Monthly Archives: October 2011
In Remembrance: Illegal Abortion Kills
Tuesday, October 18th, Pittsburgh pro-choice advocates marched on the office of Senator Jane Orie, one of the PA Senate’s strongest supporters of the dangerous SB 732, which could put most of Pennsylvania’s abortion clinics out of existence by legislating compliance … Continue reading
Undocumented Women in Custody Forced to Give Birth in Chains
The Huffington Post recently published an expose on the barbaric treatment of some undocumented women who are incarcerated while pregnant. Being shackled during childbirth is illegal in 14 states including Pennsylvania (except in cases where it is determined that the … Continue reading
Filed under Childbirth, Immigrants, Pregnancy, Reproductive Rights, Shackling, Women's health
Guttmacher Report Shows Increase in Unintended Pregnancies Among Low-Income Women
According to a recent Guttmacher report, the overall rate of unintended pregnancy in the United States stayed the same between 1994 and 2006, but this is no neutral statistic. While the rate of unintended pregnancies has gone down among high-income … Continue reading
Topeka, Kansas Decriminalizes Domestic Violence
Amid a dispute between three arms of government over which would be responsible for paying for the prosecutions of those accused of a misdemeanor case of domestic violence, the city of Topeka, Kansas has decriminalized it. The city commissioners believed … Continue reading
Report: Single-Sex Education is Ineffective
A new report by the Board of the American Council of Coeducational Schooling (ACCES), The Pseudoscience of Single Sex Schooling, recently published in Science magazine reveals (pdf) that “placing children in single-sex learning environments is ineffective, misguided and may actually have … Continue reading
Filed under Education, Sex Discrimination, Single-Sex Schools, The New York Times, Title IX
More Teens Having Unprotected Sex
A recent poll reveals rising rate of unprotected sex among young people around the world. Notably, in Britain the rate of unprotected sex among teenagers has increased 19% and in France it has increased a whopping 111%. Here in the … Continue reading
Wage Gap Still Exists, Census Shows
Recently released 2010 census data shows the gender gap unimproved from the year before—women still make only 77 cents to every dollar a man makes. For women of color this discrepancy is even larger. African American women earned only 67.7 … Continue reading
Filed under Economic Justice, Employment, Equal pay, Wage Gap
