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Truthout - All Articles - Nov 21, 2009
Language matters, so let's be clear: Women's reproductive health is not a "social issue." Deciding whether to carry the red purse or the black bag to dinner Saturday night? That's a social issue. Wondering why your …
Also tagged: health care, abortion, reproductive rights, pro choice, bart stupak
Truthout - women's issues - Nov 19, 2009
It’s back to the bad old days of the population bomb. That was the title of an alarmist book by Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich that appeared in 1968. He suggested that world catastrophe would ensue unless women in …
Also tagged: health, women, racist, retro, population control
Truthout - All Articles - Nov 17, 2009
Fall 2009 Issue The effects of climate change threaten everyone, but they do not threaten all people equally. Women are disproportionately affected by natural disasters, which are on the increase, as they experience …
Also tagged: climate change, women, environment, race, women of color
Truthout - All Articles - Nov 15, 2009
Democratic leaders have said that the turn-around on abortion contained in the House health-reform bill will not appear in the final version. The author, a Women’s Media Center board member and former president of …
Also tagged: health, democrats, abortion, reproductive rights, health care reform, hyde amendment, president obama, public option, stupak amendment
Truthout - Originals - Nov 15, 2009
Chicago-based author Nona Willis Aronowitz says that her mom, Ellen Willis, "raised me feminist," and "I grew up thinking that I could do anything." It wasn't, though, until after her mom - who was a feminist …
Also tagged: feminists for life, nona willis aronowitz, girldrive, emma bee bernstein
Truthout - All Articles - Nov 14, 2009
Ventura, California - US Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother, is being threatened with a military court-martial if she does not agree to deploy to Afghanistan, despite having been told she would be …
Also tagged: afghanistan, mother, army, war, child protective services
Truthout - women's issues - Nov 7, 2009
Boston - It's been 11 years since I looked through a photo album smuggled out of Afghanistan by a brave young woman. "This is a doctor," she said, pointing to one picture. "This is a teacher." It was impossible to tell …
Also tagged: afghanistan, human rights, women, military, taliban, al qaeda, bush
Truthout - Opinion - Oct 30, 2009
The political projects currently underway in Latin America come in all shapes and sizes, but one thing that most all of the governments have in common is their flat-out refusal to even discuss the legalization of …
Also tagged: cuba, mexico, christianity, abortion, reproductive rights, latin america, pro choice, pro life, catholicism, modernization, women and 039 s rights
Truthout - All Articles - Oct 23, 2009
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Also tagged: republicans, rape, halliburton, kbr, franken, jamie leigh jones
Truthout - Opinion - Oct 21, 2009
Women, according to the Cambodian maxim, are rice. Men, however, are diamonds. In a country in which 75 percent of residents farm rice for subsistence, this would seem a positive sign. Rice is central to Cambodian …
Also tagged: women, cambodia, labor, diamonds, rice, harpswell