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Items in this update:
o Woman prosecuted for protest against airport security
o Arab women lift veil on business
o Adopt a family for Christmas
o IN abortion law may take effect
o Aussie men swamp national counseling service
o Supreme Court may review Texas sodomy law
o Afghan militants target girls' schools
o Cornell U to dispense vibrators?
o Feds relabel embryos as human subjects
o Proposed sex-abuse law to include abortion clinics?
o Kansas court nixes monument to the unborn
o Woman offered chance in minor league pro-hockey
o Another innocent man freed by DNA test
o Call for motherhood movement causes furor
o Pro-lifers harass Aussie women
o Books censored toward conservatism
o Woman claims West Nile transmission by sex
o Men join women in quest for perfection
o Spectacular look inside the womb
o Mr. Moms on the rise
o Re-evaluating the risk of breast cancer
o Proposed UK rape law places burden on men
o Rewriting the history of witchcraft
o Aborting child protection?
o Disputing abortion-breast cancer link
o NOW accuses media of sexism
o Domestic violence -- the impact of zero tolerance
o Flawed court report shows feminist desperation
o Sense of life Objectivists
o Title IX on trial
Hello ifeminists:
Political junkie that I am, the news is on in the background as
I write this and every talking head has an opinion on whether the
House will be Rep. or Dem. in 2003, if marijuana will be legalized in
Nevada, on
Mondale's resurrection from the...well, not the grave but the '60s,
which is pretty close. I will be glued to the TV all night long,
ignoring my husband's offer of dinner and a movie out. (What *was*
that man thinking of!?)
So...if you are reading this on Wednesday rather than giving it
top Tuesday priority, I not only understand -- I agree!
This week's ifeminist editorial have been posted by the
inimitable Tooch (Jerome D. Tuccille). My FOX/ifeminists column
entitled "Equal AccessDoes Not Guarantee Equal Outcome"
<http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/1105.html>;
and the latest from rising star Tresa McBee entitled "Politics of
Abuse -- Why You Don't Hear About Men"
<http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/1104a.html>.
Enjoy!
And while you're at it, check out Karen de Coster, the
ifeminist of the month for November. Go Karen!
Now...on to the main event...
-- Wendy McElroy, mac@ifeminists.com
=3D=3D> News Reports <=3D=3D
Woman prosecuted for protest against airport security
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ABC News
Eliane Yvonne Marcele Aguillaume, 56, of Paris, stripped to
the waist in an angry response to abusive treatment by
airport security. Now she faces three years in prison. (10/31/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/736150136.html
Arab women lift veil on business
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BBC
According to the chair of the Arab International Women's
Forum, there is a shift in how Arab nations are viewing
"women's issues." She states, "It is like a competition
between Arab governments to encourage women to enter
business and the political process." (10/31/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/571200418.html
Adopt a family for Christmas
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Beauregard Daily News
A Louisiana Women's Shelter has an annual Christmas
Adopt-A-Family program by which individuals, families,
organizations, churches, schools or businesses help to
ensure that the splintered families of women who have
been victims of domestic violence are not forgotten
during the holidays. (11/04/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/972674625.html
IN abortion law may take effect
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The Indianapolis Star
While Indiana's abortion law requiring women to receive
in-person counseling and then wait 18 hours before
ending a pregnancy could end up before the U.S. Supreme
Court, it could still take effect very soon. (10/31/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/686485664.html
Aussie men swamp national counseling service
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Sydney Morning Herald
Australia's angst-ridden, too-often-silent blokes have
inundated the world's 1st national phone counselling
service for men. Men's Line has registered 60,000 calls
in its first year, many more than it can cope with, from
angry, anxious and often suicidal individuals. (10/30/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/843890341.html
Supreme Court may review Texas sodomy law
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Houston Chronicle
The Supreme Court may consider a Texas law that makes it a
crime for people to engage in "deviate sexual
intercourse" with a person of the same gender -- even in
their own homes. (11/04/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/168883534.html
Afghan militants target girls' schools
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Sydney Morning Herald
An apparently coordinated series of attacks against girls'
schools in Afghanistan seems to confirm that Islamic
militants have begun a campaign against the education of
girls. (11/01/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/562519903.html
Cornell U to dispense vibrators?
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Cornell Daily Sun
Cornell University Health Services is considering whether
to provide "auto stimulation devices for women" to make
the school more "woman affirming." Not all students like
the idea. (10/31/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/557269510.html
=46eds relabel embryos as human subjects
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Yahoo Daily News
The Bush administration has revised the charter of a
federal advisory committee concerned with the safety of
research volunteers, to specify that embryos in
experiments are "human subjects" whose welfare should be
considered along with that of fetuses, children and
adults. (10/30/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/574760602.html
Proposed sex-abuse law to include abortion clinics?
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WorldNetDaily
A New York District Attorney wants a proposed local law
requiring that clergy report incidents of sexual abuse
to be widened to include abortion providers who learn
that minor girls have been impregnated by adults. (11/02/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/271879012.html
Kansas court nixes monument to the unborn
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Newsday
November 30, 2002
The Kansas Supreme Court has ruled that a anti-abortion
monument for unborn babies must be removed from a public
cemetery because it violates land use laws that set
aside the space for burying human remains. (11/01/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/275709118.html
Woman offered chance in minor league pro-hockey
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Globe and Mail
The East Coast Hockey League's Cincinnati Cyclones are
offering Canadian Olympic star Hayley Wickenheiser a
15-game tryout and the chance to become the first woman
to participate as a skater in minor pro hockey. (10/30/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/289169914.html
Another innocent man freed by DNA test
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Sydney Morning Herald
After 15 years in prison for a child rape he did not
commit, Jim Bromgard has had his conviction overturned
on new DNA evidence. The Montana man was locked up at
the age of 18 on the testimony of an 8 year old who said
she was "60 or 65%" sure he was her rapist. (11/02/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/309482752.html
Call for motherhood movement causes furor
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ABC News
A call for a "motherhood movement" proved controversial at
a symposium at Barnard College where feminists sparred
with each other about issues of work and family. The
panel included Sylvia Ann Hewitt, whose recent book has
thrust issues of childlessness for career women into
high profile. (10/29/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/847110493.html
Pro-lifers harass Aussie women
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The Age
Anti-abortionists have been targeting Melbourne women who
have had abortions, sometimes years ago, with letters
accusing them of murder and equating them with
terrorists. It's not known how the letter-writers gained
access to the women's personal medical information. (10/30/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/840010155.html
Books censored toward conservatism
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Houston Chronicle
Bowing to political pressure -- and to get Texas State
Board of Education approval -- publishers of social
studies textbooks have changed passages dealing with
events ranging from the Alamo to last year's terrorist
attacks. Political correctness is now wearing a
conservative face. (10/29/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/821888710.html
Woman claims West Nile transmission by sex
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ABC News
A Colorado woman believes she contracted the West Nile
virus through sexual contact with her infected husband,
even though she was in the area where he contracted it.
Health officials have no evidence the disease can be
spread sexually but won't rule out the possibility. (10/29/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/834279752.html
=46or more News Reports see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/news/
=3D=3D> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <=3D=3D
Men join women in quest for perfection
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ifeminists
by Tresa McBee
McBee comments on a growing trend, "So men are finally
feeling inadequate enough to scar their bodies. Welcome
to the party. Your first Botox injection is free with
purchase of implant." (10/29/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/164037594.html
Spectacular look inside the womb
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Time
by J. Madeleine Nash
According to Nash, new and graphic images of life stirring
in the womb "are at the forefront of a biomedical
revolution that is rapidly transforming the way we think
about the prenatal world." They are also affecting the
political debate surrounding abortion. (11/03/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/943683091.html
Mr. Moms on the rise
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=46OX News
by Catherine Donaldson-Evans
Donaldson-Evans claims that the bumbling image of the
househusband is comical and might have been accurate in
the 1980s but today's stay-at-home fathers -- numbering
about 2 million and growing -- are a different breed
altogether. (11/04/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/964244139.html
Re-evaluating the risk of breast cancer
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ifeminists
by Rondi Adamson
Women have done women a disservice by insisting so much on
"women's diseases." Creating hysteria where there
needn't be any is destructive, and taking attention away
from where it should be isn't much better. (10/29/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/967034336.html
Proposed UK rape law places burden on men
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London Times Online
A proposed new UK law will severely restrict a man's
ability to claim that he "honestly believed" a woman
consented to sex. Among other outrages, the reforms will
undermine the presumption of innocence until proven
guilty. (10/29/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/755712233.html
Rewriting the history of witchcraft
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Reason
by staff
Two Canadian historians claim that one-quarter of all
witches executed in Europe between 1450 and 1750 were
really warlocks. They are attempting to rewrite the
history of witchcraft to reflect the importance of men
to the tradition. (11/01/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/297160209.html
Aborting child protection?
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National Review
by Jennifer Roback Morse
Morse asks, "Do abortion clinics have the same
responsibility to report possible child abuse, as other
health-care workers, therapists, and teachers?" She
answers, "yes." The question arises because of Planned
Parenthood's apparent policy of not reporting under-aged
pregnancies that may be child abuse. (10/23/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/316901959.html
Disputing abortion-breast cancer link
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Seatlle Post-Intelligencer
by Deborah Oyer
Oyer, a physician, concludes, "if one takes the time to
carefully examine the studies and their results, one
finds that the best medical evidence indicates that
induced abortion has no effect on a woman's risk of
developing breast cancer later in life." (11/02/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/323277130.html
NOW accuses media of sexism
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CNN
by staff
The National Organization for Women's third annual report
on how women are portrayed on prime-time TV decries the
six major networks as catering to an "adolescent boy's
fantasy world." (10/29/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/146426768.html
Domestic violence -- the impact of zero tolerance
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Naples News
by Janeice T. Martin
Martin claims that "we never hear the other sides of the
stories" from a "domestic violence system" that makes
faulty assumptions -- e.g., the man is always guilty. Or
that a marriage may be worth saving even if domestic
violence has occurred. (11/03/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/158717344.html
=46lawed court report shows feminist desperation
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ifeminists
by Wendy McElroy
What do you call a report that invalidates itself in the
introduction and threatens critics with criminal
prosecution in the conclusion? Answer: the revised 2002
Family Court Report issued by the California National
Organization of Women (CA NOW). (10/29/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/161957526.html
=46or more Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/commentary/
=3D=3D> Institutes, Organizations, and Clubs <=3D=3D
Sense of life Objectivists
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SOLO
The Sense of Life Objectivists (SOLO) see themselves "as
being at war with the current culture: the culture of
anti-heroes, nihilism & destruction." They "want to help
Objectivism become the living, breathing, growing,
vibrant, reality-orientated, life-affirming phenomenon
that it deserves to be."
http://www.free-market.net/rd/446006824.html
=46or more Institutes, Organizations, and Clubs see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/organizations/
=3D=3D> Audio and Video <=3D=3D
Title IX on trial
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Working Assets Radio
Lynn Sanders, Professor of Politics at the University of
Virginia, and Christine Stolba of the Ethics and Public
Policy Center face off on the merits of Title IX, and
find out that it=EDs not just about sports. (10/28/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/152937101.html
=46or more Audio and Video see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/multi/
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