Por Alison Bowen, Author at Women's eNews

Bush’s Anti-Family Planning Agenda Is Showing

By Por Alison Bowen ● Commentary ● August 8, 2001

The recent debate over the effectiveness of condoms reflects an ominous pattern, beginning with the reinstatement last January of the Global Gag Rule, that is emerging from the Bush Administration.

Women Find Tobacco Addiction Intense

By Por Alison Bowen ● Health & Science ● December 4, 2000

One doctor who smokes and treats heroin and cocaine users says the addictions are very similar. Experts say that to quit, women need to use every strategy available, ranging from support groups to nicotine replacement drugs. Second of two articles.

Seeing Through Smoke Screen: Women at Higher Risk

By Por Alison Bowen ● Health & Science ● November 27, 2000

Women have come a long way as far as the intensity of tobacco advertising targeted at them, especially teen-agers. Now, lung cancer kills more women than breast, uterine and ovarian cancer combined. First of a two part-series.

Facts That Women and Girls Should Know About Smoking

By Por Alison Bowen ● Health & Science ● November 27, 2000

Feminist Mexican-American Artisan Leaves Legacy

By Por Alison Bowen ● Uncategorized ● September 11, 2000

Just four days before her death this summer, Dona Agueda Martinez, 102, was just beginning her latest weaving when she told the writer, Adelita Medina, how her literal and metaphoric “dance on the loom” kept her mind “strong and focused.”

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