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New Hampshire may pass a parental notification law this year and spur other states to follow. Nebraska could take leadership on fetal pain legislation. The second of two stories on anti-choice momentum in the states after the 2010 elections.
Since becoming a mother, Allison Stevens has stopped keeping up with the news. But with the launch of this monthly column, MomAgenda, she’s determined to start talking about policies that affect all new parents politically silenced by sheer exhaustion.
The mainstream news media fixated on her “wise Latina” comment and pretended that their Senate coverage did more than just provide Republicans with TV exposure.
Hats off to the team that vetted Sotomayor’s nomination and helped make the hearings a relatively dull affair so far. But C. Nicole Mason wishes the nominee had been able–politically speaking–to explain why a wise Latina woman is needed on the bench.
Rwandan refugee women in Uganda face particular hardships under a repatriation push that started in April, with a July 31 target date for completion, a local advocacy group finds. Second of three stories on women and the repatriation turmoil.
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Heavy job losses in March are raising the specter of more missed mortgage payments. Men suffered the worst unemployment, but women’s personal finances tend to be more precarious, which could put them in the middle of the next foreclosure wave.
Latina groups are calling voters and knocking on doors for both Obama and McCain. Members of pro-Obama Latina PAC adored Hillary Clinton, but spent the summer getting over it. Latinas for McCain like their candidate’s anti-abortion stance.
Latina Democratic legislators skipped a meeting with Barack Obama on Tuesday and last week several women’s rights leaders felt slighted by the campaign. But the party’s nominee is also scoring points with some female constituencies.
Hillary Clinton waged a dead-heat battle for the Texas primary Tuesday, and the Latinas’ vote handed her a much needed victory.
Four years ago two journalism students in Austin, Texas, decided that young U.S. Latinas need a magazine to call their own. Today they produce a Webzine and run workshops that train girls and teens to report, edit and keep asking questions.