(C) 2011 Huffington Post.  Entire Article Retrieved from: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/democracy-now/a-war-on-women-planned-pa_b_824786.html Since taking control of the U.S. House of Representatives last month, Republicans have introduced several major anti-abortion bills that women's rights activists say could place severe limitations on access not only to abortion, but complete reproductive health and family planning services. On the front lines of the battle to stop the legislation is Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which provides family planning,...


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By Adam D. Young AVALANCHE-JOURNAL Today marks the 90th birthday of the legislation that gave women a voice in American government. Martha Hise, president of the Lubbock County League of Women Voters, said she couldn’t imagine a United States without the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. The 90 years after the amendment’s ratification would see women elected and appointed to state and national offices, a larger presence of women in the work force and efforts to increase women’s pay. And without efforts to give women the right to vote, Hise’s national organization likely...


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1920: The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution is ratified, giving women the right to vote. Other Notable Events 1870: Western Australia is granted representative government. 1896: France annexes Madagascar. 1964: South Africa is banned from participating in the Olympic Games in Tokyo for refusing to condemn apartheid. 1986: Sudanese rebel group claims responsibility for shooting down Sudan Airways passenger plane in which all 60 people aboard were killed. 1989: In Colombia, leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galan is assassinated outside Bogota, the Medellin drug cartel is suspected. 1995:...


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© 2010, Change.org Entire Article Taken From: http://womensrights.change.org/blog/view/brazilian_woman_forced_to_carry_fetus_without_a_brain Soon after I wrote about Brazil's strict criminalization of abortion in almost all cases, a judge has decided to get even stricter, ruling that a woman pregnant with a fetus that has no brain cannot access an abortion. The judge's rationale? That an abortion would violate the "right to life" mandated by Brazilian law. Let's be clear: the fetus has no brain. It is not alive, and it will never be alive. It is an empty vessel, a bundle of flesh that will never...


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© 2010, Change.org Entire Article Taken From: http://womensrights.change.org/blog/view/text_messages_one_more_weapon_in_abusers_arsenal We know that being shouted at on the streets can escalate to violence. We also know that dating violence can lead to murder. So should we take it any less seriously when women are victims of "textual harassment," or inundated by voicemails and text messages from spurned lovers and rejected exes? Isn't it just one more part of the larger problem? We've briefly looked at digital dating abuse in the past, and this week, the Washington Post reports that the issue...


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(C) 2010 Ms. Magazine.  Entire article retrieved from: http://www.msmagazine.com/news/uswirestory.asp?ID=12399 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged that the United States will not abandon Afghan women and girls today as Afghan President Hamid Karzai is visiting the United States. According to the Associated Press, Clinton told three senior women Afghan officials who were traveling with Karzai that "We will not abandon you, we will stand with you always." Clinton also said it is "essential that women's rights and women's opportunities are not sacrificed or trampled on in the reconciliation...


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From http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourview/2010/01/face-veils-should-they-be-banned-to-protect-womens-rights.html Entire Excerpt from the above website: "A French parliamentary panel says the country should prohibit Muslim women from wearing face-veils in public buildings such as hospitals and schools, but stops short of outlawing the garb entirely. The panel's 200-page report Tuesday calls for changes in France's laws that would require people to show their faces and keep them uncovered when entering public facilities such as hospitals, schools, post offices, universities, government buildings and all public...


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