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Hooray for women! Saudi Arabian King Abdullah has granted women in his country the right to vote and run for public office. More »
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It is estimated that around 100 British women are emotionally involved with men on death row. Many of these relationships began after sentencing. According to the author of Women Who Love Men Who Kill, these relationships share some common traits: More »
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The UN estimates that 1 in 10 pregnancies in the Arab world ends in abortion, despite the fact that in most countries it is illegal except for cases in which harm to the mother is imminent. Between Western Asia and North Africa, one study estimates that up to 1.2 million unsafe abortions are performed every year, given the lack of access to legal abortion services, lack of knowledge of birth control and, some people claim, shifting social mores about pre-marital sex and abortion. As in America before Roe v. Wade, women in the Arab world are caught between (in some cases) relaxed expectations of virginity, economic realities, the religious implications of abortion, a lack of information about and access to birth control and a dearth of safe abortion services. (Wait, did I say pre-Roe America? This sounds suspiciously like 2008!) More »
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