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Items in this update:
o Level playing field now a minefield
o NV ban on gay marriage passes
o U.S. blocks UN's anti-cloning measure
o Canada approves sex offender registry
o Nudist resort sued over sex attack
o NOW fired up by election losses
o Abortion and free speech zones
o WA extramartial partner forced to repay gifts
o Afghan women prisoners released
o Judges won't ban kinky Barbie
o Lott pushes partial-birth abortion ban
o Arab women demand quotas
o FDA approves first non-surgical female sterilization
o First Canadian law addressing gender identity passes
o French prostitutes protest crackdown
o Anti-choice group set up abortion provider
o Medical dean laments absence of men
o The politics of family destruction
o How I became a stripper
o Respecting mothers -- a feminist goal
o There she is - Miss controversial America
o Planned Parenthood puts out Sextionary
o Recognizing men abused by women
o Boys lag in gender gap
o The feminist-democrat connection
o Dad blood
o Feminists for life
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=3D=3D> News Reports <=3D=3D
Level playing field now a minefield
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The Australian
by Angela Shanahan
Shanahan blasts gender-equity policies in Australia's
schools because of the devastating effect they have had
on boys. (11/05/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/729634960.html
NV ban on gay marriage passes
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Las Vegas Sun
Nevada voters showed their conservative side at the polls,
voting to add a ban on gay marriages to the state's
constitution. (11/06/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/862858276.html
U.S. blocks UN's anti-cloning measure
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=46MF
The United States delayed a vote on a United Nations
initiative to ban human cloning for reproductive
purposes, saying that the ban should include all forms of
human cloning. (11/08/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/610977731.html
Canada approves sex offender registry
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Globe and Mail
Canadian officials have agreed to establish a federal sex
offender registry in order to "make the streets safer."
Convicted sex offenders will have to provide police with
up-to-date addresses and identifying marks such as
tattoos under a national sex-offender registry. (11/06/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/742528230.html
Nudist resort sued over sex attack
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National Post
A Manitoba couple is suing a nudist resort where their
children were sexually assaulted by a fellow club
member, charging that the operators failed to look into
the attacker's criminal background. (11/05/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/745898407.html
NOW fired up by election losses
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U.S. Newswire
In the wake of Republican gains in the recent election, NOW
has virtually declared war on George W. Bush. Meanwhile,
reports of NOW's grossly exagerrated membership numbers
and questionable tax-funding grow. (11/06/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/779001463.html
Abortion and free speech zones
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Houston Chronicle
Controversies over abortion on campuses across America have
led some universities to institute "free speech zones"
while others insist the entire campus is "free speech."
The Universities of Texas at Austin and Houston
exemplify the two approaches. (11/11/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/245441979.html
WA extramartial partner forced to repay gifts
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ABC
A mistress has been ordered to compensate the wife of her
now-dead lover for 20 years worth of gifts. The
mistress tried to sue the estate. In response, the wife
invoked an old Washington law, the wife forced her
instead to make a full accounting and pay the amount
back in cash. (11/09/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/248952288.html
Afghan women prisoners released
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BBC
As many as twenty women, imprisoned for 'crimes' such as
runing away with a lover, were released from Kabul jail
on the orders of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Ostensibly, the release was to honor Ramaddan, but the
Afghan leader is under international pressure regarding
the treatment of women. (11/10/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/254002748.html
Judges won't ban kinky Barbie
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Ananova
"A doll maker who was taken to court by toy giant Mattel
after selling kinky versions of Barbie has won a
preliminary ruling. Mattel said it infringed its
copyright. But Judge Laura Taylor Swain ruled in favour
of the S&M doll... 'To the court's knowledge, there is
no Mattel line of S&M Barbie,' the judge said."
(11/07/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/637354945.html
Lott pushes partial-birth abortion ban
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Agape
The new Senate Majority Leader, Trent Lott of Mississippi,
says that with Republicans in control of the White House
and both houses of Congress, the logjam over a ban on
partial birth abortion is going to be broken. (11/06/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/584091975.html
Arab women demand quotas
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Christian Science Monitor
Arab suffragettes attending this week's Women's Summit in
Jordan have launched a campaign to push Arab governments
to adopt a quota system for women politician -- a sort
of affirmative action policy for office-holders. (11/06/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/594162559.html
=46DA approves first non-surgical female sterilization
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The government has approved the first nonsurgical method of
sterilizing women, a tiny device called Essure that
could transform the way many women end their
childbearing years. (11/04/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/24283205.html
=46irst Canadian law addressing gender identity passes
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C-News
The Northwest Territories has become the first region in
Canada to prohibit discrimination on the grounds of
gender identity. The language was part of the larger
Human Rights Act. (11/06/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/744555568.html
=46rench prostitutes protest crackdown
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Yahoo
Wearing white masks with tears painted on them, hundreds of
prostitutes rallied in front of the French Senate to
protest a high-profile government crackdown on their
livelihood. (11/05/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/758266270.html
=46or more News Reports see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/news/
=3D=3D> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <=3D=3D
Anti-choice group set up abortion provider
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Women's eNews
by Frederick Clarkson
A Texas-based anti-choice group secretly recorded calls to
Planned Parenthood clinics made ostensibly by a
teen-ager pregnant by an older man. The clinics promised
the caller confidentiality, and later were accused of
covering up sexual abuse. (11/10/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/606266677.html
Medical dean laments absence of men
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National Post
by Graeme Hamilton
The dean of Universit=E9 Laval's medical school is calling
for action to address the "feminization" of the medical
profession in Quebec, where women studying medicine
outnumber men by more than two to one. Government policy
has encouraged women, at the expense of men, for years. (11/08/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/630992156.html
The politics of family destruction
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Crisis Magazine
by Stephen Baskerville
"If we truly believe our present divorce policy is
appropriate, we should at least have the honesty to tell
young people up front that marriage provides them with
no protection. ... Not only will the government afford
them no protection; it will prosecute them as criminals,
though without the due process of law afforded to
formally accused criminals." (11/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/748858668.html
How I became a stripper
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The Guardian
by Catlin Gunn
Catlin Gunn describes herself as a nice middle-class girl.
She is also a stripper, and describes how she got
started. (11/07/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/822625593.html
Respecting mothers -- a feminist goal
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New Haven Register
by Frank Harris III
Enola Aird, head of the Motherhood Project, doesn't see why
respecting mothers has to be at odds with a "modern
woman's movement." In fact, "what about mothers?" is the
unfinished business of feminism. (11/11/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/291108235.html
There she is - Miss controversial America
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Sunspot
by Susan Reimer
Miss America Erika Harold has alleged changed her official
platform from anti-bullying to anti-sex, and she has put
herself smack in the middle of a nasty tug of war
between the abstinence-only people and the comprehensive
sex education people.
http://www.free-market.net/rd/295119537.html
Planned Parenthood puts out Sextionary
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CNS News
by Michael L. Betsch
"In an attempt to prevent America's youth from depending on
'unreliable sources' for 'life-saving' sexual health
information, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
has launched its 'Sextionary' to serve as the Internet's
authoritative sex education destination." (11/11/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/13621927.html
Recognizing men abused by women
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Reason
by Cathy Young
"This year in Massachusetts, there was something different
about the vigil for victims of domestic homicides held
in October for Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Three
of the 15 names on the placards belonged to men slain by
their female partners." (11/12/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/22012960.html
Boys lag in gender gap
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CBS
by staff
According to psychologist and author Michael Thompson,
after decades of special attention, girls are soaring
academically, while boys are stagnating. (10/31/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/597432668.html
The feminist-democrat connection
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Townhall
by Phyliss Schlafly
Schlafly writes, "If you wonder why the Democratic Party
has regressed into sycophantic cheerleading for radical
feminist candidates (such as the Hillary Clinton clones
running this year), the explanation is in a new book
called 'Guide to Feminist Organizations'." (11/12/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/49187963.html
Dad blood
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Reason
by Cathy Young
Young writes, "Imagine raising a family for years, only to
find out one day that your children are not really
yours. Imagine, after the divorce, being told by the
courts that you have to continue paying financial
support for these children." That is the legal situation
facing some American men. (11/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/724614719.html
=46or more Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/commentary/
=3D=3D> Institutes, Organizations, and Clubs <=3D=3D
=46eminists for life
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=46FL
Feminists for Life is a nonsectarian, nonpartisan,
grassroots organization that seeks equality for all
human beings and champions the needs of women. The group
opposes "all forms of violence," including abortion.
http://www.free-market.net/rd/739325372.html
=46or more Institutes, Organizations, and Clubs see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/organizations/
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