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By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor October 29, 2009 - 11:33am
The House health care bill language, released today, includes a clause specifically outlawing the practice of treating domestic violence as a "pre-existing condition."
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Abortion down worldwide, but unsafe abortion remains high. Also, more on health care reform and why can't everyone just agree to be against rape?
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A young man was acquitted in London today on a rape charge. His defense? He was asleep.
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After being drugged and raped on a business trip, I received counseling and anti-HIV medications to help me survive. But to insurance companies my rape and treatment were "pre-existing conditions."
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By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor October 21, 2009 - 10:32am
“Nope, we won’t take her.” This is what
insurance companies in Florida said when asked whether they would
provide insurance coverage to a hypothetical applicant who had survived
rape, according to the rape survivor at the launch of the National Women's Law Center's campaign on women in health reform. NWLC asks: First, who was asking the question?
Second, why was the applicant’s history posed as a hypothetical? Third,
what can we do to change this dire situation?
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Why is it that we “pardon” or overlook some individuals for their crimes? Many others before him have fled their sentences but eventually served their time. So why do some think he’s above the law?
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Every year, more than 71,000 American college students between the ages of 18 and 24 are victims of alcohol-related sexual assault or date rape, and some 110,000 students reported being too intoxicated to know if they consented to having sex.
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Think concerns over "egg-as-person" laws in the US are overblown? In Nicaragua, pregnant women suffering from cancer are refused appropriate treatment and girls pregnant as a result of rape are compelled to carry to term, to name just a few...
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Reader diary posted by RHRefugee, JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. September 9, 2009 - 12:58pm
Eighteen years ago, Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped and made into a slave, bearing two children after being raped by her captor. Americans are outraged, and rightly so. Her story is horrifying. While this Lake Tahoe headline hit particularly close to home, most of us are perhaps unaware that kidnappings and sexual slavery occur every day in war torn areas.
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Reader diary posted by Jane Roberts, 34 Million Friends of UNFPA August 28, 2009 - 8:24pm
Pulitzer Prize winning authors Kristof and Wudunn put it all together in a new book, Half the Sky:Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. .
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