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 […]
In a blow to the U.S. military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy toward homosexuals, a U.S. district judge ruled Friday that it is unconstitutional to dismiss homosexuals in the military who openly state their sexual preference. District Court Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong ordered the National Guard Friday (3-30) to reinstate Lt. Andrew Holmes who says […]
On April 1, Revenue Secretary Janice Faulkner will be sworn in as the first Secretary of State in North Carolina. Faulkner, who has a history in the Democratic Party and at East Carolina University, says she intends to restore morale in the department in which the outgoing Secretary is under criminal investigation for lax management […]
While in Greece, Hillary Rodham Clinton discussed the origins of democracy and said that women must become “equal partners in society” for the system to truly succeed in the U.S. and elsewhere. Urging nations to give women what she called the “tools of opportunity”–better health care, jobs, credit legal protection and political rights — Rodham […]
According to an international Gallup poll on gender and society, many people feel their countries would be better governed if more women were in political office. No country said that its government would be less effective with more women involved. Released Tuesday (3-26), the poll showed that a majority of respondents in 12 of the […]
According to HumanSERVE, the NAACP and the League of Women Voters, about 11 million people have registered to vote or have updated voting records under the “motor voter” law that went into effect on January 1,1995. The 1993 law forces states to make voter registration accessible through motor vehicle administrations, welfare and disability agencies, the […]
New data from the Census Bureau has found that women own one-third of all U.S. businesses, employing 26 percent of the nation’s work force. Sales from the 7.95 million women-owned businesses jumped 236 percent since 1987, and employment in those businesses rose to 18.5 million workers from only 6.6 million in 1987. According to the […]
