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Rape Culture No More: What the Medical Community can do to Eliminate Violence Against Women
Several complex and interconnected social and cultural factors have kept women particularly vulnerable to violence directed against them, all of them manifestations of unequal power relations between men and women. The acceptance of violence as a means by which to solve conflict as well as fear of and control over female independence and female sexuality are just some of the contributing factors that allow violence against women to persist. How are the public health and medical communities implicated in all of this? What can they do to address violence against women not just as a legal issue, but as a fundamental human rights health issue that requires medical attention, clinical care, and sustainable public health interventions?
What Better Place to Find God
reader diary by TrustingWomen, TrustingWomen.org
March 13, 2010 - 4:09am (Print)
Why abortion provision is the new birthplace of God.
Roundup: Final Draft of HHS Regs Dangerously Broad and Ambiguous
by Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check
August 22, 2008 - 10:13am (Print)
In Canada, Some Doctors Refuse to Do Paps
by Pamela Pizarro, RH Reality Check, North America
February 22, 2008 - 8:48am (Print)
Think that religious policing only applies to abortion and contraceptives? Doctors in Canada are now refusing to perform pap smears on young women, citing "religious beliefs."
