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November 9, 2003 08:37 PM posted by lisa : track it (0)

Riot at 'woman-tigress hanging'
A riot broke out after police tried to disperse a crowd gathered to watch the rumoured hanging of a "woman-tigress", Iran's Jomhuri-Eslami paper reports

Ex-father seeks a $75,000 refund
He did not want a baby, but he raised his child with love. When the man's marriage ended, he paid thousands of dollars in child support.
Now the eastern suburbs man wants a refund - telling a court yesterday that someone else fathered his child

Yale Sues Defense Dept. Over Gay Rights
Every year military recruiters visit law schools across the country looking for some of the best and brightest to serve as lawyers in the armed forces. But the military’s policy regarding homosexuals is excluding just that, according to several lawsuits being filed.

Mothers lose right to breastfeed children at work
Thousands of mothers have lost the right to breastfeed at work after an employment appeal tribunal ruled that women have no legal protection when they return to their employment after their statutory maternity period

Christians Arrested in Egyptian Crackdown on Converts
At least 22 Egyptian Christians have been arrested over the last week, many of them converts from Islam to Christianity, in a crackdown on apostates and those who support them, a British watchdog group has said.

While it is not technically illegal for Muslims to convert to Christianity in Egypt, converts are often sought out and arrested on other charges in an attempt to force them to return to Islam, said Paul Cook, advocacy manager of the Barnabas Fund, which helps Christians in countries where they are a minority, and particularly, where they are persecuted.

Clearwater judge turns down Bush move to dismiss Schiavo lawsuit
A Florida Circuit Court judge Friday turned down Gov. Jeb Bush's effort to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a new law that let him intervene in the Terri Schiavo case.
Now, the governor's attorneys will have until Monday evening to file their legal arguments on the constitutionality of the law drafted last month to let Bush have the severely brain-damaged woman's feeding tube reinserted over her husband's objections.

D.C. bishop eyes gay 'marriage' rites
The Episcopal bishop of Washington plans to develop rites for same-sex "marriages" for the 94 churches in his 40,000-member diocese, saying a resolution passed during the summer at the Episcopal General Convention gives him carte blanche to do so.

MPs vote to allow use of embryos in research
Federal MPs have approved legislation paving the way for the limited use of human embryos in medical research after a morally charged debate that divided the governing Liberals.

Deputy, guards accused of sex with jail inmates
An Abbeville County sheriff’s deputy and three jail guards are charged with trading special favors for sex with inmates, a spokesman for the attorney general’s office says.
An Abbeville County grand jury indicted each man Wednesday on one count of misconduct in office after they were accused of having sex with female inmates at the Abbeville County Detention Center between August 2002 and July 4, state attorney general spokesman Trey Walker said.

Judge to Christian mom: No 'homophobic' teaching
A Colorado mother is appealing a child custody decision in which a court barred her from teaching homosexuality is wrong.
Cheryl Clark, who says she is a Christian, has been ordered by Denver County Circuit Judge John W. Coughlin to "make sure that there is nothing in the religious upbringing or teaching that the minor child is exposed to that can be considered homophobic."

Ottawa submits same-sex marriage bill to top court
Marriage should mean "the lawful union of two persons" - not one man and one woman - to reflect growing public acceptance of gays and lesbians, says the federal government.
The Attorney General makes the case for same-sex weddings in a document submitted today to the Supreme Court of Canada

Paid maternity scheme could hurt women: study
A paid maternity leave scheme could do women more harm than good, with a national survey of the corporate sector indicating qualified women are likely to be overlooked for jobs if employers are forced to fund it.
More than 70 per cent of the companies surveyed by recruitment agency Chandler Macleod said being forced to pay maternity leave could influence their decision when choosing between male and female job applicants

Group Sues Over Partial Birth Abortion Ban
The reproductive rights group Planned Parenthood said on Friday it had filed a lawsuit that would prevent the "partial birth" abortions bill from going into effect once President Bush signs it next week.

Planned Parenthood to back presidential candidate
The political arm of Planned Parenthood will endorse a presidential candidate for the first time in 2004, the group's national president said Wednesday during a swing through South Florida.
"The stakes are so high for women and women's reproductive rights that we just feel a moral obligation" to weigh in on the presidential race, said Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Gloria Feldt.

Single moms find favor with ministry
The health ministry plans to give preferential treatment to single mothers when hiring part-time workers, officials said Thursday.
The move is part of its program to support fatherless families under special legislation enacted in July.
When choosing from applications for part-time clerical work, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry will favor single mothers if there are no significant differences in qualifications from their competitors, the officials said.

Stores Pull Tabloids Showing Kobe's Accuser
Colorado's two largest grocery chains Friday yanked copies of a supermarket tabloid featuring a front-page photo and the name of the woman who alleges she was raped by basketball star Kobe Bryant

Law review after abortion for harelip
ABORTION laws could be tightened when the High Court considers whether doctors broke the law when they terminated a pregnancy at six months because the woman did not want to give birth to a baby with a cleft lip and palate.
Abortion beyond 24 weeks was made illegal in 1990 unless doctors believe there is a substantial risk that the child would be born “seriously handicapped”. The High Court in London will now be asked to decide whether a cleft lip and palate can be considered a “serious handicap”.

Israelis Debate Using Women in Combat
Israelis are questioning the use of women in combat after the killings of two female sergeants by Palestinians and a study suggesting women are too weak for deployment
The debate comes at a critical time as the military is stretched thin by three years of fighting against the Palestinians and the government tries to fill the gaps by calling up reserves. More women in combat could ease the burden.

Gay bishop consecrated
The world's first openly homosexual Episcopal bishop was consecrated here yesterday in a ceremony attended by 3,000 well-wishers, 54 bishops, dozens of reporters, and protesters who condemned the church for allowing the event.

Abortion pill safety debate reignited
A young California woman went to a Planned Parenthood office in September looking to end her unwanted pregnancy. Because she was still early in her pregnancy, the clinic offered her the choice of taking the “abortion pill” or having a surgical abortion.

U.S. pregnancy, abortion rates drop
Pregnancy, birth and abortion rates dropped in the United States from 1990 to 1999, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday.

Killing may have been vigilantism?
How must honest citizens behave under a tyrannical scheme of unconstitutional legal defensive firearms “registration?”
On October twenty-second 2003 in Detroit's crime-plagued west side, surly Johnny Donaldson Junior, twenty-two, was illegally assaulting an innocent sixteen-year-old girl with a pipe in broad daylight at Northlawn and Plymouth when an alert motorist in a silver Pontiac stopped, and his compassionate passenger justly opened fire from inside the car, killing the vicious thug

Say Goodbye to Another "Domestic Violence Awareness Month"
Everyone does not seem to have a “want of knowledge.” Another “Domestic Violence Awareness Month” has passed and the President of the United States, the United States Attorney General and the Director of the Office of Violence Against Women choose to remain as ignorant concerning the issue of domestic violence when the month ends as they were when the month of October began.

Meet Playboy Sr.
Playboy, the world's best-selling men's magazine, is about to turn 50, and the upcoming months are awhirl with festivities to celebrate what parent company Playboy Enterprises Inc. likes to refer to as its "iconic brand." But behind all the merriment, how's this supremely youth-fixated magazine dealing with the greatest of narcissistic injuries: impending senior citizenship? Pretty awkwardly, just like the rest of us, grasping at the same ineffectual antidotes: extreme makeovers (check out those taut new "infographics") and messy divorces (aging senior editors ditched for a more nubile masthead, airlifted in from Maxim).

Experts: Hottest Hip Hop Glorifies Pimping
Hip hop is commercially hot, culturally influential and replete with references to pimping and prostitution. Critics say this not only sends teens a pro-pimp message, it puts some girls even more at risk for becoming prostitutes.

Working Women Delay, Forego, Rethink Motherhood
Fewer women are juggling careers and small children. While more women--especially those with high incomes--are opting out of motherhood, those with infants are less evident in the work force, according to recent U.S. fertility data.

White House Anti-Abortion Stance Felt Across Asia
President George W. Bush is scheduled today to sign the misnamed Partial-Birth Abortion ban and our commentator sees an extension of the reckless disregard for women's health that has contributed to the tragedy of unsafe abortions in Asia.

In India, Domestic Violence Rises with Education
Debate about the cultural underpinnings of domestic violence in India is being stirred by a study that found a woman's risk of being beaten, kicked or hit rises with her level of education.

Egypt May Soon Permit Women to Confer Citizenship
In response to a presidential pronouncement, Egyptian women by the 1000s are seeking citizenship for their children born of foreign fathers and also are hoping a proposed law will pass that will provide citizenship to their stateless children

Off-Year Election Features Fewer Female Candidates
Nov. 4 Update: Election results for this year's off-year election featuring a smaller-than-usual field of female candidates have been added to this story.

Justice Department Hides Report on its Diversity
Several members of Congress this week demanded an investigation into the Justice Department's deletion of over half of a report evaluating its success in diversifying its attorney work force. This is the most recent development in an uproar that the Justice Department has been trying to avoid for over a year.

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