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Nichols faces murder count for unborn baby
Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols is facing an additional count of first-degree murder for the death of an unborn baby, according to Oklahoma press reports.
Nichols is serving a life prison term on federal convictions for his role in the April 19, 1995, bombing and already faces 160 first-degree murder charges by the state.

Alabama Votes Against Legalizing Sex Toys
Sex toys are still against the law in Alabama, at least as far as the Alabama Legislature is concerned.
The Alabama House voted against a bill Tuesday that would have removed a ban on sexual devices, such as vibrators, from the state's obscenity law. The ban on sexual devices was added at the last minute when the obscenity law passed the Legislature in 1998.

Textbook Changes Draw Charges of Political Correctness
textbook review process taking place in states across the country has changed or eliminated references to everything from the Founding Fathers to hot dogs, leaving many to charge educators with distorting history in the name of political correctness.

Former President of NOW Is Taking Helm at Y.W.C.A.
Trying to breathe new life into a 145-year-old organization, the Y.W.C.A. of the U.S.A. has chosen Patricia Ireland, the outspoken former president of the National Organization for Women, to be its new chief executive.
Ms. Ireland's appointment, to be announced on Wednesday, coincides with the Y.W.C.A.'s relocation of its national headquarters to Washington from Manhattan.

Banned on campus:
Boys talking to girls
The silent fury began last week when 6th-grade teacher Mary Bond at Peterson Elementary School noticed students showing public signs of affection during lunch recess, reports the Klamath Falls Herald and News.
So, to prevent nature from running its course, she banned all discourse between boys and girls, at least temporarily.
"It was not a disciplinary measure," principal Jim Smith told the paper. "It was a preventative measure."

Scientists can make human eggs from male embryos
The ability to make an endless supply of human eggs for post-menopausal women - even for men - could emerge from a breakthrough in reproductive science published today.
Scientists have found a way to mass produce eggs from embryos, even male embryos, a technique that could scrap the "biological clock" of women, end the shortage of eggs for infertility treatments and remove one of the reasons given by maverick doctors for cloning babies.

Men's life expectancy described as a 'crisis'
The average U.S. man dies almost five years before the average woman, but a medical journal says that is not biologically inevitable, calling the disparity a "silent health crisis."

Brothel shares leap in value
Investors embraced shares in the sex industry group The Daily Planet Ltd today, with the brothel more than doubling its value on its stock market debut.
The Daily Planet, with its core asset the eponymous Melbourne brothel, hit the Australian Stock Exchange boards at 70 cents - compared to the 50 cents issue price under its $3.75 million initial public offering.
By the end of the day Daily Planet had more than doubled its initial value, closing at its high of $1.09 with 1.4 million shares changing hands.

Genetic test blunders risk needless abortions
Many pregnant women in the US have had risky and unnecessary fetal tests following genetic screening of themselves and their partners. And some may have terminated healthy pregnancies after muddles or irregularities in genetic tests on their fetuses.
This is the warning being issued by medical geneticists who have assessed the outcomes of some of the tens of thousands of DNA tests carried out every month in the US as part of the world's largest screening programme for cystic fibrosis.

Palestinian women, girls
killed for family 'honor'
Each year, dozens and probably hundreds of brutal "honor killings" of Palestinian women and girls – most of whom are virtually blameless – go unreported, according to an anthropologist's recent study.
In a story for World and I magazine, James Emery says women in the communities of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Israel and Jordan are killed by male kinsmen in an attempt to protect the reputations of their families.

Zambians split over woman leader
Is Zambia's political playing field really as level as it needs to be for the people of Zambia to vote in their first female president?

Another Church Sex Scandal
From the time she was 10, until she turned 13, Heidi, a Jehovah's Witness, says she was molested by a member of her congregation. Finally, she turned to the leaders of her faith.

And what did they say?

"They asked me, do you think this could be a misunderstanding? And I said, no. No, I'm very sure of how his hands were on my body and there's no way to misunderstand that," Meyer said.

More Parents Questioning Routine Infant Circumcision
There are roughly 25,000 baby boys being born a year in Utah and in the first few days of life, most go through the same painful experience.
You know what we are talking about. Yeah, ouch. Circumcision.
For Utah's Jews and Muslims, circumcision is a matter of religious faith. But for most new parents, the practice is part of a Western medicine and cultural tradition that has deemed the foreskin useless and expendable.

Women and WarWomen and War
A sampling of photographs from photojournalist Jenny Matthews' new book "Women and War." Matthews has been documenting the lives of women touched by conflict for over twenty years.

This Is My Private Life
Liberals, moderates, and libertarians are often accused by conservatives of demonizing the so-called "religious right," likening it to the dictatorial mullahs of radical Islam and spreading needless alarmism about its influence in the Republican Party. But the recent flap over Senator Rick Santorum's remarks about homosexuality, sodomy laws, and the right to privacy suggest that the alarm is not exaggerated. Santorum, chairman of the Senate Republican Conference and the third-ranking Republican in the Senate, was talking to an Associated Press reporter about his view that liberalism takes power away from families while conservatism empowers them. As an example of policies that undermine families, he cited the push to have sodomy laws (at least ones that single out same-sex behavior) struck down by the Supreme Court.

COLUMN: Vin Suprynowicz
The "service was fast, the judgments even hastier," began Thomas Korosec's April 17 feature, "1-Hour Arrest," in the 110,000-circulation weekly Dallas Observer. "Never did Jacqueline Mercado imagine that four rolls of film dropped off at an Eckerd Drugs one-hour photo lab near her home would turn her life inside out, threaten to send her to jail and prompt the state to take away her kids."

In Peterson Case, NOW Meddles Where It Doesn't Belong
In Greek mythology, the Furies were three female spirits who relentlessly pursued anyone who committed gross crimes such as murdering the very old, very young and family members. They tormented their victims with deafening screams and curses until the criminal either confessed or went insane.
When I heard that a chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) tied the prosecution of Scott Peterson to the abortion debate, I thought about the Furies.

No Oil for Food
Around the globe, the U.N. uses "humanitarian aid" as a vehicle to impose politically correct policies, from gender feminism to gun control . But the crisis in Iraq reveals another aspect of the U.N.: a money-hungry institution that hides behind a mask of compassion.
The political purposes to which the U.N. uses food and medical programs has been the subject of much research and comment.

Moseley Braun Runs for President and More
Women's groups are cheering on underdog Carol Moseley Braun's bid for the White House, saying it does wonders for women and girls across the country

Celebrate Mother-Son Love This Troubled Mother's Day
On this troubled Mother's Day, women should claim their rightful and assertive role in their sons' lives, without worrying about "smotherlove" or "mamma's boy" complexes.

Safety Net Is Weaker for Unemployed Women
The rising jobless rate is often harder on women because their tendency to earn less and work part-time so they can care for family members disqualifies them from unemployment benefits in many states.

Biologists Rethink Darwin's Theories on Sex Roles
New findings about the diversity of sexual behavior and gender expression in animals are causing some biologists to rethink a Darwinian theory that neatly categorizes male and female roles and the role of sex itself.

Women Are Giving Away More Money Than Ever
Women are raising and giving away more money than ever to women's groups and causes despite the downturn in the economy and philanthropy as a whole.

Wal-Mart Execs' Testimony Could Help Sex Bias Suit
The sex bias claims by a group of Wal-Mart employees may be strengthened by recent pre-trial testimony of Wal-Mart executives. Meanwhile, the group awaits a decision whether their case will become the largest civil rights class action in history.

Rape-Crisis Funds Face Ax in Massachusetts

Funding of a Massachusetts network of rape-crisis centers that have provided legal and psychological counseling to thousands of people in Massachusetts--including many victims of clergy abuse--was placed on the chopping block

Women swell honored science ranks
For years, it seemed, women in science were like Alice Through the Looking Glass, racing frantically alongside that tedious Red Queen only to be told, sorry, m'dear, "It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place."
Despite the large numbers of women who have been swelling the entry and middle ranks of science since the 1960s and 1970s, and earning science Ph.D.s in ratios that approached and even surpassed those of young men, only a relative thimbleful of women have reached the upper tiers of their profession -- becoming tenured professors, running large laboratories, giving keynote addresses at major scientific meetings or winning big awards.

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