Midwives Popular, But More Forced out of Business
Even as demand for midwives increases in the United States, many are being forced out of business, leaving pregnant women with fewer options.
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Battle Scenes from ‘War Against Women’
The temporary injunctions against the so-called Partial-Birth Abortion Act are the result of almost a decade of work by pro-choice advocates. And say activists, the battle over women’s reproductive rights is just entering a new battleground.
New Women’s Shelter Draws Community Ire
A group of neighborhood residents oppose a shelter for battered Asian women that is undergoing move-in renovations in Brooklyn, N.Y. The publicity exposed the shelter’s location and could compromise the shelter’s safety.
New Focus of AIDS Battle: Rights for Women
As women overtake men among AIDS sufferers, a new initiative strives to battle the pandemic by buttressing women’s rights in the areas of education, employment and gender violence.
Report: Global Gag Rule Spurring Deaths, Disease
Opponents of the Mexico City policy, also known as the global gag rule, offer a first-hand look at the effects of the policy for the first time since the rule was reinstated more than two years ago.
Female First Responders, Gays Push for 9-11 Equity
As the nation learns to tell the story of Sept. 11, 2001, two groups–female rescue workers and surviving same-sex partners–are struggling to be included in that narrative.
Statistics Suggest More Rape Victims Speak Up
More women are reporting rapes and trusting that law-enforcement will take their charges seriously. That is the good news that advocates of sex-assault victims are reading in governmental statistics about rape in 2002.
AIDS Complicates Breastfeeding Advice in Africa
Mother’s milk or formula? Health groups are divided over which to recommend to HIV-positive mothers in sub-Saharan Africa after a study challenged the conventional wisdom that it was best for such women to rely exclusively on formula.
Mail Order Brides Find U.S. Land of Milk, Battery
As Congress considers the need for greater regulation of international marriage brokers, a Ukrainian woman is suing the brokerage that united her with her now ex-husband who, she claims, battered her and is also abusing his latest “mail-order bride.”
Forced Sterilization in Slovakia
At least 110 Romani women in eastern Slovakia have been subjected to involuntary sterilization says a recent report by investigators from women’s rights organizations in New York and Slovakia.
