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Items in this update:
o Newspaper locates children state could not
o Court blocks search of pregnancy data
o Men and women and navigation
o Husbands get right to veto abortion
o Men who live in sin do dishes
o Ordained woman to fight papal expulsion
o Tenn. says child support guidelines unconstitutional
o Church ladies shalt not miss shooting practice
o Australian professor proposes national DNA database
o States increasingly mandating family leave
o Florida women challenge adoption law
o Bush signs Born-Alive Infants Protection Act
o Injunction to bar abortion overturned
o Harvard's policy on sexual assault probed
o Mother made to drink own breast milk
o Sex-slave whistle-blowers vindicated
o Beetle Bailey axed for insensitivity to women?
o Abortion, Ashcroft, and the rule of law
o Holy war engulfs Afghan feminist
o The 'shame' of rape
o Deadbeat moms
o Reproductive rights for men?
o Will Rosie yell 'homophobia!'?
o NOW distances itself from CA NOW report
o PC campuses hold peril for women
o Transgendered 'rights' exploding?
o Radical feminist UN treaty jeopardizes national sovereignty
o Scorecard for House members on abortion
o Female Circumcision
Hello ifeminists:
Happy Tuesday! Or, at least, it will be when the promised thunderstorm
finally arrives to break the sweltering heat of the last few days. I know
what the "dog days" of summer look like because my two ne'er-do-wells rouse
themselves only to find a cooler patch of hot shade. But fresh whips of rain
and wall-shaking thunder are on their way.
We have a new slate of editorials for you this week: my FOX/ifeminist
column "Senate Must Not Ratify CEDAW"
<http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/0813.html>;
"Baseball Player's Domestic Violence Arrest Demonstrates How Men are
Presumed Guilty in Domestic Disputes" by Glenn Sacks
<http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/0813a.html>; "The
Sexism of Gun Control" by David Graham
<http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/0813b.html>; and,
"Cato University: A Student's Perspective" by Ollivia M. Sexton
<http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/0813c.html>. Thanks
to all contributors! And I hope all of you -- readers and past contributors
alike -- keep ifeminists.com in mind for future articles.
I'm still blogging onward <http://www.zetetics.com/mac/> and enjoying
the process. I hope you enjoy the McBlog as well.
Now ... on to the main event ...
-- Wendy McElroy, mac@ifeminists.com
==> News Reports <==
Newspaper locates children state could not
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Sun Sentinel
Florida's child welfare system has been unable to locate
more than 500 children under its care, some of them
missing for a decade or more. But a Sun-Sentinel search
for 24 South Florida children on the missing list turned
up nine -- two in under three hours. (08/11/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/342663089.html
Court blocks search of pregnancy data
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Chicago Tribune
The Iowa Supreme Court granted a stay of a lower court's
order that a Planned Parenthood clinic surrender the
names of women with positive pregnancy tests. The
decision came in a battle sparked by the discovery of
the remains of a newborn. (08/07/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/328327888.html
Men and women and navigation
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Calgary Herald
A Canadian psychologist has found that men do better at
navigating using a map, whereas women do better when
following a verbal set of directions that includes
landmarks. (08/07/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/172905295.html
Husbands get right to veto abortion
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China Daily
A Chinese husband will be able to seek legal assistance if
his wife has an abortion without notifying him. The law
states that both husband and wife should share same
responsibility in family planning, so neither side
should enjoy the sole right on whether to give birth to
a baby. (08/07/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/182557389.html
Men who live in sin do dishes
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Journal of Marriage and Family
Couples who live together before tying the knot are more
likely than those who don't to share the burden of
routine household tasks traditionally assigned to wives,
U.S. researchers have found. (08/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/190728760.html
Ordained woman to fight papal expulsion
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Times on Line
A former nun who has been excommunicated by the Vatican for
attempting to be ordained has branded the decision
grotesque and accused the Roman Catholic Church of
turning a blind eye to the harm done by pedophile
priests in America. (08/10/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/770664905.html
Tenn. says child support guidelines unconstitutional
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Tennessean
Following precedents set by Georgia, an appeals court in
Tennessee has ruled that current child support
guidelines are unconstitutional and unfair to parents
who have more than one family (e.g. a second marriage
with children). (08/10/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/529435105.html
Church ladies shalt not miss shooting practice
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Des Moines Register
"When Sherry Herold and four of her fellow church members
change out of their Sunday clothes, they put on their
shooting vests. They really do praise the Lord and pass
the ammunition. They're the Mount Calvary Church Ladies
Trapshooting Team. They're loyal to their church. And
they love trapshooting." (08/11/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/941701273.html
Australian professor proposes national DNA database
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Herald Sun
Every Australian would submit a DNA sample to a national
crime database under a proposal by Melbourne scientist
Bob Williamson. The national DNA database would be used
to fight crime. DNA is referenced especially in
paternity testing and sex offenses. (08/08/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/297752693.html
States increasingly mandate family leave
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Christian Science Monitor
Twenty three states are considering expanding laws that
force businesses to continue paying workers when they
take time off for situations such as caring for a new
child or an ill family member. The laws dramatically
raise the cost of hiring workers. (08/06/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/456003508.html
Florida women challenge adoption law
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Yahoo News/AP
A handful of women are challenging a Florida law that
requires mothers who don't know who fathered their
children to detail their sexual past in newspaper
notices before they can put the children up for
adoption. (08/09/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/915966294.html
Bush signs Born-Alive Infants Protection Act
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Reuters
President Bush signed legislation guaranteeing that every
infant born alive has full rights under federal law. (08/05/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/468025325.html
Injunction to bar abortion overturned
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Washington Post/AP
"A judge today overturned an unusual decision that had
temporarily barred a woman from having an abortion ... A
woman's right to have an abortion 'is not subject to
being vetoed by a woman's husband or partner,' the judge
said in his decision." (08/06/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/485347007.html
Harvard's policy on sexual assault probed
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Boston Globe
The U.S. Education Department will reportedly investigate
whether Harvard University is violating federal civil
rights law by requiring students who allege sexually
assault by other students to provide "sufficient
corroborating evidence" before looking into their
complaints. (08/06/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/47376783.html
Mother made to drink own breast milk
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Newsmax
A woman flying from New York to Florida was forced to drink
three bottles of her own breast milk before being
allowed to board a flight at JFK International Airport
-- in an incident that has one prominent New York civil
rights attorney ready to sue. (08/06/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/87110047.html
Sex-slave whistle-blowers vindicated
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Salon
Two former employees of DynCorp, the government contracting
powerhouse, have won legal victories after charging that
the $2 billion-a-year firm fired them when they
complained that co-workers were involved in a Bosnia
sex-slave trade. (08/06/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/103690603.html
For more News Reports see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/news/
==> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <==
Beetle Bailey axed for insensitivity to women?
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Chicago Reader
by Michael Miner
The Chicago Tribune has bounced Beetle Bailey from its
comics page, and people with the comic's syndicate think
that insensitivity toward women displayed by characters
in the strip may be to blame. (07/23/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/360683858.html
Abortion, Ashcroft, and the rule of law
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Village Voice
by Ginger Otis
"Two years ago, when U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft
was sweating through his Senate confirmation hearings,
he swore that his personal dislike of abortion wouldn't
conflict with the job. 'I will obey the rule of law,' he
intoned, again and again." Is that what he is doing? (08/07/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/179607081.html
Holy war engulfs Afghan feminist
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Globe and Mail
by Geoffrey York
On a quiet residential street in Kabul, a single house is
guarded by high walls and huge rolls of razor wire.This
is the home of Sima Samar, the most famous female
politician in Afghanistan -- and perhaps the most in
danger of losing her life. She could be killed for
blasphemy against Islam. (08/07/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/186597797.html
The 'shame' of rape
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Salon
by Margot Magowan
Why does the media hide rape victims who fight back instead
of honoring them as heroes? (08/09/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/978749405.html
Deadbeat moms
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Fox News
by Lisa Porteus
Single dads are sick and tired of being labeled "deadbeats"
when it comes to paying child support. And data suggest
they have good reason to be upset. (08/09/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/569187505.html
Reproductive rights for men?
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Boston Globe
by Cathy Young
Young writes, "under current law in every state in this
country, the man had no say in the woman's decision to
end the pregnancy - or to have his baby and make him
liable for child support. Is this justice for women, or an
injustice to men?" (08/12/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/284328705.html
Will Rosie yell 'homophobia!'?
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Page Six
by Richard Johnson
"The publishing giant behind Rosie O'Donnell's troubled
women's magazine, desperately wants to dump the former
talk show diva, but company heads are afraid Rosie will
scream homophobia if they give her the boot." (08/12/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/295721202.html
NOW distances itself from CA NOW report
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ifeminists
by Trudy Schuett
Why is it that the national NOW seems to be disinterested
in, possibly even embarrassed by a recent report by
California NOW on the family court system? (08/06/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/318145285.html
PC campuses hold peril for women
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Pacific Research Institute
by Sally C. Pipes
"Ironically, the campus itself has become a hostile
environment to what universities should stand for:
truth, knowledge, individual liberty, sanctity of
conscience, the quest for truth, and legal equality."
(08/08/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/575240596.html
Transgendered 'rights' exploding?
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Fox News
by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
Transgender rights law has exploded in the field and in the
political arena, becoming a new wave of civil rights in
this country, according to experts. But are the
transgendered being accorded "privileges"? (08/06/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/40256505.html
For more Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/commentary/
==> Action Opportunities <==
Radical feminist UN treaty jeopardizes national sovereignty
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American Policy Center
September 7, 2002
"After sitting in the dustbin since Jimmy Carter was
president, Democrats have resurrected The United Nations
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). It was recently
passed in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and now
awaits a vote by the full Senate. It must be stopped."
http://www.free-market.net/rd/634767330.html
For more Action Opportunities see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/actions/
==> Games, Surveys, and Tools <==
Scorecard for House members on abortion
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CapWiz
Scorecard of voting record for 107th Congress U.S. House of
Representatives on various bills having to do with abortion.
http://www.free-market.net/rd/763474666.html
For more Games, Surveys, and Tools see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/games/
==> Scholarly and In-Depth Studies <==
Female Circumcision
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Rutgers University
by Jessica A Platt
Platt's contention is that "the international community
must establish a balance between upholding religious
beliefs and promoting human rights." (.pdf file)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/304773751.html
For more Scholarly and In-Depth Studies see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/in-depth/
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