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“Sex and the City 2,” opening at the end of the month, is grabbing the limelight among this month’s film releases. Carrie and crew take a girls-go-wild vacation to Abu Dhabi that, for political reasons, is really shot in Morocco.
July 3, 1997: Poet Adrienne Rich refuses National Medal of the Arts.
(WOMENSENEWS)–CheersThe most comprehensive study of international abortion rates to date linked the availability of reproductive health and family planning services to a drop in abortion between 1995 and 2003. Research conducted by the World Health Organization and the Guttmacher Institute also reveals that abortion rates in North America were stagnant during the study period, dropping from 22 abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age to 21 per 1,000, coinciding with an intensified political effort to ban abortions in the United States.Abortion rates dropped where contraceptive use is up, illustrated by the sharp declines recorded in Eastern Europe during the study period, Guttmacher noted. Abortion rates there were cut in half following the fall of the Iron Curtain. Prior to that, abortion was the primary method of birth control and others were largely unavailable to women.”It’s clear to me then that if anti-choice forces really wanted fewer abortions in the U.S., they should be dedicated to keeping it legal,” wrote RH Reality Check columnist Rachel Larris Oct. 12.
Women’s eNews has launched an eight-part series on women and how they are making inroads into higher education institutions in Africa. The research and production of the series is supported by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Lack of child care partly explains why the majority of women with substance-abuse problems aren’t getting treatment, officials say. In New Jersey, researchers found that nearly half of the women who abuse drugs and alcohol are mothers.
The Balkans is a fractured region, still mending from years of ethnic and sectarian war and a media saddled by tycoons peddling nationalistic views. Gordana Igric is determined to bring the Balkans together through a truer, independent journalism.
Leslie Byrne hopes to become Virginia’s first female lieutenant governor after today’s votes are counted and more women hope to run America’s biggest cities. In California, voters are considering parental notification for abortion.
Seven new women joined Congress this term, and their priorities–taxes, national security, abortion and other big issues–are as varied as the women themselves.
The members of the powerful World Economic Forum represent a wide diversity of regions and economies but tend to be male. As the forum opens its annual meeting today, it’s seeking to increase the participation of women.
Afghan women held a summit of their own in Brussels and demanded women’s needs–from schools to health care–be included in the new nation’s agenda. They also insisted on helping write the new constitution and being included in the new national assembly.