This Week in the War On Women provides a weekly summary of news on women's issues and information on current political actions. We welcome all who are interested to join, to write for us, and to provide relevant links and stories.
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w0w Saturday diaries are a group effort. How we’re doin’ it this week is, host posts a few news-finds in the diary, with everyone posting more in the comments-thread.
    To start uptempo, J’lo&daughter’s superbowl halftime Let’s Get Loud arrangement came from October’s tremendous Koolulam mass performance, 2,000 women-strong+allies’ wonderful voices, for Internat’l Breast Cancer Awareness month. Great lyrics all year round!
(Lopez isn’t in this video but recorded it often 1999 onward, received from writers Gloria Estefan & Flavio Enrique "Kike" Santander Lor. Seeing the Koolulam version, she got in touch to use it for the superbowl.)
Condensing from a reuters-via- medscape item:
    Analysis of Louisiana mortality data at JAMA Pediatrics found women twice as likely to be murdered while pregnant or soon after giving birth than any other time in life, with homicide commonest among all pregnancy-&-birth-related causes of death. Lead author Maeve Wallace —Tulane Univ. School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, New Orleans— said this is “documented in lots of other states around the country" [and] these kinds of homicides often involve an intimate partner...”
    Even motor vehicle and other accidents killed fewer pregnant women and new mothers. The rate of homicide deaths also was twice as high as other causes, and ages 10 to 29 were the riskiest.
    Prof. Phyllis Sharps at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in Baltimore, and Elsie Lawler Endowed Chair, said of this research that a violent individual is focused on power and control, a pregnant woman being preoccupied by the pregnancy and her baby —as she should be— feels threatening to the violent person because she pays less attention to that person, doing less of what that person wants. Generally, the violence escalates...
    To Wallace and Sharps, such research should spur healthcare providers to use existing guidelines for asking female patients about being hurt, or fears of it, and community organizations to find ways of protecting pregnant and postpartum women.
    Doctors should have no preconceived notions, Sharps said. "Any woman at any time can be a victim of ... violence … So they should just ask all women."
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Condensed from NationOfChange.org/ProPublica — and maybe all communities in the Us would benefit from doing this:
    The Southwest Center for Law And Policy's SAFESTAR/SANE program https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-KQXNk92wE gives one-week, US Dept of Justice-approved training to certify volunteer local Native American and Alaska Native women in remote villages how to give supportive services to sex crime survivors including non-invasive collecting of DNA swabs, clothing and photo evidence. This is critical when the victim is simply unable or does not want to carry the evidence the often 2-day-or more turn-around city trip and back again without ever bathing, or if she prefers to work with someone she knows or who knows her language and her culture.
  Alaska's Bering Sea island community of St. Paul is among the first with a certified volunteer. SWCLAP director Hallie Bongar White hopes Dept of Justice support will expand the program dramatically now. She said,
“We train grandma. We train the 19-year-old who graduated high school and is working for her village...”. .
Fifteen years after the suicide of a respected Alaska Native Village Public Safety Officer who spotlighted major failings, Alaska's long public safety crisis — with a stubbornly high rate of sexual violence— in October received about $45million US Justice Dept state-of-emergency funding to identify, train, equip and pay remote village first-responder personnel. Criminals and sex offenders were often the only applicants before, due to virtually zero resources. |
    Ending with a brief note: two Dem women —Yana Ludwig and Merav Ben-David— are running for US Senate in Wyoming. They’ve both joined DK! :)  At this comment on Wednesday, Merav confirmed that “each of us will support the other in the general.” So a DK group for Wyoming Kosaks has been formed as well. 114 comments and 31 rec at the diary by Wednesday midnight!
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