rates rose significantly in the 1980s. Pregnancy rates among girls aged 15 to 19 had decreased to 87.7 per thousand in 1985, but then increased to 95.9 in 1990. Although the only definitive national data […]
A report issued Tuesday (4-2) by the World Health Organization found that weekly injections of testosterone, the male sex hormone, can reduce the sperm count to a level below that which is needed for conception. Studied over two and a half years in nine countries, the weekly injections proved effective for contraception in 98.6 percent […]
In the neighborhood of La Manuelita in Columbia, seven girls aged 11 to 15 have been kidnapped in the last year. Reports suggest the girls may have been taken to Japan and sold into prostitution with no passports or documents to escape. Five girls who escaped kidnapping attacks told similar stories that they were each […]
The Population Council filed an application last month seeking to market RU-486, the Food and Drug Administration announced Monday (4-1). The review could take up to a year, the amount of time the FDA usually spends on drugs that do not affect life-threatening diseases. Last year the FDA estimated that approval could take as little […]
Roman Catholic cardinals led a 500-person anti-abortion protest urging President Clinton not to veto the first abortion ban. Clinton has stated he will veto the bill which would ban a rare form of abortion used to save the life, health, and future fertility of a woman. The bill would make the procedure illegal and punishable […]
Calling domestic violence the “number one health threat to women” who live in the District of Columbia, U.S. Attorney Eric H. Holder Jr. announced yesterday the creation of a special team of 16 prosecutors to handle all domestic violence cases there. Formerly randomly assigned, all complaints of domestic violence of any degree will now go […]
California Gov. Pete Wilson nominated Sacramento state appeals court judge Janice Rogers Brown last week to the California Supreme Court. If confirmed, Brown would join two other women on the bench and make California the fifth state with three women on its high court. Brown would also be the first black woman on the court. […]
On Friday (3-29), U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow threw out two claims of sex discrimination against the National Institutes of Health. Dismissing the claims as “exaggerated,” Chasanow said the two separate claims by two women lacked substance. Dr. Maureen Polsby, a neurologist at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes from 1983 to […]
A non-surgical form of abortion using the drug methotrexate is gathering support from the National Abortion Federation (NAF) and Planned Parenthood of New York. During its annual meeting in San Francisco this weekend, NAF, the Washington-based group of abortion providers, planned to present instructions to doctors interested in offering methotrexate abortions. The drug has been […]
