Thu 7 Jun 2007
Rift Over Curbing Unintended Pregnancies
Filed under: General Discussion — WomensCenter @ 1:03 pm

NEW YORK (AP) — America’s conflicted attitude toward sex is at the heart of an intriguing political struggle unfolding this year in Congress and many states, as liberals and conservatives spar over bills aimed at reducing the huge number of unintended pregnancies.

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Thu 7 Jun 2007
Taking on the Big Boys: Why Feminism is Good for Families, Business and the Nation
Filed under: General Discussion — WomensCenter @ 1:03 pm

In 1992, a dozen Chinese seamstresses were laid off from their jobs making sleeves, collars and piecework for Lucky Sewing, a subcontractor for Jessica McClintock, a company that manufactures Gunne Sax dresses. When Jessica McClintock pulled its contract from Lucky Sewing, the subcontractor declared bankruptcy and told the women, who had been working 10 to 14 hours a day, six or seven days a week, that it couldn’t pay them back wages.

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Thu 7 Jun 2007
Beyond Shame: Democrats Sell Out Youth
Filed under: General Discussion — WomensCenter @ 12:01 pm

Today, the House Democrats will waltz into the mark-up of the Labor HHS Subcommittee and proudly present a bill that puts their stamp of approval on domestic abstinence-only-until-marriage programs—an ideological boondoggle that threatens the health and well-being of America’s youth.

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Thu 7 Jun 2007
Fighting profit with cancer
Filed under: General Discussion — WomensCenter @ 11:59 am

So last night, whilst soaking in the tub and reading an article in the new Bitch about the controversy over Gardasil, I got to thinking about the confusion over the concepts of amorality and immorality.

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Thu 31 May 2007
Health coverage grows bit by bit in Legislature
Filed under: General Discussion — WomensCenter @ 1:16 pm

SALEM — Legislators crowded behind Gov. Ted Kulongoski when he signed a bill Wednesday requiring insurers to help thousands of Oregon women pay for birth control pills. It was a perfect photo opportunity for a proposal that has captured a lot of attention in Salem this year.

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Thu 31 May 2007
A study on emergency contraception availability in Corvallis
Filed under: General Discussion — WomensCenter @ 1:15 pm

We are concerned about emergency contraception (EC). From rape victims in Florida to teenagers in South Dakota, women and girls across the country are not being allowed full access to reproductive control.

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Thu 31 May 2007
Elections have consequences, legal gender discrimination edition
Filed under: General Discussion — WomensCenter @ 12:31 pm

Subtitle: Why it’s not right having a slew of creaky, conservative old men making decisions for women who will have to live long after those old farts kick off.

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Thu 24 May 2007
The good, the bad, and the riot
Filed under: General Discussion — WomensCenter @ 12:09 pm

Yes, it’s another one of those good news/bad news posts on reproductive rights.

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Thu 17 May 2007
Don’t want to be harassed? Stop acting like a man
Filed under: General Discussion — WomensCenter @ 12:49 pm

BEHAVING like “one of the boys” to get ahead at work may not be the best strategy for women. A study had found that alpha-females are more likely to suffer sexual harassment.

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Thu 17 May 2007
Southern Baptist leader: educated women are ‘threatening the family’
Filed under: General Discussion — WomensCenter @ 12:36 pm

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary president Paige Patterson says families need to be concerned that in America, 60% of college students are female. He predicts that in a few years, men will be increasingly underrepresented among “the intelligentsia” and will gradually cede leadership in many areas to women.

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