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Items in this update:
o The taxman picks up prostitutes
o EU to impose political correctness online
o Raped woman to be jailed
o Use the 'N' word, go to jail
o Canada may abandon changes in child custody law
o Another DNA witchhunt in Scotland
o False rape claims end career
o Sperm donor must make child support payments
o How many genes make up a human?
o Women demand Mexico murder probe
o Afghan girls on sale for 100kg of wheat
o Crisis pregnancy centers fight Attorney General's order
o Minnesota may outlaw mixed-sex wrestling
o Abortion clinic bars mother of 16-year-old
o Postpartum psychosis: one woman's story
o Anti-abortion groups challenges morning-after pill
o Men, divorce and suicide
o Should accused men be 'tagged and tested?'
o Heterophobia -- book review
o Rape evidence kits go unused
o Ifeminist chat with Norma Jean Almodovar
o Michigan women rush for gun permits
o Children forgotten in gender-custody wars
o Feds are wrong to interfere in abortion court case
o A pill a day
o The Unity Wall
o Examples of PC changes to the Bible
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Patai's "Heterophobia" is in its second week and you are most cordially
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a book review is included as a link in this InsiderUpdate.
Meanwhile, the new editorials are up on the front page: "Andrea Yates,
NOW, and Feminist Jurisprudence" by me; and, "You're Not Daddy" by James R.
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==> News Reports <==
The taxman picks up prostitutes
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London Times
"Pimps, panders and other procurers of prostitutes won a
degree of respectability yesterday when a High Court
judge ruled that their business was not inherently
illegal." At the same time, he ruled that their services
were subject to Britain's VAT -- a value-added tax. (02/20/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/765112112.html
EU to impose political correctness online
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Ananova
The EU's Council of Europe has published draft plans to
combat racism on the internet. The draft protocol is
aimed at criminalising the dissemination of racist or
xenophobic material via computer networks. (02/20/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/433681386.html
Raped woman to be jailed
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WorldNetDaily
"A Saudi court has sentenced a woman to six months in
prison and 65 lashes for getting raped by her
brother-in-law and reporting it to police." (02/18/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/294571858.html
Use the 'N' word, go to jail
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WorldNetDaily
"An Idaho man has been sentenced to seven days in jail for
shouting the 'N' word in an angry outburst directed at a
black man who accosted his wife. Earlier this month, a
jury acquitted Lonny Rae of felony 'hate crime' but
found him liable of assault for having hurled the
epithet." (02/20/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/14822103.html
Canada may abandon changes in child custody law
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National Post
Canada may abandon plans to overhaul its child custody
laws. If so, a family rights group threatens to launch a
legal battle that could cost the federal government
billions of dollars. Fathers' groups want a new concept
of shared parenting in which each parent has a legal
entitlement to custody after divorce. (02/18/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/28332739.html
Another DNA witchhunt in Scotland
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Scotland Today
Authorities plan to take DNA samples from more than 600 men
-- all the male residents (12 years of age and older) in
a neighborhood where a woman was murdered. Police will
not comment on whether they have DNA samples from the
crime scene. (02/18/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/44713541.html
False rape claims end career
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The Mercury
A Supreme Court Judge in Australia has ruled that an
aspiring female solicitor, who pleaded guilty to making
false accusations of sexual assault to the police,
should not be allowed to practise law in Victoria.
(02/20/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/130298124.html
Sperm donor must make child support payments
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Yahoo Daily News
A court in Sweden has ordered that a man who donated sperm
to a lesbian couple should pay child support in the wake
of the cuple's break-up. (02/21/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/453032996.html
How many genes make up a human?
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Forbes
A year ago, when the Human Genome Project and Celera
Genomics unveiled their maps of the human genetic code,
it seemed there was a definitive answer: about 30,000.
But now that answer is turning out to be less than
final, with new data suggesting there could be 70,000 or
more human genes. (02/20/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/457083437.html
Women demand Mexico murder probe
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BBC
A coalition of women's groups from Mexico and the U.S. has
called for a joint taskforce to investigate the murder
of women in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez.
The Inter-American Human Rights Commission says almost
270 have been murdered in the town since 1993.
(02/21/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/542242195.html
Afghan girls on sale for 100kg of wheat
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iAbolish
A Red Cross assessment mission reports that young Afghan
girls "sell" as wives for as little as 100 kg of wheat.
Destitute families are eating leaves to exist after
decades of war and three years of drought. (02/09/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/620185499.html
Crisis pregnancy centers fight Attorney General's order
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Feminist Majority
A group of pro-life crisis pregnancy centers in New York
filed motions in court last week attempting to avoid
disclosing their records to the New York Attorney
General’s office. One of the issues under examination is
whether the centers provide medical services without a
license. (02/21/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/444412206.html
Minnesota may outlaw mixed-sex wrestling
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Star Tribune
Title IX, the federal law that sets standards for gender
equity in sports, does not require schools to place
girls on boys' wrestling teams, but Minnesota allows it.
A state House committee is watching such moves as "high
crotch takedowns" to determine if the sport should be
segregated. (02/20/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/591727781.html
Abortion clinic bars mother of 16-year-old
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St Louis Today/St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A woman who tried to enter a Granite City, Illinois
abortion clinic to see her 16-year-old daughter last
week was stopped by clinic officials and police. The
police explained, "Parental consent is not necessary."
(02/23/02)
mailto:ccarroll@post-dispatch.com
http://www.free-market.net/rd/447032431.html
For more News Reports see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/news/
==> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <==
Postpartum psychosis: one woman's story
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NPR
by Joanne Silberner
With the Andrea Yates trial throwing a spotlight on
postpartum psychosis, Silberner offers a window into
this rare, frightening and treatable condition. (02/18/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/877834054.html
Anti-abortion groups challenges morning-after pill
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Equity Feminism
by Brian Carnell
"Since January 2001, women in Great Britain have been able
to buy the emergency contraception drug levonelle from
pharmacists without a prescription. Now an anti-abortion
group is mounting a legal challenge to this policy that
could also threaten the availability of other forms of
contraception." (02/14/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/306022593.html
Men, divorce and suicide
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Toronto Star
by San Grewal
Men account for 80% of Canadian suicides. In Ontario,
suicides account for more injury-related deaths among
men -- about 800 each year -- than any other category.
Grewal examines whether there is connection between the
men's deaths and Canada's anti-male divorce and custody
laws. (02/15/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/40413389.html
Should accused men be 'tagged and tested?'
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Ottawa Citizen
by Dave Brown
A coroner's jury in Toronto has recommended that men be
electronically shackled with a global positioning device
when they are accused of violence against a woman, and
their names automatically go into a database of abusers
without waiting for a conviction. (02/16/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/791564208.html
Heterophobia -- book review
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ifeminists
by Wendy McElroy, reviewer
A review of Daphne Patai's "Heterophobia: Sexual
Harassment and the Future of Feminism," which provides a
devastating critique of the Sexual Harassment Industry.
The review is part of an ongoing book discussion in the
ifeminists Writer's Forum. (02/25/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/530027350.html
Rape evidence kits go unused
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ABC News
by Brian Ross
"Thousands of rapists have been convicted and put behind
bars thanks to DNA evidence. But for all its
effectiveness, DNA testing -- a remarkably simple
procedure -- is rarely used by police in rape cases
where there is no suspect." (01/25/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/687495494.html
Ifeminist chat with Norma Jean Almodovar
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ifeminists/mensactivism
by Norma Jean Almodovar
A transcript of the live ifeminists/mensactivism chat room
from Sunday, February 10, 2002. Guest: Norma Jean
Almodovar, president of the International Sex Worker
Foundation for Art, Culture and Education (ISWFACE).
http://www.free-market.net/rd/534501721.html
Michigan women rush for gun permits
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Detroit Free Press
by Kathleen Gray and John Masson
Michigan's recently revised concealed weapons law is
prompting a flood of women -- estimated at 40% of all
applicants -- to seek gun permits. (02/21/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/577372483.html
Children forgotten in gender-custody wars
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The Irish Times
by Carol Coulter
"Many groups are campaigning for a review of our family-law
system, particularly fathers who feel they are
discriminated against. But is the gender war diverting
attention from what should be everybody's primary
concern - the children?"
http://www.free-market.net/rd/577796300.html
Feds are wrong to interfere in abortion court case
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FindLaw Writ
by Trevor Morrison
The U.S. Department of Justice recently filed a "friend of
the court" brief in a case before the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, urging the court to
reject a challenge to an Ohio law banning a form of
late-term abortion. Morrison explains why this was
improper. (02/14/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/806226285.html
A pill a day
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
by Rita Feldmann
The birth control pill is just over 40 years old. Feldmann
offers a common sense review of the controversial
contraceptive. (02/14/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/840248766.html
For more Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/commentary/
==> Action Opportunities <==
The Unity Wall
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UW
The Unity Wall has the names of fathers, mothers,
grandparents and others who have lost family members
through divorce and custody laws. Sign your name, tell
your story, and an email asking for custody reform will
be mailed on your behalf to the Senator from your state.
http://www.free-market.net/rd/644807091.html
For more Action Opportunities see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/actions/
==> Online Books and Collections <==
Examples of PC changes to the Bible
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Council of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
Examples of how the Bible was changed to conform with
political correctness and an explanation of how the
meaning has been altered from the original Greek.
http://www.free-market.net/rd/627481447.html
For more Online Books and Collections see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/e-texts/
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