Women's Rights

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• Creepy Use of Sex - for the Healthcare Vote!

  
  BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS — Authority: 424
  Using Sex for Political Messaging by Thia Lawson For me, this video reaches new heights in the creepy use of women’s sexuality. IF YOU ARE ON AN AGGREGATOR - CLICK HERE TO VIEW THIS VIDEO Huh? Could this be any creepier? Does this remind anyone else of the recent creepy Reebok ad ? I know I ...
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• Iraq: Policy punishing soldiers who become pregnant dropped

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 150
  December 26, 2009Well it looks like Maj Gen Anthony Cucolo had to change his new policy of punishing soldiers under his command who become pregnant and the impregnators. He had wanted the soldiers to “think before they act.”The updated policy removed the pregnancy provision and addressed the issue of autonomy – ...
  12 hours ago

• Confusion Prevails

  
  Saudi Jeans — Authority: 111
  Before KAUST, segregation was the norm and mixing was haraam . Then KAUST happened, and suddenly mixing turns out to be okay. Al-Shethri opened his mouth . He was sacked. The others got the message. The new Minister of Justice explained in detail how segregation is a foreign concept and mixing is actually cool. ...
  15 hours ago

• Catholic Hospitals Endorse Senate Abortion Compromise

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 826
  The Catholic Health Association — which represents hundreds of Catholic hospitals across the country — said said in a statement that it was ‘encouraged’ and ‘ increasingly confident ‘ that the abortion compromise in the Senate health care bill “can achieve the objective of no federal funding for ...
  15 hours ago

• Allow Daughters to take responsibility legally

  
  Fight for justice — Authority: 121
  Seeing the news article, Moms held for bid to swap babies , I noticed one interesting thing, “ One of the women, who has two daughters, wanted a male child while the other, who has a son, wanted a girl ”. One might argue that it is such attitude that leads to “ Female Feticide ”, however, “ Reality is ...
  19 hours ago

• Report: Nativism Is Anti-American Workers

  
  The Politics of Immigration — Authority: 123
  Of the 87 politicians graded A by FAIR, 68% voted against increasing the minimum wage, 83% voted against extending unemployment compensation, 93% voted against equal pay for women, 94% voted against the Employee Free Choice Act, 82% voted against providing parental leave for federal employees. by Prerna Lal, ...
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• Detente?

  
  cab drollery — Authority: 431
  Imagine reading this paragraph from an opinion in a major metropolitan daily: WHEN IT became clear that that the congressional elections bill would restrict some funding for voter registration drives in poor black neighborhoods, the expected players voiced the expected outrage, howling at the encroachment on civil ...
  22 hours ago

• For Those Who Would Change the Wind

  
  Change the Wind — Authority: 427
  Mary McLeod Bethune 1875 - 1955 Educator, Presidential Advisor, Leader We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
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• U.S. Commander in Iraq to Rescind Policy Punishing Pregnant Soldiers

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 685
  The Associated Press reports that the top United States commander in Iraq intends to rescind the policy earlier established by one of his subordinate commanders in Iraq that had placed pregnant soldiers at risk of discipline. According to the AP report, Gen. Ray Odierno has drafted a broad new policy for ...
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• Wise Woman

  
  cab drollery — Authority: 431
  Ellen Goodman made me blink this morning. She announced that she would be ending her tenure with the Boston Globe on January 1. I presume Ms. Goodman is retiring, although it is possible that the move is one of necessity, given the financial woes of the Globe since its purchase by the NY Times Corporation. In ...
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• "There are principles at stake": Frances ruling party proposes ban on face veil

  
  Jihad Watch — Authority: 733
  "Extremists are putting the republic to the test by promoting a practice that they know is contrary to the basic principles of our country." And those "extremists" have plenty of enablers who cant fathom what the problem is with the dehumanizing symbol of segregation and subjugation (spun as "elevation" in classic ...
  2 days ago

• Military to ditch policy punishing pregnant soldiers.

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 826
  As of Nov. 4, active-duty soldiers under the command of Maj. Gen. Anthony Cucolo — who is responsible for operations in northern Iraq — have faced possible punishment if they either become pregnant or impregnate a fellow servicemember. The policy said that they could even receive jailtime, although Cucolo has ...
  2 days ago

• Forced Islamization of Christian Girls Supported By Egyptian State

  
  Vlad Tepes — Authority: 150
  H/T Gates of Vienna : From AINA.Org Cairo (AINA) — The phenomenon of abduction, rape and forced Islamization of Christian girls in Egypt was shown for the first time on the Christian TV channel “Life TV”, which broadcasts from outside Egypt and has nearly 60 million Arab-speaking viewers in Egypt and around ...
  3 days ago

• Don’t Lower The Bar

  
  matthewgood.org — Authority: 425
  A sentence recently handed down by a judge in Lahore, Pakistan, in the case of two brothers that kidnapped and then cut off the ears and nose of their 20-year-old cousin because she refused to marry one of them ended with a bizarre twist yesterday. While both men were sentenced to life in prison, a sentence which ...
  3 days ago

• God, girls and gays.....

  
  Rants From The Rookery — Authority: 133
  The use and misuse of religion this past decade. Another example: Taliban in Pakistan blowing up girls schools . Just a reminder that religious and political extremists dont all dwell in the Pakistani mountains: Conservative Says Women Shouldnt Vote. And Ann Coulter negated her own voice because of her gender: ...
  3 days ago

• Commander Says He Won’t Court-Martial Pregnant Soldiers, Refuses To Make Plan B More Available

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 826
  This week, news outlets reported on a controversial new policy that threatens women soldiers on active duty who become pregnant — and the men who impregnate them — with jailtime . Maj. Gen. Anthony Cucolo issued the new rule, which took effect on Nov. 4, “because he said he was losing too many women with ...
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• Why some of us get so worked up about sharia

  
  ProWomanProLife — Authority: 438
  Because of stories like this one : A man who encouraged his teenage son to marry and rape his 12-year-old cousin has been jailed. The 54-year-old organised a sham Muslim ceremony between his son, then 16, and the girl at his home in Woolwich, south-east London, in March last year. At Wood Green Crown Court the ...
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• Irans Green Movement: The Womans Veil

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 144
  According to HuffingtonPos t , " Irans Green Movement has embraced a new symbol of protest: the womans veil . In an unprecedented show of support for womens rights, Iranian men have posted photos of themselves wearing the head covering typically worn by Muslim women. The images show hundreds of men clad in bright ...
  3 days ago

• Pakistan: Taliban continues campaign against the alarming spectre of educated women

  
  Jihad Watch — Authority: 733
  Threatened by girls with books. "Taliban blow up Pakistan girls school: official," from Agence France-Presse , December 23: PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - The Taliban blew up a girls school in Pakistans Khyber district, where troops are fighting against militants in the tribal region bordering Afghanistan, an official ...
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• A Few Questions For Sally McMillen

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 524
  Anne Zaccardelli, Library and Online Sales Assistant Sally G. McMillen is the Mary Reynolds Babcock Professor of History and Department chair at Davidson College. Her newest book, now out in paperback, Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement illuminates a major turning point in American ...
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