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Just the facts, ma’am…

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Centre’s for Excellence in Women’s Health
A Woman’s Guide for Understanding Evidence about Health and Healthcare

  

  

  

  

  
 
 
 

 Questions Women Should Ask about Health Care Evidence:■ About truth and values:
Who carries out, funds and benefits from the research?
■ About defining the research problem:
What is the “problem”? How could it be defined differently
■ About what counts:
Do we use numbers or […]

N.Y. Suffragists Took the 14th to Polling Booths

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Written by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik
Inconviencent Woman
Yes We Did!
Left, right, or independent - yesterday’s election was a paradigm shift of tectonic proportion. Millions of women joined together, gave time, talent and treasure and changed the out come of thousands of local, state and national elections.
The millions of women who cast their votes yesterday did so under the hard-won […]

The Menstrual Roots of Three Jewish and African Rites of Passage

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Metaforms of a Monotheistic Religion

The Menstrual Roots of Three Jewish and African Rites of Passage: Khomba, Bat Mitzvah and the Mikvah
by Deborah J. Grenn, Ph.D
From Metaphormia - A Journal of Menstruation and Culture
 B’rucha at Shekhinah[1] eloteinu malkah ha’olam she’asani ishah: Blessed are you, Shekhinah our god, Creator of the world/Source of Life, who has made […]

British Women Decry Growing Tolerance of Rape

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Women’s eNews
By Anna Louie Sussman
WeNews Commentary
October 20, 2008
England’s conviction rates for rapists have dropped to less than 6 percent from 30 percent three decades ago. Anti-violence activists mounted a pressure campaign against officials, even staging a mock trial to charge them with neglect.
LONDON (WOMENSENEWS)–Ruth Hall, a founding member of the activist group Women Against Rape, […]

McCain Is Party to Secret War on Contraception

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Womens eNews
By Roberta Riley
WeNews Commentator
October 22, 2008
(WOMENSENEWS)–We’ve heard plenty of talk about abortion in this campaign season, including during the final presidential debate last week.
But what many mainstream voters may not realize is that Nov. 4 also brings us to a crossroads in a war most have never heard of: the war against contraception.
Its leaders–most […]

R.I. Offers Lesson Plan on Teen Dating Violence

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   Women’s eNews 

Run Date: 10/21/08

By Amy Littlefield
WeNews correspondent

Rhode Island schools are beginning a unique commitment to teaching students about the widespread dangers of dating violence. The effort depends on help from advocacy groups whose education programs are being hit by state budget cuts.
(WOMENSENEWS)–Public schools in Rhode Island are implementing the nation’s first comprehensive required health […]

Opposition Strong Against Colorado’s Egg=Person Amendment

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Feminist Daily News Wire
October 23, 2008
Recent polling for The Denver Post shows that 48 percent of Colorado’s citizens plan to vote No on Amendment 48, a November ballot initiative that would amend the state constitution to define a fertilized, unimplanted human egg as a full person with all civil rights. Thirty percent of the electorate […]

Where Have Our Standards Gone?

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By Avis A. Jones-DeWeever Ph.D.
Director of the Research, Public Policy, and Information Center for African American Women
The Women’s Media Center
October 3, 2008
Sarah Palin survived the debate, but her down-home message can do little to reassure voters who have every reason to demand a change of direction.

What does it say about a nation, when the […]

Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Stories

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Written by:

Emilie C. Ailts, Executive Director
NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado
1905 Sherman St. #800
Denver, CO  80203
(303) 394-1973 x12
eailts@prochoicecolorado.org
 

 
“In 1969, as the women’s movement was gaining momentum and influence in the Boston area and elsewhere around the country, twelve women met during a women’s liberation conference.  In a workshop on ‘women and their bodies,’ they talked about their own experiences […]

Colorado’s Personhood Amendment

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5280 Magazine
By Bethany Kohoutek
August 8, 2008
Twenty years after anti-abortion protests made history at the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, Colorado has become a battleground for reproductive rights, and the next generation of activists is targeting Denver to commemorate the occasion.

In the election year of 1988, Michael Dukakis was the Democrats’ nominee to succeed Ronald Reagan […]