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Reproductive Coercion Update: Study Offers Hope for Reducing Unwanted Pregnancies in Violent Relationships
Earlier this year, we wrote about a study conducted by researchers at the University of California at Davis which found that a significant number of unwanted pregnancies are the result of reproductive coercion – young women and teenagers being pressured into becoming...
Chatham University Will Hold Q & A Session with Gubernatorial Candidate Dan Onorato
Update: Please note the new time and day for this event! The Pennsylvania Center for Women, Politics and Public Policy will hold a public forum with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dan Onorato on Wednesday, September 29 at 2:30 PM. The forum will focus on the...
No Hard-wired Differences Between Male and Female Brains
In Delusions of Gender, a new book that seeks to correct popular false conceptions of sex and gender, Cordelia Fine, shows that “there are no major neurological differences between the sexes.” Fine, who is a research fellow at the University of Melbourne, presents...
U.S. Attorney General Takes Action Against Aggressive Clinic Protester
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is seeking an injunction that would limit anti-choice activist Mary Susan Pine’s access to the driveways leading up to the Presidential Women’s Center, an abortion clinic in West Palm Beach, Florida. According to Sharon Levin, vice...
Celebrating the Third Circuit’s Decision in Reedy v. Evanson
Last week’s ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Reedy v. Evanson, reviving a Butler County rape survivor’s civil lawsuit against the police officers who wrongly arrested and jailed her for false reporting, was gratifying to women’s advocates...
