Why critics say a law meant to protect kids from meth addicts is being used to limit women’s rights.
Creator Garry Trudeau calls a Texas statute “rape,” leaving many newspapers up in arms over whether they should publish the strip.
Forget their delicious and addictive cookies – according to one Indiana lawmaker, the Girl Scouts are set on destroying traditional American values.
More than 200 Indian girls are hoping for a fresh start after shedding the label “unwanted” in a renaming ceremony Saturday, aimed at combating a nationwide problem with gender discrimination.
“Pac-Man,” the eight-division world champion boxer and Filipino congressman, is throwing his weight behind the Church as it fights the Philippine government’s attempt to liberalize birth control in this impoverished archipelago.
The mistruth that was “not intended to be a factual statement” is now nowhere to be found on the official Congressional minutes.
Apparently the loud protests over a Manhattan billboard put up by anti-abortion activists were enough to get it taken down after only two days. But the frustration doesn’t end there, because a mother whose child was depicted in the ad is angry.
The latest abortion rights standoff has come to downtown Manhattan, in the form of a billboard placed there by Texas-based anti-abortion activists. But race as well as gender have become points of contention in the latest argument, because the advertisement targets African American women. (via Essence)
“Clearly the bill as it’s currently written is a very bad idea.” -DENNIS DAUGAARD, South Dakota Governor via a spokesperson, on the state bill that sought to expand the definition of justifiable homicide to include killing someone in the defense of an unborn child. (via New York Times)
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