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Female soldiers raise alarm on sexual assaults - "It took Diane Pickel Plappert six months to tell a counselor that she had been raped while on duty in Iraq. While time passed, the former Navy nurse disconnected from her children and her life slowly unraveled.
Carolyn Schapper says she was harassed in Iraq by a fellow Army National Guard soldier to the extent that she began changing clothes in the shower for fear he'd barge into her room unannounced — as he already had on several occasions."
Need for Survival Fuels Sex Work, High Birth Rate Kills Mothers in Afghanistan - "Women and young girls are being pushed to commercial sex work due to high food prices and widespread unemployment in Afghanistan. High fertility rates, poor health services, and a high maternal mortality rate compound these issues."
Online Adoption Agency Denies Service to Gays - McCain should be smiling over this one " [...] as the couple researched Websites that help birth mothers find loving permanent homes for their babies, they were disturbed to learn that the popular ParentProfiles.com only allows "one male husband and one female wife" couples to use its Internet-based adoption-matching service."
New Legislation Threatens American-Indian Women's Reproductive Health - "Opponents say Vitter has tethered crucial health programs to an anti-abortion agenda and brazenly targeted Native women's reproductive rights.
't's a race-based amendment, because it's trying to reduce our right to access abortion more than any other race of women in this country,' says Charon Asetoyer of the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center (NAWHERC), a research and advocacy organization."
I'm going to try and end on a good note by pointing to this incredible article by Senator Clinton calling out the anti-choice, anti-science crowd for showing their true colors on abortion, birth control, and sex. Rock on Hilary, rock on.
The Bush Administration is up to its old tricks again, quietly putting ideology before science and women's health. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is poised to put in place new barriers to accessing common forms of contraception like birth control pills, emergency contraception and IUDs by labeling them "abortion." These proposed regulations set to be released next week will allow healthcare providers to refuse to provide contraception to women who need it. We can't let them get away with this underhanded move to undermine women's health and that's why I am sounding the alarm.
Mike Pouraryan
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