Category Archives: Social/PoliticalCentre’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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Boulder Weekly
July 31-August 6, 2008
An in-depth look at the implications of Amendment 48
by Pamela White
A young woman arrives in the emergency room with pelvic pain and heavy bleeding. A doctor examines her and realizes the woman is in the midst of miscarriage. Rather than focusing on her treatment, however, the doctor calls in a specialist […]
Rocky Mountain News
September 22, 2008
Definition of Person’ measure will be a box of surprises
Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado constitution defining the term ‘person’ to include any human being from the moment of fertilization as ‘person’ is used in those provisions of the Colorado constitution relating to inalienable rights, equality of justice, and […]
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