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Items in this update:
o Is the abortion boat a sham?
o Officials upset because abortion boat is unlicensed
o Domestic violence more likely from women
o Australians battle over definition of fatherhood
o Internet sextrepreneurs targeted by Ashcroft
o Egyptian feminist goes on trial
o Abortion pill now available online
o Nobel Prize winner says Canada, U.S. bowing to political correctness
o Contraceptives for women must be covered under health insurance
o Indian sex workers hold up traffic to protest raid
o Sterilization banned at US Catholic hospitals
o Sex scandal at Alabama girl's prison
o Real Mothers Don't Need the Mommy State
o Anti-gun woman 'converts' after home invasion
o One man's nightmare with campus sex police
o A 17-year-old speaks out against filtering
o Government -- get out of fatherhood!
o A retirement account of one's own
o On the trail of the women warriors
o Alternatives to Marriage Project
o Clare Boothe Luce Institute's speakers bureau
o A dissident view of NOW and its finances
o Organization for rights of Pakistani women
o Women's online gun club
o Create an online petition for free
Hello ifeminists:
I must begin with an apology to Chuck Eimermann for bumping his guest
editorial entitled "Abortion Conflict" from last week to our current issue.
<http://www.ifeminists.com> Since last week, I have learned how to work
with .pdf files so Chuck is up and running. (Yes! She *can* be taught!) My
weekly editorial entitled "Bashing Boys" is also posted.
Chuck's editorial is all the more appropriate since breaking news
seems to indicate that the much-touted "abortion ship" is a PR scam. If
this is true, I can only throw up my hands in disgust at the short-sighted
grab for headlines. Even as a pro-choice advocate, in the future I will
listen with open skepticism to every word out of the mouths of women I
formerly considered reliable. If true, Women on Waves and their associates
were not only lying to the media but also to everyone of good will who
supported them.
Pat's deserting a sinking ship. Patricia Ireland is resigning from
NOW. Next week's ifeminists.com editorial will give a glimpse into the
probable reasons behind her rather abrupt departure. Meanwhile, you can
read the official, sanitized account at NOW's website <http://www.now.org>
Thanks to Maria Dolan for a particularly provocative response to
David Horowitz's article on how gay politics has allegedly spread AIDS.
Highlights from her correspondence: "I'm one of those unreconstructed
Queer leftie sex radicals from the 70s." Maria wanted ifeminists to know
that "there was a movement for Queer liberation before there was AIDS. It
involved our full enfranchisement as people ... When people started getting
sick, the old stigmas were reinforced, and new phobias and hysterias took
root." A younger generation may not remember, as Maria and I do, how some
extreme politicians back then were seriously suggesting the rounding up and
forced isolation of those who were HIV positive. Thanks for writing, Maria,
and for being honest enough to see some essential truth in Horowitz'
disturbing claims. We at ifeminists live for this sort of correspondence.
Now ... onto the main event.
-- Wendy McElroy, mac@ifeminists.com
==> News Reports <==
Is the abortion boat a sham?
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"Doctors on an 'abortion boat' which sailed into Dublin
harbour last week have admitted that they never expected
to treat a single woman and that the voyage was just a
charade." (06/17/01)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000140326706927&rtmo=qKLeMLL9&atmo=qKLeMLL9
&pg=/et/01/6/17/nabor17.html
Officials upset because abortion boat is unlicensed
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Officials in the Netherlands have themselves worked into a
frenzy because a Dutch-staffed ship meant to offer
abortions to women in countries with restrictive laws is
an unlicensed operation. (06/13/01)
http://www.canoe.ca/EdmontonNews/es.es-06-13-0058.html
Domestic violence more likely from women
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"Women are more likely than men to perpetrate domestic
violence, according to new research on Irish couples who
seek marriage counselling. The report...also found that
domestic violence was one of the less important factors
in marriage breakdown in the largely middleclass group
studied." (06/14/01)
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2001/0614/fro3.htm
Australians battle over definition of fatherhood
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"When federal court in Victoria, Australia, ruled that
single women could not be barred from fertility
treatments, the Catholic Church and the national
government entered the fray, insisting artificially
conceived children have a right to two parents." (06/13/01)
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/581
Internet sextrepreneurs targeted by Ashcroft
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In his first appaerance before the House Judiciary
Committee, attorney general John Ashcroft expressed his
deep concern over obscenity. He said Justice Department
prosecutors would assist in imprisoning those whoe
sex-sites feature obscene images. (06/09/01)
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,44398,00.html
Egyptian feminist goes on trial
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A prominent Egyptian feminist and novelist goes to court
today for making anti-Islamic statements, including
criticizing inheritance laws for women. If found guilty,
Nawal Al-Saadawi will be required to divorce her husband
of many years. (06/18/01)
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/06/18/p9s1.htm
Abortion pill now available online
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Planned Parenthood is offering online medical consultation
and prescriptions for the controversial "morning-after
pill." So far, the service is available only in Illinois
and Georgia. The Illinois Department of Professional
Regulation is considering whether the online
prescriptions violate the state's Medical Practice Act.
(06/18/01)
http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2001/06/18/morning_after/index.html
Nobel Prize winner says Canada, U.S. bowing to 'neo-fascism' of political
correctness
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Canada and the United States are bowing to the
"neo-fascism" of political correctness under "the new
commissars of thought" even as people elsewhere fight to
throw off tyranny, said Nobel Prize-winning writer and
activist Wole Soyinka, who has been jailed for
criticizing the authorities in Nigeria. (06/13/01)
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/national/story.html?f=/stories/20010613/590
015.html
Contraceptives for women must be covered under health insurance
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Bartell Drugs has been ordered by a federal-court judge to
cover prescription contraceptives in its
employee-medical plan. Not doing so is said to
discriminate against female employees and violate the
Civil Rights Act of 1964. Condoms for men are still not
covered. (06/13/01)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134306092_bartell13m.html
Indian sex workers hold up traffic to protest raid
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In response to a police raid on a brothel in New Delhi,
during which 14 women were beaten and arrested, more
than 200 sex workers took to the streets to block
traffic and protest their treatment at the hands of
authorities. (06/15/01)
http://www.timesofindia.com/today/15mdel4.htm
Sterilization banned at US Catholic hospitals
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July 15, 2001
Under pressure from the Vatican, the National Conference of
Catholic Bishops has put sterilization on a par with
abortion and euthanasia as an "intrinsically
evil"procedure and banned it at all Catholic and
Catholic-affiliated hospitals. Other Catholic groups are
protesting.
http://www.cath4choice.org/whatsnew.htm
Sex scandal at Alabama girl's prison
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A $171 million federal lawsuit that alleges wide spread
sexual abuse of underage female prisoners has rocked the
Department of Youth Services, the agency that runs
juvenile corrections in Alabama.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,27464,00.html
For more News Reports see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/news/
==> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <==
Real Mothers Don't Need the Mommy State
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by Sunni Maravillosa
Maravillosa refutes the idea that women ought to be paid to
be mothers to their children. (06/01)
http://www.sierratimes.com/archive/files/jun/11/edsm061101.htm
Anti-gun woman 'converts' after home invasion
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The harrowing story of how Susan Gonzalez -- an anti-gun
mom -- survived a brutal home invasion by picking up her
husband's weapon. (06/01)
http://www.womenandguns.com/0501issue/lyn0501.html
One man's nightmare with campus sex police
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by Wendy McElroy
After a tour through a modern university "legal system"
that failed to provide even a modicum of due process, Ru
Paster has been awarded $1.15 million in his lawsuit
against Gonzaga University over bogus rape charges.
(06/12/01)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,26986,00.html
A 17-year-old speaks out against filtering
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by Daniel Silverman
An articulate teenager, who copes with the software
filtering that anti-porn advocates zealously install in
public schools, takes a stand against a system that
screens out Planned Parenthood but not the Christian
Coalition. (06/14/01)
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/06/14/net_filtering/index.html
Government -- get out of fatherhood!
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by Stephen Baskerville
Instead of applauding governmental initiative such as
President Bush's $315 million plan "to promote
responsible
fatherhood," Baskerville suggests that government should
get out of fatherhood's way. (06/16/01)
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=23271
A retirement account of one's own
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by Laura Dykes
"Statistically, women benefit less from Social Security
than men. Women live longer than men and require more
retirement income," writes Dykes. All the more reason to
let women control their own retirement accounts.
(06/15/01)
aff@free-market.net
http://www.americasfuture.org/viewBrainwash.cfm?pubid=61
For more Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/commentary/
==> Online Resource Directories <==
On the trail of the women warriors
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by Lynn Webster Wilde
Site from the author of a book by the same title, "On the
trail" explores who the Amazons were, whether they
really existed, and what the hidden dimension of the
story are.
lynww@ukonline.co.uk
http://www.womanwarrior.co.uk/
Alternatives to Marriage Project
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"This Resource list is an ongoing project to help our
community of unmarried people share with each other the
books, websites, organizations, and other resources
we've all found most helpful." A resource for homosexual
couples or heterosexuals who choose to live outside of
wedlock.
atmp@unmarried.org
http://www.unmarried.org/res.html
For more Online Resource Directories see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/homepages/
==> Experts <==
Clare Boothe Luce Institute's speakers bureau
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Although the CBL Institute is more conservative than
ifeminists.com, it has been at the forefrontof the fight
against PC politics and features an intriguing slate of
experts who are available to speak.
http://www.cblpolicyinstitute.org/speakers.htm
For more Experts see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/experts/
==> Scholarly and In-Depth Studies <==
A dissident view of NOW and its finances
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The break-away NOW chapter in Dulles, North Virginia, has
posted tax returns from the National NOW that show it
has lied in membership and funding figures to make
itself look more prominent. Other accusations of fraud
arise as well. Follow the links to the tax information.
http://www.dullesnow.org/now.html
For more Scholarly and In-Depth Studies see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/in-depth/
==> Institutes, Organizations, and Clubs <==
Organization for rights of Pakistani women
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The International Network for the Rights of Female Bictims
of Violence in Pakistan works " to create an heightened
worldwide awareness of the degree and nature of the
violence being done to girls and women in Pakistan,"
where honor killings still occur.
http://www.inrfvvp.org/
For more Institutes, Organizations, and Clubs see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/organizations/
==> Online Discussions and E-Mail Lists <==
Women's online gun club
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"This forum was created to allow women to discuss anything
related to guns, gun safety, target shooting, self
protection, home defense, etc." For those women who are
not only pro-gun ownership rights but also gun owners.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WomensOnlineGunClub
For more Online Discussions and E-Mail Lists see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/discussions/
==> Games, Surveys, and Tools <==
Create an online petition for free
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This free activist tool allows you to set up your own
petition on the Internet in order to influence your
"target" toward ifeminism or other forms of personal
freedom.
http://www.i-charity.net/sw.cgi/ptn/new
For more Games, Surveys, and Tools see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/games/
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