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Global war against women in Texas

Posted on August 9, 2014 by Naomi

One of the essential rights for women is free choice health care. Our health care is different from men’s health care, due to our particular physical quirks: we have breasts that can develop cancer, and we have reproductive organs that … Continue reading →

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The global war against women: rape ignored

Posted on August 5, 2014 by Naomi

I’m putting this angering story (No Longer Ignored, Evidence Solves Rape Cases Years Later – NYTimes.com.) from the New York Times’ Erik Eckholm − about how Memphis cops failed to test rape kits− squarely into this category because only a condescending … Continue reading →

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Turkish women laugh at prime minister’s fatwa on their laughter

Posted on July 31, 2014 by Naomi

Hard to compute this, even given my usual condemnation of fundamentalist religions’ efforts to suppress women. Seems that Turkey’s deputy prime minister issued a … well, what should we call it? It isn’t an ukase, exactly, nor an order. It … Continue reading →

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