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  Women who have been trying to find someone special online already have plenty to watch for, but a new FBI warning now says they should also keep an eye out for blackmailers.  A new extortion scam has begun to target people who are using some of the web's most popular dating websites, and according to the FBI, most of ...

Percentage of Women on Law Reviews Declines Significantly

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Waffle House CEO Accused of Sexual Harassment

  Sexual harassment allegations made against the chief executive officer of Waffle House, a Southern regional chain of diners, have put harassment back into the media spotlight.  The accusations against Waffle House Chief Executive Officer Joe Rogers come from his longtime housekeeper and sexual partner. The woman, Mye ...

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Botswana Court Rules Women Can Inherit Property

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New Abortion Restrictions Lead to State Official's Resignation

  Citing new state regulations designed to eliminate morst or all abortion clinics in the state, Virginia's health commissioner, Dr. Karen Remley, submitted her resignation on October 18.  Although Remley had served the state for four years, her resignation letter indicated that she was not willing to work with some of ...

United Nations Makes New Contraceptive Access Declaration

  Over 200 million women of reproductive age worldwide are unable to obtain high quality family planning care.  Family planning, which helps women to space their childbearing out and minimize the health risks of pregnancy and birth, is not just a good idea according to the United Nations today.  In the annual United Nations ...

Turnaway Study Investigates Effects of Unintended Pregnancies

Not all women who arrive at abortion clinics are able to obtain the abortions they are seeking.  Because there are strict gestational age limits in place at the vast majority of abortion clinics throughout the United States, some women are told that their pregnancies are too advanced to be aborted and are turned away.  The ...

Supreme Court Ruling Affects Protesters in Abortion Debate

  The first case to be ruled on in the new Supreme Court session this October was Lefemine v. Wideman.  The case involves a Christian activist group that is involved in anti-abortion protests.  Lefemine, as a member of this group, displayed graphic posters featuring images of aborted fetuses while protesting abortions ...

New Report Says Women Forced to Give Birth, Forced to Abort

  Abortion took center stage as an issue women and men were interested in during this year's election cycle.  A new report from the Guttmacher Institute, compiled based on data and policies from governments around the world, reports that the law is being used in several different ways to prevent women from making informed ...

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