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When women suffering anorexia stop having their menstrual periods many think they no longer have to worry about birth control. But the recent discovery of a higher rate of unplanned pregnancies among women with the disorder turns that thinking on its head.
The Center for Reproductive Rights studied what would happen if Roe v. Wade fell and protection for abortion was left up to the states. In a report issued Thursday, the group finds a majority of states would ban the procedure.
Margot Franssen, founder of The Body Shop Canada, says women are often squeezed into lives that are too small and her philanthropy rebels against that.
Media inattention to Women’s History Month doesn’t stop there. It extends to such deadly horrors as sexual violence in war-torn areas of the world. Ariel Dougherty says that’s why she’s spearheading a new way of funding women-focused media projects.
The proposal for the federal budget for 2006 released this week contains billions of dollars of cuts in Medicaid funding and a restructuring of the health care program that would put millions of American women at risk.