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They began by helping to stop the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s effort to defund Planned Parenthood in early 2012. Now the media campaigners are spotlighting the fate of a hacker who exposed the Steubenville rapists.
Texas has an unusually high maternal mortality rate and if Perry signs this bill the state could get its first statewide investigation into the causes.
Obama says that the U.S. military’s sexual assaults are “dangerous to our national security.” A mayor says the Japanese military’s “comfort women” were necessary.
After nearly a year of partisan infighting on Capitol Hill, the House of Representatives and the Senate have agreed to send a reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act to President Barack Obama’s desk, ThinkProgress reported. On Feb. 28, by a vote of 286 to 138, the House passed the bipartisan Senate-approved version of the bill, one that includes added protections for LGBT, Native American and undocumented victims of domestic violence. All 138 votes against the bill were Republicans.
One Billion Rising event in Barcelona, Spain.
The Lone Star state’s maternal mortality rate coincides with Gov. Perry’s slashing of reproductive health services. This latest report offers a shocking snapshot, and the worst may be yet to come, says Rita Henley Jensen.
It’s been a high-powered year for female media activism. Ariel Dougherty sums up the high points, trouble spots and calls for greater resolve in 2013 to put media control in the hands of women.
Jackie Walorski, a GOP politician who led the charge against abortion rights in the Indiana state legislature, is trying to keep the focus off that issue during her congressional bid.
Planned Parenthood rally in Austin, Texas.
