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5/22/2013	Immigration Reform Bill Advances In Senate Last night, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a sweeping immigration reform bill in a bipartisan vote of 13 to 5....
10/26/2012	Planned Parenthood Loses Appeal, Texas Eliminates Funding A Texas federal appeals court rejected Planned Parenthood's challenge to a ban on government funding for the state's women's health clinics....
6/28/2012	Woman Allowed to Sue Over Conscience Clause A federal court ruled this week that a Florida woman could sue her local Sheriff's department because, after being raped, the woman was denied the second dosage of the morning after pill by a prison guard who objected to it....
6/13/2012	VICTORY in North Dakota North Dakota voters soundly rejected a proposed state constitutional amendment yesterday that would have granted "the right to act or refuse to act in a manner motivated by a sincerely held religious belief" even if such actions are otherwise illegal....
3/1/2012	Senate Democrats Preserve Preventive Care for Women Today the US Senate voted down the Blunt Amendment 51 to 48....
11/11/2010	Deficit Commission Co-Chair Proposal D.O.A. Deficit Commission Co-Chairs Alan Simpson and Erksine Bowles proposal to reduce the deficit was immediately opposed by leading Democrats, women's rights groups, and labor....
11/11/2010	Deficit Commission Proposal of Co-Chairs Targets Women Statement of Eleanor Smeal, President of Feminist Majority The Feminist Majority joins its many sister organizations that are outraged at the Deficit Commission Co-Chairs in denouncing their proposal....
10/12/2010	European Council Passes Watered Down Conscientious Objection Resolution Last week, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe passed a watered down version of a resolution that originally called for restrictions on European doctors' right to withhold referral information from patients seeking abortions....
6/25/2010	The US Supreme Court Rules on Doe v. Reed The US Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 yesterday that signatories to statewide referendum petitions should be public information....
6/22/2010	Fremont, Nebraska, Passes Anti-Immigration Measure Voters in Fremont, Nebraska, passed an ordinance yesterday that will ban employers and landlords from hiring or renting to illegal immigrants....
5/26/2010	Oklahoma Legislature Overrides Abortion Reporting Bill Veto The Oklahoma state legislature overrode Governor Brad Henry's (D) veto of a bill that will require doctors to report detailed information about patients seeking abortions to the government yesterday....
5/25/2010	Oklahoma House Overrides Veto on Abortion Reporting Bill The Oklahoma state House voted 84 to 13 yesterday to override Governor Brad Henry's (D) veto of a bill that would require doctors to report detailed information about patients seeking abortions to the government....
5/12/2010	Oklahoma Legislature Passes Anti-Choice Law Requiring Publication of Patient Information The Oklahoma state Senate voted 32 to 11 today in favor of legislation that would require doctors to report detailed information about patients seeking abortions to the government....
5/4/2010	New Oklahoma Ultrasound Law Blocked Oklahoma state Attorney General agreed yesterday to a state judge's order to temporarily block enforcement of a new anti-choice state law for 45 days....
4/28/2010	Lawsuit Filed to Block Enforcement of New Oklahoma Ultrasound Law The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) filed a lawsuit yesterday to stop the enforcement of a new Oklahoma state law that extends existing ultrasound requirements for women seeking an abortion....
4/27/2010	Oklahoma State Legislature Votes to Override Abortion Bill Vetoes The Oklahoma state Senate voted to override the vetoes of two anti-choice bills vetoed Friday by Governor Brad Henry....
3/4/2010	Lawsuit Filed to Obtain USAID International Sex Ed Funding Information The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit demanding public documents from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) concerning any religious elements of their international abstinence-only sex education programs. Senior staff attorney with the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project Brigitte Amiri said in an ACLU press release: "The United States government cannot be in the business of exporting religiously infused abstinence-only-until-marriage programs that we know fail to give young people the information they need to stay healthy....
8/14/2009	Revised Shia Law Published Days Before Afghanistan Elections The controversial Shia family law, with some revisions, that restricts the rights of Shia women in Afghanistan was published in the country's official Gazette on July 27th, making the law's provisions official....
5/22/2009	Louisiana House Passes Health Care "Conscience" Bill Legislation that would allow health care providers to withhold certain services and medications, including abortion and emergency contraception, on the basis of religious or moral objections was approved by the Louisiana state House this week in a 65 to 33 vote....
3/12/2009	Obama Restores US Funding of UNFPA by Signing Omnibus Spending Bill President Obama signed the 2009 fiscal year omnibus spending bill yesterday, which included a provision allotting $50 million to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)....
3/6/2009	Anti-United Nations Population Fund Amendment Defeated in Senate An amendment to the 2009 fiscal year omnibus spending bill currently under debate that would have removed funds designated for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) from the bill was defeated yesterday....
1/26/2009	Obama Pledges Restoration of US Funding for UNFPA President Obama pledged on Friday to restore United States funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in upcoming appropriations....
11/21/2008	Senate Bill Challenges Bush Rule Limiting Reproductive Health Care Senators Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Patty Murray (D-WA) introduced legislation yesterday that would prevent a Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) rule from limiting women's access to proper reproductive care....
10/13/2008	Lawsuit Filed Against Oklahoma Ultrasound Requirement The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit late last week against an Oklahoma abortion law that requires doctors to perform an ultrasound and describe the image to a woman before she can have an abortion....
9/5/2008	Republican Party Platform Reviewed The official Republican Party Platform adopted this week has the potential to threaten women's rights domestically and abroad....
8/20/2008	California Supreme Court Rules on Religiously Biased Healthcare The California Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday that doctors cannot withhold care from gay and lesbian patients on the basis of religious belief....
6/30/2008	Bush Withholds Funding from UN Population Fund President Bush announced Thursday that he would withhold funding from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for the seventh year in a row....
4/24/2008	House Committee Holds Hearings on Failed Abstinence-Only Policy The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing on Wednesday to assess the effectiveness of abstinence-only programs in the US....
12/14/2007	House Votes to Ban Waterboarding The House of Representatives voted Thursday to prohibit US intelligence agencies from using waterboarding and other extreme interrogation tactics....
11/29/2007	Experts Urge Congress to Cut Abstinence Only Funding Ten top public health researchers urged Congressional leaders last week to cut funding for failed abstinence only programs....
9/18/2007	New Illinois Planned Parenthood Clinic Opening Blocked The new Aurora, Illinois Planned Parenthood clinic has been forced to delay its anticipated September 18 opening....
4/17/2007	Non-Prescription Plan B Challenged in Lawsuit Conservative groups have filed a federal suit against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in an attempt to overturn approval of Plan B, the "morning-after pill," for non-prescription sale to women 18 and older....
3/19/2007	FDA Announces Office of Women's Health to be Fully Funded The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that it will fully fund the Office of Women's Health in 2007....
3/1/2007	FDA Commissioner Offers No Clear Answer on Budget Cut for Women's Health Office Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach appeared in front of the House Appropriations Subcommittee yesterday, claiming that no decision had been made regarding the alleged budget cut for the Office of Women's Health....
2/28/2007	FDA Cuts Budget for Office of Women’s Health The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to withhold 30 percent of the funding allocated for the Office of Women's Health in 2007, an unnamed, high level official told the Washington Post....
9/21/2006	President Bush De-funds UNFPA for Fifth Year President Bush announced on Friday that he is withholding the $34 million Congress had allotted for UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund....
7/18/2006	Democrat's Investigation Finds Pregnancy Centers Mislead Teens on Abortions The Government Reform Minority Office released a report yesterday documenting the misinformation that many federally funded so-called pregnancy resource centers are distributing to teenagers....
3/23/2006	Women's Groups Speak Up at World Water Forum At the Fourth Annual World Water Forum, held this past week in Mexico City, the Women's Caucus called on the conference attendees to uphold women's human right to water by including women in decisions related to water usage and sanitation and by taking gender issues into consideration when making policy....
12/22/2005	MsMagazine.com Released Today the Top Ten News Stories for Women in 2005 MS....
10/21/2005	WI: Governor Vetoes 'Conscience Clause' Legislation Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle (D) stood up for patients' rights by vetoing a bill last week that aimed to expand so-called 'conscience clause' protections for health care workers....
9/19/2005	Bush Administration Again Denies UNFPA Funding For the fourth year in a row, the Bush Administration has withheld delivering $34 million in Congressionally approved funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), based on false allegations that the UNFPA participates in coercive abortion and involuntary sterilization in China....
9/8/2005	Democrats, Progressive Groups Call for Release of Roberts' Papers With the nomination of John Roberts for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Senate Democrats and progressive organizations are reiterating their call for the Bush Administration to release Roberts' papers from his time as deputy solicitor general....
8/25/2005	More Groups Oppose Roberts for Supreme Court Several major groups have announced their opposition to John Roberts for the Supreme Court, including People for the American Way, Human Rights Campaign, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)....
3/14/2005	New Bill Seeks to Correct Decision to Omit EC from National Guidelines The "Best Help for Rape Victims Act" was introduced last week to require the Department of Justice to include emergency contraception (EC) in the National Protocol for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examination....
12/9/2004	California to Challenge "Back-Door" Anti-Abortion Provision Attorney General Bill Lockyer of California announced yesterday that he will go to court to challenge the constitutionality of an anti-abortion provision signed into law this week by President Bush as part of the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Bill for 2005....
10/15/2004	Eighty-Five World Leaders Support Cairo Plan, Bush Refuses Over 250 global leaders have endorsed a statement that reaffirms the plan of action created ten years ago at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo....
7/15/2004	Amendment to Facilitate Over-the-Counter EC Passes An amendment to the agricultural appropriations bill (HR 4766) that would facilitate over-the-counter (OTC) status to emergency contraception passed on Tuesday in the House of Representatives by unanimous consent....
7/13/2004	Amendment Introduced to Facilitate Over-the-Counter EC An amendment to the agricultural appropriations bill (HR 4766) that would facilitate over-the-counter (OTC) status to emergency contraception was introduced today by Representatives Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Henry Waxman (D-CA)....
5/20/2004	Bishops' Denial of Communion for Pro-Choice Catholics Sparks Criticism Democrats in the House of Representatives sent a letter last week to Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of Washington criticizing the recent decision of some bishops to deny communion to pro-choice Catholics....
5/7/2004	FDA Rejects Over-the-Counter Status for Emergency Contraception The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last night announced that it was rejecting over-the-counter status for emergency contraception....
5/6/2004	Feminist Majority Foundation Expresses Outrage over FDA Decision to Reject Over-the-Counter Status for Emergency Contraception Arlington, VA – The Feminist Majority Foundation today expressed its outrage that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave in to right-wing pressure and decided to reject over-the-counter status for the emergency contraceptive Plan B....
4/20/2004	Leading Womens Groups Grade Bush Administration One week before the March for Women's Lives, leading women's groups released a scorecard grading the Bush Administration on issues affecting women around the world, finding the Bush Administration long on rhetoric but falling far short on reality....
2/13/2004	Maloney Introduces Bill for $34 Million to UNFPA to Fight Fistula Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) introduced a bill on Wednesday that aims to make a compromise with the Bush Administration to end its withholding of funds for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)....
2/3/2004	US Cuts Aid to Ecuador Over International Criminal Court The United States is withholding millions of dollars in military aid to Ecuador because of Ecuador's reluctance to sign an agreement with the US that would grant US military immunity from the International Criminal Court (ICC)....
1/29/2004	Senate Approves $34 Million for UNFPA The Senate on Thursday approved an omnibus spending bill that included $34 million for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)....
11/24/2003	Interfaith Delegation Urges President Bush To Restore UNFPA Funding A delegation of nine religious leaders released a report to the White House and the US State Department asking that the United States restore and increase funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) because the UNFPA promotes high quality and voluntary reproductive health care in China....
10/2/2003	NY Hospitals to Offer Rape Victims EC New York joined California, Washington and New Mexico yesterday, becoming the fourth state to mandate that hospitals offer rape victims emergency contraception (EC)....
10/2/2003	Idaho Planned Parenthood Pulls Out of Title X Funding for Family Planning Planned Parenthood of Idaho recently announced that it would no longer take federal Title X funds, which provide a range of reproductive health services for women and men who are at or below the poverty level....
9/17/2003	China: Religious Leaders See No Link Between Forced Abortions and UNFPA A group of religious leaders who studied the United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA) family planning work in China said that they found no evidence to back accusations by the administration that the UNFPA supports forced abortions....
7/11/2003	TX Clinics Win Short-Term Victory Against Efforts to Limit Choice Texas clinics received a temporary reprieve last Monday from state health officials' demand that they promise, in writing, to stop performing abortions or face the loss of all public funding....
7/10/2003	Amendment Calls for $100M in UNFPA Funding In anticipation of World Population Day this Friday, Congressman Joseph Crowley and Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs will join policy experts this afternoon at an audio press conference to discuss restoring monies to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)....
5/8/2003	House Committee Approves $100 Million for UNFPA The House Committee on International Relations yesterday passed an amendment that would provide $100 million over the next two years for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)....
3/7/2003	Teachers Address Iraq in Classrooms In the midst of some of the largest antiwar demonstrations in the world’s history, many high school teachers in the United States are grappling with the issue of how to address the current situation in Iraq in their classrooms....
3/4/2003	Creativity Marks Antiwar Protests Two peace protests this week highlight some of the creativity behind the antiwar movement....
2/21/2003	Congress Approves Spending Bill With Abortion Restrictions With the president’s signature expected any day, the US Congress approved the fiscal year 2003 $397.4 billion omnibus spending bill last week with several anti-women measures - including continued bans on federal spending for abortions....
1/3/2003	Afghan Women to Join Kabul Police Force, Country Still in Shambles Afghan government officials on Tuesday announced the reintroduction of female cadets to the Kabul police academy, reported the Associated Press....
12/23/2002	Security Remains Key Concern in Afghanistan For the first time in seven months, a US soldier was killed Saturday by enemy fire in Afghanistan, once again demonstrating the urgent need for greater security in the region....
12/18/2002	US Loses Vote at Population Conference Over the objections of the United States, delegates at the Fifth Asian and Pacific Population Conference passed a resolution reaffirming a landmark 1994 population policy drawn up at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo....
12/16/2002	US Angers Allies over Abortion Issue at UN Population Conference The Bush administration angered several allies over the issue of abortion and reproductive health at the Fifth Asian and Pacific Population Conference in Bangkok this past week....
11/7/2002	State Department Withholds Funding for World Health Organization The State Department recently decided to freeze $3 million in funding appropriated by Congress for the World Health Organization’s research on mifepristone (also known as RU-486 and the “abortion pill”)....
11/4/2002	US to Back Away from UN Population Policy The Bush Administration threatened last week to back out of a landmark United Nations (UN) population policy ratified by 179 nations in 1994 if the terms “reproductive rights” and “reproductive health services” were not removed from the language of the agreement, according to the New York Times....
7/23/2002	Bush Makes UNFPA Funding Cut Official In a move that will cost the lives of tens of thousands of women and children around the globe, President Bush officially announced yesterday that he will withhold $34 million in funds for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)....
7/19/2002	Bush Pushes for Legislation to Withhold $34 Million in UNFPA Funding Legislation that will allow President Bush to withhold $34 million for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) was approved yesterday by a House-Senate conference committee....
5/29/2002	Washington Post Urges Increased Effort to Combat Sex Slavery In an editorial appearing in today’s Washington Post, the newspaper called on the US to withhold aid from countries that are not working vigorously enough to curb sex trafficking and sex slavery....
5/20/2002	Canon Law Expert Says US Bishops Not Morally Responsible for Sex Abuse Commenting on child sex abuse in the Catholic Church, Reverend Gianfranco Ghirlanda, Dean of Canon Law Faculty at Pontificial Gregorian University in Rome, argued that bishops should not inform their parishioners if a priest has committed pedophilia because the priest “would be totally discredited in front of his parochial community and in fact would be blocked from any effective pastoral action.” Ghirlanda’s comments come after the eruption of the child sex abuse scandal in the US....
4/26/2002	Women Inmates Receive Inadequate Health Care An article in this week’s issue of The Nation highlights the grossly sub par medical care received by many women in US prisons....
2/15/2002	Gay University Professor Possible Victim of Hate Crime Just days after a University of Montana professor filed a lawsuit alleging that the university health insurance system discriminated against gays and lesbians by withholding health insurance and other benefits from same-sex partners of employees, her home was set on fire....
5/29/2001	The Global Gag - Part I On January 22—the twenty-eighth anniversary of Roe v....
2/22/2001	Dire Situation in Afghanistan Finally Reaches US National Press The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) and other women’s right groups have covered the situation in Afghanistan since the Taliban militia took control of the country in 1996 and imposed brutal gender apartheid on the women and girls of Afghanistan....
2/9/2001	Pakistan Rejects Afghan Refugees Pakistan officials are refusing to allow a new crush of Afghan refugees who have fled their homes in search of a safeguard from the Taliban militia that occupies 95 percent of the country....
1/31/2001	Bush's Picks: A Cabinet that looks like Radical Right America - Part III As for Washington experience, O'Neill was deputy director of the Office of Management & Budget under President Ford, after which he headed International Paper--known to be a polluter....
12/4/2000	European Parliament Declares Taliban Isolation In EU The European Parliament requested all member states in the European Union to withhold non-humanitarian economic support from the Taliban and urge Pakistan to immediately stop its military support to the regime....
12/4/2000	Trafficking Of Women & Girls Enormous Global Problem Estimates indicate that at least 50,000 women are brought into the United States for sexual exploitation alone and internationally, over 700,000 women and girls are forced into sexual slavery....
10/12/2000	FEMINIST VICTORY: VAWA PASSES UNANIMOUSLY After months of Republican stalling, the Senate unanimously voted yesterday to pass the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act, an anti-crime bill that includes the Sex Trafficking Victims Protection Act and the Violence Against Women Act(VAWA)....
10/5/2000	Taliban Lobbies for Recognition Using military gains as leverage, the Taliban militia has met with high-level officials in France, the US and other countries to press for recognition as Afghanistan’s ruling government....
8/21/2000	Who Me, Vote? - Part I If history has a healthy sense of the absurd, then at its bar Bill Clinton will be crowned with a tiny laurel for service to the cause of free love and phone sex....
8/15/2000	Bush's Social Security Proposal Would Hurt Women Worst Republican presidential nominee George W....
11/15/1999	Nigerian Women Gain Economic Prominence Faced with desperate poverty in the predominantly Muslim country of Niger, women are now earning money for themselves in jobs outside the home, breaking with tradition....
10/26/1999	Albright Hints at Improved Relations With Taliban for Release of bin Laden Secretary of State Madeleine Albright suggested yesterday that the extremist Taliban militia that is responsible for gender apartheid in Afghanistan might be granted improved relations with the United States if they release international terrorist Osama bin Laden....
6/9/1999	DOL Releases Report on Garment Manufacturers The U.S....
5/13/1999	Progress in Afghanistan? Capricious and selective enforcement of the Taliban’s brutal gender apartheid edicts is a far cry from restoration of women’s rights." -- Eleanor Smeal WASHINGTON, DC In light of a May 11, 1999 Washington Post story on the status of gender apartheid in Afghanistan, the Feminist Majority Foundation -- the organization spearheading the nationwide and worldwide Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid (chaired by Mavis Leno) -- reviewed the status of basic human rights under continued Taliban oppression of women and girls. "Recent stories show some indications that the Taliban regime is responding to international pressure either by taking small steps to selectively ease some of their draconian restrictions or by trying to create the impression that they are easing the restrictions." said Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority Foundation....
3/5/1999	Japan Takes Step to Approve Oral Contraceptives After nine years of resistance, the Japanese Health Ministry has finally conceded that there is no reason to withhold approval for contraceptive pills....
1/26/1999	Studies Question Biological Basis for Sex Roles Scientists have long hypothesized that women's biology makes them naturally monogamous and that men are naturally prone to stray and seek multiple sexual partners....
1/14/1999	Suits Seek More Than $1 Billion for Sweatshop Abuses Three lawsuits together will seek more than $1 billion dollars for horrendous human rights abuses suffered by garment workers in Saipan....
11/10/1998	Transvestite Discrimination Case Begins After Death Margie Hunter, the mother of Tyrone Hunter, a transvestite who died following a car accident in 1995, has brought a lawsuit claiming her son received negligent care from emergency medical technicians and a doctor at DC General Hospital....
7/30/1998	House Votes for Bigotry On July twenty-ninth the House voted to withhold funds that would be used to enforce San Francisco’s new law, which requires companies that do business with the city to offer health and other benefits to same-sex domestic partners....
3/13/1998	Clintons Protest Violence Against Women in Afghanistan, Worldwide In a White House ceremony marking International Women’s Day First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton condemned the Taliban militia group for its violations of women’s human rights in Afghanistan....
3/2/1998	Feminist Majority Leads Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan National Board Member Mavis Leno Testifies at Forum Sponsored by Senator Dianne Feinstein Washington DC -- Mavis Leno, a writer, resident of Los Angeles, California, and member of the National Board of the Feminist Majority, today testified at a forum sponsored by Senator Dianne Feinstein, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to call attention to the extreme human rights violations being committed against women in Afghanistan....
10/1/1997	Anti-Abortion Congressmen Withhold U.S. Funds to U.N Ambassador Bill Richardson said Monday that conservative Congressmen were responsible for the delay in U.S....
10/1/1997	Anti-Abortion Congressmen Withhold U.S. Funds to U.N. Ambassador Bill Richardson said Monday that conservative Congressmen were responsible for the delay in U.S....
5/22/1996	Supreme Court Decision Heralded as Major Victory for Gay Rights The Supreme Court's Monday 6-3 decision to strike down a Colorado anti-lesbian and gay rights constitutional amendment will have far-reaching effects on the future of the lesbian and gay rights movement....
9/12/1995	Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Restrictive Abortion Law A federal appeals court struck down a Louisiana law on Monday which prevented Medicaid payments for abortions in case of rape or incest....

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