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Death of a 13 Year Egyptian Girl Sparks Renewed Debate about Female Circumcision

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:06:14 -0400

The recent death of a 13 year old girl in Kafr Al Manshi Abou Hamar, a small farming village in Egypt from a procedure known as female circumcision brought the debate over the practice of female circumcision back into the spotlight in Egypt. While the debate over the practice of female circumcision has raged in the Middle East and many parts of Africa for more than a century modern technology is helping to open the debate and change the minds of people who previously felt that the practice was necessary to fulfill religious requirements and make it possible for a girl to stay chaste unti...

Planned Parenthood Clinic in Aurora IL Under Attack

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:55:21 -0400

Fill out the petition and get involved to get the new Planned Parenthood clinic in Aurora IL open – don’t let the anti-choice zealots keep this valuable resource from helping women in Chicago and IL!

http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/aurora1?qp_source=b0809htr11

What happens in Aurora, happens to ME

The fight for women’s access to reproductive health care has landed in Aurora, Illinois, a fast-growing city outside Chicago, where Planned Parenthood just built our newest health center.

The usual suspects in the anti-choice fringe hav...

Poor in the U.S.? It's Clearly Your Own Fault...

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:17:34 -0400

Just â€œget married and work longer hours,â€ said Rep. Jack Kingston, a Republican from Georgia. While the House was debating increasing the minimum wage, Kingston said raising the minimum wage would do nothing for poor Americans. Instead, if people marry and work longer hours, â€œthey would be out of poverty,â€ he said. â€œItâ€™s an economic fact.â€ As usual the Republicans would like to reduce every problem to idiotically simple dualistic terms and get home in time for dinner. In fact, Representative Kingston was angry that the Democrats wouldnâ€™t let him cut out of work early and ...

Are Americans Too Dumb for Democracy?

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:09:06 -0400

Currently the US is bogged down in an untenable military situation ostensibly in the name of bringing democracy to the Middle East, specifically to Iraq. The US proclaims the American model of democracy a triumph and a governmental ideal that the rest of the world should emulate, but is it? With widespread election fraud rampant in the last two US Presidential elections and less than a 12 % approval rating for both the sitting President and Congress, is democracy really working in the US? Who is to blame for the problems with democracy in the US? Does the blame belong to corrupt politic...