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It sure looks like Republicans want women to die. Particularly if they’re teenagers and have the temerity to be sexually active. This is highlighted by what has to qualify as the most shocking scientific study of the year, published last week in the...
by thomhartmann
on Tue Mar 19, 2024 at 08:17 AM PDT
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President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order Monday aimed at advancing the study of women's health in part by strengthening data collection and providing easier and better funding ...
by Associated Press
on Mon Mar 18, 2024 at 01:25 PM PDT
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When I started working at Population Media Center, I had a lot to learn about population. Out of all the environmental organizations, publications, and conferences I had connected with – I couldn’t recall learning much about population growth. I soon...
by populationmediacenter
on Mon Mar 18, 2024 at 06:41 AM PDT
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Democrat Kayla Young and Republican Patricia Rucker frequently clash on abortion rights and just about everything else in West Virginia’s Legislature, but they agree on one thing: Too few of their ...
by Associated Press
on Sun Mar 17, 2024 at 11:55 AM PDT
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SHARE THIS SUBSCRIBE In the realm of sexual and reproductive health, birth control and contraception stand as powerful tools that have fundamentally reshaped women’s lives. The advent of oral contraceptives and other family planning methods has granted...
by populationmediacenter
on Mon Mar 11, 2024 at 11:25 AM PDT
with 35 Recommends
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Women and their contributions to history are too often missing from social studies textbooks. World War II French freedom fighter Josette Molland needs to be added. In 1943, Josette Molland was a 20-year-old art student creating designs for Lyon silk...
by Alan Singer
on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 10:53 AM PDT
with 14 Recommends
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
on Fri Mar 08, 2024 at 09:03 PM PST
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As I commented on a diary yesterday, I NEVER watch the SOTU. Mostly because I can’t stand the partisan cheerleading by Congress on both sides of the aisle. And I certainly never watch GOP rebuttals to Dem SOTUs, but after reading so many amusing takes...
by Rando Calrissian
on Fri Mar 08, 2024 at 02:20 PM PST
with 27 Recommends
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Hello, everyone. Good morning, afternoon or evening, and welcome to this edition of Notes from South Asia. You can find all the articles in the series here (along with my other diaries). Today, we ...
by AVeng
on Fri Mar 08, 2024 at 03:30 AM PST
with 12 Recommends
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Women’s contributions to our history have too often been ignored or downplayed. Several of the official national park sites primarily focus on telling women’s history, but the park service maintains a far longer list of women who deserve more...
by CorpFlunky
on Thu Mar 07, 2024 at 05:44 AM PST
with 5 Recommends
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
on Fri Mar 01, 2024 at 09:09 PM PST
with 35 Recommends
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Feel good story. In honor of Women’s History Month. Boys have been often regarded as being bad. My father’s best friend said his whole generation was thought unfit, mentally and physically, in 1939. Two years later they went to war and became the...
by Nine Shift
on Fri Mar 01, 2024 at 10:08 AM PST
with 47 Recommends
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It’s no secret that children often adopt the political attitudes of their parents, especially when they grow up in households where the parents are politically engaged and political discussion is common. This phenomenon, called political socialization,...
by Dartagnan
on Sat Mar 02, 2024 at 06:37 AM PST
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In a case involving the accidental destruction of frozen embryos, the the Alabama Supreme Court disturbingly referred to the embryos as "extrauterine children" kept in a "cryogenic nursery." Needless to say, this is wreaking havoc on Alabama's IVF...
by Jen Sorensen
on Tue Feb 27, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
with 387 Recommends
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Sometime around 250 CE, in what was then the Roman province of Bithynia (modern day Turkey) a daughter was born to Greek parents who were innkeepers in a city called Drepanum. (Or so it is widely ...
by A Pagan in Arizona
on Tue Feb 27, 2024 at 01:00 PM PST
with 18 Recommends
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The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama quoted the Bible for a judicial decision recognizing fertilized and frozen embryos as "children." Mississippi, Alabama, Oklahoma & South Carolina have already been using fetal personhood to put women...
by annieli
on Tue Feb 20, 2024 at 02:07 PM PST
with 15 Recommends
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🕊️ Global Observatory.org - 2019 The Role of Women in Northern Ireland’s Peace Process: Q&A with Monica McWilliams by Samir Ashraf. For clarity, the Ireland-England conflict dates back at minimum to about 1540, and in some...
by mettle fatigue
on Sat Mar 02, 2024 at 04:50 PM PST
with 27 Recommends
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I’m young and I love to be young I’m free and I love to be free To live my life the way I want To say and do whatever I please — John Madara and Dave White, “You Don’t Own Me” (1963) “You Don’t Own Me” addressed what has been the central issue in human...
by Robert S McElvaine
on Tue Feb 13, 2024 at 01:04 PM PST
with 40 Recommends
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Appearing on right-wing media outlets Fox “News” and Newsmax on Tuesday to talk about the anti-trans bill deceitfully called the “Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act” he co-sponsored in the Senate with Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) on the...
by JGibson
on Tue Feb 06, 2024 at 02:17 PM PST
with 34 Recommends
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UPDATE: Tuesday, Feb 6, 2024 · 5:42:39 PM +00:00 · Dem I am thankful for the recommendations so that reality might intrude on some of these forced birthers. Thank you! UPDATE: Tuesday, Feb 6, 2024 · 5:40:49 PM +00:00 · Dem I have been dealing with a...
by Dem
on Mon Feb 05, 2024 at 08:52 PM PST
with 282 Recommends
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