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Family planning supporters fell short of their goal in Tuesday’s House vote. That’s not the end of the story, however, in terms of efforts to overturn abortion-related restrictions on U.S.-support of international family planning.
The effectiveness of a five-year, $15 billion, program to combat HIV-AIDS overseas may have been damaged, some fear, after congressional debate left it freighted with lobbyists’ religious beliefs about sex, condoms and abstinence.
Native American women who served in the military will be honored for the first time this Memorial Day at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial.
Fewer women are running for office in the U.S. despite the fact that they often do as well as men in election campaigns. In other news, the 80-year-old Equal Rights Amendment was introduced in Congress once again this week.
The death of Sheila Wellstone, one of the most influential Senate spouses, meant the loss of a leader who brought about historic changes for battered women and welfare mothers in the United States.
When U.S. Rep. Patsy Mink died last month, admirers hailed her work to advance the rights of women. Meanwhile, others are challenging some of the legislation she helped pass, especially Title IX.
The Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus gets a boost in energy and membership as more and more moderate representatives work to oppose the Bush administration’s conservative anti-abortion agenda.
With the scheduled departure of Jesse Helms from the Senate and President Bush supporting women’s rights in Afghanistan, a U.N. treaty encouraging equal rights for women may finally receive U.S. approval.
Polish communists treated women as political tokens, and their Solidarity union successors opposed abortion and divorce. Today, women have been shut out from political power but they excel as entrepreneurs and managers, even in industry and manufacturing.