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Why Should We Pay Attention to Girls?

Posted by Leslie

Fact Sheet
The Girl Effect
www.girleffect.org
Little research has been done to understand how investments in girls impact economic growth and the health and  well-being of communities. This lack of data reveals how pervasively girls have been overlooked. For millions  of girls across the developing world, there are no systems to record their birth, their citizenship, or even […]

McCain Squirms on Birth Control Question

Posted by Leslie

Wall Street Journal
Washington Wire
July10, 2008
Elizabeth Holmes reports from Portsmouth, Ohio on the presidential race.
While John McCain often embodies an anything-goes attitude when talking to reporters, it doesn’t mean some subjects can’t make him sweat—say, birth control.
A female Los Angeles Times reporter inquired today about comments made earlier this week by McCain campaign adviser Carly Fiorina, […]

Shakti Woman, Feeling Our Fire, Healing our World

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by Vicki Noble
Excerpt from Shakti Woman, Feeling Our Fire, Healing our World by Vicki Noble, (pgs. 187-94, 197-98). Published by permission of the author Order from Powells
The sexual conditioning to which we have been subjected in our culture has been evolving for five thousand years and has been through numerous shifts. Marija Gimbutas’s […]

Parents Rally in Albany Against Forced Vaccination

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National Vaccine Information Center
Barbara Loe Fisher
June 9, 2008
Parents will rally in Albany, NY on Tuesday, June 10, to protest a vaccine bill
(AB10942) that would mandate the 69 doses of 16 vaccines the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends for all children through age 18 plus would automatically mandate all new vaccines federal officials recommend in […]

Clinton, Paul and Couric-How Barriers Fall

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Summary: Hillary Clinton’s ground-breaking presidential campaign brought the women’s movement a step closer to achieving equality in the United States. But Clinton has women’s suffragist Alice Paul to thank for bringing women to this pivotal point in history. As Peggy Simpson reports in the latest WMC Exclusive, Paul organized a suffrage march in […]

Hillary Clinton’s Concession Speech

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June 7, 2008
Hillary’s Remarks in Washington, DC
Thank you so much. Thank you all.
Well, this isn’t exactly the party I’d planned, but I sure like the company.
I want to start today by saying how grateful I am to all of you – to everyone who poured your hearts and your hopes into this campaign, […]

Gardasil - How Effective Is It?

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OP ED by Dan Walters - Bee Columnist
Sacramento Bee
May 11, 2007
Merck & Co. is a very large pharmaceutical company and it’s Democratic Party dogma to attack drug companies for their large profit margins.
That’s why it was particularly odd when a very liberal Democratic legislator, Assemblywoman Sally Lieber of Mountain View, introduced a bill that would […]

FDA Approves Over-the-Counter Status for EC

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Feminist Daily News Wire - 8/24/2006
BREAKING NEWS: FDA Approves Over-the-Counter Status for EC
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its approval of over-the-counter status for Plan B emergency contraception for women 18 years and older at a press conference today. The announcement is a major victory for women and women’s health advocates nationwide, who […]

Seasonale Earns Big Pharma Big Bucks

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400 Chestnut Ridge Road                                           
Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677                                                                                                                                  
201-930-3300    

N E W S   R E L E A S E
 
CONTACT:  Carol A. Cox, 201-930-3720       
EMAIL: ccox@barrlabs.com      
 
Barr Reports Third Quarter Fiscal 2004 Earnings of $0.33 Per Share Driven By 87% Increase in Revenue
Excluding Charges, Third Quarter Earnings Were $0.58 Per Share
 
Woodcliff Lake, NJ – […]

Ashcroft Subpoenas Medical Records of Women Who Had Abortions

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Feminist Daily News Wire
February 13, 2004
 
The Department of Justice has issued a series of subpoenas to hospitals in several major cities demanding the medical records of women who have undergone certain abortion procedures. US Attorney General John Ashcroft is requesting these records in conjunction with legal challenges to the federal abortion procedure ban, signed into […]