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Items in this update:
o Mammograms don't save lives?
o Florida DCF has employees with criminal pasts
o Pro-life, pro-choice both pro-privacy
o The Johns TV show
o Map of L.A. sex offenders
o Aussie government gives child to convicted pedophile
o Study examines abortion aftermath
o No pardon in Nigerian stoning
o A controversial new treatment for paedophiles
o Officers seek review of rape case
o More women carrying pistols for self defense
o Is fast-track domestic violence program constitutional?
o Gun control as class warfare
o Feminist 'heroine' says killing husband an option
o Freedom of associate includes nonassociation
o Access denied
o Men need emotional support as well
o Radfems block woman from becoming judge
o No men please, we're studying
o Moms rock cradles, nurse business strategies
o Mean like me
o Men's rights at women's expense
o Women's health care is contentious
o Skirting campus rape
o Visitation avoids 'deadbeat parent' problem
o The Millenium Divorce newsletter
o Feisty femmes
o NRA's "Women on Target" program
o Conference on male victims of domestic violence
o SAS to hold women's instructional shooting clinic
Hello ifeminists:
On the eve of 9/11, I want to wish you and your families safety,
health, and peace of mind.
My FOxNews/ifeminist editorial this week is about 9/11, "Making Some
Sense of It All"
<http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/0910.html>; also
posted are Glenn Sacks' "The 'Boy Parent Dilemma"
<http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/0910a.html>; and,
"What Price is Right?" by Tresa McBee
<http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/0910b.html>. Thanks
to my contributors. And enjoy!
Now ... onto the main event...
-- Wendy McElroy, mac@ifeminists.com
==> News Reports <==
Mammograms don't save lives?
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National Post
Another example of why women question medical authority: a
13-year Canadian study followed more than 50,000
Canadian women -- half with annual mammograms, half
without -- for 13 years, and found no statistical
difference in the number who died from breast cancer. (09/04/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/330203824.html
Florida DCF has employees with criminal pasts
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Miami Herald
Florida's embattled Department of Children and Families
employs almost 200 people who have been arrested and
punished for an array of felonies including child
molestation, child abuse, and welfare fraud against the
agency itself. (09/08/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/681156850.html
Pro-life, pro-choice both pro-privacy
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QC Times
Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa has an unlikely ally in
its fight to protect the rights of its patients: an
anti-abortion group. Both groups believe that the police
have no right to subpoena the medical records of women. (09/04/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/358696010.html
The Johns TV show
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The Denver Channel
The "Johns TV" show has been broadcasting names and images
of men convicted of soliciting prostitution in order to
deter the "crime." Denver is considering a similar
approach for drug users. (09/03/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/373827564.html
Map of L.A. sex offenders
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Sydney Morning Herald
LA County has unveiled searchable internet maps that
pinpoint the homes of registered sex offenders. (09/09/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/690797190.html
Aussie government gives child to convicted pedophile
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Sydney Morning Herald
The Department of Community Services faces a massive payout
after a District Court judge yesterday condemned it for
effectively handing a boy over to a convicted pedophile
in the 1980s. (09/06/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/224297619.html
Study examines abortion aftermath
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Yahoo
by Janice Billingsley
In an analysis of 173,000 low-income California women by a
pro-life institute, deaths from suicides, accidents and
natural causes were all significantly higher among those
who'd had an abortion, compared to women who delivered
their babies. (09/05/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/6569940.html
No pardon in Nigerian stoning
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Agence France-Presse
The governor of the home state of Nigerian single-mother
Amina Lawal, sentenced to death by stoning for adultery,
will not intervene. The federal government has also said
it is powerless to intervene in an Islamic Sharia court
case. (09/09/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/478093496.html
A controversial new treatment for paedophiles
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The Age
The Memmonite Church in Toronto, Canada, started a program
for paedophiles six years ago to help them not to
reoffend. Volunteers are encouraged to go for walks and play
sports and computer games with offenders. Britain's Home
Office is supporting three trial programs based on the
Canadian model. (09/10/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/497001060.html
Officers seek review of rape case
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Yahoo/AP
A group of black police officers is asking federal
authorities to look into the investigation of the 1989
beating and rape of a female jogger in Central Park,
saying police may have been "overzealous" in pinning the
crime on five teenagers, all of whom were black or
Hispanic. (09/10/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/499931423.html
For more News Reports see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/news/
==> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <==
More women carrying pistols for self defense
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Legally Armed
by staff
"32 states have laws allowing citizens to carry weapons.
Men still hold the highest number of permits or licenses
but, women have increased their percentage dramatically.
What has changed the most over the years regarding
women, is that they are know more knowledgeable
regarding what type of handgun they want to buy and
carry." (09/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/971980784.html
Is fast-track domestic violence program constitutional?
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Equity Feminism
by Brian Carnell
Carnell looks at one city's domestic violence program that
pressures a defendant into accepting a plea bargain
within 24 to 48 hours of arrest by threatening him/her
with either a "guilty" plea now or a long prison term
later. Is it constitutional? (09/06/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/3489666.html
Gun control as class warfare
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Totse
by Rosemary Fury
A left-anarchist critique of gun control, which points out
how guns benefit women, especially in domestic abuse
situations. A rare defense of gun ownership from the
left. (09/08/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/17650813.html
Feminist 'heroine' says killing husband an option
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Equity Feminism
by Brian Carnell
Elizabeth Morgan, who fled to New Zealand in the 1980s
rather than allow her husband unsupervised visitation
with their daughter, recently testified as a witness in
an attempted murder case. She had advised the female
defendant that killing her estranged husband was an
option. (08/27/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/709328803.html
Freedom of associate includes nonassociation
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WorldNetDaily
by Walter Williams
The true test of one's commitment to freedom of association
comes when he allows people to be free to voluntarily
associate in ways he deems despicable. Forced
association is not freedom of association. (09/04/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/130060766.html
Access denied
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FrontPageMagazine
by Christina Hoff Sommers
The absence of intellectual diversity, such as competing
visions of feminism, in our institutions of higher
learning is a national disgrace that many have deplored
but few have taken practical measures to remedy. (09/05/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/133081671.html
Men need emotional support as well
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Victoria Times Colonist
by Katherine Dedyna
Society assumes that men can always fend for themselves
emotionally and financially, even though family breakup
often impoverishes men as well as women. It is not true
and one group is speaking out. (09/03/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/153678747.html
Radfems block woman from becoming judge
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Family Research Council
September 15, 2002
by staff
Judge Priscilla Owen's nomination as U.S. Circuit Court
Judge for the Fifth Circuit was defeated, largely due to
a vigorous campaign by radical feminists who disliked
Owen's conservative stands, e.g. she advocates parental
notification in abortions involving minors. (09/05/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/989118852.html
No men please, we're studying
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Guardian Unlimited
by Anthea Milnes
"The debate about whether the college should go mixed
continues. Every few years another vote by the college's
governing body brings the complicated question into the
light again.It is a closely fought battle." (09/05/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/3159748.html
Moms rock cradles, nurse business strategies
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Women's eNews
More mothers who want to enjoy the benefits of paid work
and motherhood are doing it their way -- through
creating home-based businesses. As they do, they create
career moves for themselves, wealth for their families
and jobs for others. (09/02/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/163169016.html
Mean like me
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SheThinks
by Betsy Hart
Review of "Woman's Inhumanity to Woman," by Phyllis
Chesler. (08/16/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/265915536.html
Men's rights at women's expense
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Boston Globe
by Cathy Young
Young argues, "We need a broad recognition, both legal and
cultural, that deceiving a man about paternity is every
bit as wrong as getting a woman pregnant and abandoning
her." (09/09/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/489687757.html
Women's health care is contentious
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The Independent
by Natasha Walter
In the wake of the Earth Summit, Walter explains how
women's health care in the 3rd World is not as simple as
the West sometimes believes. The provision of
reproductive health services, of contraception and of abortion,
is a moral and political battleground. (09/10/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/493491340.html
Skirting campus rape
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The Crimson
by Wendy J. Murphy and Ellenor J. Honig
The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights
is undertaking a formal investigation of whether
Harvard's new disciplinary policies and procedures for
sexual assault allegations discriminates against female
students. The authors argue that it is. (09/09/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/511192250.html
Visitation avoids 'deadbeat parent' problem
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Equity Feminism
by Brian Carnell
Carnell writes, "The Christian Science Monitor's Marilyn
Gardner wrote an interesting article about 'deadbeat'
dads that acknowledged the problem with parents failing
to pay child support but balanced it with a look at the
obstacles that stand in the way of noncustodial fathers
and mothers." (09/03/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/150867716.html
For more Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/commentary/
==> Magazines and Periodic Columns <==
The Millenium Divorce newsletter
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Millenium Divorce
A free email newsletter of valuable articles on all issues
surrounding divorce. The Legal Corner of the September
7th issue examines Gender and Marital Status in Awarding
Custody.
http://www.free-market.net/rd/15090629.html
For more Magazines and Periodic Columns see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/magazines/
==> Online Books and Collections <==
Feisty femmes
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Razberry
Journalist Donna Laframboise, critic of all things
politically correct, has assembled a collection of
stories from feisty femmes as an antidote to the
woman-as-victim notion. There is a link to her Great
Guys site.
http://www.free-market.net/rd/8180228.html
For more Online Books and Collections see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/e-texts/
==> Online Resource Directories <==
NRA's "Women on Target" program
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NRA
Women On Target is designed to create more hunting and
shooting opportunities for women. Site provides a
regularly-updated schedule of women-only hunts, charity
and couple's "fun shoots," and instructional events.
mailto:WomenOnTarget@nrahq.org
http://www.free-market.net/rd/400720423.html
For more Online Resource Directories see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/homepages/
==> Events <==
Conference on male victims of domestic violence
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Battered Men's Helpline
October 19, 2002
Second annual conference, from 1 -- 6 p.m. EDT, in the
Luther Bonney auditorium, USM. For more info or to
pre-register, see email or call 207-683-2515.
mailto:help@noexcuse4abuse.org
http://www.free-market.net/rd/343994866.html
SAS to hold women's instructional shooting clinic
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SAS
October 12, 2002
Second Amendment Sisters of Massachusetts will be holding a
women's instructional shooting clinic, geared toward
women who are new to shooting. 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at
the Braintree Rifle and Pistol Club, 800 Liberty St. $5
to help defray costs includes loaner firearms,
ammunition, safety gear. Toll free number
1-877-683-1717.
mailto:ma_coord@2asisters.org
For more Events see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/events/
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