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"How the LAPD abortion squad went after women and doctors in pre-Roe era" Front page, LA Times 2 Hekate Apr 2023 Apr 2023 3 2217
Two Iranian women arrested for not covering hair after man attacks them with yoghurt 2 Eugene Apr 2023 Apr 2023 3 1281
Women Displaced by Climate Change Are Telling Us What They Need. It's Past Time for Us To Listen. 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 1696
Still Waiting for U.S. Constitutional Equality? 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 1 797
Reps. Cori Bush and Ayanna Pressley Launch Congressional ERA Caucus--'Because Equality Is Overdue' 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 1420
How Feminists and Academics Are Fighting the Right's 'Anti-Woke' Agenda 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 0 1122
The 'Anti-Life' Implications of State Abortion Bans 2 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 0 930
Lucia Perez: Argentina court convicts two in femicide case 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 0 1038
Russia's war in Ukraine exacts heavy toll on women, says UNFPA (trigger warning) 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 1557
How an interview with a rapist fired up Serbia's feminists (trigger warning: graphic) 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 0 1473
Taliban Arrests Prominent Education Activist 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 0 835
War on Women Report: World Athletics Bans Trans Women; Maternal Mortality on the Rise; E. Jean Carr 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 0 1445
We All Deserve the Freedom to Control Our Bodies 0 niyad Apr 2023 Apr 2023 0 808
Across the Desk - S7:E11 (OK Supreme Court & Protecting the Lives of Women) 0 Across-the-Desk Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1649
The Matilda Effect 4 ancianita Mar 2023 Mar 2023 17 1508
Abortion Wins Elections The fight to make reproductive rights the centerpiece of the Democratic Part 0 Novara Mar 2023 Mar 2023 4 1916
Rep. Pat Schroeder to be honoured in the House of Representatives today with a 6 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 7 1707
US Supreme Court honours former justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg 2 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 1056
What Stands in the Way for Equal Pay for Women? 6 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 5 1737
Why Women Are More Likely to Be 'Citizens of Nowhere' 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1340
If Period Discussions In Health Class Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will ... What The HELL FLORIDA? 2 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 1611
Campaign calls for gender apartheid to be crime under international law 1 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 930
What Clinicians Want You to Know About Getting Abortion Pills in Anti-Abortion States 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1227
In Absence of Roe, Healthcare Providers Have a Professional and Ethical Duty to Step Up 1 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1461
'A Whole Generation of People Who Don't Know How To Take Care of People': Training Ob-Gyn Medical R 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 1471
Arizona 'Medical Students for Life' Chapter Threatens Patient Health: 'This Contradicts What We Are 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 1284
S. Carolina repukes introducing bill to make abortion punishable by death. 10 Laffy Kat Mar 2023 Mar 2023 7 1887
Separate and unequal: gender segregation at work 0 Celerity Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1265
Don't Want to Be Pregnant? Here's What Abortion Opponents Can Do to You in Texas (W) 0 appalachiablue Mar 2023 Mar 2023 6 1360
Herbs & tinctures "to regulate the menses" were advertised in Colonial newspapers. Every time I hear 7 Hekate Mar 2023 Mar 2023 9 1953

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Polish court convicts activist of providing abortion pills in landmark case 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1319
Women Hold Up Half the Sky 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1264
Happy International Women's Day? 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 855
This Women's Day, there is little to celebrate in South Korea 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1547
Chile's abortion rights movement faces uphill battle 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 796
On Women's Day, watch these five unsung heroes changing the world 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1502
International Women's Day protesters demand gender equality 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 1023
A Letter from an Afghan Educator: Optimism in the Face of Agony 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 1117
'I Am Erased!': Afghan Women Leaders Urge International Community to Take Action 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1296
International Women's Day 2023: An update on reproductive freedom 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 735
Happy International Women's Day (IWD), observed as an actual holiday in many 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 4 1382
The google doodle today honours International Women's Day with an amazing 4 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 5 1572
For some Chinese women it 'doesn't make sense' to have babies 1 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 938
Recognizing the Role of Women in Fighting for Peace in Ukraine 1 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1191
Texas Judge Doesn't Have Power to Ban Abortion Pills Nationwide, Say Legal Experts 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 1474
New Report: Violence Against Women and Girls Needs New Global Policy 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 940
Almost All Domestic Violence Is Preceded by Coercive Control. Proposed Massachusetts Laws Aim to Ad 1 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 6 1462
Populism and Women's Lives 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 809
Why money will not be enough to address Japan's baby crisis 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 1182
Could You Detect a Coercive Controller Like Simon in 'Alice, Darling'? I Didn't--Until It Was Too La 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1429
Only When the Government Truly Represents Women Will the U.S. Have a Real Democracy 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1027
Pain and Prejudice (from 2018 about misnamed "chronic fatigue syndrome) 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1121
71. Cheated: Every Woman's Story (with Tracey Meares) 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 828
When Women Are Safe, We Will Finally Be Free 0 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 1184
History Is Incomplete Without Black Women 6 niyad Feb 2023 Mar 2023 4 1569
women's soccer team ditches white shorts...so women can feel confident playing while menstruating 2 BlueWaveNeverEnd Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 1675
Dossier: ♀️What does feminist foreign policy mean for progressives? 2 Celerity Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 1169
The One Million Moms Have A Not-So-Fresh Feeling About Menstruating Ladies 8 niyad Feb 2023 Mar 2023 1 1653
The Toronto Raptors issue an apology for posting this video for Women History Month: 0 BlueWaveNeverEnd Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1590
Happy Women's HERSTORY Month, that 1/12th of the year when a bit more atrention 2 niyad Mar 2023 Mar 2023 4 1167

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Saudi Arabia sends first female team to global tennis event 2 niyad Feb 2023 Feb 2023 3 1109
The Forgotten Reproductive Justice Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King 0 niyad Feb 2023 Feb 2023 0 1230
'Why We Still Love Zora': Irma McClaurin on PBS Documentary 'Claiming a Space' and Zora Neale Hurst 0 niyad Feb 2023 Feb 2023 0 1163
Taliban Bans the Selling of Contraceptives in Afghanistan 2 niyad Feb 2023 Feb 2023 0 871
Sugar and Spice and Not So Nice: The Roar for Little Girls 0 niyad Feb 2023 Feb 2023 0 1247
Repro Roundup: Forced Birthers Not So 'Pro-Life' After All, Part 4,252,337 0 niyad Feb 2023 Feb 2023 1 1207
S Korea breaks record for world's lowest fertility rate, again 0 niyad Feb 2023 Feb 2023 1 650
There's a Way to Add the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution--And We Did It 0 niyad Feb 2023 Feb 2023 1 1036
What Congress Should Do on the ERA 0 niyad Feb 2023 Feb 2023 0 835
The Childcare Crisis Is Costing You Money 3 niyad Feb 2023 Feb 2023 2 1713
One Billion Rising Flash Mob San Francisco 5 niyad Feb 2023 Feb 2023 11 1617
Dating Abuse: From Education to Prevention Discuss healthy friendships, boundaries, and body autono 0 niyad Feb 2023 Feb 2023 1 1062
One Billion Rising 2023: Activists Around the World will Rise for Freedom Freedom from Patriarchy, C 0 niyad Feb 2023 Feb 2023 1 1170
Violence Against Women New Report: Violence Against Women and Girls Needs New Global Policy 0 niyad Feb 2023 Feb 2023 1 874
MOTHERS FACE CIVIL RIGHTS CRISIS IN THE FAMILY COURTS - UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE MUST IN 2 niyad Feb 2023 Feb 2023 3 1135
On the Power of Choice and Imagination: The Ms. Q&A with 'Women Talking' Producer Dede Gardner 0 niyad Feb 2023 Feb 2023 2 1283
Pondering 'Women Talking': What if Women Left Society? 0 niyad Feb 2023 Feb 2023 5 1075
How the Big Business of Divorce Benefits Men 0 niyad Feb 2023 Feb 2023 2 944
Forget His Roses--You're Better Off Single 0 niyad Feb 2023 Feb 2023 2 873
Midterms and 'Mid-Cycle Spotting': Getting Real About Women's Health 0 niyad Feb 2023 Feb 2023 3 1024
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