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Items in this update:
o Filming up skirts without permission is legal
o PM's wife wants fewer women imprisoned
o Gene screen picks perfect babies
o CA sets precedent in domestic violence
o Besieged business people turn to 'Atlas Shrugged'
o Genital cutting may not kill sex drive
o Court protects homosexuals from discrimination
o Morning-after pill okayed for pre-teens
o House passes abortion waiver
o Doctors tried for not reporting abuse
o Abusive wife wants $12 million
o Europe targets online racism, child sex abuse
o Pressure mounts on Nigerian stoning
o How one businesswoman balances her life
o Abortion pill not popular in U.S.
o Blue blockers
o Just say 'yes' to research
o How working fathers raise kids
o Homosexuality and objectivism -- the conclusion
o You've lost your way, baby
o Wearing the veil to be counted
o Take back the night for men as well
o We'll breed -- if we can afford it
o Prostitution: Where's the crime?
o MAXIM means MAXIMum government?
o Ms., armed
o Porn to lose?
o Smugglers prey on poor East European women
o The morning-after pill e-mail campaign
o Child protective services report
Hello ifeminists:
Give yourself a treat and check out the new
ifeminist-of-the-month Claire Joly, with her grinning visage.
<http://www.ifeminists.com/> But don't be fooled by her cherub face
or Quebecois background -- the lady believes in hard-core
self-defense, Second Amendment style.
October is Domestic Violence Awareness month and my
FOXNews/ifeminists editorial is entitled "Restorative Justice' Offers
Battered Women More Options"
<http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/1001.html>;
the freshly posted editorial by Glenn Sacks and Dianna Thompson is
entitled, "Michigan Reform Plan Fights Rising Paternity Fraud"
<http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/1001a.html>.
Enjoy!
I am going on a much required two-week vacation from work
pressures and leaving the InsiderUpdate for that period in the steady
hands of Jerome Tuccille -- aka "Tooch." My FOX/ifeminists columns
for the period have been filed in advance with my editor and are
poised for posting on IFC so y'all will hardly notice my absence.
Now ... onto the main event...
-- Wendy McElroy, mac@ifeminists.com
==> News Reports <==
Filming up skirts without permission is legal
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Seattle-Post Intelligencer
A woman filed charges against a man for filming up her
dress without consent at a Seattle festival. The
Washington Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that,
although reprehensible, the act is not illegal. They
state the voyeurism law "does not apply to actions taken
in purely public places." (09/20/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/413396056.html
PM's wife wants fewer women imprisoned
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The Guardian
Cherie Booth, the Prime Minister's wife, is backing an
inquiry into the treatment of women criminals because
she "believes too many women are behind bars, and that
this has damaging effects on their children." No mention
is made of the effect of imprisoning fathers. (09/29/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/946371715.html
Gene screen picks perfect babies
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News.com
Australian couples with a family history of any of at least
30 diseases can now screen their future child for the
genetic defect. The technique combines IVF with embryo
selection to weed out those with signs of the diseases. (09/27/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/101929015.html
CA sets precedent in domestic violence
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Feminist Majority
California has signed a bill that allows victims of
"gender-based crimes" such as domestic violence and
sexual assault to bring civil action against their
attackers. California is the first state to enact such a
law based on a civil remedy. (09/25/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/109820470.html
Besieged business people turn to 'Atlas Shrugged'
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USA Today
Under assault from scandals and a growing anti-business
environment, many businesspeople are turning to Ayn
Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" for reassurance. They fantasize
about a strike of their own. (09/24/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/804025409.html
Genital cutting may not kill sex drive
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Yahoo News
A recent study by Nigerian scientists claims that female
circumcision, which is performed to ensure chastity or
enhance beauty in Africa and the Middle East, does not
reduce sexual desire as is thought by practitioners. It
does appear to have harmful sexual health consequences
for women. (09/24/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/380521718.html
Court protects homosexuals from discrimination
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SF Gate
An eleven-judge panel in California reversed an earlier
decision that found workers were protected against
discrimination only on the basis of race, color,
religion, gender or national origin. The new decision
includes sexual orientation in the list. (09/24/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/386161999.html
Morning-after pill okayed for pre-teens
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Telegraph
A headmistress is trying to change the school's rules so
that girls as young as 11 will be able to obtain the
morning-after pill without their parents' consent.
Citing government statistics that 400 girls under 14 had
conceived between 1998 and 2000, she claims the school
is trying to behave responsibly. (09/28/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/160522153.html
House passes abortion waiver
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CNS News
The House of Representatives passed the Abortion
Non-Discrimination Act, a controversial bill that
protects the "conscience rights" of hospitals, doctors,
nurses, insurers, and other health care entities from
coerced involvement in abortions. (09/25/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/405195555.html
Doctors tried for not reporting abuse
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Connecticut Post
A CT Superior Court judge has refused to dismiss charges
against two doctors accused of failing to tell
authorities about a pregnant 11-year-old girl. They
referred her to an abortion clinic. (09/24/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/407065662.html
Abusive wife wants $12 million
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ABC News
In a lawsuit, Kitaen accuses her estranged husband, St.
Louis Cardinals pitcher, Chuck Finley, of breach of
contract for breaking his promise to "support her
financially for the rest of her life." Finley filed for
divorce three days after Kitaen was arrested for spousal
abuse. (09/24/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/442627934.html
Europe targets online racism, child sex abuse
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News Observer
The pan-European rights body, the Council of Europe, has
lumped child sex abuse and internet racism together, and
passed resolutions against both, but said that battling
them will be difficult because of huge financial
interests involved. (09/28/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/96419139.html
Pressure mounts on Nigerian stoning
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Yahoo News
Human rights activists seeking a reprieve for a woman
sentenced to death by stoning in Nigeria intensified
international pressure Friday by delivering a petition
signed by more than 1 million people to the Nigerian
High Commission. (09/28/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/175143229.html
For more News Reports see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/news/
==> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <==
How one businesswoman balances her life
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BBC
by Emma Clark
Ms de Baer owns a $13.2 million corporate clothing design
and manufacture business. She also has four children and
is politically active. She explains her balancing act. (09/26/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/177923502.html
Abortion pill not popular in U.S.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
by Gina Kolata
Two years after the abortion pill was introduced in the
United States, abortion providers say only a small
percentage of women seeking abortions are using it and
few doctors outside of abortion clinics are offering it. (09/25/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/104930084.html
Blue blockers
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Reason
by Jacob Sullum
Sullum chronicles the the crusade against hotel room porn.
(09/27/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/280999957.html
Just say 'yes' to research
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The Age
by Alessandra Stanley
In the 1980s, Nancy Reagan led a "just say 'no'" crusade
against drugs. Now she is campaigning to "just say
'yes'" to federal financing for embryonic stem cell
research, which anti-abortion groups oppose. Meanwhile Bush
has limited such research. (09/30/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/948844624.html
How working fathers raise kids
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Sydney Morning Herald
by Sherrill Nixon and Lisa Pryor
"Driven by a desire to be more hands-on dads than their own
fathers or because they were raised by mothers who went
back to work themselves, men today are increasingly keen
to share parenting responsibility." (09/30/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/954755078.html
Homosexuality and objectivism -- the conclusion
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Free Radical
by Chris Sciabarra
The "adult-only" conclusion of Rand-scholar Sciabarra's
five-part exploration of homosexuality and objectivism. (09/30/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/940753.html
You've lost your way, baby
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Reason
by Catherine Seipp
Seipp explains how organized feminism has made itself
irrelevant. (10/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/295313419.html
Wearing the veil to be counted
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Sydney Morning Herald
by Nadia Jamal
While many Afghan women throw off the veil, young
Australian Muslims have reacted to criticism of their
religion by wearing it in order to be "counted." (09/25/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/372311322.html
Take back the night for men as well
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Billings Gazette
Take Back the Night events promote sexual assault awareness
and the need for safety. This one acknowledges assault
against men and tells male victims that they "are not
crazy" to feel as they do. (09/20/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/394714071.html
We'll breed -- if we can afford it
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Centre for Independent Studies
by Jennifer Buckingham
"The notion that all women want to be able to continue paid
work while they have young children is a myth. Most
women want to be able to give up paid work while they
have young children. Statistics on the proportion of
mothers who work depict only what people are doing. ...
Surveys have shown that many mothers work only because
they have to, not because they want to." (09/24/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/63369181.html
Prostitution: Where's the crime?
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Libertarianz
by Scott Wilson
"The Maxim Institute and the Society for the Promotion of
Community Standards should both give up trying to
prohibit adults engaging in voluntary transactions for
sex, and ask themselves who benefits from putting behind
bars people who are paying adults for pleasure?" (09/25/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/814043274.html
MAXIM means MAXIMum government?
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Libertarianz
by Russell Watkins
"A cross between Marx and the Moral Majority," is how
Libertarianz Party leader Russell Watkins described an
essay submission on prostitution by Jenny Horst of the
Maxim Institute. (09/25/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/816273493.html
Ms., armed
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National Review
by Elizabeth Fitton
"In an unsafe world, women should have the power to defend
themselves; groups like Women on Target, who seek to
teach women to wield that power responsibly, should be
encouraged rather than demonized." (09/27/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/515715846.html
Porn to lose?
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Reason
by Jacob Sullum
Sullum examines the recent drive to "cleanse" hotel rooms
from offering the hard core porn that customers choose
to buy, bringing in something like half a billion
dollars a year in the U.S. Three hotels so far have
yanked the porn. (09/27/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/168302794.html
Smugglers prey on poor East European women
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Christian Science Monitor
Human trafficking has flourished in former Yugoslavia.
Women from Eastern Europe's poorest countries,
especially Moldova, Ukraine, Romania, and Bulgaria, are
promised jobs as waitresses or hotel maids in Western
Europe then forced to work as prostitutes. (09/25/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/173203091.html
For more Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/commentary/
==> Action Opportunities <==
The morning-after pill e-mail campaign
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The Nation
by Katha Pollitt
"America's rate of unwanted pregnancy is a huge public
health scandal, but five years after being approved by
the FDA, emergency contraception -- the use of normal
birth control pills to block pregnancy within
seventy-two hours of unprotected sex -- has yet to
fulfill its potential." Here's a plan of action in which
you can join. (09/29/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/184943999.html
For more Action Opportunities see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/actions/
==> Introductions and FAQs <==
Child protective services report
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Free State Project
by Nev Moore
Comparative data on the Child Protective Services regimes
of the states under consideration for the Free State
Project, plus some of the worst states not under
consideration for comparison. (09/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/281599987.html
For more Introductions and FAQs see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/brief/
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