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Items in this update:
o U.S. violent crime rate declines
o Fertile father threatened with jail
o Fertility clinic for lesbians
o CA passes broad abortion-rights legislation
o Ruling sought on child-abuse reporting
o ACLU forges deal on nonsupport cases
o Embryo lawsuit proceeds
o Sexist men in line for awards
o Bill targets clothed child models
o Afghan women searched for weapons
o Swedish politician calls for more TV porn
o Woman invents baby to get child support
o DNA testing bill heads to House
o Congressman upsets 11 women
o Another database, this one on gender?
o Feminism's slide since 9/11
o Nothing to wear, nowhere to hide
o What's with the 'fertility crisis'?
o Raising questions about RAWA
o Showing contempt for women's privacy rights
o Why we wanted a 'designer baby'
o Soap for battered women
o Single-sex schools gaining popularity
o The largely mythical deadbeat dad
o Making some sense of 9/11
o O mother, mother
o Four fatal flaws of CEDAW
o Separate can be equal -- and better
o Pro-male speaker sought
o McElroy to speak at Libertyfest
Hello ifeminists:
I hope you all stayed well and safe during 9/11. The anniversary was
a quiet day for me. I couldn't stand to watch the television broadcasts and
buried myself in work instead, which is the main way I handle stress. These
days, we all seem quick tempered, less emotionally flexible, more likely to
frown than smile at strangers -- in short, stressed out. Try to remember
that the good things in life, the most important parts -- family, friends,
ideals, dreams -- exist now as they did pre-9/11. The people who needed you
then still need you now.
The editorials for this week are posted on the front page. My
FOXNews/ifeminists column, "Dirty Dealings Kill Men's Panel"
<http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/0917.html>; and a
very nice piece by Glenn Sacks and Diane Thompson entitled "High-Profile
'Deadbeat Dad' Raids Won't Fix Child Support System Badly in Need of Reform"
<http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/0917a.html>.
Last Sunday, Carol Moore was a gracious and entertaining guest in the
chat room jointly sponsored by ifeminists and mensactivism.org, where the
talk turned to war. Many thanks Carol! This Sunday, I want to invite anyone
who is interested in grass roots activism regarding the sabotage of the New
Hampshire Commission on the Status of Men -- the first state men's
commission in the U.S., and not tax-funded! -- to come and discuss the
issue, its ramifications, what we can do to rescue the commission, etc. (See
the FOXNews/ifeminsits editorial above for details.) I'll be there and some
of the main figures in this drama are expected to show up. Sunday, September
22nd, 9:00 p.m. EST <http://www.ifeminists.com/interaction/chat>. I look
forward to seeing you there.
Not to nag BUT any donations at all to ifeminists.com would be much
appreciated. We function on the thinnest of shoe-strings and not a cent is
wasted. Info on how to contribute is right after my sig-line below.
Thanks!
Now ... onto the main event...
-- Wendy McElroy, mac@ifeminists.com
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==> News Reports <==
U.S. violent crime rate declines
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Yahoo News
The nation saw violent crimes fall by 9
percent last year, marking the lowest level since the
government began surveying victims in 1973. This
according to the 2001 National Crime Victimization
Survey, which is based on interviews with victims and
thus does not include murder. (09/13/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/181124540.html
Fertile father threatened with jail
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Ananova
A father of six could be jailed if he "carelessly" fathers
any more children over the next five years. The warning
was given after a U.S. court found him guilty of failing
to support two of his six children. (09/09/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/341297416.html
Fertility clinic for lesbians
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Telegraph
Europe's first fertility center solely for lesbians and
single women has opened in London. The Women's New Life
Centre has been established to provide a service for
lesbians and single women who want a "do-it-yourself"
baby. Pro-family advocates are critical. (09/16/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/777460203.html
CA passes broad abortion-rights legislation
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Christian Science Monitor
With most states hostile to extending abortion rights, the
package of pro-choice bills just passed in California is
remarkable. Indeed, it may well be the most ambitious
abortion-rights in US history, including a guarantee to
abortion access even in Roe v. Wade is overturned. (09/13/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/784790823.html
Ruling sought on child-abuse reporting
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WorldNetDaily
In light of recent cases in which Planned Parenthood did
not report to the authorities on "underaged" patients
who were pregnant, the Medical Board of California has
asked the state attorney general's office for an opinion
on their abortion clinics have a duty to report child
abuse. (09/17/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/529467492.html
ACLU forges deal on nonsupport cases
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Post Gazette
After a visit from the head of the Pittsburgh ACLU, court
officials in one county agreed to make sure that people
who are apprehended for not paying court-ordered child
support have a hearing before they are jailed. (09/07/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/125548088.html
Embryo lawsuit proceeds
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Newsday
Two infertile British women have begun a High Court action
to stop their former partners from destroying frozen
embryos the couples put into storage while they were
still together. The law currently says that both parties
must consent to the storage and use of frozen embryos. (09/11/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/132828498.html
Sexist men in line for awards
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news.com.au
Men -- and women -- who display sexist behavior compete for
awards at this tenth ceremony in Sydney. (09/12/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/112482785.html
Bill targets clothed child models
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Washington Times
Rep. Mark Foley has authored a bill intended to shut down
Web sites that show fully clothed children by outlawing
"exploitive child modeling." (09/16/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/561661969.html
Afghan women searched for weapons
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Stars and Stripes
A story that breaks stereo-types: US miliatry in
Afghanistan are searching 60-year-old Muslim women in
burqas and finding AK-47 rifles. (09/17/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/590373859.html
Swedish politician calls for more TV porn
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CBS
Only days before national elections, a member of the
Christian Democratic women's federation has shocked
conservative party colleagues by calling for more
pornography on television. She says it will boost the
economy by encouranging people to procreate. (09/05/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/183635138.html
Woman invents baby to get child support
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The Australian
An Australian woman faked the birth of a baby and forged
documents in order to obtain nearly $25,000 from an
ex-boyfriend. She faces charges of obtaining money under
false pretenses. (09/13/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/202049051.html
DNA testing bill heads to House
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Yahoo News
A plan to speed testing of hundreds of thousands of DNA
samples from unsolved rape cases to reduce a national
backlog of untested evidence is headed for the House
after the Senate passed it without dissent. (09/14/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/860024167.html
Congressman upsets 11 women
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Corpus Christi Times
Eleven breast-cancer survivors said they're dismayed
because they claim IN Rep. John Hostettler, R-Ind is
calling them a liar regarding the events at a meeting
with him. (09/12/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/874774792.html
For more News Reports see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/news/
==> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <==
Another database, this one on gender?
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Women's eNews
by Suzanne Batchelor
This uncritical article presents a new permanent, national
database proposed by the FDA to track gender-based
differences in responses to pharmaceuticals. No privacy
concerns are expressed by the author. (09/16/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/799921862.html
Feminism's slide since 9/11
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Reason
by Cathy Young
Young speculates on why "the feminist movement, already at
low ebb, has slid further into irrelevancy." One reason?
The feminist championing of Afghan women may have
backfired by giving the public a glimpse of women who
are truly oppressed and who have reason to complain. (09/17/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/537845365.html
Nothing to wear, nowhere to hide
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London Sunday Herald
by Lesley McDowell, reviewer
Fay Weldon was once lionised as a feminist extraordinaire
because of her early works of fiction but in her latest
collection, "Nothing to wear and nowhere to hide," in 3
of the 8 stories, career women come to a bad end. Like
many feminists, she is reconsidering the impact of the
'60s movement. (09/17/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/556171665.html
What's with the 'fertility crisis'?
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On Line Opinion
by Natasha Circa
"Right now there's widespread panic over the reproductive
performance of Australian women. It has crept in almost
everywhere and its pitch is shrill." Circa sees the
national anxiety attack as "more than unhelpful. It's
dangerous." (09/15/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/583093429.html
Raising questions about RAWA
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Equity Feminism
by Brian Carnell
"Immediately after the 9/11 attacks, a group called the
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
(RAWA) received a lot of media coverage." Almost all the
coverage was uncritically positive. Now serious
questions about RAWA have been raised. (08/27/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/207120162.html
Showing contempt for women's privacy rights
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Des Moines Register
by Rekha Basu
An ominous trend in unrelated legislation and judicial
findings on the subject of reproductive privacy is
noted. (09/08/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/150369444.html
Why we wanted a 'designer baby'
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Auckland Sunday Star-Times
by staff
New Zealand's first designer baby has been kept a secret by
her parents. Now they speak. They chose her from 11
embryos because she was free of spinal muscular atrophy,
a genetic "flaw" that haunts their families. (09/15/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/850833823.html
Soap for battered women
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Christian Science Monitor
by Jane Manaster
Manaster analyzes a practice she shares with growing number
of women. They "scoop up the freebies in hotel
bathrooms, and then give them to our local women's
shelter." (02/13/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/857494032.html
Single-sex schools gaining popularity
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CNN
by staff
The story of a public middle school, plagued by low test
scores and unruliness, that is on the forefront of an
initiative that could catch hold as the U.S. Department
of Education drafts regulations making it easier for
schools to create schools exclusively for boys or girls. (09/12/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/116152972.html
The largely mythical deadbeat dad
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Glenn J. Sacks
by Glenn Sacks and Dianna Thompson
"In highly publicized raids, federal agents have hauled in
69 'deadbeat dads' and are still hunting for 33 more.
The Bush administration boasts that it is sending a
message to deadbeats. However, the high-living deadbeat
dad who stiffs his kids is largely a mythical creature."
(09/11/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/348304745.html
Making some sense of 9/11
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ifeminists
by Wendy McElroy
As the world ricochets between justified anger and fear
over terrorism, many people feel that individuals exert
no influence over events. But the most powerful force in
society is the single human being who stands up for what
he or she believes in. (09/10/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/355920677.html
O mother, mother
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ifeminists
by Sunni Maravillosa
"The mainstream feminist movement is having real trouble
with the concept of motherhood .... you're damned if you
do, and you're damned if you don't." (09/10/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/357390787.html
Four fatal flaws of CEDAW
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ifeminists
by Ed Bartlett
Four reasons to reject the UN's Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women. (09/10/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/358870884.html
Separate can be equal -- and better
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ifeminists
by Tresa McBee
Kudos to officials who pay attention to the benefits
single-sex education provides. (09/03/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/360171942.html
For more Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/commentary/
==> Action Opportunities <==
Pro-male speaker sought
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Mensactivism.org
September 30, 2002
Kalamazoo College in Michigan is looking for a pro-male
speaker to give a presentation on men's issues.
mailto:k00jm03@kzoo.edu
http://www.free-market.net/rd/862764255.html
For more Action Opportunities see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/actions/
==> Events <==
McElroy to speak at Libertyfest
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Michigan LP
November 9, 2002
Wendy McElroy will deliver a speech "On the Reasons for
Political Optimism" at Libertyfest, sponsored by the
Michigan LP. Tickets for the dinner event are $35 in
advance.
mailto:Dbarnes98@aol.com
http://www.free-market.net/rd/810780366.html
For more Events see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/events/
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