Pope Benedict travels to Spain to tell them they're all going to hell for allowing gay people to get married.
The New England Journal of Medicine has a doctor's perspective on pharmacists' refusal to dispense emergency contraception, and a profile of Nebraska late-term abortion provider Dr. Leroy Carhart.
Trafficking victims suffer post-traumatic stress on a par with torture victims.
Lakshmi Chaudhry calls out makeover "reality" shows that pretend women’s emotional debasement is “for their own good."
The mail-order bride business is alive and well. The men who are drawn to it are looking for demure ladies who won't talk back like those difficult American women.
Cecilia Fire Thunder, who vowed to establish an abortion clinic on her tribe's South Dakota reservation, has been impeached.
Four more soldiers have been charged with rape and murder in the Iraq rape case.
California advocacy groups are joined forces to launch an Emergency Contraception Network, which promotes access to reproductive health services and emergency contraception. Massachusetts and Minnesota have similar networks.
In other happy news, the state of Michigan now provides free reproductive health services (including birth control, well woman exams, and pre- and post-natal care) to 200,000 low-income women in an effort to prevent unplanned pregnancies.
The 34 Million Friends of UNFPA campaign seeks to get that many people to donate $1 to the UN Population Fund to restore the funding that the Bush administration has denied the organization. The website has an address for you to mail in a dollar, or you can contribute online ($10 minimum).
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Ann, I checked the Reuters story on the Pope's visit to Spain, and got the impression that the crowd booed Zapatero, period, presumably for his not being a homophobe. What makes you say he got booed for agreeing to meet the Pope?
You're right on Zapatero. My bad.
I'll delete that line...
The ABC headline about the soldiers is misleading. A more accurate version would probably read: "5 More Soldiers May Soon Be Charged", as the only thing that has changed is that investigators have asked the military equivalent of a grand jury to confirm that they have sufficient evidence to charge.
Thanks for the article on "mail order brides." Even with your snide asides and the dissaproving tone of the article, it still was a breath of fresh air to hear about women who are still ladylike, who still know how to treat a man, who aren't constantly trumpeting the battle cry of the 21st century feminist--"What about MY needs?" More and more tired men, sick of being blamed for every problem in the world while simultaneously asked to pay the freight on every female whim, are going to take this option--trust me on this. In the meantime, I now know of this company. Whatever else the article may have done, it did point out that A Foreign Affair does deliver as promised. I've passed the words on to some friends. I'm sure this post won't make it past your totalitarian screening process, but still--thanks, Feministing.com!