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Items in this update:
o Police ask wives in UK to turn in husbands
o Midwife jailed for refusing to ID prescription drug source
o Victims in UK may lose veto over prosecution
o AZ police rank domestic violence offenders
o AZ Supreme Court backs tax-funded abortions
o E-card diverts computers to porn site
o Author accuses women's groups of racketeering
o Aussie IVF parents pick girls
o Kraft sued for sexual harassment of men
o Iraqi mothers defy Saddam Hussein
o Nigerian stoning couple freed
o CA battered woman law used to free killer
o Child support cases overload MO legal system
o Irish golf club faces accusation of discrimination
o Challenge to abortion clinic buffer zone allowed
o State relents in morning-after-pill case
o Domestic abuse groups dispute claims of men
o Senate urged to pass new child pornography law
o White House scrutinizes Title IX
o Pakistan's fiery shame: stove death
o California Paternity Justice Act
o Confronting men's alienation
o FL adoption law encourages abortion
o Women's groups tied up in Democrat politics
o Pass the Prozac
o Battered women's syndrome: Science or sham?
o NOW attacks CBS for caring about boys' problems
o Driving while female accusations grow
o Reality motherhood
o Karen De Coster web site
Hello ifeminists:
Another Tuesday and another day laboring over a hot computer!
Nothing compared to the excitement of next Tuesday of course. On
November 5th, I will be balancing a tub of over-buttered popcorn on
my lap as I switch impatiently from news channel to news channel in
search of the latest results, the best commentary on the State-side
election. It is good that Hallowe'en intervenes so I can become
practiced at shrieking in horror.
TANSTAAFL (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch) but I
hope everyone is aware of the free services offered by
ifeminists.com. What are they? I'm glad you asked. Send a free e-card
<http://www.bureaucrash.com/cgi/card.cgi>; browse our database of
information by clicking on the "information" button at the top
right-hand corner of the front page; go to the contentious and
rollicking Bulletin Board by clicking on "interaction"; read the
background essays online at "introduction"; or, read our weekly
editorials posted every Tuesday.
Speaking of which...the editorials are up! My FOXNews/ifeminist
column is entitled "Flawed Court Report Reveals Feminist Desperation"
<http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/1029.html>;
"Paternity Justice Act of 2002 Had Little to Do with Justice" by my
infamous dinner companion and staunch ifeminist Kirsten Tynan
<http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/1029a.html>;
"Men Join Women in Quest for Perfection" by Tresa McBee who is fast
becoming a regular
<http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/1029b.html>;
"Re-Evaluating the Risk of Breast Cancer" by the much welcomed Rondi
Adamson
<http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/1029c.html>;
and the usual top-drawer piece by Glenn Sacks, "The Teachers' 'Code
of Silence'"
<http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/1029d.html>.
Enjoy.
Those who are interested in tapes, an audio documentary I wrote
concerning Mary Wollstonecraft's "Vindication of the Rights of Woman"
<http://store.yahoo.com/know-products/onlibvinofri1.html> is now
available. Other titles that might be of interest are posted on my
website <http://www.zetetics.com/mac>.
Now...on to the main event...
-- Wendy McElroy, mac@ifeminists.com
==> News Reports <==
Police ask wives in UK to turn in husbands
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icHudderfield
Police hunting a rapist who attacked a 14-year-old girl are
appealing to women whose partners have mysterious
scratch marks to turn him in for questioning. A
police/TV ad asks, "Was your husband or partner out on
Friday night?" (10/27/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/926728375.html
Midwife jailed for refusing to ID prescription drug source
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The Plain Dealer
A Mennonite midwife in Ohio was imprisoned for refusing to
divulge the name of the individual who gave her
prescription drugs commonly used to stop bleeding after
childbirth. She harmed no one with the drugs. (10/24/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/314336440.html
Victims in UK may lose veto over prosecution
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The Guardian
Crown prosecutors in England are being strongly urged by
the solicitor general to press ahead with domestic violence
prosecutions even if the victim insists on the case
being dropped, thus taking more control out of the
victim's hands. (10/22/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/654919697.html
AZ police rank domestic violence offenders
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Arizona Republic
More subjective authority is being handed to police in
domestic violence cases. "Phoenix police are ranking ...
offenders to identify the 'worst of the worst' and put
them behind bars with stiffer sentences." (10/19/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/657650255.html
AZ Supreme Court backs tax-funded abortions
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Arizona Republic
The Arizona Supreme Court has narrowly ruled that poor
women have a state constitutional right to public
funding for abortions to protect their health. the
Justice writing for the majority also wrote, "We do not
hold that Arizona's right to privacy entitles citizens
to subsidized abortions." (10/23/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/676761207.html
Author accuses women's groups of racketeering
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Fox News
Kimberly Schuld, author of a guide to women's
organizations, says feminist groups threaten
corporations and schools with legal pressure and public
embarrassment if they don't contribute money and alter
policy to their liking. (10/23/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/753478962.html
E-card diverts computers to porn site
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MSNBC
Spammers, adopting a tactic of virus writers, have
developed an e-card that can resend itself to everyone
in an Outlook explorer address books and redirect the
computer to porn sites. (10/28/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/896507129.html
Aussie IVF parents pick girls
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The Age
More than 140 Australian families have paid up to $13,000
Australian to undergo IVF in Sydney, just so they can
choose the sex of their babies. And it's girls they
prefer. (10/28/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/907827513.html
Kraft sued for sexual harassment of men
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ABC
Kraft Foods is facing a class-action lawsuit that claims a
male supervisor sexually harassed and retaliated against
other male workers at an Alabama distribution center. (10/26/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/922858209.html
Iraqi mothers defy Saddam Hussein
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Sydney Morning Herald
"Defying a ban on dissent, dozens of anguished mothers and
angry young men have held a rare unsanctioned protest
and taken to the streets of Baghdad to demand information
from the Government about relatives jailed for political
crimes." (10/24/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/615662604.html
Nigerian stoning couple freed
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BBC
A Nigerian couple convicted of adultery and sentenced to
death by stoning has been freed on bail by a Sharia
court. International outrage over such sentences is
being partially credited with the decision. (10/22/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/192295534.html
CA battered woman law used to free killer
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San Francisco Chronicle
A California judge has taken the unprecedented step of
ordering the release of a Los Angeles woman convicted of
murder, relying on a new state law that gives a battered
woman another chance in court. (10/23/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/138829523.html
Child support cases overload MO legal system
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St Joseph News-Press
"In the past decade, one issue can be credited with the
exponential increase in criminal cases assigned to the
public defender's office: child support." The draconian,
zero-tolerance laws enforcing child support --
especially on so-called deadbeat dads -- are swamping
the local legal system. (10/27/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/162468693.html
Irish golf club faces accusation of discrimination
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The Irish Times
In a case reminiscent of a current U.S. golf flap, a
private golf club in Ireland is being accused of
discrimination for excluding women members. Ireland's
"Equality Authority" has given the club a fortnight to
comply, after which its liquor license may be pulled. (10/22/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/634391485.html
Challenge to abortion clinic buffer zone allowed
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Boston Globe
A federal judge has ruled that the buffer zone around
clinics where abortions are performed may violate the
free speech rights of protesters because it gives
preferential treatment to abortion-rights activists. This
opens the door to a court challenge. (10/23/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/637281637.html
State relents in morning-after-pill case
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WorldNetDaily
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals has
rescinded a threat to discipline a nurse under its
employ who refused to dispense the morning after pill.
She had stated that doing so would violate her religious
beliefs. (10/29/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/791445079.html
Domestic abuse groups dispute claims of men
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Boston Globe
"Male victims pose a delicate problem for battered women's
groups who say they are too rare a phenomenon to warrant
drastic change in the core beliefs of the movement
against domestic abuse." Such groups dismiss studies,
like that from The Fatherhood Coalition (1980),
indicating that men and women hit each other at equal
rates during domestic disputes. (10/28/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/816308097.html
Senate urged to pass new child pornography law
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Newsday
President Bush has called on the Democratic-controlled
Senate to follow the Republican House's lead and approve
a bill bypassing a Supreme Court decision that allows
computer simulations of child pornography. (10/23/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/326976939.html
White House scrutinizes Title IX
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Dartmouth Online
Thirty years after its creation, Title IX is back on the
political agenda -- and up for possible revision.
Critics of Title IX say that the measure discriminates
against male ath1etes, especially at universities. (10/23/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/480521424.html
For more News Reports see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/news/
==> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <==
Pakistan's fiery shame: stove death
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Women's eNews
by Juliette Terzieff
"Stove death is the bitter expression used to refer to the
fiery punishment meted out to wives in Pakistan. In
Islamabad alone, 4,000 women are believed to have been
set ablaze. Shehnaz Bokhari braves death threats to
fight the practice." (10/29/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/811867974.html
California Paternity Justice Act
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ifeminists
by Glenn Sacks and Dianna Thompson
California Governor Gray Davis had the chance to free
thousands of falsely condemned men. He chose federal
funds instead. Some ifeminists argue, however, that the
Paternity Justice Act vetoed by Davis had nothing to do
with justice. (10/21/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/245733324.html
Confronting men's alienation
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The Age
by Lindsay Tanner
The federal Labor MP for Melbourne declares, "All around us
... we can see the rage, alienation, disaffection and
disconnection from our society that is evident in many
younger men." Tanner urges a reconsideration of the male
role in education and labor. (10/23/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/644205340.html
FL adoption law encourages abortion
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Times Online
by staff
A Flordia adoption law requires a single mother-to-be to
put notices in newspapers in cities where the baby may
have been conceived, including her name and description
and details of her sexual background. Critics believe
the law will push women to abort rather than consider
adoption. (10/22/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/663240516.html
Women's groups tied up in Democrat politics
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Washington Times
by Joyce Howard Price
The author of the book, "Guide to Feminist Organizations,"
says the nation's top feminist organizations are more
concerned with Democratic politics than women's rights
and are no longer needed. (10/22/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/667740800.html
Pass the Prozac
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ifeminists
by Tresa McBee
Two psychiatrists plan to define the normal friction of
interpersonal relationships as evidence of psychiatric
problems. (10/22/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/915637854.html
Battered women's syndrome: Science or sham?
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ifeminists
by Wendy McElroy
As Domestic Violence Awareness Month nears its end, PC
feminist organizations are calling loudly for the mass
pardoning of "battered" women who have been convicted of
first-degree murder. But is there any validity to the
battered woman syndrome on which they base the call? (10/21/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/244043143.html
NOW attacks CBS for caring about boys' problems
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NOW
On October 20, CBS's 60 Minutes reported that boys are
falling dangerously behind girls in schools nationwide.
Quoting a debunked study that led to preferential
treatment for girls in the first place, NOW urges
feminists to make "demands" of CBS, including the
retirement of Andy Rooney who will not apologist for
"sexist" remarks. (10/25/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/113665273.html
Driving while female accusations grow
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Des Plaines Journal
"In April of 2002, a Virginia state trooper was indicted
for soliciting sex from women in exchange for dropping
traffic charges against them." There is an increased
reporting of police sexually abusing women drivers. A
University of Nebraska study, "Driving While Female: A
National Problem in Police Misconduct," explores this
theme. (10/23/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/649422457.html
Reality motherhood
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Washington Times
by Mona Charen
Charon writes, "On Oct. 29, that bastion of feminism ...
Barnard College, will host a conference on motherhood.
Don't yawn. This is news." At Barnard, motherhood used
to be "something one only whispered about." (10/28/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/796555528.html
For more Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/commentary/
==> Magazines and Periodic Columns <==
Karen De Coster web site
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Karen De Coster
"The Queen of Political Incorrectness" lands well-aimed and
painful blows on the enemies of freedom. Frequently
updated blog and various articles.
http://www.free-market.net/rd/256177331.html
For more Magazines and Periodic Columns see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/magazines/
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