New Abortion Bills in Georgia (they're on a rampage)

And other undercovered news (mostly women’s issues) of the day. I compile this list daily at StoriesinAmerica
General

*Archaeological finds from Mexico and Peru show that, long before Europeans arrived, women served as warriors, governors and priestesses.
Source: AP

Politics

*One of 55 House Democrats who’ve signed a “Catholic Statement of Principles” says it’s an effort to keep abortion from becoming their single defining issue. Connecticut Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro says she and other Catholic Democrats are “very proud of our spirituality,” but reserve the right to obey conscience rather than church teachings.
Source: AP

*Paula Duran is an outreach worker with a style of her own. That style — heavy on fishnet, tattoos and suggestive poses — is at the heart of an ideological disagreement between Brazil and the United States over the best way to fight AIDS.
Source: Washington Post

In the Courts

*A Cook County judge abruptly decided Wednesday that a 20-year-old woman needn’t watch the homemade video that prosecutors say shows her being gang-raped during a drunken party. “I’m not going to force her to view the videotape,” Judge Kerry M. Kennedy said Wednesday, backing off his earlier warning that he might jail the former Naperville woman if she refused to watch the video while testifying against one of her alleged attackers.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times

Reproductive Rights

(I cut and paste ledes. Is it common for the morning after pill to be called an “abortion pill?”)
*A slate of abortion-related bills passed in the [Georgia] state Senate on Thursday, requiring doctors to offer women seeking the procedure a look at an image of the fetus and clearing pharmacists who don’t want to give out abortion pills they say go against their beliefs. A third bill would create a murder charge any time a fetus is destroyed in an attack on a pregnant woman.
Source: AP

*Republican Gov. Matt Blunt and Missouri’s largest anti-abortion group expressed reservations Thursday about newly proposed legislation seeking to ban most abortions in the state. Blunt said he feared an abortion ban could lock the state in a legal battle, which Missouri Right to Life said may not yet be winnable.
Source: KMBC

In the Workplace

*For four decades, the number of women entering the workplace grew at a blistering pace, fostering a powerful cultural and economic transformation of American society. But since the mid-1990s, the growth in the percentage of adult women working outside the home has stalled, even slipping somewhat in the last five years, leaving it at a rate well below that of men, various studies show.
Source: The NY Times

International

*Dubai-based news channel Al Arabiya mourned on Thursday the murder in Iraq of two technicians and a young female Iraqi reporter renowned for her brave frontline journalism.
Source: Middle East Times

6 Comments

AndiF on March 3, 2006 at 6:54 am

In Newsweek there is an article on a book about women and work called “The Mommy Wars” which has a quote that contradicts the NYT article:

But this shift doesn’t indicate an “opt-out revolution” among affluent moms, says Heather Boushey, an economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a think tank in Washington, D.C. Instead, it reflects a tough labor market. “Yes, the number of moms in the workplace has dropped,” Boushey says, “but you can’t attribute that to child rearing, since men and childless women have left the workplace at similar rates.”

maryb2004 on March 3, 2006 at 9:02 am

You gotta go back to the old subject line, somedays I just don’t feel like reading about the abortion wars . And thay might cause me to miss — archaelogy news of the day:

An exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery includes little pottery jugs and massive stone images portraying women in a variety of roles in addition to traditional homemakers and care givers.

“Women were not only daughters, wives, mothers and grandmothers, but also healers, midwives, scribes, artists, poets, priestesses, warriors, governors and even goddesses in pre-Columbian society,” said Judy L. Larson, director of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, in announcing the exhibit.

of course they were

thanks for the link

maryb2004 on March 3, 2006 at 9:07 am

re: Missouri abortion legislation. Blunt and the Missouri GOP are trying to sound reasonable on the legislation but, if you notice, they say nothing about the proposed ballot issue.

I still maintain this is a way to get a wedge issue on the ballot in November to counteract the stem cell issue on the ballot.

storiesinamerica on March 3, 2006 at 9:42 am

If additional states decide to put anti-abortion bills on the ballot, we are in trouble. Then again, it could backfire. The “Republicans for Choice” are FINALLY speaking out by putting ads in Pennyslvania newspapers called, “Where are the real Republicans?” It took long enough.
- AndiF on March 3, 2006 at 10:24 am
  
  As long as these bills don’t include exceptions for rape, incest, and the health of the woman, I think they will be detriment to the Rebpulicans — that is, if the dems will stop being wishy-washy and be blunt ask why they would want a woman to suffer permanent damage to her health or carry a fetus to term who cannot survive more than a day or two or suffer the trauma every day of her rape, why they aren’t also proposing legislation to provide free pre-natal and post-natal care, low-cost childcare, free health care for all children, and on and on to expose the misogyny and hypocrisy of these bills.

rba on March 3, 2006 at 10:35 am

Time for another news morph? I like the way you’ve set that up. Maybe time to think about putting links @ the top for yours & Knox’s extended news? Nothin’ fancy, just “Un-news” and “Environment” links? Just a thought.

AndiF on March 3, 2006 at 6:54 am

In Newsweek there is an article on a book about women and work called “The Mommy Wars” which has a quote that contradicts the NYT article:

But this shift doesn’t indicate an “opt-out revolution” among affluent moms, says Heather Boushey, an economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a think tank in Washington, D.C. Instead, it reflects a tough labor market. “Yes, the number of moms in the workplace has dropped,” Boushey says, “but you can’t attribute that to child rearing, since men and childless women have left the workplace at similar rates.”
maryb2004 on March 3, 2006 at 9:02 am

You gotta go back to the old subject line, somedays I just don’t feel like reading about the abortion wars . And thay might cause me to miss — archaelogy news of the day:

An exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery includes little pottery jugs and massive stone images portraying women in a variety of roles in addition to traditional homemakers and care givers.

“Women were not only daughters, wives, mothers and grandmothers, but also healers, midwives, scribes, artists, poets, priestesses, warriors, governors and even goddesses in pre-Columbian society,” said Judy L. Larson, director of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, in announcing the exhibit.

of course they were

thanks for the link
maryb2004 on March 3, 2006 at 9:07 am

re: Missouri abortion legislation. Blunt and the Missouri GOP are trying to sound reasonable on the legislation but, if you notice, they say nothing about the proposed ballot issue.

I still maintain this is a way to get a wedge issue on the ballot in November to counteract the stem cell issue on the ballot.
- storiesinamerica on March 3, 2006 at 9:42 am
  
  If additional states decide to put anti-abortion bills on the ballot, we are in trouble. Then again, it could backfire. The “Republicans for Choice” are FINALLY speaking out by putting ads in Pennyslvania newspapers called, “Where are the real Republicans?” It took long enough.
  - AndiF on March 3, 2006 at 10:24 am
    
    As long as these bills don’t include exceptions for rape, incest, and the health of the woman, I think they will be detriment to the Rebpulicans — that is, if the dems will stop being wishy-washy and be blunt ask why they would want a woman to suffer permanent damage to her health or carry a fetus to term who cannot survive more than a day or two or suffer the trauma every day of her rape, why they aren’t also proposing legislation to provide free pre-natal and post-natal care, low-cost childcare, free health care for all children, and on and on to expose the misogyny and hypocrisy of these bills.
rba on March 3, 2006 at 10:35 am

Time for another news morph? I like the way you’ve set that up. Maybe time to think about putting links @ the top for yours & Knox’s extended news? Nothin’ fancy, just “Un-news” and “Environment” links? Just a thought.

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