All posts tagged "Health"
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Woman Who Sold Suicide Kits Will Be Sentenced For Tax Crimes
A 92-year-old woman who sold $40 kits for people to kill themselves faces sentencing in San Diego for failing to file federal tax returns. Sharlotte Hydorn faces...
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Creating a Biological Underclass: A Reality of Poverty for HIV+ Women
By Sonia Rastogi Hype of the HIV epidemic in the U.S. has died down in the media and in the minds of many Americans. What...
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Women Running: Tomeka Hart
Name: Tomeka Hart Candidate for: U.S. House of Representatives, District 9 (Tennessee) Interviewed by: Tamura A. Lomax Why are you running for office? I am a...
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Judge: Texas Can't Ban Planned Parenthood from Health Program
A federal judge on Monday blocked a Texas rule that would have excluded Planned Parenthood from participating in the state’s women’s health program. U.S. District Judge Lee...
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On "Liberated Sex" and Other Myths
By Breanne Fahs At my book reading in New York last month, renowned sex therapist and activist Leonore Tiefer told me (in her brilliantly frank...
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Ex-Liberia President Charles Taylor Guilty of War Crimes
In a historic ruling, a U.N.-backed court on Thursday convicted ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor of war crimes during a conflict that left 50,000 dead. Taylor, 64,...
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Planned Parenthood Worried It's The Target Of New Undercover Sting
A string of suspicious incidents at Planned Parenthood clinics across the country has given the organization reason to believe that anti-abortion activists are targeting it...
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Soccer or Sex? Thai Teens Ponder the Choice
If you are a teen with a sexual urge, what should you do? High school seniors in Thailand were perplexed this year when they were...
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Women's Lower Status Puts Asia's Future at Risk
The Asia Society survey on women’s status in health, education, economic activity and political leadership urges improvements to ensure the region benefits fully from its underused...
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Rape Victims Say Military Labels Them 'Crazy'
Women in all branches of the armed forces, including the Coast Guard, have relayed stories that follow a similar pattern — a sexual assault, a...
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What Year IS this Anyway?: Musings of an Ex-Catholic as Politicians and Priests Fight over Women’s Reproductive Rights
By Mary Jean Ronan Herzog I am a Mary. I was named after the Blessed Virgin. Born into a Catholic family, as the first daughter...
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Arizona Governor Signs Anti-Abortion Bill
Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed a bill on Thursday that prohibits abortions in the state after 20 weeks. The bill, passed earlier this week by...
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Komen Grants Flowing to Planned Parenthood
Grants from the Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure are flowing to Planned Parenthood, as the women’s health organizations seek to rebuild their relationship...
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Uterine Fibroids: Knowing and Trusting the Signs
By Camille Wanliss Ortiz The pain shooting through my lower abdomen felt like it would never end. By the second day, it had gotten so...
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Female War Veterans More Likely to Become Homeless
Once primarily male veteran problems, homelessness and economic struggles are escalating among female veterans, whose numbers have grown during the past decade of U.S. wars...
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ADOPTING DEPRESSION
By Jennifer Givhan I couldn’t have had post-partum depression. Yet I did. I, a depressed mother. Adoptive mother. Ashamed mother. Heavy with pressure; mercury in...
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CA Prosecutors Detain Juvenile Rape Victim to Help Investigation
Prosecutors in Sacramento, CA have taken the unusual step of detaining an alleged teenage rape victim who has a history of running away, saying she...
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The War on Women: A Progressive Man’s View
By Vincent Martin A (self-admitted) conservative male acquaintance recently asked me what the War on Women means. Herein I will attempt to answer him. First, let...