Tag Archives: Violence
Women’s Law Project Releases Through the Lens of Equality: Eliminating Sex Bias to Improve the Health of Pennsylvania’s Women
The Women’s Law Project (WLP) released today a major report, Through the Lens of Equality: Eliminating Sex Bias to Improve the Health of Pennsylvania’s Women, linking sex bias to adverse health outcomes in women. The release of this report coincides … Continue reading
Monica Henry: Women and Girls Still Bear Brunt of Domestic Violence
Recently, Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett wrote a guest post for WeNews which cited Mary Straus’s research findings that women and men tend to instigate violence in roughly an equal number of domestic violence instances. Monica Henry, who holds … Continue reading
Cyberstalking: A Growing Problem
We have written before about cyberstalking, the disturbing use of technology by stalkers. WeNews reports that “stories like these [involving cyberstalking] are becoming more common.” While cyberstalking affects both women and men, women are disproportionately targets. According to a National … Continue reading
Filed under Domestic violence, Government, Stalking
PA House Budget Cuts Domestic Violence Program Funding by Over $1 Million
Earlier this month, Pennsylvania House members – mostly Republican – voted for burdensome, expensive new regulations for abortion providers, citing their concern for women’s health and safety as their only motive. Last week, they approved the House Republican version of … Continue reading
Filed under Domestic violence, PA Legislature, Pennsylvania, Women's health
Clinic Violence Update: A Federal Grand Jury Investigates the Larger Agenda
Scott Roeder has been sentenced to life in prison for killing abortion provider Dr. George Tiller in 2009, but a federal grand jury is investigating the murder’s possible connection to a larger plan, as reported by the National Partnership for … Continue reading
Filed under Abortion, Women's health
Reproductive Coercion Update: Study Offers Hope for Reducing Unwanted Pregnancies in Violent Relationships
Earlier this year, we wrote about a study conducted by researchers at the University of California at Davis which found that a significant number of unwanted pregnancies are the result of reproductive coercion – young women and teenagers being pressured … Continue reading
Filed under Domestic violence, Pregnancy, Women's health
U.S. Attorney General Takes Action Against Aggressive Clinic Protester
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is seeking an injunction that would limit anti-choice activist Mary Susan Pine’s access to the driveways leading up to the Presidential Women’s Center, an abortion clinic in West Palm Beach, Florida. According to Sharon Levin, … Continue reading
Filed under Abortion, Reproductive Rights, Women's health
Sexual Assault in the Military: Servicewomen Taking a Stand
The Washington D.C. law firm Burke PLLC is preparing to file a class action suit against the U.S. military for failure to properly address sexual assault and rape. Not only is a woman in the military more likely to be … Continue reading
Ban on Overseas Female Genital Cutting Proposed
The practice of female genital cutting (FGC) was outlawed in the U.S. in 1996. However, the law does not prohibit parents from sending their daughters overseas to undergo the procedure. Congressman Joseph Crowley (D-NY) proposed a bill (known as the … Continue reading
Filed under Girls, Sex, Women's health
Reproductive Coercion Among Young Women and Teens
Reproductive rights activists have posited that the rise in unwanted and unplanned pregnancies among teens and young women in recent years could be due to the failure to use adequate birth control or the effects of abstinence-only-until-marriage education. A new … Continue reading
Filed under Domestic violence, Pregnancy, Rape, Reproductive Rights, Women's health
