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Items in this update:
o Hundreds of sex-offender convictions reviewed
o Embryo-cloned pregnancy reported
o FL child-welfare worker allegedly drunk at wheel
o Gay manager gets $160,000 settlement over Christian values
o Nonsurgical way to sterilize women up for approval
o Canada may leave marriages to the church
o Colombian women march for peace
o Rikers sued over forced gynecological tests
o One in 20 women raped
o Vatican expels women priests
o Elderly woman fends off robbers with shotgun
o Abortion procedure ban passes the house
o United States compiles divorce stats
o Virtual porn amendment to the Constitution proposed
o Disney-bashing feminist heads Anglican church
o Pakistan gang-rape trial begins
o Drive to boost sex convictions
o Rape as punishment
o Barbie and fat as a feminist issue
o UN feminist threat
o WNBA teams reach out to lesbians
o Western female aid workers targeted
o The motherhood issue
o Where are the frisky middle-aged women?
o Understanding the superdad
o Is the '1 in 20 women raped' statistic accurate?
o Born Alive Protection Act
o Child casualties in the Drug War
o Sorry, I'm not supermum
o Couple campaigns for lesbian's civil rights
Hello ifeminists:
I'm back at the computer from an exhausting whirlwind of lecturing at
Bryn Mawr for the Institute for Humane Studies. 61 of the brightest students
I've seen in years gathered to challenge just about every statement and
theory presented by the five faculty members in what was a week of
tremendous intellectual growth for us all. More details can be gleaned from
my venture into weblogging called the McBlog <http://www.zetetics.com/mac/>.
Blog on ifeminists!
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Enjoy!
Now ... onto the main event...
-- Wendy McElroy, mac@ifeminists.com
==> News Reports <==
Hundreds of sex-offender convictions reviewed
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Independent
"The Criminal Cases Review Commission, the legal body
established by the Government to examine possible
miscarriages of justice, announced yesterday it had set
up a working party to look for flaws in cases of child
abuse and rape, where individuals had been convicted
solely on the word of the victim." (07/25/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/412614198.html
Embryo-cloned pregnancy reported
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Herald Tribune
A Korean woman is reportedly pregnant with an embryo cloned
by Clonaid, a U.S. biotechnology company. An official at
the Ministry of Science and Technology said that the
ministry will rush to legislate bills that ban human
cloning. (07/24/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/409722505.html
FL child-welfare worker allegedly drunk at wheel
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AZ Central
"A Florida child-welfare worker was arrested on Friday
after police found her passed out drunk at the wheel of
a car with a foster child in the back seat. Police ...
said they found the car stopped in the middle of a road
with the engine running, the driver asleep and a crying
7-month-old girl strapped into a child safety seat in
the back." (07/26/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/666605922.html
Gay manager gets $160,000 settlement over Christian values
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Oakland Tribune
Oakland is paying an openly gay personnel manager $160,000
as settlement of a discrimination suit brought because
the city's personnel director invoked "Christian values"
in the workplace. (07/26/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/758105500.html
Nonsurgical way to sterilize women up for approval
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Yahoo News
"A tiny, spring-like device threaded into the fallopian
tubes seems to offer women permanent birth control
without surgery and should be approved for sale,
advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration voted
Monday. If the FDA agrees, the Essure device could
become an easier method of sterilization, the most
widely used form of contraception." (07/21/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/510259057.html
Canada may leave marriages to the church
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Ottawa Citizen
"The federal government, faced with a court ruling that
allows gays and lesbians to tie the knot, is considering
withdrawing from the marriage business and leaving it to
the church." (07/28/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/853290388.html
Colombian women march for peace
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Yahoo
"They came from all over Colombia, traveling hours by bus
-- mothers, daughters, wives and sisters, all with one
message: They want an end to 38 years of civil war." (07/25/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/90813908.html
Rikers sued over forced gynecological tests
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NY Daily News
Five women who were arrested on minor offenses charge they
were forced to strip and submit to gynecological exams
at Rikers Island. Their suit seeks unspecified damages
for them and an injunction barring the Correction
Department from forcing women to be examined. (07/21/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/788976944.html
One in 20 women raped
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The Guardian
The official 2000 British crime survey found that nearly
one in 20 women in England and Wales has been raped. The
Home Office survey also reported that one in 10 had been
sexually victimized. (07/23/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/810468035.html
Vatican expels women priests
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Women's eNews
Seven women who had been ordained as Roman Catholic priests
in Austria were excommunicated on July 22, according to
reports published in two Catholic news services. (07/27/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/814768284.html
Elderly woman fends off robbers with shotgun
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Macon Telegraph
An elderly widow thwarted two gun-wielding, would-be
robbers after they entered her country store and
demanded money. (07/24/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/998707953.html
Abortion procedure ban passes the house
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Feminist Majority Foundation
The House of Representatives has voted to pass an abortion
procedure ban, which would outlaw late term abortions
except when necessary to save the woman's life.
(07/25/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/416969936.html
United States compiles divorce stats
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BeliefNet/AP
The findings of an extensive survey of nearly 11,000 women
by the National Center for Health Statistics have just
been released. One finding: one in three marriages will
end in divorce during their first 10 years. (07/24/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/437100827.html
Virtual porn amendment to the Constitution proposed
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The State
U.S. Rep. Henry Brown (R-S.C.) has proposed a
constitutional amendment to reverse what Brown calls the
folly of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that porn
containing computer-generated images of children is
protected speech. (07/21/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/441941072.html
Disney-bashing feminist heads Anglican church
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IOL/Reuters
Rowan Williams, a radical liberal who supports gay clergy,
has been appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury
and spiritual leader of the world's 70 million
Anglicans. (07/23/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/458641644.html
Pakistan gang-rape trial begins
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The Guardian
The trial of four men accused of gang raping a young woman
as the punishment decreed by a traditional tribal
council has started. The gang-rape verdict has drawn
international protest. (07/27/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/775776312.html
Drive to boost sex convictions
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Guardian
by Gaby Hinsliff
"Rape victims who know their assailant will be given fresh
encouragement to report the attack in a drive to boost
sex crime convictions. Fear of not being believed by
police or of a humiliating ordeal in the witness box is
still thought to deter many women from coming forward." (07/21/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/701822081.html
For more News Reports see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/news/
==> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <==
Rape as punishment
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Washington Post
by Mona Eltahawy
The Pakistan Human Rights Commission estimates that at
least eight women are reported raped every day; more
than two-thirds of them are gang-raped.In Pakistan rape
is often used for revenge or punishment against an
enemy. A woman is "defiled" to taint her family.
(07/28/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/419483039.html
Barbie and fat as a feminist issue
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SheThinks
by Laura Vanderkam
"Yes, Barbie is skinny -- but we could stop a health crisis
if people championed her active lifestyle and stopped
dismissing her physique as a way of keeping women down." (07/29/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/424633206.html
UN feminist threat
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FrontPage Magazine
by Christina Hoff Sommers
Sommers argues that ratifying CEDAW (The Convention on the
Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against
Women) would do "serious harm to the United States and
to women around the world, who need effective policies,
not the bitter gender politics of this misguided
treaty." (07/22/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/441664111.html
WNBA teams reach out to lesbians
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USA Today
by Janie McCauley
"The Storm, like several other teams in the WNBA, are
reaching out to the lesbian community like never before.
The team is advertising in alternative publications and
is planning post-game events for the lesbian community.
With WNBA statistics showing that 75 percent of game
audiences are women, targeting lesbian organizations for
group ticket sales is a natural move." (07/22/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/93394053.html
Western female aid workers targeted
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Christian Science Monitor
by Fariba Nawa
After a French aid worker was raped in June -- the fourth
in 10 months -- some Western women are considering
leaving Afghanistan. (07/19/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/791067087.html
The motherhood issue
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Washington Post
by E.J. Dionne
"There is a core problem with the way we discuss family and
work issues: So many of the arguments implicitly assume
that all mothers have the same choices." (07/26/03)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/793647294.html
Where are the frisky middle-aged women?
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Philadelphia Inquirer
by Karen Heller
"Everyone ages. Except lusty women in movies, who mostly
just vanish when they reach a certain age." Where are
the sexually active, vibrant middle-aged women? (07/24/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/805566890.html
Understanding the superdad
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Family Resources
by Susie Michelle Cortright
"We hear a lot about the Supermom Syndrome but rarely about
our Superdads. We place higher expectations on fathers
in today's society than ever before. Unlike previous
generations, dads today are expected to take a proactive
role in caring for the children physically as well as
financially." (07/28/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/405287755.html
Is the '1 in 20 women raped' statistic accurate?
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Spiked
by Josie Appleton
"'One in 20 women has been raped,' screamed headlines
reporting the findings of the 2000 British Crime Survey.
... Yet the 'one in 20' figure is misleading and
alarmist, and untangling these statistics shows a rather
different story." (07/25/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/413588055.html
Born Alive Protection Act
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Newsmax
by Phil Brennan
In passing the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, the
Senate drew a line in the sand on abortion by extending
legal protection to children who survive the attempt to
kill them in utero. (07/20/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/476555192.html
Child casualties in the Drug War
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Mother Jones
by George Sanchez
"With an estimated half-million American adults currently
behind bars on drug charges, child welfare and prison
reform activists have long warned that the War on Drugs
is inflicting enormous collateral damage on tens of
thousands of innocent bystanders: the children of
prisoners." (07/24/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/166418934.html
Sorry, I'm not supermum
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Independent
by Sarah Ebner
"Most women find new motherhood harder than they expected.
But for women who have conceived by IVF, life with baby
(or babies) can bring extra heartache." (07/22/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/686620849.html
Couple campaigns for lesbian's civil rights
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Womens ENews
by Chris Lombardi
"A couple has launched a nationwide crusade to educate gay
and lesbian couples about the need to prepare wills and
other legal documents protecting the rights of their
partners." (07/23/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/688611037.html
For more Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/commentary/
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