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Terrorism existed in this country long before the recent attacks. Twenty-five years ago, during the heyday of the feminist movement and after the Supreme Court decision of Roe vs. Wade, no one would have thought a woman’s right to choose could be as threatened as it is now. Unfortunately, these recent acts of domestic terrorism have hindered access to abortion services and threaten the lives of those dedicated to ensuring a woman’s right to choose. We should pay more attention to attempts by extreme pro-lifers to derail this nation?...
...mention in her article. These include equal pay for equal work (even today, a woman earns just 75 cents for every dollar earned by her male counterpart), a workplace free of sexual harassment, accessible birth control under insurance plans and full protection of women’s rights under Roe vs. Wade. In addition, NOW has set up relief funds for Afghan women and continue international programs to aid oppressed women so that women worldwide can share in the success American feminists have won in the last century...
...Molittieri, had advice columns in magazines like Seventeen. Frani Giordano was my wife's favorite when she was a lonely teen in upstate New York, weaving fantasies of adolescent romance into the dance patterns of people her age 300 miles away. Lou DeSera, Carmen Jimenez, Carole Scaldeferri, Rosemarie "Little Roe" DiCristo - do they sound like characters on "The Sopranos"? They were just ordinary kids, with extraordinary luck of being in Philadelphia at the moment the old town lit the fuse for the rock explosion...
With European economies becoming more competitive, U.S.-trained lawyers are also in high demand there. "American laws and business structures--from antitrust to corporate law to securities law--are attuned to competitive product markets," says Harvard law professor Mark Roe. His Harvard colleague William Alford says U.S. law schools excel at "teaching problem solving," which makes their graduates broadly useful within corporations...
Abortion teaching had been slipping into oblivion until MSFC began to reverse the trend. Though the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision made abortion legal, prompting some med schools to include the procedure in course work, the ruling also fueled an active antiabortion movement that sought to stigmatize providers. (Last week the House passed a bill making it a federal crime to harm a fetus during an attack on a woman, a measure seen by someas the first step toward new limits on the procedure.) Wanting to avoid controversy and often at the behest of conservative legislatures or donors, many...