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New Breast Cancer Guidelines Will Disproportionately Affect African-American Women
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force made big news last week when they announced new guidelines for breast cancer screening, which suggest mammograms every two years for women ages 50-74; the old guidelines suggested that women over 40 get a mammogram every year. ...
Not Enough Room, Not Enough Money, Turning People Away: The Recession and Domestic Violence Shelters
A recent article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette suggests that the recession is exacerbating the already arduous situations of domestic violence victims. Mackenzie Carpenter writes that “the stresses of the past year’s recession and continued financial uncertainty” are...
Baltimore Bill Requires Truth from Crisis Pregnancy Centers
A bill that just passed the Baltimore City Council for the second time this session would require crisis pregnancy centers to post notices saying that they don’t provide birth control or abortion referrals. Naturally, anti-choicers are up in arms about having to tell...
What Does Ellen and Portia’s Marriage Mean for Same-sex Marriage in the U.S.?
Saturday’s New York Times features an article about comedian Ellen DeGeneres discussing on Oprah Winfrey’s daytime talk show her recent marriage to actress Portia de Rossi. The wedding, filled with what the article suggests “may have been the most public display of...
The Goal of the “Men’s Rights” Movement: Eliminate All Women’s Rights
Kathryn Joyce, whose writing on crisis pregnancy centers we covered here, has written another groundbreaking article, this time about the growing power of the “men’s rights” movement. Joyce explains that men’s rights advocates’ (MRAs) primary complaints concern the...