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December 21, 2003 11:15 PM posted by lisa : track it (0)

Charity Urges Child Porn Amnesty
People who have downloaded child pornography could be offered an amnesty if they hand their computer hard drives over to police, it was reported today.

The aim of the initiative is to encourage those with indecent images of children to give up the material and volunteer for counselling.

Under the plans, anyone participating in the scheme would be assessed by a psychiatrist.

If they were judged not to be a threat to children they would then receive a formal caution, according to reports.

Flynt sign ruled in violation
A Hamilton County Common Pleas judge has ruled that a large sign advertising a store Hustler publisher Larry Flynt owns violates zoning laws and state regulations.

The banner along Interstate 75 in the county advertises the adult entertainment store Flynt's brother, Jimmy, runs in Monroe in Butler County.

European case threatens abortion rights
British doctors could be barred from performing abortions if European judges rule in favour of a French woman who lost her baby because of a medical blunder.

Man not needed to make baby?
Scientists have moved a step closer to creating life in a petri dish – without the use of a man.
Researchers at Harvard Medical School say they've succeeded in turning mouse embryonic stem cells into primitive sperm cells, and then used the sperm cells to fertilize eggs.

Government To Seek Death Penalty Against Rudolph In Bombing
The government will seek the death penalty against Eric Rudolph if he is convicted of an abortion clinic bombing that killed a police officer
The U.S. attorney in Birmingham said it's an important step in seeking justice in the case.
Rudolph was captured in May in North Carolina after a five-year manhunt. He also is accused in the 1996 Olympic bombing in Atlanta that killed a woman, and two bombings in Atlanta in 1997

Ad campaigns duel
over 'ex-gays'
Beneath the streets of the nation's capital, a leading homosexual rights organization has launched an advertising counteroffensive against a group that believes people can become "ex-gays."

Eye-for-eye in Pakistan acid case
A court in Pakistan has sentenced a man to be blinded by acid after he carried out a similar attack on his fiancée.

FDA committee to consider OTC status for 'morning-after' pill
Food and Drug Administration advisers meet Tuesday to discuss whether a so-called morning-after pill to prevent pregnancy should be sold over the counter.
Plan B, the progestin-only emergency contraceptive pill, prevents 95% of expected pregnancies when taken in the first 24 hours after intercourse. The pill prevents 89% of expected pregnancies if taken within 72 hours

Children returned to parents after 7 years
A German couple deemed too stupid to bring up their toddler daughters have been reunited with their children in time for Christmas — almost seven years after social services first took them away.

Schools size up gender achievement gap
As a whole, boys are being eclipsed academically by girls in almost every subject and grade level.
But boys are soaring past the fairer sex in less-appealing categories: dropout rates, discipline problems, special education referrals and alternative school placement.

Woman's arrest brings Texas obscenity law into question
Joanne Webb intended to spice up marriages and earn extra cash by selling erotic toys as one of Passion Parties Inc.'s 3,000 national consultants.
Instead, the former fifth-grade teacher and executive board member of the Burleson Chamber of Commerce faces criminal charges and embarrassment after a police sting. Her first court appearance was set for today.

Parents Sue Over Drug Raid at South Carolina School
Parents of students at a South Carolina high school charged in a federal lawsuit on Monday that their children were terrorized by armed police and drug-sniffing dogs during an illegal search at the school.
The lawsuit stems from the surprise commando-style drug search of 107 students at Stratford High School in Goose Creek, South Carolina, on Nov. 5.

Just Let Mom Decide
guess these days breast-feeding is a crusade.
Don't get me wrong. As a matter of political philosophy, I'm neither for nor against breast-feeding. All I am saying is that it is not immoral per se to use baby formula to nourish your baby. This seems to me a decision you might want to leave to the parents. Maybe even let the mom have the deciding vote

Divorce is hell, but so is a bad marriage
Radical change in the Australian family form has fundamentally changed our society. Couples are postponing marriage, or replacing it with cohabitation. Divorce rates are rising and fertility rates falling. While this transition presents a challenge to policymakers, we must remember that ill-considered legislation can do more harm than good.

Proud to be called women
I recently attended a meeting with some ladies and was surprised at their woman-liness. These were real women who would have no truck with androgynous ideology.

The spokeswoman addressing the audience insisted on her right to be called a spokeswoman and not a spokesperson.

Ask Before You Give
This Christmas, domestic violence shelters across North America are asking for donations of money, clothing, shampoo, soap and the other niceties that a suddenly homeless victim of violence needs.
I intend to give generously ... but with discretion. The amount I can donate is limited and many domestic violence shelters promote policies I don't support. These are the questions I will politely ask.

Women in Iran Deem Rape Laws Unfair
In Iran, a woman awaits a new execution date for killing the man she says tried to rape her. There, if a woman is raped, she can be charged with adultery. If a woman kills her attacker, she can be charged with murder. Both are punishable by death.

Few Women Enter Lebanon's Parliament
As women's absence from Middle East political systems becomes increasingly conspicuous, female politicians and scholars in Lebanon pin the problem on a patriarchal system of political hereditary.

Playboy's Legacy Is Leering, Not Liberation
Playboy's 50th anniversary issue celebrates the magazine that brought sexual frankness into the U.S. media. Aside from the Playboy Foundation's charitable giving, however, Sheila Gibbons finds little in the company's legacy to call good for women.

Morning After Pills May Become as Available as 911
Two advisory panels for the Food and Drug Administration recommended this week in a 23-4 vote that Plan B--an intensive, short-term dose of birth control pills known as the morning after pill--be made available over the counter

Women Losing Ground in Coaching College Athletes
More than 30 years since Title IX opened up new opportunities for young women to compete in college sports, the number of female coaches in college sports has hit an all-time low

Diversity Efforts Often Ignore Asian Women
Women of Asian origin say they face particular difficulties in climbing the corporate ladder and are less likely to benefit from diversity programs in U.S. companies.

Women Build Own Mosque; UC Davis Cuts Women's Team
A group of women in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu have decided to build the first all-female mosque in the country to counteract what they say are male-dominated rulings by "jamaats," congregations that meet in mosques and settle disputes.

The University of California, Davis was charged Thursday with failing to uphold Title IX regulations by four female wrestlers. The athletes claim in a lawsuit that the university failed to provide equal participation and scholarship opportunities for women. The plaintiffs are seeking reinstatement of the women's wrestling program, which was terminated in 2001, and the scholarship opportunities--replete with all the benefits accorded to varsity athletes at the university.

Project to equip women with ICT skills kicks off
The first teleworking project to equip women with information technology skills got off to an encouraging start as those who came to the launching yesterday were from varied backgrounds

Hollywood falls for older women
Diane Keaton recalls her scepticism over lunch a few years back with writer-director Nancy Meyers, who was pitching a romantic comedy centred on a woman in her 50s and a man in his 60s.

''The veil, my choice!'' _ Muslim women march against head scarf ban
Thousands of people, mainly Muslim women shouting "The veil, my choice," marched through Paris on Sunday against presidential proposals to ban Islamic head scarves from public schools and maybe at work, too.
The protest, a cry of anguish from a rarely heard section of French society, was the first in Paris against President Jacques Chirac's announcement Wednesday that head scarves and other conspicuous religious symbols, including Jewish skullcaps and large Christian crosses, should be banned from schools to protect French secularism

Uganda: Lesbian teen is caned, kills self
Gay activists in Uganda are outraged over the apparent suicide of a student who was harshly punished in front of other students following accusations that she was a lesbian.

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