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A recent survey found that the majority of Catholic hospitals said they would not give women emergency contraception, even those who have been raped. In some states, such actions would mean those hospitals are breaking the law.
Massachusetts is locked in a battle between a court system that could favor same-sex marriage rights and a state assembly that is considering laws that would deny them.
Lost children staggering in the Sudan desert, Russian conscripts dying in the snow, young South African villagers massacred by white policemen–all of them are gathered to the bosom of activist mothers who nurture, forgive and shape the future.
A battered Turkish woman is seeking asylum on grounds that if she were forced to return to Turkey she would face certain violence and quite possibly death in an “honor killing” because she filed for divorce and fled her abusive husband.