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Items in this update:
o Sentenced to death for having a baby
o CEDAW causes hot debate
o Selling daughters to avoid execution
o Mentoring group must include gays
o Abortions set to fuel stem cell research
o 'Diversity' doesn't include differing opinions
o How to destroy the men's movement
o Attorneys say no laws broken at party with live sex
o Governor advises women to buy guns
o Nation watching abortion case
o Some LA abstinence-only clinics lose funding
o Norway -- 40% female quota for boardrooms
o Circumcision case proceeds to trial
o China hikes 1-child policy fines
o Disarming women
o Afghan women jailed for not marrying
o A doctor's right to choose
o Virtual child pornography
o Pro-choice view of 'partial birth' abortion ban
o There's no epidemic of child snatching!
o One man's story of paternity fraud
o Polygamy hits the billboards
o What justice for the wrongly accused?
o Can government prevent divorce?
o The 'deadbeat dad' canard
o Prostitution divides French feminists
o Innocence Project
o What is the men's movement?
o Women and success
Hello ifeminists:
It is almost ifeminists.com's third anniversary and, fittingly, our
ifeminist of the month <http://www.ifeminists.com/> is Chris Whitten with
whom I plotted ... er, planned the September opening of this site in the
summmer of 1999. Nice to see your face smiling down over the site, Chris.
I've had my first deep disagreement with the father's rights movement
or, at least, some voices within that movement. It concerns the recent court
injunction brought against a pregnant woman to prevent a first trimester
abortion: the injunction was at the behest of her ex-boyfriend. I think the
injunction is a travesty, and it would be disastrous for the father's rights
movement to endorse a man's legal "right" to control a woman's body. That
position is as appalling as the flip side -- the injunctions women bring
against men in family court. And ifeminists will have no part of promoting
either. (See item below entitled "Nation watching abortion case.") For
details on the disagreement, which I am still trying to sort out, see my
weblog, McBlog <http://www.zetetics.com/mac/>.
Attention women readers! (Sorry for the exclusion, men...) I am
compiling a feature article for Penthouse magazine on women's reactions to
pornography and I would value/appreciate any feedback that women are willing
to share with me in private email interviews: mac@ifeminists.com. Anonymity
is guaranteed tho' I'll have to give contact info to my editor for the
unlikely possibility that he wants to contact my sources to verify accuracy.
My deadline is September 1st so I'll be blazing ahead on the article and
waiting for your input. Thanks!
The new editorials are posted on the front page and we have a bumper
crop. My FOXNews/ifeminists piece "Circumcision: Routine procedure or child
abuse?" <http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/0806.html>;
"NOW Distances Itself from the Family Court Report and NAFCJ" by Trudy
Schuett <http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/0806a.html>;
"Fast-Food Lawsuit Denies Personal Responsibility" by George Getz
<http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/0806b.html>; and,
"Child Support Enforcement Act Substitutes Political Grandstanding for
Leadership" by Glenn Sacks and Dianna Thompson
<http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/0806c.html>. Enjoy!
And be sure to drop by the ifeminists main BB
<http://www.ifeminists.com/interaction/forum/feminism0208/index.html> where
we are discussing the wisdom of male circumcision and recent studies of
"sluts." It is monitored to encourage civility.
Now ... onto the main event...
-- Wendy McElroy, mac@ifeminists.com
==> News Reports <==
Sentenced to death for having a baby
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Sun Herald
Amina Lawal was sentenced to death by stoning by a regional
court, for having a child outside marriage. Although the
penalty is not allowed under the constitution,
government officials have declined to "interfere" in the
appeal process. (8/04/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/661907523.html
CEDAW causes hot debate
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Christian Science Monitor
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which the United
States has debated ratifying since 1979, is again on the
Senate's agenda, raising questions of women's rights and
national sovereignty. (07/30/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/200737525.html
Selling daughters to avoid execution
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Yahoo/Reuters
"Four murderers face execution in Pakistan after a storm of
protest scuttled a deal by which they sought to escape
hanging by selling young daughters into marriage to
elderly relatives of their victims." (07/25/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/216091518.html
Mentoring group must include gays
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Fox News
"Big Brothers - Big Sisters of America Inc., the
organization that for nearly a century has provided
adult mentors to help kids from single-parent families,
has imposed a new rule that demands that all 500 U.S.
affiliates sign up for homosexual mentors or risk being
kicked out of the program." (07/30/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/226192288.html
Abortions set to fuel stem cell research
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Sydney Morning Herald
"Tissue from aborted human foetuses will be used in the
culture of embryonic stem cells for the first time in
Australia if the creation of new stem-cell lines is
approved, the country's leading scientist in the field
has revealed." (08/05/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/577438489.html
'Diversity' doesn't include differing opinions
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FOX News
An Ann Arbor high school graduate is suing her alma mater,
claiming the school violated her free speech right to
criticize homosexuality during a diversity program.
Betsy Hansen, who is Roman Catholic, objects to
homosexuality based on her religious beliefs. (07/30/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/184776534.html
How to destroy the men's movement
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Sydney Morning Herald
Blackshirts, dressed from head to toe in paramilitary style
garb, staged a series of demonstrations outside two
homes to protest the family court system, terrifying the
families within. Such military tactics are most likely
to damage or destroy the progress toward justice for
men. (08/05/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/590972452.html
Governor advises women to buy guns
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ABC News
Governor Mike Foster reminded women that they can pack a
gun to protect themselves from a serial killer who has
slain three women in the capital in the past 10 months.
"You have the right to get a gun permit." Foster said.
"Learn to use it." (08/01/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/438512331.html
Nation watching abortion case
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ZWire
Tanya Meyers has filed an emergency appeal seeking to
overturn an injunction that stops her from having an
abortion. The injunction, granted to the biological
father, has little chance of succeeding. (08/02/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/489905766.html
Some LA abstinence-only clinics lose funding
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Women's eNews
A federal judge says the state of Louisiana may no longer
fund programs that promote religion through
abstinence-only sex education. (07/30/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/751281101.html
Norway -- 40% female quota for boardrooms
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The Guardian
Although companies protest that there are too few qualified
women to fill the posts, egalitarian Norway is about to
become the first country in the world to insist on
female quotas for company boardrooms. (08/01/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/753761213.html
Circumcision case proceeds to trial
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Men's News Daily
A precedent-setting decision allows a circumcision case to
proceed to trial, and confirms that an adult male who
has been circumcised as a baby can sue the doctor
despite parental consent and normal results deom the
procedure. (08/01/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/765261846.html
China hikes 1-child policy fines
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Telegraph
"A Chinese province that angered President George W Bush by
carrying out forced abortions under the draconian
one-child policy, has raised fines for second children
to eight times an offending couple's annual income." (07/30/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/393490846.html
For more News Reports see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/news/
==> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <==
Disarming women
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Independent Women's Forum
by Richard W. Stevens, Hugo Teufel III, and Matthew Y. Biscan
"An iconoclastic, new brand of 'individualist feminism' --
ifeminism -- suggests that abused women might do well to
put their trust in Smith & Wesson." (07/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/882113209.html
Afghan women jailed for not marrying
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NewJersey.com
by Paisley Dodds
"Two days after she was born, Munawar Mohammed was already
promised as someone's bride." When she refused to marry
at 16 years old, Munawar was jailed. Yet, she says,
"Even in this prison, I feel more free." (07/30/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/195057082.html
A doctor's right to choose
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Salon
by Margaret A. Woodbury
"Two surgical options for late-term abortion may be reduced
to one if antiabortion activists, with help from the
Bush administration, get their way." (07/24/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/696629514.html
The next pro-choice target
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Alternet
by Eleanor Bader
Bader points to the next target of pro-choice activists,
"Crisis pregnancy centers -- anti-choice 'clinics' that
promise free pregnancy tests and counseling, but deliver
wildly inaccurate information about the emotional and
physical risks of abortion to the women who visit them." (07/29/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/222872064.html
Virtual child pornography
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Strike the Root
by John deLaubenfels
"To put it bluntly, children (and adults too, of course)
have the right not to be sexually exploited, BUT, adults
have the right to possess any material which does not
directly exploit children. Yes, including virtual
pornography." (07/31/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/723253808.html
Pro-choice view of 'partial birth' abortion ban
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Newsday
by Sheryl McCarthy
The U.S. Supreme Court decide two years ago that a Nebraska
law that banned "partial birth" abortion was
unconstitutional. So why has the House of
Representatives passed a bill banning the procedure? (07/29/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/980644343.html
There's no epidemic of child snatching!
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The New Republic
by Michelle Cottle
"The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
estimates that, even in a non-epidemic year, 100
children nationwide are abducted." But the media, in its
quest for ratings, is creating the impression that an
epidemic of child snatching has struck the United
States. (07/31/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/984324578.html
One man's story of paternity fraud
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Daily Breeze
by Jasmine Lee
Bert Riddick thought the truth would be enough. But more
than 10 years after an ex-girlfriend falsely accused him
of fathering her child, the 42-year-old Carson man has
learned that the truth doesn't always prevail in
paternity disputes. (07/31/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/991934973.html
Polygamy hits the billboards
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Scotland on Sunday
by Catherine Blake
Billboards along Utah’s Interstate 15 are a reminder that
polygamy isn’t dead. After decades of effort by the
Mormon church and state leaders to portray polygamy as a
practice int he past, the billboards advertise a new
book that hails polygamy as "A Promise For Tomorrow". (08/04/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/580212612.html
What justice for the wrongly accused?
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Spiked
by Jennie Bristow
"Two nursery workers accused of child sexual abuse in a
notorious UK case have won their libel battle at the
London High Court." But their lives have been ruined and
those who falsely accused them face few sanctions. (08/02/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/480445213.html
Can government prevent divorce?
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Sydney Mornigh Herald
by Adele Horin
Horin asks, "Can the [Australian] Government prevent
divorce?" It's spending millions on relationship
education to find out but is it money well spent? (08/03/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/832361021.html
The 'deadbeat dad' canard
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Sacramento Bee
by Glenn Sacks and Diana Thompson
"The Child Support Enforcement Act would require delinquent
parents to pay taxes on unpaid child support as if it
were income. This misguided legislation lies upon a
foundation of illusions about deadbeat dads." Sacks and
Thompson explain. (08/01/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/739190646.html
Prostitution divides French feminists
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The Guardian
The proposal by a female French MP to regulate prostitution
by reopening France's celebrated authorized brothels has
sparked a bitter dispute between two of the country's
best-known feminist intellectuals, both of whom are
students of Simone de Beauvoir. (08/02/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/775372487.html
For more Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/commentary/
==> Institutes, Organizations, and Clubs <==
Innocence Project
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Innocence Project
The Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of
Law is a non-profit legal clinic handling cases where
postconviction DNA testing of evidence can yield
conclusive proof of innocence. Many of the cases
accepted are convictions for rape.
http://www.free-market.net/rd/381203068.html
For more Institutes, Organizations, and Clubs see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/organizations/
==> Introductions and FAQs <==
What is the men's movement?
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DesertLight Journal
A brief overview of the issues and organizations that
comprise the men's movement today.
http://www.free-market.net/rd/658527393.html
Women and success
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Libertarian Alliance
by Judy Tame
A brief article on ways women can change their attitudes to
create more success in their lives. (PDF file)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/678428487.html
For more Introductions and FAQs see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/brief/
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