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San Francisco Created an Agency to Fight Sexual Crimes. It’s Never Met with Police
The San Francisco Standard - Sat May 11, 2024
Anyone in San Francisco who was worried that Thursday’s sexual violence hearing at City Hall would turn overtly political can rest easy. More»

Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant women, leaving one to miscarry in a lobby restroom
Associated Press - Fri Apr 19, 2024
WASHINGTON — One woman miscarried in the restroom lobby of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her. More»

Texas Woman, 26, Charged with Murder Over ‘Self-Induced Abortion’
The Guardian - Sat Apr 9, 2022
A 26-year-old woman has been charged with murder in Texas after authorities said she caused “the death of an individual by self-induced abortion”, in a state that has the most restrictive abortion laws in the US. More»

Playing with Fire - Margaret Atwood
The Guardian - Sat Feb 19, 2022
Margaret Atwood on feminism, culture wars and speaking her mind: ‘I’m very willing to listen, but not to be scammed’. More»

New Year's Eve Knoxville Planned Parenthood fire is Ruled as Arson
NPR - Fri Jan 7, 2022
The New Year's Eve fire that destroyed a Knoxville, Tennessee, Planned Parenthood building was intentionally set, investigators and officials have ruled. More»

Maryland police officer convicted of rape is sentenced to home detention
NBC News - Tue Nov 23, 2021
A Baltimore County, Maryland, police officer convicted of raping a woman and assaulting another was sentenced to home detention after a judge found that there was no “psychological injury” in one of the cases, prosecutors said Monday. More»

Pregnant woman shot dead while unloading gifts from her own baby shower
ABC News - Sun Nov 21, 2021
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania - A pregnant woman unloading gifts from her own baby shower was fatally shot outside a Philadelphia home Saturday night in what police said they suspect was a "cowardly" targeted shooting. More»

Homicide is a top cause of maternal death in the United States
Nature.com - Wed Nov 17, 2021
Evaluation of death certificates from national database paints grim picture for pregnant women. More»

Liverpool Women's Hospital explosion: Terror threat level raised to 'severe'
BBC - Mon Nov 15, 2021
LIVERPOOL - Taxi driver David Perry survived the blast but his passenger was killed when a homemade bomb exploded shortly before 11:00 GMT on Remembrance Sunday. More»

Alabama mom faces felony for filling doctor’s prescription while pregnant
AL.com - Thu Jul 22, 2021
An Alabama mom battling chronic back pain faces felony charges for refilling her prescription while pregnant – in a case her attorneys say tests the limits of legal protections for women receiving medical care. More»

Why did the Washington Post ban a sexual assault survivor from reporting on rape?
The Guardian - Tue Mar 30, 2021
Felicia Sonmez had to flee her home. More»

Bank: "I don't feel comfortable giving you money"
WTIC-TV - Tue Mar 16, 2021
SOUTHINGTON, Connecticut - She went into the TD Bank on Queen Street in Southington, and couldn't believe what she encountered when she tried to make a withdrawal from her business account. More»

Massacre at Asian Massage Parlors Leaves 8 Dead
Yahoo - Tue Mar 16, 2021
ATLANTA, Georgia - A Georgia man who professed a passion for guns and God was in custody on Tuesday night after a string of shootings that police said appeared to target Asian women at massage parlors and left eight people dead. More»

Number of Women Alleging Misconduct by ICE Gynecologist Nearly Triples
The Intercept - Fri Dec 11, 2020
OCILLA, Georgia - At least 17 women treated by a doctor alleged to have performed unnecessary or overly aggressive gynecological procedures without proper informed consent remain in detention at Irwin County Detention Center, a privately run facility in Georgia housing US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement detainees, according to a briefing and written materials submitted by attorneys and advocates to Senators in a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill. More»

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dead At 87
Huffington Post - Fri Sep 18, 2020
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the liberal icon who served on the Supreme Court since 1993 and who crusaded for women’s rights before that, died on Friday at the age of 87. More»

Roy Den Hollander: "Anti-Feminist" Lawyer Suspected of Murdering Judge's Son
Heavy - Sun Jul 19, 2020
BRUNSWICK, New Jersey - Roy Den Hollander was a well-known men's rights attorney and self-described "anti-feminist" who is suspected of being the gunman who shot the husband and son of federal Judge Esther Salas in the doorway of the family's home in North Brunswick, New Jersey, before killing himself. More»

Ohio anti-abortion bill would force procedure not medically possible
New York Post - Fri Nov 29, 2019
An Ohio anti-abortion law would force doctors to perform a procedure that is medically impossible - or be charged with murder. More»

Utah Woman Charged With Lewdness After Being Topless In Her Own Home
NPR - Thu Nov 21, 2019
A Utah woman has been charged with lewdness in her own home after her stepchildren walked into the room and saw her bare chest. More»

Woman forced to give birth alone in Denver jail cell with no medical treatment
KDVR-TV - Thu Aug 29, 2019
DENVER, Colorado - A woman is suing the city and county of Denver, Denver Health Medical Center and six individuals after she said she was forced to deliver a baby alone on a bench in a jail cell at the Denver County Jail. More»

Alabama woman loses unborn child after being shot, gets arrested; shooter goes free
AL.com - Wed Jun 26, 2019
A woman whose unborn baby was killed in a 2018 Pleasant Grove shooting has now been indicted in the death. More»

Women outperform men after Japan medical school stops rigging exam scores
The Guardian - Mon Jun 24, 2019
Women have outperformed their male counterparts in entrance examinations for a medical school in Japan that last year admitted rigging admission procedures to give men an unfair advantage. More»

Women today are more likely than their mothers to die in childbirth
The Hill - Thu May 23, 2019
A few weekends ago, like many Americans, we thought about the mothers in our lives. More»

‘Only The Lord God Almighty Is In Control’: Texas Lawmaker Attacks Noted Pediatrician, Calls Vaccines ‘Sorcery’
Raw Story - Thu May 9, 2019
An anti-vaccine Texas Republican state lawmaker attacked a distinguished medical doctor, the dean and chief of pediatric medicine at Baylor College of Medicine National School of Tropical Medicine, over vaccines this week. More»

Georgia Just Criminalized Abortion
Slate - Tue May 7, 2019
On Tuesday, Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp signed a “fetal heartbeat” bill that seeks to outlaw abortion after about six weeks. More»

St. Louis Jailed a Pregnant Woman for 39 Days for Refusing a Paternity Test
The Appeal - Fri Apr 19, 2019
Adrianna Thurman said she was informed by jail staff after her release that she had "slipped through the cracks. More»

Women judges quashed rape verdict as alleged victim was 'too masculine'
CNN - Wed Mar 13, 2019
Rome - Hundreds of demonstrators protested outside an Italian court this week after it emerged that two men were acquitted of rape partly because the judges believed the alleged victim looked too "masculine. More»

Georgia leads country in deaths from pregnancy-related issues
WSB-TV - Thu Dec 27, 2018
Georgia leads the country in a pretty sobering statistic: More women die here as a result of pregnancy-related issues than in any other state. More»

Fox host compares Kavanaugh's SCOTUS hearing to Christ's crucifixion
Daily Mail - Fri Oct 5, 2018
Fox News host Greg Gutfield has compared the treatment of SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, giving a bizarre history of the event in his explanation. More»

Doctor who raped heavily sedated patient will serve no prison time
USA Today - Sun Sep 30, 2018
A former Texas doctor who raped a heavily sedated patient won't serve prison time after he was found guilty of the crime Thursday. More»

Republican politician suggests that women who have an abortion should face the death penalty
The Independent - Sat Apr 7, 2018
A Republican politician has said that women who have abortions should face the death penalty. More»

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