Hobby Lobby sues to deny employees their earned benefits, the Value Voters Summit wages/denies the war on women and Andrea Grimes explains how Texas is cutting women off from medical care.
If we intend to develop policies that are fair and just, we must collaborate with sex workers themselves to afford them the dignity that they and all of us deserve. It’s time for sex workers’ rights to be an integrated part of the global human rights agenda.
On Tuesday, Texas Governor Rick Perry stopped by to lend a little good-old-boy masculinity to the opening of a branch of Houston's The Source For Women, a crisis pregnancy center that Perry touted as the future of Texas' new Women's Health Program--a program explicitly designed and intended to serve women who are not, and don't want to be, pregnant.
Weekly global roundup: The latest with the delayed RH Bill in the Philippines; HIV/AIDS stigma impedes maternal care in Kenya; Maternal deaths rise due to fighting in Yemen's south; and the sex work industry booms in Madagascar.
This evening, we received confirmation from the office of Children, Youth, and Families Department of New Mexico that Governor Martinez requested that the word "forcible" be removed from the proposed guidelines for childcare assistance. But many questions about the proposed policies remain.
Forcible rape is back in the news, this time in New Mexico, where the administration of Governor Susana Martinez is seeking a "forcible rape" test for women seeking childcare assistance, proving you don't have to be male to be a misogynist.
There is a lot to like about a more positive approach towards sexuality, but a causal link between better sexual health and lower pregnancy and STI rates ultimately requires scientific evidence that goes beyond intuitive reasoning.
