Tampax: Women are Useless while Menstruating

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A national magazine that targets teenage girls, run in a country that fights a daily battle for women’s rights, is subtly promoting that women are useless while menstruating, and must therefore hide their periods, which demonstrates how even our progressive country needs to focus in on the menstrual taboo.

3 Women in India Bring Gardasil® & Cervarix® Trials to Supreme Court

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The petition outlines a series of serious allegations regarding the HPV vaccines Gardasil® and Cervarix®. Petitioners Kalpana Mehta, Nalini Bhanot and Dr. Rukmini Rao reported that the two HPV vaccines were illegally brought into the states of Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat and subsequently administered to thousands of young, vulnerable Indian children before the vaccines were known to be safe.

Dr. Rima E. Laibow – I am Adam Lanza’s Doctor

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Say NO to Psychiatric Drugs! Take Action Once for Every Member of Your Family, Like and Share as Widely as Possible People like you with families like yours are under attack. Handed out like candy, psychiatric drugs are dispensed as if they were trivial, safe and effective. Nothing could be further from the truth. In Continue Reading …

Domestic Violence – Not Just a ‘Woman’s Issue’

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Marcia G. Yerman sums the political issue of domestic violence well in another excellent expose. Three women die a day from a domestic violence related act. Our government is proposing to cut vital protections in the Violence Against Women Act. If it happens to one woman it happens to all of us. Shout out to Marcia Yerman for bringing this issue to the forefront.

New Book offers Feminist Views on Arousal – Vagina – Brain Connection

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Many critics and readers, including many feminists, have welcomed my book Vagina: A New Biography. Some critics, though – feminists too, of another kind – are accusing me of a form of contemporary heresy.

India Grassroots Women’s Groups Prevent Witch Hunts

Basanti, shown here with children in her family, survived a witch hunt in India's tea plantations. (Credit: Photo by Soma Chaudhuri)

Witch hunts are common and sometimes deadly in the tea plantations of Jalpaiguri, India. But a surprising source — small groups of women who meet through a
government loan program — has achieved some success in preventing the longstanding practice, a Michigan State University sociologist found.

Christina England: Child Protection or Pharma/Government Protection?

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  Leslie Carol  Botha: My colleague Christina England exposes another dark side of vaccine injury: when parents are accused of child abuse and have their children removed from home.  In one, case the innocent father was blamed for the death of his daughter and is now serving life imprisonment. Christina has helped hundreds of families Continue Reading …

Viewing Domestic Violence as Terrorism

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No doubt in my mind that any man who uses violence against women should be classified as a ‘terrorist.’ I am glad Lucy Berrington has brought this issue and this perception into the media. Women do not have homeland security to protect us. Many of us have been told that if police handled every single domestic disturbance between women and men – they would not have time to fight crime.

Global Gender Gaps Leave Women in Worse Health Conditions

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The findings are based on a global analysis of men’s and women’s health situations in 147 countries and areas. Gallup analyzed six dimensions of physical and emotional health, including physical pain, worry, sadness and rest.

World Population Day – A Gatesway to Coercive Contraception and Forced Sterilization?

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On July 11, World Population Day, the British government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are hosting an international Family Planning Summit in London to launch an ambitious $4 billion contraceptive program initiated by Melinda Gates. On the surface it all sounds good, wrapped in the language of saving and empowering women. But many reproductive health and human rights activists worry that the summit represents a serious backslide to the bad old days of population control when contraception was deployed as a technical fix to reduce birthrates.

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