Asjylyn Loder, Author at Women's eNews

Bush’s Anti-Choice Policies Felt Around World

By Asjylyn Loder ● Health & Science ● January 20, 2003

Restricting the right to abortion in developing nations is a major foreign policy initiative of the Bush administration; it appeases anti-choice constituents without offending more moderate conservatives. Second of four-part Roe v. Wade series.

Southern Women Racing for Congress Face Tough Odds

By Asjylyn Loder ● Uncategorized ● October 25, 2002

Headlines refer to “trailer girls” and an opponent of a childless female candidate tells her she should use campaign funds to adopt. The races in which women are running in the Southern states are tough, personal and profoundly important.

Sept. 11’s Immigrant Widows Lose U.S. Visas

By Asjylyn Loder ● Politics ● September 9, 2002

For many foreign nationals who lost spouses in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, their U.S. residency status remains murky. Most will be required to leave unless their spouses had applied for a permanent residency before the attack.

Peru Looks to Ban Popular Birth Control Method

By Asjylyn Loder ● Politics ● August 30, 2002

Peruvian officials are considering banning tubal ligation–a popular birth-control method–in response to reports of forced sterilizations in the 1990s. Women’s rights advocates oppose the change and are calling for compensation for the victims.

Johns Hopkins Asks Itself, Why So Few Women?

By Asjylyn Loder ● Uncategorized ● August 9, 2002

After a decade of making a special effort to hire women, Johns Hopkins Medical School still finds itself with a mostly male faculty, especially in the upper tiers.

Judge Ends Funds of Some Abstinence-Only Programs

By Asjylyn Loder ● Arts & Culture ● July 30, 2002

A federal judge says the state of Louisiana may no longer fund programs that promote religion through abstinence-only sex education. Also, 20,000 women in Colombia demonstrate for a negotiated peace.

House Considers Criminalizing Abortion Practices

By Asjylyn Loder ● Uncategorized ● July 5, 2002

Despite a Supreme Court ruling that a similarly vaguely worded ban on abortion practices was unconstitutional, the Republican-majority House is now considering a bill that would make it a crime for physicians to perform common abortion procedures.

Colombian Court Frees Woman Accused of Infanticide

By Asjylyn Loder ● Arts & Culture ● April 23, 2002

Colombia’s high court frees a woman jailed for more than six years on charges she murdered her infant. Her version–that she was raped, hid the pregnancy and gave birth to a stillborn infant–was never investigated by local authorities.

Human Rights Court May Weigh Mexican Abortion Case

By Asjylyn Loder ● Arts & Culture ● March 8, 2002

In 1999, a 13-year-old Mexican rape victim was intimidated out of getting an abortion. Now advocates want to take her case to international court, arguing that impeding a woman’s access to a legal abortion violates her human rights.

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