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11/13/2009	Roeder's Lawyers Seek to Move Trial The lawyers of Scott Roeder, who allegedly murdered George Tiller, MD, in May, are seeking to relocate the trial so that it will take place outside of Sedgwick County, in Witchita, Kansas....
11/12/2009	Women Ski Jumpers Fight for Inclusion in Winter Olympics Fourteen women ski jumpers will appear in a British Colombia court today to continue their legal battle for the opportunity to compete in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver....
11/10/2009	Roeder Confesses to Tiller Killing Scott Roeder, the alleged murderer of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller, MD, confessed to the killing in an interview yesterday....
11/6/2009	Court Blocks Implementation of Illinois Parental Notification Law The Illinois Medical Disciplinary Board decided Wednesday that a state parental notification law should go into effect....
10/21/2009	Arizona Court Rules in Favor of Inmates' Abortion Rights An Arizona judge ordered Maricopa County Sheriff Joseph Arpaio to end a requirement for inmates to prepay transportation and security costs prior to obtaining an abortion....
10/19/2009	Parental Notification Law Challenged in Illinois A lawsuit was filed today challenging a parental notification law set to go into effect in Illinois on November 3rd....
10/16/2009	CA Judge Rejects Petition to Dismiss Constitutional Challenge to Proposition 8 US District Judge Vaughn Walker rejected a petition Wednesday that sought the dismissal of a pending constitutional challenge to Proposition 8, the November 2008 ballot initiative that overturned the right of same-sex marriage in the state....
10/13/2009	Chicago Passes Clinic Buffer Zone Law Last week, the Chicago city council passed an ordinance mandating anti-choice protestors maintain a safe distance away from clinics and facilities that provide abortion services....
10/6/2009	Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Inmate Shackled While Giving Birth The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that a former Arkansas inmate, Shawanna Nelson, who was shackled during labor has the right to sue the corrections officer present during her labor....
9/29/2009	Zimbabwean Activist Acquitted Zimbabwe's Supreme Court dropped all charges against human rights activist Jestina Mukoko and 8 others yesterday, ruling that their rights had been violated while imprisoned....
9/18/2009	Indiana Overturns Voter Identification Law A state appellate court in Indiana ruled yesterday that a state law requiring voters to show identification was unconstitutional....
9/11/2009	Equal Pay Victory For Women in Third Circuit The Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Mary Lou Mikula's Title VII pay discrimination claim yesterday, dismissing a previous ruling that her claim was invalid on the basis that it was not timely....
9/9/2009	Student Sentenced to Death for Downloading Women's Rights Article Freed Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, who was originally sentenced to death in Afghanistan for distributing information regarding the role of women in Islam in October 2007 is now free....
9/9/2009	Sotomayor to Hear, Kagan to Argue First Supreme Court Case Justice Sonia Sotomayor will hear her first case as a Supreme Court Justice today after a formal investiture ceremony yesterday in which she was officially sworn into office for the third time....
9/3/2009	Anti-Choice Group Sues for Immediate Enforcement of Illinois Law The Thomas More Society filed a lawsuit this week with the Illinois Supreme Court that seeks immediate enforcement of a parental notification law in the state....
9/1/2009	Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate has Anti-Women's Rights Record The recently published graduate thesis of Virginia Attorney General Robert McDonnell, who is also the Republican candidate for Virginia Governor, demonstrates opposition to women's rights....
8/28/2009	Ohio Court Rules Against Woman Fired for Pumping Breast Milk The Ohio Supreme Court ruled 7 to 2 yesterday against LaNisa Allen, who filed a discrimination complaint after being fired from her job at Totes/Isotoner because she took unauthorized breaks to pump breast milk....
8/26/2009	Feminist Movement Loses Champion for Women's Rights Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) died late last night at his Massachusetts home after a lengthy battle with brain cancer....
8/20/2009	Proposition 8 Trial Date Set A federal judge scheduled a January 2010 trial date yesterday in a lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the November 2008 ballot initiative that overturned the right of same-sex marriage in the state....
8/20/2009	Oklahoma Will Appeal Ruling on Abortion Law Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson's office confirmed yesterday that the state will file an appeal with the state Supreme Court of a judge's decision to overturn a controversial abortion law....
8/13/2009	Equality California: Wait on Same-Sex Marriage Initiative Equality California, California's largest LGBTQ advocacy organization, released a report yesterday urging gay rights activists to wait until 2012 to repeal Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage in the state....
8/10/2009	Sotomayor Sworn in to Supreme Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor was officially sworn in as an associate justice of the Supreme Court on Saturday....
8/7/2009	Judge Sonia Sotomayor Confirmed for Supreme Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's first Supreme Court nominee, was confirmed yesterday by a 68-31 vote in the Senate....
8/7/2009	Judge Upholds Clinic Bubble Ordinance in Oakland A judge in Oakland, California ruled Wednesday that an ordinance prohibiting protesters from approaching women entering abortion clinics is constitutional....
8/3/2009	Pioneering Activists to Recieve Presidential Medal of Freedom The White House announced last week that President Barack Obama will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to a number of pioneering feminists and civil rights leaders....
7/29/2009	Judiciary Committee Confirms Sotomayor The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 13-6 yesterday to approve Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the US Supreme Court....
7/27/2009	Gaza Judge Rules Female Lawyers Must Wear Headscarves Gaza Supreme Court Chief Justice Abdul-Raouf Halabi released an edict today mandating that female lawyers must wear long dark clothing under their robes and scarves to cover their hair when they appear in court....
7/23/2009	Court Rules NYC Fire Department Uses Discriminatory Hiring Practices The Federal District Court in Brooklyn ruled Wednesday that the New York City Fire Department uses discriminatory hiring practices against black and Hispanic applicants....
7/22/2009	New Delhi Supreme Court Rules on Rape Victim's Pregnancy New Delhi's Supreme Court overturned a lower court's decision yesterday, ruling against terminating the pregnancy of a nineteen-year-old mentally handicapped rape victim....
7/14/2009	Sotomayor Hearings Commence Judge Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings for the United States Supreme Court began yesterday....
7/6/2009	ACLU Challenges Arizona Restriction on Inmates' Abortion Rights The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is again asking an Arizona court to stop Maricopa County Sheriff Joseph Arpaio from preventing female inmates from accessing abortion services....
7/1/2009	Franken Declared Winner of Disputed Senate Seat Minnesota's Supreme Court unanimously denied Republican Senator Norm Coleman's appeal yesterday, ruling that Democrat Al Franken is the winner of November's Senate race....
6/30/2009	Supreme Court Rules in Favor of White Firefighters The Supreme Court yesterday ruled in a razor slim 5-4 decision in favor of a group of white firefighters from New Haven, Connecticut on a Title VII race case that has far reaching impact on race, sex, and ethnicity employment cases....
6/26/2009	Supreme Court Rules Student Strip-Search Unconstitutional The US Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the strip-search of 13-year old student Savana Redding at her Arizona public school was unconstitutional....
6/25/2009	Court of Appeals Upholds Virginia Late Abortion Ruling A 2008 court decision which declared unconstitutional a Virginia ban on a specific abortion procedure was overturned yesterday by the Fourth District US Court of Appeals in a split 6 to 5 decision....
6/8/2009	Supreme Court Will not Hear Don't Ask, Don't Tell Case The Supreme Court announced today that they will not hear a case that challenges the constitutionality of the federal government's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy....
6/3/2009	Polls Show Public Support for Sotomayor Several recent polls suggest that the public supports Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee....
6/2/2009	Bill O'Reilly's Statements about Tiller Under Fire O'Reilly Factor host Bill O'Reilly has come under renewed fire for remarks about George Tiller, MD since Tiller's murder Sunday....
5/27/2009	Proposition 8 to be Challenged in Federal Court, Ballot Initiatives Planned A federal lawsuit that challenges Proposition 8 was filed in a US District Court and calls for an injunction against the proposition....
5/26/2009	Feminist Majority Foundation: Prop. 8 Decision Tragic; Vows to Fight On The California Supreme Court decided today to uphold Proposition 8, the November 2008 ballot initiative that overturned the right of same-sex marriage recognized in a May 2008 California Supreme Court decision....
5/26/2009	California Supreme Court Rules Proposition 8 Stands The California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8, the November 2008 ballot initiative that overturned the right of same-sex marriage in the state, in a 6 to 1 ruling today....
5/26/2009	Sonia Sotomayor Named Supreme Court Nominee President Obama announced the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court this morning....
5/21/2009	California Assembly Passes Fair Pay Legislation The California state Assembly passed a state-level version of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act Monday on a 49 to 28 vote....
5/21/2009	Nepal's Supreme Court Orders Expanded Abortion Access The Supreme Court of Nepal ruled yesterday that the Nepalese government must enact legislation that guarantees women's access to safe abortion services....
5/19/2009	Supreme Court Rules on Pregnancy Discrimination Case The Supreme Court ruled that maternity leave taken prior to the 1979 Pregnancy Discrimination Act does not have to be credited to pensions in a 7 to 2 decision issued Monday....
5/19/2009	Anti-Choice Tennessee Bill Passes in House A proposed constitutional amendment to the Tennessee state constitution that would void a 2000 state Supreme Court decision on abortion restrictions was approved by the state House in a 76 to 22 vote yesterday....
5/14/2009	Women Dominate Supreme Court Nominee Short List White House sources have confirmed a six-person short list of potential Supreme Court nominees being considered by President Obama to replace retiring Justice David Souter....
5/8/2009	Ledbetter Fair Pay Act Applied to Tenure Case Mississippi US District Judge Tom Lee applied the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 to a Jackson State University tenure discrimination case late in April....
5/4/2009	California Supreme Court Will Not Hear Appeal in Sexual Orientation Expulsion Case The California Supreme Court ruled last week that they will not hear an appeal in a case where a private Lutheran high school in the state expelled two students in 2005 based on suspicions that the students were lesbians....
4/28/2009	Karzai Vows Amendments to Afghan Shia Law Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced in a press conference yesterday that a controversial Shia Family law whose implementation would severely restrict women's rights by legalizing rape within marriage, will be amended and that the human rights of women and girls will be respected by the law....
4/28/2009	Feminists Commemorate Equal Pay Day Today is Equal Pay Day, the day when women's wages equal their male colleagues' earnings of the previous year....
4/27/2009	California Attorney General Says Anti-Affirmative Action Measure Unconstitutional California Attorney General Jerry Brown said in a letter to the California state Supreme Court that Proposition 209, an amendment to the California constitution passed in 1996 that prohibits affirmative action in public employment, education, and contracting, is unconstitutional....
4/24/2009	Same Sex Marriage Codified in Connecticut Connecticut Governor M Jodi Rell signed legislation Thursday that codified same sex marriage in accordance with a 2008 court ruling....
4/17/2009	Afghan Government will Revise Controversial Law, Says Karzai Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced yesterday that his government will revise a controversial law that would severely restrict women's rights by legalizing rape within marriage, among other provisions....
4/15/2009	Afghan Women Protesting Law Pelted Hundreds of Afghan women protesting a new Shia family law that would severely restrict women's rights were outnumbered by hundreds of the law's supporters today in Kabul....
4/14/2009	Controversial Afghan Law will not be Implemented, Ambassador Says Afghan Ambassador to the US Said Jawad said this past weekend that a new Shia family law that would severely restrict women's rights signed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai sometime last month will not go into effect. The Ambassador told Bloomberg that "it will not become the law because it contradicts some important principles of the Afghan constitution." Karzai, according to news sources, signed the bill to court the Hazara vote in the upcoming presidential election. According to Jawad, Karzai signed the law without being aware of all of its provisions and has sent the likely unconstitutional law to be reviewed by the Afghan Ministry of Justice and the Afghan Supreme Court....
4/7/2009	Illinois Ruling on Emergency Contraception Halted A Circuit Court judge issued a temporary restraining order Friday that halts enforcement of an Illinois regulation that requires state pharmacists to dispense emergency contraception (EC)....
4/6/2009	Flogging of Pakistani Woman by Taliban to be Investigated Video of Taliban militants flogging a young woman who was accused of having a pre-marital sexual encounter became public this past weekend and Pakistan's Supreme Court announced an investigation yesterday....
4/3/2009	Iowa Supreme Court Rules Same Sex Marriage Ban Unconstitutional The Iowa Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that the Iowa Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional because it violates the equal protection clause of the state constitution....
3/27/2009	Dr. Tiller Vindicated! A Wichita jury has just ruled that Dr....
3/26/2009	Tiller Testifies in his Own Defense Doctor George Tiller testified in his own defense yesterday in his criminal trial....
3/24/2009	Ballot Measure Petitions to Overturn Proposition 8 Begin Circulation Two petitions are now in circulation in California that seek to repeal the state's ban on same-sex marriage....
3/20/2009	First Woman Solicitor General Confirmed Elena Kagan was confirmed as Solicitor General yesterday and, once sworn in, will be the first woman to hold the post....
3/16/2009	Tiller Trial Jury Selection Begins Today Jury selection in the criminal trial of Dr George Tiller of Wichita, Kansas, begins today....
3/13/2009	Poll Finds Californians Remain Split on Same-Sex Marriage Amendment A poll released this week found that registered voters in California remain sharply divided on a constitutional amendment that would allow same-sex marriage in the state....
3/11/2009	Afghan Student's 20 Year Sentence for Supporting Women's Rights Upheld by Supreme Court Afghan student and journalist Parwez Kambakhsh's sentence of 20 years in prison for blasphemy after he circulated an article about women's rights under Islam was recently upheld by Afghanistan's Supreme Court....
3/6/2009	Proposition 8 Seems Unlikely to be Overturned The California state Supreme Court appears unlikely to overturn Proposition 8 after hearing oral arguments in the case to overturn the measure yesterday....
3/5/2009	California Supreme Court Hears Proposition 8 Case California’s Supreme Court will hear arguments today in a case that considers the constitutionality of the Proposition 8, which eliminated same sex marriage in the state in the 2008 elections....
2/26/2009	Tiller Case to Move Forward in Kansas Court A motion by Dr George Tiller's lawyers to dismiss the criminal case against him was denied yesterday by Sedgwick County District Judge Clark Owens....
2/25/2009	Supreme Court Ruling Reinstates Gun Ban on Abusers The US Supreme Court ruled in a 7 to 2 decision yesterday that those convicted of misdemeanors related to domestic violence can not legally possess firearms....
2/24/2009	Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe Signs Late-Term Abortion Ban Bill Democratic Governor Mike Beebe signed a bill on Friday that would ban so-called partial birth abortions in Arkansas....
2/20/2009	Arkansas State Senate Approves Late-Term Abortion Ban A bill that would ban so-called partial birth abortions in Arkansas passed in the state Senate yesterday in a 30 to 3 vote....
2/17/2009	Arkansas State House of Representatives Approves Late-Term Abortion Ban The Arkansas House of Representatives passed a bill late last week that would ban so-called partial birth abortions in an 84 to 6 vote after no debate....
2/6/2009	Date Set for Proposition 8 Hearings California’s Supreme Court announced this week that it will hear arguments on March 5 of this year in a case that considers the constitutionality of the Proposition 8, which eliminated same sex marriage in the state when it was approved by voters in the 2008 elections....
1/29/2009	President Obama Signs Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was signed this morning by President Obama and is the first bill he has signed while in office....
1/29/2009	California Court Rules that Private School can Expel Students on Basis of Sexual Orientation The 4th District Court of Appeals ruled that a private California high school legally expelled two students in 2005 based on suspicions that the students were lesbians....
1/28/2009	Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act Passes Congress The House passed the final version of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 (H.R....
1/28/2009	Supreme Court Rules in Worker Retaliation Case The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday that employers cannot fire workers in retaliation for cooperating in investigations of sexual harassment under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act....
1/23/2009	Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act Passed Senate, Returns to House The Senate passed by a strong majority the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 (S....
1/22/2009	Supreme Court Protects Rights to Use Multiple Remedies Against Sex Discrimination in Education The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Wednesday that plaintiffs who experience gender discrimination can sue under both Title IX and the Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution....
1/22/2009	36th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade Today marks the 36th anniversary of the US Supreme Court decision that gave women the right to a legal abortion....
1/21/2009	Executive Action Expected This Week on Women's Rights Issues The incoming Obama/Biden administration is expected to address several key women's rights issues within the next week....
1/16/2009	Feminist Groups Support Legal Challenge to Prop. 8 Three major feminist groups—the Feminist Majority Foundation, National Organization for Women, and California National Organization for Women—have submitted an amicus brief to the California Supreme Court in support of legal challenges to Proposition 8, the November ballot measure that overturned the right to same-sex marriage in the state....
1/9/2009	Paycheck Fairness Act, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act First Bills to Pass House In an outstanding victory for women's rights, the Paycheck Fairness Act and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act were the first bills to pass the House in the new legislative session....
1/9/2009	Ghana Elects First Woman Speaker of Parliament Ghana's retired Supreme Court Justice Joyce Bamford-Addo became the first woman elected Speaker of Ghana's Parliament on Wednesday....
1/6/2009	Women Appointed to Key Department of Justice Positions President-elect Barack Obama announced his intention yesterday to appoint Elena Kagan to be Solicitor General and Dawn Johnson to be the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel within the Department of Justice....
12/22/2008	Proposition 8 Legal Battles Intensify with Briefings Filed with CA Supreme Court California Attorney General Jerry Brown made public his opposition to Proposition 8 Friday in a brief to the California Supreme Court while "Yes on 8" forces filed a brief extending their opposition to include invalidation of the same-sex marriages already performed in there....
12/22/2008	Illinois Court Grants Hearing for Pharmacists Refusing to Stock Plan B Two Illinois pharmacists will be able to challenge in court an administrative rule that requires state pharmacists to dispense emergency contraception (EC) after the Illinois Supreme Court reversed a lower court decision denying their case last week....
12/16/2008	Sioux City Council Tables Same-Sex Marriage Vote A resolution that would have defined marriage as between one man and one woman was tabled at a Sioux City, Iowa city council meeting last night....
12/12/2008	New Jersey Panel Finds Civil Unions are Separate, but not Equal The New Jersey State Civil Union Review Commission has found that the state's civil union law does not provide the same protections to gay couples as marriage does to heterosexual couples....
12/9/2008	Iowa Supreme Court Considers Same-Sex Marriage The Iowa Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in a case that challenges the states' same-sex marriage ban....
12/8/2008	Kansas State Supreme Court Opinion Issued Friday in Relation to Ongoing Tiller Case The Kansas State Supreme Court issued a ruling Friday in a lawsuit related to former Attorney General Phill Kline's conduct in an ongoing case with Dr....
11/26/2008	Florida's Gay Adoption Ban Ruled Unconstitutional by Circuit Court A circuit court judge ruled Tuesday that a law banning gay and lesbian people from adopting children in Florida is unconstitutional....
11/20/2008	California Supreme Court Will Hear Arguments on Proposition 8 California's Supreme Court said Wednesday that it will consider the constitutionality of Proposition 8, which eliminated same sex marriage in the state earlier this month....
11/19/2008	Focus on the Family to Lay Off 200 Staff Focus on the Family, a Colorado Springs-based Christian non-profit group, will eliminate 202 jobs this week....
11/13/2008	Same-Sex Marriage Licenses Now Issued in Connecticut Connecticut began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples Wednesday morning....
11/12/2008	Supreme Court Hears Case on Gun Rights for Domestic Violence Abusers The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday on a federal gun ban that affects individuals convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence charges....
11/6/2008	Gay Marriage Ban Passes in California, then Challenged in Court On an electoral night that was otherwise a positive one for civil rights and women's rights activists, California's Proposition 8, which amends the state's constitution to remove the right of same-sex couples to marry, appears to have passed by 52 percent to 48 percent....
10/30/2008	Virginia's attorney general still trying to reinstate abortion ban The 4th U.S....
10/23/2008	Support for Women's Rights May Cost Afghan Student 20 Years Afghan student Parwez Kambakhsh has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for blasphemy, having circulated an article about women's rights under Islam, reports the Los Angeles Times....
10/22/2008	Same-Sex Marriage Vote Tightens in California Two weeks ago, opponents of Proposition 8 in California-which would reverse the recent state Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage-were concerned over a slippage in the polls....
10/20/2008	Law Professor Susan Herman Elected ACLU President Saturday the American Civil Liberties Union elected Brooklyn Law School professor and constitutional law scholar Susan Herman to be its president....
10/13/2008	Same-Sex Marriage to be Recognized in Connecticut The Connecticut State Supreme Court ruled Friday that banning same-sex marriage violates the state constitution....
10/10/2008	Abortion Rights Leader Dr. Henry Morgentaler Receives Order of Canada Dr....
10/9/2008	West Virginian Anti-Abortion Group Fights New Political Ad Laws A West Virginia law regarding political advertising law was challenged last week by an anti-abortion group....
10/7/2008	Supreme Court Refuses Missouri Abortion Rights Appeal Yesterday the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from the state of Missouri regarding a woman's right to abortion in prison....
10/6/2008	Anti-Abortion Poster Case Rejected by Supreme Court The Supreme Court rejected an appeal in the case of American Coalition of Life Activists (ACLA) v....
10/3/2008	Utah Lawmakers Plan Anti-Choice Legislation Several conservative Utah state lawmakers announced plans this week to sponsor anti-choice legislation in the 2009 legislative session....
10/2/2008	South Dakota Lawsuit Seeks Disclosure of 2006 Abortion Ban Donor In a South Dakota Supreme Court case heard this week a lawyer for the Secretary of State argued that the name of a 2006 donor to an anti-choice organization should be made public....
9/25/2008	Report Indicates New Abortion Low, Affected Demographics Shift A new report from the Guttmacher Institute indicates that national abortion rates are at an all time low since 1974, but that demographics of those seeking the procedure have changed significantly....
9/4/2008	Two Florida Religious Freedom Ballot Measures Disqualified Proposed amendments to the Florida state constitution were disqualified Wednesday after a ruling by the Florida Supreme Court....
9/3/2008	Equal Pay Bill Passes California Assembly Within the past week, both the California State Senate and the State Assembly passed an equal pay bill that will now be sent to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger....
9/2/2008	Rapists Freed in Afghanistan to be Investigated There will be a full investigation into the case of two convicted rapists who were given a pardon by Afghan President Hamid Karzai in May....
8/29/2008	Mexico City Abortion Access Upheld The Mexican Supreme Court has ruled 8-3 that a Mexico City law that allows abortion in the first trimester is constitutional....
8/28/2008	Pioneering Activist Del Martin Dies Del Martin, a pioneering activist for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and feminist movements in the United States, passed away yesterday....
8/27/2008	Mexico Supreme Court Considers Making Abortion Illegal in Mexico City The Supreme Court of Mexico is considering a challenge to a Mexico City law that legalized abortion in April 2007....
8/27/2008	Lilly Ledbetter Speaks at Democratic National Convention Lilly Ledbetter addressed the Democratic National Convention Tuesday and spoke of the wage discrimination she experienced while an employee at Goodyear Tire Rubber Co....
8/21/2008	New Challenge Filed to Reopen H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College A new challenge was filed Wednesday to reopen H....
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....
8/20/2008	Amicus Brief to be Filed in Fitzgerald v. Barnstable School Committee The Women’s Rights Project of the ACLU and the National Women’s Law Center will file an amicus brief late in August....
7/29/2008	Court Reviews Virginia Abortion Decision The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals will review the constitutionality of a Virginia law banning late-term abortions this fall....
7/17/2008	Democratic Women in Congress Rally for Fair Pay The Democratic women Senators and Members of the House held a rally today to support passage of fair pay legislation....
7/17/2008	Gay Marriage Initiative Challenge Rejected in CA The California Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously refused to hear a challenge of a ballot initiative that would amend the state's constitution to ban same-sex marriage if passed by voters in November....
7/14/2008	McCain Holds 'Women Only' Town Hall Meeting John McCain held a 'women only' town hall meeting in Hudson, Wisconsin, Friday in an attempt to woo women voters....
7/11/2008	Obama Reaches Out to Women with Economic Plan Sen Barack Obama focused on women yesterday and unleashed his economic plan for women....
7/10/2008	Kennedy's Vote Breaks Republican Filibuster on Medicare Senator Edward Kennedy returned to the Senate to cast a key vote to break a Republican filibuster of a vital Medicare bill on Wednesday....
7/8/2008	Anti-Gay Marriage Ballot Measures will be on AZ, CA, FL Ballots Ballot initiatives to define marriage as between one man and one woman will be on the ballot in Arizona, California, and Florida in November....
7/8/2008	Abortion Rights Leader Awarded Highest Canadian Recognition Henry Morgentaler, the former leader of Canada's fight to legalize abortion, is receiving the highest civilian recognition in the nation, the Order of Canada....
7/3/2008	Dr. Tiller Vindicated A Kansas Grand Jury adjourned on Wednesday without finding substantial evidence that Dr Tiller, a late-term abortion provider, violated any abortion laws....
6/30/2008	Supreme Court Cites Sixth Amendment to Discount Testimony of Murdered Domestic Abuse Victim The Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned a lower court ruling which allowed the previously recorded testimony of a murdered domestic abuse victim to be used as evidence in the trial of her alleged killer....
6/17/2008	Same-Sex Couples Marry in California Same-sex couples were legally married in California on Monday, as the state's Supreme Court ruling overturning California's ban on gay marriage took effect....
6/12/2008	Equal Pay Act Reaches 45th Anniversary This week marks the 45th Anniversary of the Equal Pay Act....
6/9/2008	Veteran Feminists of America Honors Feminist Lawyers Featuring Justice Ginsberg The Veteran Feminists of America (VFA) will be honoring feminist lawyers today at the Harvard Club of New York City....
6/6/2008	Anti-Contraceptive Extremists Protest Clinics The anti-contraception group American Life League (ALL) plans to protest clinics across the country on Saturday, June 7th....
6/5/2008	CA Supreme Court Refuses to Stay Same-Sex Marriage Ruling The California Supreme Court denied a request on Wednesday to stay their decision allowing same-sex marriage until the November election, according to the Associated Press....
5/27/2008	California to Begin Marrying Same-Sex Couples June 14 California county clerks will be authorized to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples as early as June 14 of this year....
5/21/2008	Federal Court Overturns Virginia Late Term Abortion Ban A federal appeals court yesterday overturned Virginia’s ban on late term abortions for the second time....
5/21/2008	Senator Ted Kennedy Leaves Hospital Looking Strong Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA), a long-time advocate for women's rights, left the hospital this morning following a biopsy....
5/19/2008	Gender Wage Gap for Recent College Grads Recent women college graduates made, on average, $2.92 less than their male counterparts in 2007....
5/16/2008	Overturning of Gay Marriage Ban May Profoundly Impact November Elections The California Supreme Court decision overturning state law banning gay marriage may have a profound impact on the state’s and nation’s November elections....
5/15/2008	California Supreme Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban The California Supreme Court ruled 4-3 today to overturn state laws prohibiting same-sex marriage....
5/9/2008	Michigan Supreme Court Denies Health Insurance to Same-Sex Partners The Michigan Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that local and state institutions cannot provide health insurances for partners of employees in same-sex relationships....
5/7/2008	Kansas Supreme Court Limits Grand Jury's Power in Dr Tiller Case The Kansas Supreme Court determined guidelines today to limit the power of the grand jury investigating the case of Dr George Tiller, a late term abortion provider from Wichita....
4/24/2008	Republicans Filibuster Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act The Senate Republican leadership orchestrated a filibuster of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act last night, preventing this critical bill from going to the floor of the senate for an up-or-down vote....
4/22/2008	Equal Pay Day: Feminists Fight for Lilly Ledbetter Pair Pay Act Today is the twelfth annual Equal Pay Day....
4/15/2008	Yemeni Girl Demands Divorce Eight-year-old Nojoud Muhammed Nasser filed a lawsuit in Yemen against her father who forced her to marry a 30-year-old man....
4/8/2008	Opponents of Affirmative Action Withdraw Petition in Oklahoma An anti-affirmative action group withdrew their ballot initiative in Oklahoma after failing to collect the required amount of valid signatures....
4/8/2008	Kansas Supreme Court Hears Tiller Patient Records Subpoena Arguments Today The Kansas Supreme Court will hear arguments today over the validity of a grand jury subpoena of private medical records of some 2,000 of Dr Tiller's patients....
3/26/2008	Domestic Violence Survivor Brings Case to International Tribunal Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union and the Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic filed an addendum brief with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) this week in the landmark case of a domestic violence survivor....
3/24/2008	Supreme Court Upholds Inmates’ Right to Chose The Supreme Court rejected an appeal today from a Maricopa County, Arizona sheriff to review a lower court’s ruling that protected Arizona inmates’ right to an abortion....
3/24/2008	Supreme Court Permits Discrimination Against Older Retirees The Supreme Court rejected an appeal by AARP challenging an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission policy that allows employers to cut health insurance expenses for retired workers after they turn 65 and qualify for Medicare....
3/4/2008	Judge Blocks Illinois Parental Notification Law US District Judge David H....
3/3/2008	Kansas Supreme Court Sets Date for Subpoena Arguments The Kansas Supreme Court announced last week that it will hear arguments on three subpoenas for patient records by the grand jury investigating Dr George Tiller on April 8th....
2/20/2008	Kansas Supreme Court Blocks Subpoena of State Attorney General The Kansas Supreme Court temporarily blocked the subpoena of Kansas State Attorney General Stephen Six's office on Tuesday....
2/19/2008	Catholic Church Fights New York Abortion Rights Law New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is urging lawmakers to pass state legislation that would guarantee all women the right to an abortion....
2/8/2008	Tiller Grand Jury Subpoenas Kansas Attorney General The grand jury investigating Dr George Tiller subpoenaed Kansas Attorney General Stephen Six's office this week....
2/6/2008	Kansas Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Subpoena of Tiller Patient Records The Kansas Supreme Court temporarily blocked a grand jury’s subpoena of the medical records of some 2,000 women who sought late-term abortions at Dr....
2/4/2008	Tiller Takes Patient Information Fight to KS Supreme Court Attorneys for Dr George Tiller appealed to the Kansas Supreme Court Friday over an order from the grand jury to turn over patient medical records....
1/29/2008	Ohio Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Abortion Records Case The Ohio Supreme Court refused this week to consider whether or not the parents of a teenager who obtained an abortion without their consent have a right to the medical records of other minors from the Planned Parenthood clinic....
1/28/2008	Wyoming Gender Wage Gap Widens Wyoming’s gender wage gap, already the largest in the country since 2004, has grown....
1/25/2008	Senate Holds Hearing on Fair Pay The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee held a hearing Thursday on the Fair Pay Restoration Act....
1/24/2008	Federal Court Rules in Favor of Missouri Inmates in Abortion Case The 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals in St Louis ruled on Tuesday that Missouri inmates have the right to an elective abortion....
1/22/2008	35th Anniversary of Roe v Wade Today marks the 35th anniversary of the US Supreme Court decision that gave women the right to a legal abortion....
1/22/2008	Wichita Pro-Choice Community Rallies Behind Dr. Tiller As they marked the 35th anniversary of the landmark US Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, supporters gathered today outside the Women’s Health Care Services clinic in Wichita, Kansas....
1/14/2008	Abortion Foes Focus on States As the 2008 elections approach, anti-abortion activists have turned their attention to states....
1/11/2008	Feminist Legislation Held Up in Congress As Congress returns, much feminist legislation is still pending....
1/8/2008	Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Abortion Challenge The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a challenge to a lower court ruling that struck down a Michigan law banning dilation and extraction abortion procedures....
12/5/2007	Grand Jury Set to Convene on Dr Tiller A Kansas grand jury investigation on Dr George Tiller, one of the few late-term abortion providers for women with troubled pregnancies and complicated health problems, is set to begin January 8, 2008....
11/29/2007	Feminist Legislative Roundup Congress will be in session briefly in December, when there will be an opportunity to pass bills crucial for women’s rights. A bill to address the growing birth control pricing crisis has been introduced in both the House and the Senate....
11/28/2007	Texas Courts Ruling Affirms Laws that Grant Fetuses Legal Protections The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled unanimously last week that state laws granting legal protections to fetuses do not conflict with Roe v Wade....
11/19/2007	Boy Scouts of Philadelphia to Lose Headquarters The city solicitor gave the Boy Scouts of Philadelphia until December 3 to renounce their policy of excluding homosexuals, or the Scouts will lose the subsidized rent of their city-owned, 79-year-old landmark headquarters....
11/16/2007	Colorado Supreme Court Allows 2008 Anti-Abortion Ballot Initiative The Colorado Supreme Court ruled 7-0 this week to allow a proposed ballot initiative for the November 2008 election that would define a fertilized egg as a person....
11/15/2007	Massachusetts Expands Clinic Buffer Safety Zone Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick this week signed a bill expanding the clinic safety buffer zones in the state to 35 feet....
10/30/2007	Kansas Grand Jury on Tiller Blocked The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday blocked a grand jury investigation of Dr....
10/11/2007	South Dakota Supreme Court Will Hear Abortion Ban Campaign Finance Case State officials have asked the South Dakota Supreme Court to rule on whether or not the identity of a major contributor to a campaign to uphold a state law that would have banned abortion must be disclosed....
10/9/2007	International Tribunal to Consider US Domestic Violence Case An international human rights tribunal has accepted a petition by a US mother of three small girls who were murdered by her estranged husband after local police refused to act....
10/8/2007	Late-Term Abortion Provider Target of Multiple Investigations Operation Rescue has filed a complaint with the Kansas Board of Healing Arts against Dr....
10/3/2007	Anita Hill Responds to Clarence Thomas Anita Hill wrote in an Op-Ed yesterday, "I stand by my testimony" in the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas....
10/3/2007	Nicaraguan Abortion Ban Jeopardizes Women’s Health, Lives A study released yesterday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) found that Nicaraguan women’s health and lives have been put at risk by the country’s blanket ban on abortions, imposed one year ago....
10/2/2007	Court Will Not Hear Challenge to Birth-Control Coverage The Supreme Court declined to hear a case Monday about whether religious-based social services agencies should be forced to subsidize the cost of contraceptives as part of their health insurance benefits....
9/25/2007	Federal Appeals Court Considers Incarcerated Women’s Right to Abortion The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit heard arguments Monday on the whether the state of Missouri can deny incarcerated women access to a timely and safe abortion....
9/20/2007	Court Dismisses Appeal on Mandated Reporting of Underage Sex A federal appeals court ended former Kansas Attorney General Phil Kline’s quest to require health care providers and counselors to report all adolescent sexual activity, even kissing....
9/13/2007	New Jersey Court Won’t Force Doctors to Follow Anti-Choice Script The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that doctors are not obligated to give what the American Civil Liberties Union calls a "non-medical, value-laden speech" prior to performing an abortion....
9/11/2007	California Acts to Correct Ledbetter Decision The California State Senate has passed a law to shield workers in the state from a US Supreme Court decision that severely limits employees' ability to sue for equal pay....
9/4/2007	Iowa Allows Same-Sex Marriage for Less than a Day For less than a day, Iowa officials were accepting marriage license requests from same-sex couples and one same-sex couple was officially married, becoming the first same-sex married couple outside of Massachusetts....
8/27/2007	Embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Resigns After months of calls by both Democrats and Republicans in Congress for his resignation, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced this morning that he was stepping down, effective September 17....
8/24/2007	Feminist Author and Activist Grace Paley Dies The acclaimed writer, poet, feminist, and peace activist Grace Paley died on Wednesday in her home in Vermont at the age of 84 after a long struggle with breast cancer....
8/10/2007	Missouri: Judge Strikes Down Provision for Midwives A Circuit Court Judge in Cole County, Missouri struck down a new provision that would have eased state restrictions on midwifery....
7/25/2007	Sen. Kennedy Introduces Legislation to Correct Ledbetter Decision Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) has introduced the Fair Pay Restoration Act (S 1843), which is companion legislation to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (HR 2834) in the House....
7/24/2007	Washington Same-Sex Domestic Partnership Law Goes Into Effect A new law authorizing domestic partnerships for same-sex couples went into effect on Monday in Washington State....
7/20/2007	Louisiana: Governor Signs 3 Anti-Abortion Measures Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco (D) signed three bills last week that restrict women's access to abortion....
7/19/2007	Democratic Presidential Hopefuls Discuss Women's Rights, Health Three Democratic presidential candidates Senator Hillary Clinton (NY), Senator Barack Obama (IL), and former Senator John Edwards (NC), represented by his wife Elizabeth Edwards, shared their positions yesterday on current reproductive health care issues....
7/13/2007	Nebraska Judge Declares Mistrial in Rape Case after Language Ban District Judge Jeffre Cheuvront declared a mistrial yesterday in a Nebraska rape case in which the alleged victim would have been unable to say certain words, including "rape" and "assault"....
7/13/2007	Anti-Abortion Activists Descend on Birmingham and Wichita Birmingham, Alabama and Wichita, Kansas are the targets of protests by anti-abortion groups this weekend....
7/2/2007	New Hampshire Repeals Parental Notification Law Governor John Lynch signed legislation on Friday making New Hampshire the first state to repeal a law requiring minors to notify their parents before receiving an abortion....
6/29/2007	Committee Votes Ledbetter Legislation to House Floor In a straight party-line vote, the House Committee on Education and Labor voted on Tuesday to send the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to the House floor for a vote....
6/28/2007	Supreme Court Decision Assaults Brown v. Board of Education In a frontal assault to Brown v Board of Education -- the landmark case that desegregated schools -- the Supreme Court handed down this morning a 5-4 ruling that requires the elimination of integration plans at elementary and secondary public schools....
6/28/2007	Louisiana Legislature Bans Late Term Abortions The Louisiana legislature approved yesterday Senate Bill 161, which -- if signed into law by Governor Kathleen Blanco (D) -- would make it a felony for physicians to perform late term abortions....
6/26/2007	Supreme Court Issues 4 Reactionary Rulings Following two devastating Supreme Court decisions for women's rights in Gonzales v Carhart and Ledbetter v Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, the Supreme Court has issued four more reactionary rulings....
6/13/2007	Ledbetter Testifies in House Hearing; Committee Calls for Title VII Action Lilly Ledbetter, the plaintiff in a wage discrimination case against the Goodyear Rubber and Tire Company, spoke yesterday before the House Committee on Education and Labor, highlighting the difficulties employees face when reporting incidents of discrimination in the workplace....
6/12/2007	House Dems Prepare to Fix Wage Claims Legislatively; Ledbetter to Testify at Hearings Lilly Ledbetter, the plaintiff in a recent workplace discrimination lawsuit against Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, will be joining House Democrats in a press conference on Capitol Hill this afternoon to address the way in which the Supreme Court's interpretation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 failed to protect her against wage discrimination based on sex....
6/8/2007	Support for Family Planning Services Strong with American Public and Congress On the 42nd anniversary of Griswold v Connecticut, the Supreme Court case that established the right to birth control, new poll results showed yesterday that an overwhelming majority of Americans support access to birth control and other family planning services....
6/5/2007	Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Michigan Abortion Ban The US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down yesterday a 2004 Michigan law that aimed to ban some later term abortions....
6/4/2007	Domestic Women's Issues Not a Topic at Dem's 2nd Presidential Debate At last night's second presidential debate between the Democratic candidates, domestic policy affecting women was not an issue, despite two recent catastrophic Supreme Court decisions for women's rights....
5/31/2007	Mexican Supreme Court Will Consider New Abortion Law The Mexican Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it will hear a case filed by the National Human Right's Commission (NHRC) and the Attorney General's Office to determine whether Mexico City's law allowing abortion in the first three months of pregnancy is constitutional....
5/31/2007	Democrats to Introduce Legislation Counteracting Pro-Business Supreme Court Decision Democrats in the Senate and House will introduce legislation next week to counteract yesterday's Supreme Court decision that limited the time period in which an employee can legally challenge wage discrimination....
5/30/2007	Supreme Court Sides with Business in Wage Sex Discrimination Case A Supreme Court ruling issued yesterday will limit the ability of many workers to sue for wage discrimination....
5/18/2007	Massachusetts Legislature Considers Bill Limiting Protestors at Abortion Clinics The Massachusetts legislature is considering a bill that would prevent protestors from entering a 35-foot zone around abortion clinics....
5/16/2007	Convicted Abortion Clinic Bomber Harasses Victims From Jail Eric Robert Rudolph, sentenced to life in prison in 2005 for four bombings -- including bombings of abortion clinics in Atlanta and Birmingham -- has recently taunted his victims from jail using Internet postings....
5/1/2007	Japanese Court Denies Compensation for Comfort Women Japan's Supreme Court acknowledged on Friday that women had been coerced into sex slavery by the Japanese military during World War II, but the court still rejected claims for compensation....
4/27/2007	Explosive Device Found in Parking Lot of Austin Women’s Health Center A law enforcement task force disabled an explosive device found in the parking lot of the Austin Women's Health Center on Wednesday....
4/26/2007	North Dakota Passes Trigger Abortion Ban The North Dakota legislature has passed a bill that would ban abortions in the event that the US Supreme Court rules that such laws are constitutional....
4/26/2007	Abortion Bans Reconsidered After Supreme Court Decision Abortion bans in Missouri and Virginia that had never gone into effect may now be enforceable following the Supreme Court's decision last week to uphold a federal ban on an abortion procedure....
4/18/2007	BREAKING NEWS: Supreme Court Upholds Federal Abortion Procedure Ban Without Health Exception The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to uphold the federal Partial Birth Abortion Act, a ban on an abortion procedure that the Republican controlled Congress passed in 2003....
4/18/2007	Supreme Court Ruling in Abortion Ban Case Disastrous for Women's Health and Safety Statement of Eleanor Smeal, President, Feminist Majority In upholding the Bush Administration's abortion ban in Gonzales v....
4/9/2007	North Dakota Senate Opts for Special Vote to Rule on Abortion The North Dakota Senate voted last Thursday to change a bill that would have banned abortions if the Supreme Court were to change its position on abortion....
3/30/2007	Anti-Abortion Lawmakers Try to Reopen Tiller Case Kansas anti-abortion lawmakers introduced a resolution on Monday designed to compel recently elected Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison (D) to file charges against George Tiller, the late-term abortion provider who was repeatedly targeted by former KS Attorney General Phill Kline (R)....
3/23/2007	Mississippi Governor Signs Abortion Trigger Law Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour (R) signed a bill into law yesterday that will outlaw and criminalize all abortions in the event that the US Supreme Court overturns its 1973 decision in Roe v Wade....
3/21/2007	Bush Nominates Anti-Choice WY Lawyer to be District Judge Wyoming Republican Senators Mike Enzi and Craig Thomas announced on Monday that President Bush has nominated Wyoming lawyer Richard Honaker to serve as a US District judge....
3/16/2007	Former UCLA Prof. Receives $4 million in Sex Discrimination Case A former employee of the University of California - Los Angeles has been awarded over $4 million after winning a sex discrimination case against the Regents of the University of California....
3/6/2007	Claim Filed Against US for International Human Rights Violation A landmark case was heard by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on Friday, in which a domestic violence victim is filing an individual complaint against the US for international human rights violations....
2/15/2007	Case Closed: KS Supreme Court Dismisses Charges against Dr. Tiller The Kansas Supreme Court has granted Attorney General Paul Morrison's (D) request that charges against George Tiller, one of the country's few providers of late-term abortion, be dropped....
2/9/2007	IL: Judge Delays Implementation of Parental Notification Law A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that courts in Illinois are still not prepared to handle the implementation of a parental notification measure that was passed over 10 years ago and has never been enforced....
1/30/2007	SD Anti-Abortion Legislators Redraft Abortion Ban South Dakota legislators announced Monday that they will reintroduce a new version of their previous abortion ban that was rejected by voters in the November elections....
1/24/2007	California Title IX Case Settled for $725,000 Former University of California-Davis wrestling coach Michael Burch will receive a $725,000 settlement from UC-Davis after alleging that the university failed to renew his contract in retaliation for speaking out after the women's wrestling team was cut....
1/24/2007	IL: Attorney General Moves to Enforce Parental Notification Law Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan (D) has asked the federal courts to allow enforcement of a parental notification bill that was enjoined shortly after it was signed into law in 1995....
1/23/2007	Anniversary of Roe Met, Once Again, with Rallies of Support and Protest Supporters and opponents of reproductive freedom participated in events across the country yesterday, marking the 34th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v Wade that legalized abortion for women in the US....
1/22/2007	Goodyear Settles Second Gender Discrimination Case Goodyear Tire Company agreed to a $925,000 settlement to be disbursed among some 800 women who were not hired for entry-level, tire-building jobs at the company’s plant in Danville, Virginia....
1/22/2007	Today Marks 34th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade On this day in 1973, the US Supreme Court handed down the decision that gave women the right to a legal abortion....
1/19/2007	NARAL Releases Latest State-by-State Report on Reproductive Rights NARAL Pro-Choice America released today its 16th annual report tracking reproductive choice-related legislation at the state and national levels....
1/8/2007	Anti-Abortion Bill Filed in Oklahoma Oklahoma State Representative Mike Reynolds (R) recently filed an abortion 'trigger' bill in the state legislature....
12/18/2006	NJ Legislature Approves Same-Sex Civil Unions The New Jersey State Legislature voted on Thursday to legalize civil unions for same-sex couples after the state's highest court ordered the legislature to pass a law that would give same-sex couples the same benefits as heterosexual couples....
12/15/2006	Two Title IX Sex Discrimination Cases Finally Settled Two similar cases involving Title IX were recently settled in Alabama and Maryland....
12/5/2006	Groups Rally to Protect Affirmative Action in High Court Cases Advocacy groups, students, and supporters of affirmative action rallied at the Supreme Court yesterday morning as the high court considered two lawsuits on the subject....
11/28/2006	Supreme Court Hears Case on Gender Wage Discrimination The Supreme Court heard a case on Monday that calls into question the constitutionality of the six month statute of limitations on wage discrimination cases imposed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964....
11/21/2006	Christine Jennings Challenges FL Election Decision The Florida Elections Canvassing Commission named Vern Buchanan (R) the winner in a close race against Christine Jennings (D) for the Congressional seat left open by Katherine Harris (R) in Florida’s 13th district....
11/14/2006	Ireland Teens Respond to Age of Consent Ruling Ireland's Supreme Court ruled in May that statutory rape consists of any man or boy having intercourse with a girl under the age of 15....
11/9/2006	Justices Consider Medical Details in Abortion Ban Hearing The Supreme Court heard two cases yesterday regarding the federal ban on certain abortion procedures used in the second and third trimester of pregnancy....
11/8/2006	Supreme Court Hears Federal Abortion Ban Case Today The Supreme Court will hear arguments today in two cases that challenge the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, which Congress passed in 2003....
11/6/2006	Kansas Abortion Provider Requests Investigation of TV Remarks Abortion provider George Tiller plans to ask the Kansas Supreme Court today to investigate if Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline and FOX TV Host Bill O’Reilly violated patients’ privacy during an interview on Fox’s "The O’Reilly Factor." O’Reilly reported that a "source inside" one of the two abortion clinics under investigation by Kline said that Tiller provided late-term abortions to depressed women....
10/31/2006	Reproductive Rights Pioneer Dies Jane Hodgson, MD, a longtime crusader for abortion rights, died last week at the age of 91....
10/26/2006	NJ Supreme Court Rules: Equal Rights for Same-Sex Couples The New Jersey State Supreme Court ruled yesterday in a 4-3 decision that same-sex couples should have the same benefits of marriage as heterosexual couples....
10/25/2006	Supreme Court Makes Arizona Voter ID Law a Reality this November The US Supreme Court on Friday overturned an injunction issued by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to stop an Arizona voter identification law from being enforced in the upcoming elections....
10/20/2006	Missouri Supreme Court Strikes Down Voter ID Law In a six-to-one decision, the Missouri Supreme Court struck down a voter identification law on Monday, supporting a lower court decision that ruled the law violated the equal protection clause of Missouri's constitution, as well as the right guaranteed by the state constitution to vote....
10/18/2006	Scalia Declares No Right for Supreme Court to Legalize Abortion Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia appeared in a televised debate on Sunday with ACLU president Nadine Strossen, during which he reaffirmed his anti-abortion and anti-gay rights stance....
10/6/2006	Supreme Court to Consider Abortion Procedures Ban in November The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear several contentious cases during its current term, including two cases considering the constitutionality of the so-called "partial-birth" abortion ban passed by Congress and signed by President Bush in November of 2003....
9/19/2006	IL: Supreme Court to Revive Parental Notification Act The Illinois Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will revive a 1995 act that will require parental notification for women under 18 seeking an abortion....
8/31/2006	Number of Women Supreme Court Law Clerks Plummets The number of women who hold law clerkships with the US Supreme Court has dropped to only seven out of the 37 law clerkships available for the 2006-2007 term....
8/30/2006	Italy: Women Parliamentarians Seek to Change Rules on Surnames The Italian parliament will consider 13 bills next week to change the law that prohibits newborns from receiving any name but the father's surname, unless the father's identity is unknown....
8/3/2006	Washington Court Rules Against Gay Marriage Rights Washington's Supreme Court ruled late last month to uphold its ban on same-sex marriage, the Washington "Defense of Marriage Act" (DOMA)....
8/1/2006	Poll Finds South Dakota Voters Oppose Abortion Ban A recent poll shows that 47 percent of voters in South Dakota would vote against the state's abortion ban, while only 39 percent would vote in support of it....
7/27/2006	South Dakota Law Could Turn Abortion Providers into Murderers A new memo released by a South Dakota State Medical Association (SDSMA) lawyer concludes that under the changes to the state's homicide laws in 2005, abortion providers could be charged with murder should the recently passed abortion ban take effect....
7/25/2006	ABA Task Force Finds Recent Presidential 'Signing Statements' Bad for Democracy A task force of the American Bar Association (ABA) released a report yesterday highly critical of recent presidential 'signing statements'....
7/17/2006	Pro-Choice Supporters Rally in Mississippi Pro-choice forces held a rally on Saturday in Mississippi to counter a week of planned protests by the anti-abortion group Operation Save America (formerly Operation Rescue)....
7/17/2006	MI Supreme Court Allows Anti-Affirmative Action Ballot Measure The Michigan Supreme Court decided last week that it would allow an anti-affirmative action proposal on the November ballot, despite allegations that many of the signatures were gathered using deception....
7/6/2006	New York Court of Appeals Says No to Gay Marriage New York's highest court ruled against gay marriage today in a 4-2 decision....
6/27/2006	Supreme Court Lets Stand Anti-Choice License Plates The US Supreme Court declined to hear a case Monday that challenged the distribution of anti-choice license plates in Louisiana....
6/23/2006	Supreme Court Decision Establishes Stronger Anti-Retaliation Law In a unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court has broadened the definition of employer retaliation so that employees who report harassment can sue for acts of retaliation even if they are not fired or refused wages....
6/20/2006	Supreme Court Decides to Hear Second Case on Partial-Birth Abortion The Supreme Court decided yesterday to hear a second case on the so-called Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 in the upcoming term....
6/13/2006	Ohio Considers Extreme Abortion Ban Today, the Ohio House of Representatives is holding a hearing on a bill that would outlaw all abortion in the state, without any exceptions, including when a woman's life is at stake....
6/7/2006	Same-Sex Marriage Ban Limits Women's Protection Against Domestic Violence Ohio's 2004 constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage makes a previous domestic violence statute unconstitutional under the amendment's provisions, an Ohio appellate court ruled recently....
5/31/2006	Afghan Parliament Rejects Conservative Supreme Court Chief Justice Afghanistan's parliament rejected with a vote of 117 to 77 President Hamid Karzai's reappointment of an extreme conservative for chief justice of the Supreme Court....
5/25/2006	AIDS Policy Anti-Prostitution Requirement Ruled Illegal In a victory for international HIV/AIDS prevention work, two federal courts have ruled that the US government's requirement that US groups condemn prostitution in order to receive US funds is a violation of the First Amendment....
5/16/2006	Supreme Court Allows Lesbian Partner to Seek Parental Rights In a victory for the parental rights of gay couples, the Supreme Court allowed a non-biological mother the right to seek custody of a child she raised with a lesbian partner....
5/11/2006	Colombia to Permit Abortions in Certain Cases Reversing its complete ban on abortion under any circumstances, Colombia will now grant access to abortion when a pregnancy results from incest or rape or when the woman's life is endangered....
5/10/2006	Innovative Abortion Rights Leader Lawrence Lader Dies at 86 Lawrence Lader, a pioneer in the fight for abortion rights who in 1966 wrote the groundbreaking book on legalizing abortion, died on Sunday at the age of 86 of colon cancer....
5/2/2006	Supreme Court Denies Anti-Abortion Extremists' Appeal The Supreme Court refused without comment to hear an appeal by anti-abortion extremists on Monday in the "Nuremberg Files" case....
4/25/2006	New Cabinet in Afghanistan Includes No Women Afghan President Hamid Karzai's new cabinet currently includes no women....
4/19/2006	Los Angeles Archdiocese Must Release Priests' Personnel Records The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, meaning that the personnel files of two priests accused of child molestation must be turned over to prosecutors....
4/10/2006	Florida Supreme Court Hands Down Abortion Decision The Florida Supreme Court has upheld a law requiring that women seeking abortions must be informed of all medical risks and give written consent before the procedure can be performed....
4/6/2006	Democrats Push Prevention First Act Senate Democrats have said the time is right to vote on the Prevention First Act, which improves access to contraceptives, family planning services, and comprehensive sex education as a way to reduce abortions....
3/22/2006	Supreme Court Considers Requiring Abuse Victims to Appear in Court In a decision that could have severe ramifications for victims of domestic violence, the Supreme Court is considering whether plaintiffs in abuse cases are required by the Constitution to appear in court – something that many are afraid to do....
3/21/2006	Feminist Majority PAC Endorses Alan Sandals for US Senate Race in PA, Statement of Eleanor Smeal 3/21/2006 - The Feminist Majority PAC is very proud to announce its endorsement of Alan Sandals to be Pennsylvania’s next United States Senator....
3/16/2006	Former Justice O’Connor Warns of Beginnings of Dictatorship in US At a speech at Georgetown University, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor warned that the current levels of interference with and attacks on the nation's independent judiciary are the first steps towards dictatorship....
3/15/2006	Tennessee Moves to Change Constitution to Eliminate Abortion Protections Following rulings by the Tennessee Supreme Court that the state Constitution grants a greater right to abortion than the US Constitution, Tennessee legislators are trying to reduce those protections....
3/7/2006	South Dakota Governor Signs Abortion Ban Yesterday, South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds (R) signed a statewide abortion ban into law....
3/2/2006	Activists Urge Tourism Boycott to Protest SD Abortion Ban Following the passage of a disastrous abortion ban in South Dakota, the Women's Medical Fund and other abortion-rights activists are calling for pro-choice Americans to boycott all tourism in the state....
3/2/2006	Alito Thanks Dobson for Support Newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito sent a note to James Dobson, president of Focus on the Family, thanking him for his support and the prayers of Dobson’s supporters....
2/28/2006	Supreme Court Ruling Could Imperil Women's Health Clinics Arlington, VA – The Supreme Court today issued an 8-0 decision in two related cases (Scheidler, et al, v National Organization for Women (NOW), et al and Operation Rescue v NOW, et al), lifting a nationwide injunction protecting virtually all women's health clinics in the nation....
2/28/2006	Supreme Court Rules Against NOW, Clinics in Anti-Abortion Violence Case The Supreme Court today issued an 8-0 decision in two related cases first brought by the National Organization for Women (NOW) and two clinics of the National Women's Health Organization on behalf of virtually all clinics and all women two decades ago....
2/24/2006	Italian Supreme Court: Sex Abuse of Non-Virgins a Less Severe Crime In a decision condemned by women's groups, Italian MPs, and UNICEF, Italy's Supreme Court ruled last week that sexual abuse is less serious if the victim is not a virgin....
2/21/2006	Supreme Court Will Hear Federal Abortion Case Today, the Supreme Court announced that it will consider the Justice Department's appeal of a ruling that a federal ban on abortions was unconstitutional....
2/7/2006	Kansas Grants Access to Clinic Records, Protects Patient Information In a unanimous ruling Friday, the Kansas Supreme Court granted Attorney General Phill Kline permission to investigate records from abortion clinics, but patients' names and personal information will be withheld from the records he sees....
2/1/2006	Two Appeals Courts Rule Federal Abortion Procedure Ban Unconstitutional Yesterday, on the same day Samuel Alito was sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice, two federal appeals courts issued rulings that the federal abortion procedure ban was unconstitutional because it lacked an exception for cases in which a woman's health is in danger....
1/31/2006	Alito Confirmed (58-42), Closest Vote Since Clarence Thomas Samuel Alito was confirmed to the Supreme Court by a 58-42 vote in the Senate today, the closest vote on a Supreme Court nominee since Clarence Thomas (52-48)....
1/31/2006	Alito Confirmation Must Be a Wake-Up Call Following the Senate confirmation of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court by a vote of 58-42, Feminist Majority President Eleanor Smeal issued the following statement: The confirmation of Samuel Alito to the seat of Sandra Day O’Connor must be a wake-up call for American women....
1/30/2006	Cloture Vote to be Held Today on Alito Nomination A vote to end debate on the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court will be held today at 4:30 pm....
1/30/2006	Alito Cloture Vote Strengthens Progressive Forces Coalition Is Stronger for the Next Fight The Senate voted 72 to 25 today to end debate on Samuel Alito and move to a full Senate vote on Tuesday at 11 a.m....
1/27/2006	Group of Senate Democrats Launch Filibuster on Alito A group of Democratic Senators, led by Massachusetts Senators Ted Kennedy and John Kerry, has launched a filibuster to block the confirmation of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court....
1/27/2006	Kansas Will Comply With Medicaid Regulations, Fund Abortions A federal district judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit brought by Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline (R) that sought to prevent Kansas from funding abortions for the state's Medicaid recipients....
1/25/2006	PA: Anti-Choice Democratic Senate Candidate Casey Supports Alito Robert Casey, an anti-choice Democrat who is challenging Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) in November, has outraged women's rights supporters by announcing his support for confirming Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court....
1/24/2006	Judiciary Democrats Vote Solidly 'No' on Alito In a straight party-line vote (10-8), the Senate Judiciary Committee voted this morning to approve Alito's confirmation, sending the debate to the Senate floor....
1/23/2006	Judiciary Committee Votes Tomorrow on Alito; Filibuster Possible, Says Durbin Tomorrow, two days after the 33rd anniversary of Roe v Wade, the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on Samuel Alito, a Supreme Court nominee who in 1985 wrote that the Constitution does not protect a woman's right to an abortion....
1/23/2006	Ohio, Indiana Consider Complete Abortion Bans A measure to ban abortion has been introduced in the Ohio House of Representatives dominated by Republicans, just one of the increasing number of anti-choice measures moving through individual states....
1/20/2006	More Senators Announce Opposition to Alito More Senators have announced their opposition to Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court....
1/19/2006	No on Alito Momentum Building The momentum to stop the confirmation of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court is growing....
1/18/2006	Supreme Court Unanimously Remands Parental Notification Case to Lower Court The US Supreme Court unanimously ruled to send the New Hampshire parental notification case back to the lower courts, avoiding a decision about whether such laws place an undue burden on women seeking abortions when they lack any exception to protect the health of the young woman in medical emergencies....
1/17/2006	Alito Committee Vote Scheduled for January 24 Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats won a victory in delaying the committee vote on Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito to January 24....
1/13/2006	Alito Committee Vote May Be Delayed One Week After a week of tough questioning from many Senators on reproductive rights, Congressional and executive power, Vanguard, and Concerned Alumni of Princeton, the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings have ended....
1/12/2006	Alito Refuses to Say Roe is 'Settled Law' In questioning yesterday by Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL), Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito not only refused to say whether he believed the Constitution protected a woman’s right to choose abortion, he also would not say whether he considered Roe to be 'settled law.' “If settled means that it can’t be reexamined, then that’s one thing....
1/11/2006	Kennedy Calls for a Subpoena Into CAP Records Senator Kennedy (D-MA) is calling for the Senate Judiciary Committee to issue a subpoena into the Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP) Library of Congress records because Senator Kennedy said Alito's response to questions on CAP do not add up....
1/11/2006	Alito Refuses to Disavow Anti-Abortion Stance In tough questioning yesterday by Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito did not disavow a statement he made in 1985 that the Constitution does not protect the right to a legal abortion....
1/11/2006	Alito Will Not Distance Himself From 1985 Anti-Abortion Stance STATEMENT OF ELEANOR SMEAL President, Feminist Majority Halfway through the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Samuel Alito to the US Supreme Court, women are still without straight answers or adequate explanations on critically important questions related to women's rights and civil rights....
1/10/2006	Day Two of Supreme Court Hearings; ACLU Opposes Alito As the Senate Judiciary Committee begins its second day of the confirmation hearings for Samuel Alito, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has announced its opposition to Alito for the Supreme Court....
1/9/2006	A Serious Juncture on the March for Women's Equality Washington, DC -- With the confirmation hearings for Samuel Alito beginning on Capitol Hill today, generations of progress on women's rights is at stake....
1/9/2006	Alito Hearings Begin; Women Lawyers Rate Alito 'Not Qualified' As the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito begin, the National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL) gave Alito a "not qualified" rating....
1/6/2006	Senators Troubled by Alito Record on Executive Power, Commerce Clause, Women's Rights With Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Samuel Alito set to begin on Monday January 9, leading Senators on the committee held press events yesterday....
1/4/2006	Students from 35 States Come to Washington, DC to Stop Alito Students from 35 States Come to Washington, DC to Stop Alito Feminist Majority Foundation Announces Freedom Winter '06 WASHINGTON, DC - Today the Feminist Majority Foundation, with the National Organization for Women and the National Congress of Black Women, announced Freedom Winter '06, part of a joint national campaign to block the confirmation of Samuel Alito because of the serious threat he poses to the future of women's rights and civil rights....
1/4/2006	Women’s Rights Groups Announce Joint Campaign to Block Alito The Feminist Majority Foundation, with the National Organization for Women and the National Congress of Black Women, today announced Freedom Winter '06, part of a joint campaign to stop the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito....
1/3/2006	Women's Rights Campaign to be Announced January 3 to Block Samuel Alito's Confirmation to the Supreme Court In the spirit of the civil rights movement of 1964, the National Organization for Women, the National Congress of Black Women, and the Feminist Majority Foundation will introduce a coordinated effort to stop the confirmation of Judge Samuel Alito to the United States Supreme Court....
12/22/2005	Feminist Daily News Wire Will Not Update Until January 2, 2006 Check back here for updates in the New Year....
12/22/2005	MsMagazine.com Released Today the Top Ten News Stories for Women in 2005 MS....
12/16/2005	Leading Civil Rights Group Announces Opposition to Alito The NAACP, which represents more than 500,000 members, announced its opposition to the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court....
12/15/2005	Leading LGTB and Disabilities, and Labor Coalitions Announce Opposition to Alito Two national coalitions, one of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights groups and the other of disabilities rights groups, have announced their opposition to the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court....
12/14/2005	Supreme Court to Evaluate Texas Redistricting The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would hear four cases involving the 2003 redistricting in the state of Texas, which dramatically increased the number of Republicans in the Congressional delegation from Texas....
12/14/2005	Members of Congress Again Ask Bush: Are You Opposed to Birth Control? Led by Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), 38 members of Congress sent a letter to President Bush yesterday, asking him whether he is for or against birth control....
12/13/2005	Women's Rights Editor Jailed in Afghanistan Faces Increasing Threats Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, the editor of an Afghan women's rights magazine who was convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to two years in prison, is facing increasing calls for harsher punishments, including a recent fatwa demanding that Nasab repent or be executed....
12/12/2005	UPDATE: Frist Threatens Use of So-Called 'Nuclear Option' UPDATE: Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) challenged Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) on the floor of the Senate today, asking where in the Constitution was it written that a nominee has the right to an up or down vote....
12/8/2005	National Women's Law Center, Congressional Black Caucus Oppose Alito The National Women's Law Center and the Congressional Black Caucus today announced their opposition to Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito today based on his hostility toward civil rights and women's rights....
12/6/2005	Supreme Court Hears Campus Military Recruitment Case Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that pits law schools' anti-discrimination policies against the military's anti-gay policies and on-campus recruitment efforts....
12/5/2005	Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Sex Harassment Case The US Supreme Court today agreed to hear a sexual harassment case involving the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway....
12/1/2005	Alito Memorandum Demonstrates Hostility to Women's Reproductive Rights Unquestionable evidence of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito's efforts to undercut women's reproductive rights surfaced yesterday in a memorandum he wrote while serving in the Reagan Justice Department....
11/30/2005	Supreme Court Hears Critical Cases to Stop Anti-Abortion Violence - Statement of Eleanor Smeal, President Supreme Court Hears Critical Cases to Stop Anti-Abortion Violence Statement of Eleanor Smeal, President Washington, DC - After the United States Supreme Court heard arguments today in two related class action cases involving anti-abortion clinic violence and access to women's health clinics (Joseph Scheidler, et....
11/29/2005	Supreme Court Preview: Ayotte v Planned Parenthood The Supreme Court tomorrow will hear arguments in a case involving a challenge to a New Hampshire parental notification law for women under the age of 18 seeking an abortion....
11/29/2005	IN: Abortion Waiting Period Upheld in Supreme Court A law requiring women to obtain in-person counseling at least 18 hours before having an abortion was upheld by the Indiana Supreme Court on Wednesday....
11/29/2005	Supreme Court to Hear Two Cases to Stop Anti-Abortion Violence on Nov. 30 On Wednesday, November 30, at 10 am, Scheidler et al....
11/28/2005	Supreme Court Preview: Scheidler v NOW, Operation Rescue v NOW The Supreme Court will hear two related cases on Wednesday involving violence against women's health clinics and access to abortion services....
11/18/2005	Leading Civil Rights Coalition Joins Growing Opposition to Alito The nation's largest civil rights coalition has announced its opposition to the nomination of Samuel Alito to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, joining a growing coalition of at least 22 constituency groups....
11/16/2005	Alito Key in 1985 Reagan Anti-Abortion Brief Samuel Alito played a key role in a 1985 Reagan administration brief that advocated for overturning the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, according to a coauthor of the brief....
11/14/2005	Alito: 'Constitution Does Not Protect a Right to an Abortion' According to a document obtained by the Washington Times, Samuel Alito, Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court, does not support a woman's right to a safe, legal abortion....
11/8/2005	Alito's Senior Thesis Advisor Discusses Alito's Views on Abortion Samuel Alito's senior thesis advisor at Princeton University shed new light on Alito's judicial philosophy concerning the right to a safe, legal abortion....
11/7/2005	Opposition to Alito Nomination Continues to Grow Opposition to the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court continues to mount as a leading coalition of women's rights organizations and a group of Congresswomen announced their opposition to his confirmation....
11/4/2005	Alito Hearing, Vote Schedule Announced; Filibuster Still on the Table Senate Judiciary Chair Arlen Specter (R-PA) and Ranking Minority Member Patrick Leahy (D-CT) announced yesterday the schedule planned to consider the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court....
11/2/2005	Alito's Mother Says It All Rose Alito, the mother of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, told the Associated Press that "of course" her son is "against abortion." But you don’t need to get this from his mother....
11/2/2005	MI: Anti-Affirmative Action Measure Will be on 2006 Ballot The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled on Monday that the Board of State Canvassers should approve petitions that would put an initiative to end affirmative action on the November 2006 ballot....
10/31/2005	Feminist Majority Opposes Samuel Alito Alito's Confirmation Would Drive Women's Rights Back Decades Arlington, Virginia – Feminist Majority President Eleanor Smeal issued the following statement on the nomination of Samuel A....
10/31/2005	Progressive Groups Oppose Alito Nomination In the hours after President Bush's nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, many progressive groups have announced their opposition to this far-right Supreme Court nominee....
10/28/2005	Americans Still Want Woman Nominee to Supreme Court A poll conducted after Harriet Miers announced her withdrawal from consideration as a Supreme Court nominee found that 59 percent of Americans still feel it is important for a woman to fill Sandra Day O’Connor’s seat on the Supreme Court....
10/27/2005	Miers Withdraws Her Nomination to the Supreme Court Under increasing pressure to release White House documents and a conservative attack campaign being launched against her, Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination to the Supreme Court today....
10/27/2005	Statement of Eleanor Smeal on the Withdrawal of Harriet Miers Statement of Eleanor Smeal President, Feminist Majority October 27, 2005 The withdrawal of Harriet Miers illustrates how much is at stake in the appointment and confirmation of the Supreme Court Justice to replace Sandra Day O'Connor, the decisive vote on issues of grave concern to American people, especially women. The public, on all sides of the political spectrum, was demanding more information on her judicial philosophy and her performance within the White House....
10/27/2005	Statement of Eleanor Smeal on the Withdrawal of Harriet Miers Statement of Eleanor Smeal President, Feminist Majority The withdrawal of Harriet Miers illustrates how much is at stake in the appointment and confirmation of the Supreme Court Justice to replace Sandra Day O’Connor, the decisive vote on issues of grave concern to American people, especially women. The public, on all sides of the political spectrum, was demanding more information on her judicial philosophy and her performance within the White House....
10/24/2005	Editor of Afghan Women's Rights Magazine Convicted Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, the male editor of a women's rights magazine in Afghanistan, has been sentenced to two years in jail by for criticizing punishments doled out because of interpretations of Sharia (Islamic) law....
10/19/2005	Miers' 1989 Questionnaire on Abortion Reveals Extreme Anti-Abortion View A 1989 Texans for Life questionnaire released yesterday made clear that Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers is extremely opposed to abortion....
10/18/2005	Evidence of Miers' Anti-Choice Stance Grows On a 1989 questionnaire, Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers supported an extreme proposed US Constitutional ban on abortions, and she continues to avoid taking a stand on the issue of privacy in the Constitution....
10/18/2005	Supreme Court Stays Federal Judge’s Decision to Allow Inmate's Abortion The Supreme Court today acknowledged the right of a Missouri inmate to have an abortion, accepting the ruling of a federal judge who had ordered Missouri prison officials to provide transportation for the woman....
10/5/2005	Miers Widely Reported to be Opposed to Abortion Friends and colleagues of Harriet Miers, President Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court, are widely quoted in the press today confirming that Miers is opposed to abortion....
10/5/2005	Women's Rights Magazine Editor Arrested in Afghanistan The editor of an Afghan women's rights monthly magazine was arrested on Saturday in Kabul....
10/4/2005	Bush Implies He Never Talked to Miers About Abortion In a rare press conference today, President Bush implied that he has never discussed abortion with Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers....
10/4/2005	Miers' Nomination Overshadows New Indictments for DeLay The announcement of Harriet Miers as Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court yesterday pushed news of additional indictments of Representative Tom DeLay (R-TX) to the background....
10/3/2005	Harriet Miers Nominated to Fill Justice O’Connor's Supreme Court Seat President Bush today nominated White House Counsel Harriet Miers to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by Sandra Day O'Connor....
9/29/2005	Roberts Confirmed as Chief Justice 78 to 22 John Roberts was confirmed as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court today by a vote of 78 to 22 in the US Senate....
9/28/2005	Bush Administration Appeals Abortion Decision Since the so-called Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act was signed into law by President Bush in 2003, it has been successfully challenged in three states — California, New York and Nebraska — as being unconstitutional, and never enforced....
9/23/2005	Roberts Voted Out of Committee The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 13-5 yesterday to send the nomination of John Roberts to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to the Senate floor....
9/21/2005	Feminist Leader Molly Yard Dies Molly Yard, an indefatigable advocate for women's rights, passed away last night in her sleep in Pittsburgh at the age of 93....
9/20/2005	BULLETIN: Senator Reid Announces He Will Vote No on Roberts In a statement on the floor of the Senate today, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced he would vote against the confirmation of John Roberts for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court....
9/16/2005	Roberts Stonewall Continues On the third day of questioning by Senators on the Judiciary Committee, Roberts continued to refuse to answer questions about his views on abortion rights and the right to privacy....
9/15/2005	Roberts Continues to Stonewall in Supreme Court Hearings On the third day of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on John Roberts' nomination as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Roberts continued to stonewall Senators on issues important to women....
9/14/2005	Roberts Ducks Questions on Reproductive Rights On the first full day of questioning by Senators, John Roberts avoided answering questions about whether he would uphold a woman's right to choose abortion as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court....
9/14/2005	Rally Planned to Oppose Roberts MEDIA ADVISORY Leading Women's & Civil Rights Organizations to Hold Rally Opposing John Roberts for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Thursday, September 15 1-2 p.m. C St....
9/13/2005	EDITORIAL: Day One of the Roberts Hearings by Eleanor Smeal, President Feminist Majority Today on Capitol Hill, John G....
9/12/2005	Feminist Majority Opposes Nomination of John Roberts for Chief Justice Statement of Eleanor Smeal, President The Feminist Majority, a leading nationwide women's rights organization, strongly opposes the nomination of John Roberts for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court....
9/12/2005	Hearings on Roberts Begin; Groups Opposing Roberts Hold Demonstrations The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on John Roberts for the Supreme Court begin today....
9/9/2005	Award to Doctors Significantly Reduced in 'Nuremberg Files' Case A three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reduced the damages awarded to abortion providers in the "Nuremberg Files" case from $108 million to $4.73 million, the maximum allowed under a 2003 Supreme Court precedent....
9/9/2005	Kansas Record-Seeking Aims to Prosecute Clinics In the Kansas Supreme Court yesterday, it was revealed that Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline's subpoena of 90 patients' medical records is part of an investigation into possible felonies committed by two clinics....
9/9/2005	Leading Progressive Groups Plan Week of Action Against Roberts Leading women's and civil rights groups are holding a Week of Action against John Roberts for the Supreme Court, to coincide with Roberts' confirmation hearings next week....
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....
9/7/2005	Roberts Hearings to Begin September 12 at Noon The feminist movement is gearing up in preparation for the Supreme Court confirmation hearings on John Roberts for Chief Justice....
9/6/2005	Roberts Nominated for Chief Justice of Supreme Court President Bush on Monday nominated John Roberts to fill the late William Rehnquist's seat as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court....
9/6/2005	Feminist Leaders Call for Woman Nominee to Supreme Court With a second vacancy on the Supreme Court, and Judge John Roberts nominated as Chief Justice, women's rights leaders reiterated their appeal for a woman appointee to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor....
9/5/2005	Feminist Majority Opposes Nomination of John Roberts for Chief Justice Statement of Eleanor Smeal, President The Feminist Majority strongly opposes the nomination of John Roberts for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court....
9/2/2005	Leading Grassroots Organizations Oppose John Roberts Leading organizations, including the Feminist Majority, held a press conference today on the grassroots efforts to defeat John Roberts, President Bush’s nominee for the Supreme Court....
9/1/2005	Feminist Majority Joins Leading Grassroots Groups in Opposing John Roberts Arlington, VA – The Feminist Majority today joins leading grassroots organizations in opposing John Roberts for the Supreme Court. “Everything we know about Judge Roberts’ record indicates that he will be a solid vote against women’s rights, civil rights, and the right to privacy,” said Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority. The grassroots opposition to Roberts is growing on all fronts....
8/30/2005	Media Advisory: Roberts Opposition Grows Organizations Representing Millions of Americans Report Groundswell of Opposition to Roberts as Nominee’s Record and Positions Become Known Thursday, September 1, 2005 at 10 AM National Press Club, Zenger Room Washington, DC WHAT: Press conference of leading organizations, representing millions of members, opposed to John Roberts for the Supreme Court....
8/29/2005	Iraq Constitution 'Big Disappointment' for Women Iraq's draft constitution was finalized on Sunday and will be sent to voters for a nationwide referendum to be held in six weeks....
8/26/2005	Feminist Majority Foundation Expresses Outrage over FDA Stall Tactics on Over-the-Counter Status for Emergency Contraception Arlington, VA – The Feminist Majority Foundation today expressed its outrage that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has delayed for the third time its decision on the emergency contraceptive Plan B....
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)....
8/22/2005	Newly Released Memos Confirm Roberts' Hostility to Women’s Rights Papers released on Thursday by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library show that John Roberts, President Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court, was hostile to measures designed to protect and expand women's rights....
8/17/2005	Roberts Referred to 'Abortion Tragedy' in 1985 Memo A memo just released by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library sheds more light onto John Roberts' views on abortion rights....
8/16/2005	Newly Released Documents Reveal Roberts' Opposition to Pay Equity Measures Supreme Court justice nominee John Roberts wrote in strong opposition to a Washington state judge's effort to address pay equity during his work as associate White House counsel to the Reagan administration....
8/11/2005	Boxer Expresses Concerns Over Roberts' Views in Speech In a speech at Golden Gate School of Law in San Francisco yesterday, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) laid out her concerns about John Roberts' record and views on fundamental issues, including Title IX, the right to privacy, and protections against clinic violence....
8/10/2005	John Roberts: Architect of Laissez-Faire Policy Concerning Clinic Violence? Focus on John Roberts and Clinic Violence Washington, DC – The Feminist Majority and its president, Eleanor Smeal, joined other leading women’s rights groups today in bringing into focus John Roberts’ role in Bray v....
8/9/2005	Women's Groups Hold Press Conference on Roberts' Record on Clinic Violence Leading women's groups, including the Feminist Majority, held a press conference at the US Capitol today on John Roberts' role in a clinic violence case in the early 1990s, when Roberts was deputy solicitor general under the first Bush Administration....
8/9/2005	Bush Administration Urges Supreme Court to Uphold NH Parental Notification Law Despite the lack of an exception to protect a young woman's health, the Bush administration advised the Supreme Court yesterday to rule in favor of a New Hampshire law requiring physicians to notify at least one of a minor's parents 48 hours before performing an abortion....
8/4/2005	Roberts: Writings Reveal Opposition to the Right to Privacy and Civil Rights Recently released documents by the National Archives have exposed an even more troubling, right-wing John Roberts....
8/4/2005	Voters Who Know Roberts' Record Oppose Nomination The Mellman Group released the results yesterday of an online focus group conducted with 107 swing voters on the issue of John Roberts' nomination to the Supreme Court....
8/2/2005	White House Still Refuses to Say Whether Bush Opposes Contraception For the second time, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan has refused to answer questions about whether the President is opposed to contraception....
7/29/2005	Women Senators: Roberts Must Disclose View on Abortion, Launch Website Seven Democratic women Senators announced at a press conference yesterday that they will insist Supreme Court justice nominee John Roberts respond to questions about his position on abortion....
7/28/2005	Key Senators Say Roberts Must Disclose Position on Past Court Cases Two key Senators said yesterday that the confirmation of John Roberts to the Supreme Court could become more difficult if he refuses to divulge his views on past court cases....
7/28/2005	Anti-Abortion Extremist Loses Appeal on Child Molestation Charges John Burt, an anti-abortion extremist, was taken into custody yesterday after losing an appeal of his conviction for molesting a 15-year-old girl who was in his care at his so-called home for "unwed" mothers, Our Father’s House....
7/27/2005	Gonzales Says Roe Not 'Settled Law' for Roberts as a Supreme Court Justice US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said that as a Supreme Court Justice, John Roberts would not be bound by precedent on abortion rights as he was as an appeals court judge....
7/27/2005	A More Right-Wing Roberts Being Revealed Daily The White House released some of the papers of John Roberts, Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court, but refused to release papers from when Roberts was deputy solicitor general under the George Bush, Sr from 1989 to 1993....
7/26/2005	Poll: Americans Want to Know Roberts' Opinion on Abortion A new poll found that the majority of Americans not only want to know Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' position on abortion but also want him to support a woman's right to legal abortion....
7/20/2005	Feminist Majority Opposes John Roberts for the Supreme Court Arlington, VA – The Feminist Majority today announced its opposition to John Roberts, President Bush's nominee for the United States Supreme Court....
7/19/2005	President Bush to Announce Supreme Court Nominee Tonight President Bush plans to announce his nominee for the US Supreme Court at 9 pm EST tonight....
7/19/2005	BULLETIN: President Bush Nominates Right-Wing John Roberts to Supreme Court President Bush nominated DC Circuit Court Judge John Roberts to the US Supreme Court....
7/18/2005	Federal Court Hears Appeal in 'Nuremberg Files' Case A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week heard an appeal by anti-abortion groups in the "Nuremberg Files" case....
7/15/2005	Is the President For Or Against Birth Control? Congress Members Ask Nineteen members of Congress have sent a leader to President Bush asking him to clarify his position on contraception....
7/14/2005	Poll: Most Americans Want a Woman to Replace O'Connor; Favor Roe A new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released today found that three out of four Americans want President Bush to name a woman to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court....
7/14/2005	Doctors Demand Supreme Court Justice Who Will Protect Legal Abortion Fourteen doctors who provided or helped women access abortion before it was legalized in the US issued a joint statement this week calling for a pro-choice justice to replace former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor....
7/12/2005	Laura Bush Wants a Woman to Fill the Supreme Court Vacancy In an interview on NBC's "Today Show," Laura Bush said that she hoped a woman would fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor....
7/12/2005	VA Delegate Pushes Gubernatorial Candidates on Abortion Virginia Delegate Robert Marshall (R) has asked the state's candidates for governor and lieutenant governor if they would support a state law making abortion illegal....
7/11/2005	Media Advisory: Ms. Forum to be on CSPAN-3, 10:30am EST Ms Forum Supreme Court Vacancy: What's At Stake for Women? Monday, July 11, 2005 10:30am Eastern LIVE on C-SPAN 3 With repeats all week on C-SPAN channels. Ms....
7/11/2005	Prominent Women Discuss Issues at Stake for Women in Supreme Court Fight Ms....
7/11/2005	Federal Appeals Court Affirms Unconstitutionality of Abortion Procedure Ban In an important abortion rights win, the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld a lower court decision that declared the so-called "Partial Birth Abortion Act of 2003" unconstitutional....
7/11/2005	Ms Forum - Supreme Court Vacancy: What's At Stake for Women? See the video! Ms Forum Supreme Court Vacancy: What's At Stake for Women? See the video - "National Press Club Forum on the Supreme Court Vacancy" Ms....
7/6/2005	Senators Differ on Impact of Nuclear Option on Supreme Court Nomination With Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's resignation, Senators on both sides have begun to discuss the potential impact of the so-called "nuclear option" and the deal that took it off the table in May....
7/5/2005	Women Leaders Rally for Abortion Rights Feminist leaders and activists rallied in Tennessee over the weekend declaring a state of emergency for women's rights with the resignation of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor....
7/5/2005	Statement of Eleanor Smeal on the Resignation of Sandra Day O'Connor Statement of Eleanor Smeal President, Feminist Majority July 2, 2005 The feminist movement today is declaring a state of emergency to save the Supreme Court for women’s rights....
7/5/2005	Women Still Underrepresented on the Federal Bench When Sandra Day O'Connor was confirmed as the first female Supreme Court Justice in 1981, there were only 48 women among the 700 active federal judges (6 percent)....
7/1/2005	BREAKING NEWS: Supreme Court Justice O'Connor Retires This morning, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement through a letter delivered to President Bush....
7/1/2005	Spain Legalizes Gay Marriage, California Court Upholds Domestic Partner Benefits Law Spain's Parliament approved a bill this week legalizing same-sex marriage....
7/1/2005	Statement of Eleanor Smeal on the Resignation of Justice O'Connor Statement of Eleanor Smeal President, Feminist Majority July 1, 2005 With Sandra Day O'Connor's resignation, President Bush could reverse 32 years of freedom and progress for women....
6/30/2005	Supreme Court to Re-hear Clinic Violence Case The US Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it would hear for the third time a long-running case dealing with clinic violence....
6/28/2005	Victory for Pakistan Gang-Rape Victim The Pakistan Supreme Court reopened the case of gang-rape victim Mukhtar Mai (also known as Mukhtaran Bibi) yesterday following pressure from human rights groups and governments worldwide....
6/28/2005	Supreme Court Decision Weakening Restraining Orders Short-Shrifted in the News In its last day before summer recess, the Supreme Court issued decisions on six cases, only two of which, the decisions to outlaw copies of the Ten Commandments at a Kentucky courthouse and to protect copyrighted material in Internet file sharing, were widely covered by the media....
6/27/2005	Supreme Court Weakens Enforcement of Restraining Orders The US Supreme Court issued a decision today that weakens enforcement of restraining orders....
6/10/2005	Title IX Lawsuit Avoided at Assumption College In a victory for women's collegiate athletics, Assumption College, a Catholic four-year liberal arts college in Worchester, Massachusetts, has reinstated both the men's and women's indoor and outdoor track and field teams....
6/9/2005	Senate Approves (53-45) Another Right-Wing Extremist Judge Less than 24 hours after the Senate voted to confirm extreme right-wing Judge Janice Rogers Brown to sit on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, the Senate has confirmed yet another of President Bush's far-right nominees....
6/8/2005	Supreme Court Dismisses Wrestlers' Case Against Title IX In a win for women and girls in sports, the US Supreme Court has dismissed a case brought by the National Wrestling Coaches Association against the Department of Education challenging Title IX, the landmark law prohibiting sex discrimination in federally funded educational programs....
6/8/2005	Poll Shows Americans Support Access to Contraception A new poll commissioned by the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA) has found overwhelming public support for women's access to contraception....
6/8/2005	Senate Confirms Janice Rogers Brown to DC Circuit On a vote of 56 to 43, the US Senate today confirmed Janice Rogers Brown to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals....
6/7/2005	Will Birth Control Fall Victim to New Conservative Judges? A little-understood and endangered link unites Roe v....
6/7/2005	40th Anniversary of Griswold v Connecticut Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark decision that legalized access to birth control for married persons....
6/6/2005	Late-Term Abortion Ban Ruled Unconstitutional in Virginia On Friday, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit struck down a Virginia abortion procedure ban that not only restricted a woman's right to abortion but posed a threat to women's health....
5/25/2005	Anti-Women's Rights Judge Confirmed in Senate Priscilla Owen, an anti-women's rights and civil rights nominee to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, was confirmed today in the Senate by a 56-43 vote....
5/24/2005	Abuse of Raw Power by Senate Republicans and the President Slowed Statement of Eleanor Smeal President, Feminist Majority Arlington, Virginia – The Senate deal stops for now Majority Leader Frist’s nuclear option....
5/24/2005	Senate Deal Protects Filibuster, For Now Fourteen Democrats and Republicans in the Senate struck a deal last night that averts the so-called “nuclear option” and preserves the right to filibuster judicial nominees for now....
5/24/2005	Supreme Court Will Hear Parental Notification Case this Fall The United States Supreme Court announced Monday that it will consider the case of New Hampshire's parental notification law during its fall session, which begins in October....
5/23/2005	Nuclear Vote Countdown The Senate is less than a day away from a vote that could change the rules of the Senate to ban all filibusters of judicial nominees, including Supreme Court nominees....
5/23/2005	Howard Dean Favors State-by-State Ethical Rules on Late-Term Abortions In an interview with NBC News' "Meet the Press" on Sunday, Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean said that he favored state-by-state ethical rules governing late-term abortions....
5/18/2005	Frist Opens Debate on Far-Right Judge, Could Trigger Nuclear Option Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) opened debate today on Priscilla Owen, an extreme right-wing, anti-women's rights judicial nominee....
5/11/2005	Nuclear Option Could Receive a Vote as Early as This Week Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) announced yesterday that he intended to bring the first of several controversial Bush nominees for the federal judiciary to the Senate floor for a vote after passage of a transportation funding bill this week....
4/27/2005	Republicans Reject Compromise on Judicial Nominees Senate Republicans yesterday rejected a compromise offered by Democrats on judicial nominees....
4/26/2005	Nigerian President Approves First Female Supreme Court Judge Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has endorsed the appointment of the first female justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Aloma Mukhtar....
4/25/2005	Republicans Reach to the Far-Right for Support on Nuclear Option Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) appeared on "Justice Sunday: Stopping the Filibuster Against People of Faith," an evangelical broadcast to fundamentalist churches across the nation on Sunday to garner support for a rule change in the Senate that would eliminate the use of filibusters against judicial nominees....
4/22/2005	US Supreme Court Lets Stand Massachusetts Abortion Clinic Buffer Law By declining to hear an appeal of a lower court ruling, the US Supreme Court earlier this week let stand a Massachusetts law that prohibits protesters from coming within six feet of abortion clinic patients to disturb them or hand them leaflets....
4/21/2005	Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Right-Wing Judicial Nominees The Senate Judiciary Committee today on identical party-line votes approved two extreme right-wing Bush nominees to the federal Circuit Courts of Appeals, sending them to the full Senate....
4/11/2005	McCain Opposes So-Called Senator John McCain (R-AZ) said this weekend on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that he opposes ending the use of the filibuster on judicial nominees....
4/6/2005	Reid, Progressive Leaders Rally at Supreme Court Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and women’s rights, civil rights, and other progressive leaders and activists rallied at the Supreme Court today to protest the so-called "nuclear option." The "nuclear option" would change the rules of the Senate to prevent filibusters on judicial nominees - including Supreme Court nominees - by requiring only a simple 51-vote majority to close debate and move to a vote on the judges....
3/31/2005	Woman Challenges North Carolina Anti-Cohabitation Law A former sheriff’s dispatcher is challenging North Carolina’s law against cohabitation after losing her job for living with her boyfriend out of wedlock....
3/30/2005	Supreme Court Rejects Appeal on Idaho Abortion Law The US Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday to reinstate an Idaho law requiring minors to get parental consent for abortions....
3/29/2005	Supreme Court Ruling Strengthens Title IX, Protects Whistle-Blowers The US Supreme Court ruled today that those who are the victims of retaliation for drawing attention to Title IX violations can sue under the 1972 federal law prohibiting sex discrimination at institutions receiving federal financial assistance for education programs and activities....
3/24/2005	Brazil’s New Family Planning Program Angers Catholic Church Brazil has launched a new family planning program that distributes free contraceptives through the country's 6,012 hospitals and 63,662 clinics, angering Brazil's Roman Catholic Church....
3/23/2005	SD: Governor Signs into Law the Nation's Toughest Anti-Abortion Bills Governor Michael Rounds (R) signed four of the nation's toughest anti-abortion bills into law last week that will drastically restrict a woman's right to choose in South Dakota....
3/22/2005	Indiana: Planned Parenthood Fights AG's Attempt to Obtain Records Planned Parenthood of Indiana sued the state last week, filing both temporary and permanent injunctions against Attorney General Steve Carter, who has demanded the medical records of 73 low-income Planned Parenthood patients under the age of 14....
3/21/2005	Supreme Court Hears Restraining Order Case The US Supreme Court heard arguments in a case today that will determine whether police departments and local governments can be held accountable for failing to enforce restraining orders....
3/18/2005	Kansas Attorney General Accused of Violating Gag Order Two abortion clinics have accused Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline of violating a gag order barring him and the clinics from discussing publicly Kline's attempts to obtain the unedited medical records of 90 women and girls who sought late-term abortions in 2003....
3/15/2005	CA: Judge Finds Ban on Same-Sex Marriage Unconstitutional A California judge ruled on Monday that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and a violation of civil rights....
3/2/2005	Kansas Attorney General Seeks Women's Abortion Records Two clinics in Kansas are fighting attempts by Attorney General Phill Kline to subpoena unedited medical records of 90 women and girls who sought late-term abortions in 2003....
3/2/2005	Senate Holds Hearing on Previously Blocked Right-Wing Nominee The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Tuesday to consider the renomination of William Myers III for a seat on the Ninth Circuit of the US Court of Appeals....
3/1/2005	NH Asks US Supreme Court to Review Parental Notification Law The New Hampshire Attorney General filed a motion with the US Supreme Court Tuesday requesting review of two lower court rulings that struck down the state's law (HB 763) requiring doctors to notify a parent or guardian of any minor seeking an abortion at least 48 hours before the procedure is performed....
2/28/2005	Specter Voices Opposition to In a press conference on Thursday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) announced that he is not in support of proposed rule changes to limit the power of the Democratic minority in blocking radically conservative judicial nominees....
2/24/2005	Supreme Court Refuses to Reconsider Abortion Rights Decision On Tuesday, the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from Norma McCorvey, also known as Jane Roe, to overturn the landmark case she won in 1973 that legalized abortion....
2/23/2005	Ohio Governor Signs Bill to Sell "Choose Life" Plates Governor Bill Taft (R) of Ohio signed a bill last week authorizing the sale of license plates imprinted with the message "Choose Life," the proceeds of which will benefit non-profit groups that counsel pregnant women on adoption services....
2/16/2005	Labor Dept May Change Family Medical Leave Act Regulations The Department of Labor is considering changes to the landmark Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) after years of pressure from business interests....
2/15/2005	Bush Renominates 7 Judicial Nominees Previously Blocked by Senate Democrats On Monday, President Bush renominated seven of the ten judicial nominees that were blocked by Democratic filibusters during his first term because of their extreme right-wing records....
2/7/2005	NY: Supreme Court Ruling Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage; NYC to Appeal In a victory for lesbian and gay rights activists, a New York State Supreme Court ruled on Friday that same-sex couples cannot be denied a marriage license, as the state constitution guarantees that all citizens must be receive equal treatment, including equal access to marriage....
1/31/2005	Study Reveals Discrimination in Contracts Granted by New York City Last week, New York City Council members released the results of a study which determined that the city has not been granting a fair amount of contracts to women- and minority-owned businesses....
1/25/2005	"Choose Life" Plates Rejected by Supreme Court On Monday, the US Supreme Court declined to consider whether states may offer license plates with anti-abortion messages....
1/18/2005	Louisiana Governor Pardons Woman as MLK Day is Made Official Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco on Sunday signed a bill to make the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr a state holiday, following up on her first official act as governor last year of proclaiming the day should be recognized by Louisiana....
1/13/2005	Gregoire Sworn in - Washington State Makes History Christine Gregoire was sworn in Wednesday as Governor of Washington state....
1/11/2005	Supreme Court Declines Petition Arguing for Gay Adoption in Florida The Supreme Court has refused to hear a challenge to Florida's ban on adoption by lesbians and gay men....
1/3/2005	Bush Renominates Blocked Judicial Nominees The White House has announced that President Bush intends to renominate 20 of his most controversial picks for the federal courts, including those who were blocked by Democratic filibusters....
12/22/2004	Democrats Claim Victory for Christine Gregoire in Washington Recount Democrats in Washington state have declared victory for Christine Gregoire for Governor, after preliminary results in the hand recount of votes put Gregoire eight votes ahead of Republican Dino Rossi....
12/21/2004	Iran to Execute Two Women for "Morality" Crimes The fundamentalist regime of Iran has sentenced two women to death for so-called "crimes against morality," according to Amnesty International UK....
12/21/2004	Republicans Pick Anti-Abortion Senators for Senate Judiciary Committee The Republican leadership has selected Senator-elect Tom Coburn (R-OK), an advocate of the death penalty for doctors who perform abortions, and Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS), another strong opponent of abortion rights, to sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee....
12/10/2004	Canadian Supreme Court Rules that Same-Sex Marriage Is Constitutional The Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Thursday that a federal proposal to legalize same-sex marriage would be constitutional, allowing Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin of the Liberal Party to fulfill his promise to introduce legislation to legalize same-sex marriage....
12/7/2004	Fewer African American Students Reported at Several State Universities Several large state universities have recently reported the lowest number of incoming African American students in years, in spite of a Supreme Court ruling in 2003 that defended the constitutionality of using race as a factor in college admissions....
12/6/2004	Christine Gregoire Only 42 Votes Away from Washington Governorship With Christine Gregoire, the Democratic candidate for Governor in Washington, only 42 votes behind Republican candidate Dino Rossi, the state faces an unprecedented statewide hand recount of Washington's 2.9 million ballots....
12/2/2004	Federal Prosecutors Fight to Have Abortion Clinic Protections Upheld The Assistant US Attorney General argued before the Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals to have the verdict of a lower court overruled in order to protect the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE)....
12/1/2004	Ruling Upheld that Struck Down NH Parental Notification Law The First US Circuit Court of Appeals last week upheld the ruling of a lower court that found a New Hampshire law requiring parental notification before a minor could obtain an abortion unconstitutional because it failed to provide an exception for the health of the minor....
11/30/2004	Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Title IX Case The US Supreme Court will hear arguments today in a landmark case under Title IX, the 1972 federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in federally funded education....
11/29/2004	US Supreme Court Lets Stand Same-Sex Marriage in Massachusetts The US Supreme Court today let stand a Massachusetts Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage....
11/22/2004	Specter Promises to Support Bush's Judicial Nominees; Earns GOP Endorsement Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) earned the endorsement of his Republican colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee to be the committee's chair last Thursday after he released a formal statement saying he would support all of President Bush's judicial nominees, guaranteeing them prompt hearings and floor action....
11/15/2004	Louisiana to Correct Misinformation about Abortion-Breast Cancer Link A spokesperson for Louisiana’s Department of Health and Hospitals has announced that a state brochure containing false information about a link between abortion and breast cancer will be corrected....
11/5/2004	Anti-Choice Leaders Plan to Restrict Abortion Further in Bush’s Second Term Anti-abortion advocates responding to the results of the presidential election announced that with President Bush's win and the Republican Party's increased control of the US Congress, they have hopes that the administration will successfully pursue an anti-choice agenda....
11/4/2004	New Senate Judiciary Chair Warns Bush Expected incoming chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee Arlen Specter (R-PA) cautioned President Bush not to make any far-right nominations to the US Supreme Court, especially those who would overturn Roe v Wade....
10/27/2004	Supreme Court and Abortion Chief Justice William Rehnquist's illness underscores the importance of the presidential election in shaping the US Supreme Court....
10/27/2004	Georgia Supreme Court Strikes Down Hate Crimes Law The state Supreme Court in Georgia on Monday overturned a 2000 law allowing for enhanced penalties for hate crimes....
10/22/2004	Feminist Leader, Actor Urge Students to Get Out Her Vote Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, and Amy Brenneman, star of television's "Judging Amy," urged students at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee to register and vote on November 2....
10/12/2004	Catholic Bishops Urge Voters to Support Anti-Abortion Candidates in November Several high-ranking leaders in the Catholic Church have recently said that the obligation to vote for a candidate who opposes abortion rights is a priority over all other issues in the upcoming presidential election....
10/8/2004	US Supreme Court: Catholic Organization Must Continue to Cover Birth Control The US Supreme Court denied review of a challenge to a California law that requires employers to include birth control for women in their prescription drug coverage....
10/6/2004	Thirty States Could Ban Abortion if Roe v Wade is Overturned The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) has released a report analyzing what could happen state by state if the Supreme Court reversed its 1973 decision guaranteeing women the right to an abortion....
9/24/2004	CA: Battered Women Bill Signed, Could Help Free Women for Past Crimes A bill signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) last Friday will allow imprisoned women a chance for a new trial or reduced sentence if they can prove that their crime was committed under coercion of an abusive partner....
9/24/2004	Iranian Girl Executed for Violating Chastity Laws A 16-year old Iranian girl was recently executed for violating Iran’s chastity laws....
9/20/2004	Challenge to Reopen Roe v Wade Fails The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a bid last week to reopen the landmark case that legalized abortion in 1973....
9/14/2004	Study: Universities Fail to Aid Voter Registration Nationwide A study released by Harvard University on Monday has found that more than one-third of college and universities do not comply with a federal law that requires them to assist students in registering to vote....
9/9/2004	AZ: Election Officials' Misstatements Lead to Student Voter Suppression Leading a campus-wide coalition of student groups, the University of Arizona Network of Feminist Student Activists demanded in a press release yesterday that the Pima County Registrar's Office and the Secretary of State correct erroneous statements made by the County Registrar's spokesperson on Fox News that out-of-state students who do not plan on staying in Arizona after graduation were not eligible to register and vote....
9/9/2004	Feminist Majority Foundation Joins University of Arizona Students in Demanding Election Officials Correct Misstatements Erroneous and Misleading Information Suppressing Student Voting Tucson, Arizona – Leading a campus-wide coalition of student groups, the University of Arizona Network of Feminist Student Activists today demanded that the Pima County Registrar’s Office and the Secretary of State correct erroneous statements made by the County Registrar’s spokesperson on Fox News that out-of-state students who don’t plan on staying in Arizona after graduation were not eligible to register and vote....
9/9/2004	Afghan Chief Justice Attacks Male Candidate for Remarks on Women's Rights The Chief Justice of the Afghan Supreme Court has demanded that candidate Latif Pedram be expelled from the presidential race for questioning marital laws....
9/8/2004	Abortion Procedures Ban Found Unconstitutional for the Third Time US District Court Judge Richard Kopf of Lincoln, Nebraska ruled today that the Partial-Birth Abortion Act is unconstitutional, recognizing the law as a threat to women's health....
8/27/2004	Abortion Procedures Ban Found Unconstitutional for Second Time A ruling by US District Judge Richard Casey of New York on Thursday found the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional....
8/25/2004	Judge Delays Sentencing for Clayton Lee Waagner US District Judge Anita Brody signed an order to delay the sentencing of self-proclaimed anti-abortion "terrorist" Clayton Lee Waagner until the US Supreme Court rules on two unrelated cases that will clarify federal sentencing guidelines....
8/24/2004	Proposal on Florida Ballot to Pave Way for Parental Notification Law Abortion opponents hope that a proposed amendment to the Florida state constitution placing limits on the privacy rights of minors will pave the way for a state parental notification law....
8/17/2004	Florida Court Finds School Voucher Program Unconstitutional A Florida appeals court ruled yesterday that a school voucher program violates the state's constitutional separation of church and state....
8/16/2004	Afghan Woman Runs for President Despite Death Threats Massouda Jalal, an Afghan woman who is one of the 18 candidates for President in Afghanistan, is determined to defeat President Karzai in the first post-Taliban elections that are scheduled to take place in October....
8/13/2004	California Supreme Court Invalidates Same Sex Marriages Nearly 4,000 marriages performed in San Francisco this spring for same sex couples were nullified by a California Supreme Court ruling Thursday....
8/5/2004	Same-Sex Marriage Ruled Legal in Washington, Banned in Missouri Missouri voters on Tuesday passed a ballot measure amending the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage, while a Washington state judge ruled yesterday that same-sex marriage is legal under state law....
8/2/2004	Women Can Be Convicted of Homicide for Risky Behavior during Pregnancy After Regina McKnight delivered a stillborn baby in 2001, prosecutors speciously linked the baby’s death with McKnight's cocaine use and promptly convicted her of homicide – a conviction that American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) attorneys are seeking to overturn....
7/23/2004	House Tramples Constitutional Separation of Powers The US House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday that would strip the federal courts, including the US Supreme Court, of its jurisdiction over same-sex marriage cases....
7/21/2004	Senate Democrats Block Right-Wing Judicial Nominee Senate Democrats were successful yesterday in blocking yet another radically conservative judicial nominee put forth by the Bush administration, the seventh such extremist to have been blocked by Democratic filibusters....
7/1/2004	Internet Pornography Law Blocked by Supreme Court The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a ban on the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), which threatened to criminalize not only pornographic but also sex education and advice websites....
6/30/2004	Court Decision Rejects Media Monopolies In a move protecting independent and progressive media voices, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit blocked implementation of several Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules that would have facilitated media conglomerates' consolidation....
6/25/2004	Far-Right Nominee Confirmed Bringing Total to 197 Yesterday, the Senate voted 70-27 to confirm far-right Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Diane Sykes to the Seventh US Circuit Court of Appeals bringing the total number of federal judicial nominees confirmed during Bush's term to 197....
6/16/2004	Supreme Court Rules on Sexual Harassment Liability The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled 8-1 that workers are allowed to sue their former employers after leaving their jobs due to intolerable sexual harassment....
6/14/2004	Supreme Court to Hear Title IX Case The US Supreme Court agreed today to hear a case involving a former girls' basketball coach who was allegedly fired after he complained that his team received less money and were forced to use worse facilities than comparable boys' teams....
6/14/2004	Appeals Court Finds Anti-Affirmative Action Petition Valid In a blow to affirmative action supporters, the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that petitions for a ballot initiative to end affirmative action in the state are valid....
6/1/2004	Affirmative Action Victories in Michigan, California An anti-affirmative action campaign in Michigan has experienced so many setbacks that it will now push back its plans by two years....
6/1/2004	Federal Judge Overturns Abortion Ban A federal judge in San Francisco today declared that the abortion procedures ban passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bush last year is unconstitutional....
5/26/2004	CA: Supreme Court Considers Same-Sex Marriage Licenses California's Supreme Court yesterday considered whether to invalidate marriage licenses given to more than 4,000 lesbian and gay couples in San Francisco earlier this year....
5/24/2004	Convicted Child Molester to be Released on Bond John Burt, an anti-abortion extremist and convicted child molester, will be released on a $10,000 bond pending appeal of his conviction....
5/20/2004	Kerry Would Consider Appointing Anti-Abortion Judges In an interview on Wednesday, Senator John Kerry (D-MA), the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, said that he would consider nominating anti-abortion judges to "some" federal courts....
5/17/2004	Massachusetts Becomes First State to Wed Same-Sex Couples Massachusetts became the first state to allow lesbian and gay couples to marry as the state Supreme Court ruling went into effect today....
5/17/2004	Segregation Still a Problem on 50th Anniversary of Brown Decision Today marks the 50th anniversary of Brown v Board of Education, the 1954 landmark US Supreme Court ruling that segregating students by race was inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional....
5/12/2004	Anti-Abortion Extremist Sentenced to 18 Years for Child Molestation Anti-abortion extremist John Burt was sentenced today to over 18 years in prison for molesting a 15-year-old girl....
5/11/2004	MA Town to Defy Governor on Marriage Licenses for Out-of-State Same-Sex Couples The board of selectmen in the Cape Cod town of Provincetown, which has a large gay population, voted yesterday to issue marriage licenses to couples even if they do not intend to live in Massachusetts....
5/10/2004	Federal Judge Issues Temporary Restraining Order in Utah Abortion Ban Case Last week, US District Court Judge Paul Cassell issued a temporary restraining order preventing the enforcement of Utah's abortion procedures ban for at least 10 days....
5/5/2004	FL: Legislature Seeks Parental Notification Constitutional Amendment The Republican-controlled Florida legislature on Friday garnered the three-fifths majority necessary to place a proposed constitutional amendment restricting abortion access for young women on the ballot this November....
4/28/2004	Ban on Female Singers Lifted in Afghanistan After pressure from reformists in Afghan President Hamid Karzai's party, the ban on women performers on television and radio that was imposed last Friday was lifted....
4/22/2004	Female Performers Banned From Television and Radio in Afghanistan Female performers in an Afghan province have been banned from performing on television and radio....
4/2/2004	Bush Signs Bill Undermining Abortion Rights President Bush on Thursday signed into law the so-called Unborn Victims of Violence Act....
3/30/2004	Trials Begin on Federal Abortion Procedures Ban Trials in three states began yesterday to determine the constitutionality of the federal abortion procedures ban signed into law last year....
3/29/2004	Two Anti-Affirmative Action Measures Dealt Blows Anti-affirmative action measures in Colorado and Michigan were dealt blows in the past several days....
3/25/2004	Eleanor Smeal, Feminist Majority President, Decries Senate Move Defeat of Feinstein Amendment Shows Disdain for Women Arlington, VA – Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority, today condemned the action by the United States Senate to further erode women’s rights by passing H.R....
3/8/2004	Documents Reveal Abortion Rights Decision Almost Overturned in 1992 Documents released to the public on Thursday reveal that abortion rights were almost overturned by the US Supreme Court in 1992....
3/2/2004	CA: Supreme Court Rules Catholic Group Must Cover Birth Control California's Supreme Court on Monday ruled that, in accordance with state law, Catholic Charities must cover contraceptives as part of its employee prescription drug coverage....
2/23/2004	Bush Makes Second Recess Appointment of Right-Wing Judicial Nominee For the second time this year, President Bush bypassed the Senate by appointing a filibustered judicial nominee while Congress was in recess....
2/6/2004	VA: Abortion Procedure Ban Struck Down By Federal Judge A federal judge on Monday struck down a Virginia abortion procedure ban....
2/5/2004	MA Supreme Court Requires Equal Marriage Rights for Homosexuals Yesterday, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the legislature's proposed civil union bill would not be sufficient to satisfy its November decision that the state must afford homosexuals equal rights in marriage....
1/30/2004	MI: Abortion Opponents Launch Petition Drive Anti-abortion activists launched a petition drive in Michigan to overturn Governor Jennifer Granholm's (D) veto of an abortion procedure ban passed through the state legislature....
1/22/2004	Boxer Announces Federal Bill to Codify Abortion Rights Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), flanked by pro-choice leaders, today announced new federal legislation to codify women's right to choose abortion....
1/14/2004	Female Singer Aired on Afghanistan's Public Television For the first time in over a decade, a video with footage of a famous Afghan female singer was broadcast on public television....
1/13/2004	Court Rules No Guardian For Fetus A Florida Appeals Court ruled on Friday that the state could not appoint a guardian for a mentally disabled rape victim's fetus....
1/5/2004	Indian Court Rules That Rape Cases Must Have Female Judges India's Supreme Court has set up special courts to deal with rape cases that will be judged by female judges....
12/19/2003	Federal Appeals Court Upholds Ohio Abortion Procedures Ban On Wednesday, a federal appeals court upheld Ohio's restrictive abortion procedures ban....
12/10/2003	Ms. Honors Women's Achievements Globally Among the ten outstanding women selected as Ms Women of the Year are several who are working for women's rights and health globally....
12/3/2003	NY Court Upholds Contraceptive Coverage Law A state court rejected a challenge by Roman Catholic groups to a state law requiring employers who offer prescription drug plans to include contraceptive coverage....
12/2/2003	Federal Judge Hears Arguments in Virginia Abortion Procedures Ban Case On November 24, US District Judge Richard Williams heard arguments on the constitutionality of the Virginia abortion procedures ban....
11/26/2003	Supreme Court Will Not Review Affirmative Action Contracting Case On November 17, the US Supreme Court announced that it would let stand a decision of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals approving of Denver's use of race and gender based affirmative action in city construction contracts....
11/14/2003	Roy Moore Removed as Alabama Chief Justice The Court of the Judiciary in Alabama yesterday unanimously removed from office Chief Justice Roy Moore....
11/6/2003	Judge Blocks New Abortion Procedures Ban for Nebraska Doctors Less than an hour after President Bush signed a bill banning safe abortion procedures into law, a federal judge in Nebraska issued a temporary injunction to prevent implementation of the law....
11/5/2003	Women's Rights Activists Protest Abortion Procedures Ban The National Organization for Women (NOW) and other women's rights activists will protest President Bush's signing of a bill banning abortion procedures today in Washington, DC....
11/5/2003	Prominent African Americans Oppose Judicial Nominee Prominent African Americans gathered today to oppose Senate confirmation of California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit....
11/3/2003	Supreme Court Refuses Ten Commandments Case The US Supreme Court today refused to hear a case involving the public display of a Ten Commandments monument in Alabama's Judicial Building....
10/31/2003	AZ High Court Refuses to Hear Case Against Napolitano The Arizona Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a petition by conservative lawmakers charging that Governor Janet Napolitano overstepped her gubernatorial authority when she signed an executive order prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation for state workers....
10/31/2003	Pro-Choice Groups File Lawsuit to Stop Abortion Procedures Ban Today, the National Abortion Federation (NAF), Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the Center for Reproductive Rights filed lawsuits to stop the implementation of a law that would ban safe, necessary abortion procedures and contains no exceptions for the health of the woman....
10/28/2003	Doctors Caution Against Abortion Procedures Ban In the wake of the passage of the so-called "Partial-Birth Abortion Ban of 2003," doctors are raising concerns that the broad language of the bill could block all abortions after the twelfth week of gestation....
10/23/2003	VMI: Women’s Soccer Team Endures At the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) where women comprise just six percent of 1,324 cadets, the school's first women's soccer team (and first women's sports team) is standing strong....
10/23/2003	Judiciary Committee Holds Hearing on Far Right Nominee Brown Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee considered the latest Bush nomination, extreme conservative Janice Rogers Brown, to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals....
10/22/2003	Senate Bans Safe Abortion Procedures The Senate gave final approval yesterday to a bill that bans safe abortion procedures....
10/14/2003	MI: Governor Vetoes Abortion Procedures Ban Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm (D) on Friday vetoed a bill that would have banned certain abortion procedures in the state....
10/9/2003	Magazine Only Includes One Women's Rights Document in Top 100 US News and World Report will publish an issue in December with 10 of the top reader-chosen documents that shaped US history....
10/8/2003	Woman Convicted of Stillbirth Remains in Jail On Monday, the United States Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of Regina McKnight....
10/6/2003	Abortion Rights Advocates Hold Supreme Court Rally Four leading pro-choice groups held a rally in support of abortion rights at the US Supreme Court on Saturday....
9/30/2003	Indiana Supreme Court Expands Medicaid Coverage for Abortions Last week, Indiana's Supreme Court expanded Medicaid coverage to include abortions for low-income women when the pregnancy poses a serious risk to the woman's health....
9/30/2003	Philly Boy Scouts Policy Conflicts with Fair Practices Ordinance Philadelphia's Cradle of Liberty Boy Scouts Council entered talks last week with city officials, concerned that the organization's anti-gay position violates the city's Fair Practices ordinance that forbids discrimination based on sexual orientation....
9/26/2003	Case Against ND's Only Abortion Clinic Dismissed North Dakota's sole abortion clinic, the Red River Women's Clinic in Fargo won a small victory Tuesday in the ongoing battle against anti-abortionists intent on infusing science and medicine with conservative ideology....
9/23/2003	Senate Sends Abortion Procedures Ban to Conference Cmte The US Senate voted unanimously to send a bill banning certain abortion procedures to conference committee with the House, where it will surely pass without major changes....
9/2/2003	Federal Judge Rules Part of Clinic Defense Law Unconstitutional A federal judge recently found part of the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) unconstitutional....
8/29/2003	Michigan Issues Revised Admissions Policy The University of Michigan issued a revised admissions policy yesterday in line with the Supreme Court decision upholding the use of race in admissions but striking down the university's point system....
8/27/2003	Ten Commandments Monument Moved After a Supreme Court appeal failed, the 2.5-ton Ten Commandments monument was moved from the rotunda of Alabama's Judicial Building today, complying with a federal court order....
8/19/2003	Groups Granted Motion in Mentally Disabled FL Rape Case In what is becoming an increasingly moot point for the severely disabled, pregnant 22-year-old woman who was raped while in state custody and due to give birth later this month, Florida's 5th District Court of Appeals last week granted an emergency motion, giving abortion-rights and civil rights groups "friends of the court" status in an appeal involving Jennifer Wixtrom, who seeks guardianship of the woman's fetus and the state Department of Children and Families (DCF)....
8/15/2003	Moore Defies Federal Order, Refuses to Remove Ten Commandments Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore declared yesterday that he would disobey a federal order and leave in place a 2.5-ton monument of the Ten Commandments in the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building....
8/7/2003	Judge Orders Removal of Ten Commandments A federal judge delivered an order yesterday demanding the removal of a 2.5-ton monument to the Ten Commandments on display in the rotunda of Alabama's Supreme Court....
8/1/2003	O'Malley Takes Helm at Boston Archdiocese, Vatican Protests Gay Unions Earlier this week, Bishop Sean Patrick O'Malley was installed as the new archbishop of Boston, filling the position vacated by Cardinal Bernard Law last December....
7/30/2003	Bush Nominates Two More Right-Wing Candidates for Federal Judgeships In his continued effort to pack the courts with far-right ideologues, President Bush recently nominated two more candidates to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals "whose views seem well to the right of the legal and political mainstream," the New York Times wrote in an editorial....
7/28/2003	No Vote on Unborn Victims of Violence Act Senators Mike DeWine (R-OH) and Bill Frist (R-TN) last Wednesday failed to gain Senate approval by unanimous consent for the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (S 1019), a bill which makes harming or killing a zygote, embryo or fetus while attacking a pregnant woman during the commission of a federal crime, a separate and punishable crime....
7/28/2003	Study Finds Greater Support for Gay Marriage A new study found that opposition to gay marriage has declined since 1996, from 65 percent to 53 percent....
7/28/2003	Senate Votes Expected This Week on Pryor, Owen As the Senate wraps up business in the last week before its traditional month-long summer recess, the Senate Republican leadership has voiced plans to bring several contentious judicial nominations to the floor for a vote....
7/24/2003	Feminist Majority Foundation Interns Hold March for Choice Briefing at Senate Over 150 people attended a Capitol Hill briefing yesterday about the Save Women's Lives: March for Freedom of Choice planned for April 25, 2004....
7/23/2003	Senate Committee Approves Far-Right Judicial Nominee William Pryor Far-right judicial nominee William Pryor, who has been described as "among the most extreme" of President Bush's nominees, was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee today in a 10-9 party-line vote....
7/15/2003	Right-Wing California Activist Takes Affirmative Action Fight to Michigan California conservative activist Ward Connerly announced on Tuesday his plan to bring an anti-affirmative action ballot initiative, similar to California's Proposition 209, to Michigan in 2004....
7/11/2003	Florida Supreme Court Overturns Parental Notification Law The Florida Supreme Court yesterday overturned a law requiring physicians to notify a teenager's parents before performing an abortion, ruling that it violates young women's right to privacy with no compelling state interest....
7/10/2003	Judiciary Committee Postpones Vote on Far-Right Extremist Nominee In a move demonstrating discord over his nomination, the Senate Judiciary Committee postponed a vote scheduled for today on the nomination of far-right extremist William Pryor to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals....
7/9/2003	Senate Committee to Vote on Pryor Tomorrow The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote tomorrow morning on the nomination of far-right extremist William Pryor to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals....
7/9/2003	Wal-Mart Adds Sexual Orientation to Nondiscrimination Policy In contrast to its history of sex discrimination, Wal-Mart Stores, the nation's largest private employer, last week expanded its anti-discrimination policies to protect the rights of gay and lesbian workers....
7/8/2003	Federal Judge Blocks Virginia's Abortion Procedures Ban Responding to an injunction filed by abortion rights advocates, a federal judge blocked a recently passed Virginia law banning so-called "partial-birth infanticide" beginning July 1, the day the law was to take effect....
7/7/2003	Justice O'Connor Dismisses Supreme Court Retirement Rumors US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor struck down rumors that she would step down from the high court in a rare television interview Sunday....
7/3/2003	Anti-Gay Rights Legislators Seek Constitutional Ban on Gay Marriage While the Supreme Court recently decriminalized gay sex, Congress is considering a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage....
7/2/2003	Federal Appeals Court Rejects Ten Commandments Monument A federal appeals court yesterday unanimously ruled that a 2.5-ton monument of the Ten Commandments in the rotunda of the Alabama Supreme Court was unconstitutional....
7/1/2003	Mentally Disabled Florida Rape Survivor to Carry Pregnancy to Term After much back and forth about the health risks of a pregnancy for a mentally disabled woman who became pregnant after she was raped while under the state's care, a Florida judge approved a decision made by the woman's court-appointed guardian to carry her pregnancy to term....
6/27/2003	Sex Offenders in California to be Freed After Supreme Court Ruling The US Supreme Court ruled yesterday that California's 1994 law removing the statute of limitations retroactively for sex abuse criminal cases was unconstitutional....
6/27/2003	State Universities Wrestle With Implications of Affirmative Action Decision Following Monday's Supreme Court decisions on the University of Michigan's affirmative action policies, other states with large public university systems are wrestling with the implications of the rulings....
6/27/2003	Supreme Court Lets Stand Pro-Choice Victory In a victory for pro-choice advocates, the US Supreme Court let stand a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that WANTED-style posters and an Internet hit list are threats under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE)....
6/26/2003	Supreme Court Overturns Texas Sodomy Law The Supreme Court today announced its decision to overturn a Texas law that criminalized same-sex sodomy....
6/26/2003	Jane Roe's Motion to Overturn Abortion Ruling Denied A motion filed by Norma McCorvey, the woman known as Jane Roe in the 1973 Supreme Court case legalizing abortion, who has since become an avid opponent to abortion rights, was dismissed by a federal district court....
6/25/2003	Republicans Approve Proposal to Kill Filibusters on Nominees In a move aimed at blocking filibusters of right-wing judges, the Senate Rules and Administration Committee approved yesterday a GOP leadership proposal to curtail filibusters on presidential nominations....
6/25/2003	Virginia: Ban on Abortion Procedures Challenged in Federal Court The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) filed a lawsuit in federal court last week to block Virginia's new law banning so-called "partial-birth" abortion from taking effect on July 1....
6/23/2003	Supreme Court Rules 6-3 for Internet Filters at Libraries The US Supreme Court ruled today that Congress can require public libraries to use Internet filters on their computers, ostensibly to block access to pornography....
6/23/2003	Supreme Court Upholds Principle of Affirmative Action in MI Case But Strikes Down Explicit Program In two decisions on the landmark University of Michigan cases, the US Supreme Court announced rulings today that uphold the use of race in law school admissions but strike down the undergraduate admissions affirmative action program....
6/19/2003	Bush Rejects Democrats' Offer to Advise on Supreme Court Pick With up to two vacancies on the US Supreme Court possible by the end of the month, Senate Democrats have offered to consult with President Bush as he selects nominees in order to avoid a long, drawn-out confirmation battle in the Senate....
6/18/2003	Senate Cmte. May Vote Tomorrow on Pryor The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote tomorrow on President Bush's nomination of Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor to the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit....
6/16/2003	Ontario Court Permits Same-Sex Marriage An Ontario appeals court ruled last Tuesday that Canada's legal definition of marriage was invalid and discriminated against lesbians and gay men....
6/11/2003	Senate Committee Holds Hearing for Right-Wing Judicial Nominee The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing today on President Bush's nomination of Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor to the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit....
6/10/2003	Women's Rights Groups Announce National Pro-Choice March Today the nation's leading women's rights groups announced they have joined forces to organize an historic march on Washington to protect a woman's right to choose....
6/10/2003	Republicans Work to Prohibit Filibusters of Nominees The Senate Rules Committee held a hearing on June 5 on a Republican proposal that would make filibustering of presidential nominees all but impossible....
6/10/2003	Women's Rights Groups Announce Massive March on Washington in Support of Reproductive Rights Washington, DC - Today the nation’s leading women's rights groups announced that they have joined forces to organize an historic march on Washington for a woman’s right to choose....
6/9/2003	New Air Force Academy Policy Nixes Victim Confidentiality Altering its position held earlier this spring, the US Air Force Academy this weekend unveiled a new sexual assault policy that rejects the confidentiality of victims reporting assault....
6/4/2003	Bush Administration Urges Supreme Court to Reject Appeal By Anti-Abortion Extremists The Bush administration urged the Supreme Court to deny a pending appeal by anti-abortion extremists who use "UN-WANTED" wild-west style posters and a Web site to terrorize abortion providers, the Washington Post reported....
6/4/2003	House Votes Today on Abortion Procedures Ban The House is scheduled to vote today on HR 760, unconstitutional legislation that would ban so-called "partial birth" abortions....
6/2/2003	Boy Scouts' Homophobic National Policy Still Draws Fire Following two years of talks between area Boy Scout leaders and community gay and lesbian rights advocates, board members of the Boy Scouts Cradle of Liberty Council in Philadelphia voted unanimously last month to add sexual orientation to its nondiscrimination policy....
5/29/2003	Anti-Abortionists Target Mentally Retarded Rape Victims A Florida anti-abortion group is now claiming that they have persuaded a Miami judge to change his ruling in what has become a highly charged case involving a severely disabled woman who became pregnant after she was raped....
5/28/2003	Supreme Court Rules FMLA Applies to State Employees In a resounding victory for millions of working families across the country, the Supreme Court yesterday ruled to extend provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)-which guarantee employees 12 weeks of unpaid leave for family or medical problems-to state government workers....
5/21/2003	Supreme Court To Hear Case About Religious Education Almost one year after the high court’s landmark ruling that upholds school voucher programs, the US Supreme Court has said that it will consider whether or not taxpayers might be constitutionally required to subsidize religious education....
5/12/2003	Amina Lawal's Case Still Under Appeal The case of Amina Lawal, a Nigerian woman sentenced to death by stoning by the Katsina State for adultery, will be heard again by Katsina state court on June 3....
5/6/2003	Senate Approves Cook; Estrada Filibuster Continues With a vote of 66-25, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Deborah Cook to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals - despite her disturbing record on the Ohio Supreme Court....
5/5/2003	India: Supreme Court Rules Woman, Child Entitled to Alimony The Supreme Court of India recently ruled against a man claiming he did not have to pay alimony because his ex-wife was pregnant at the time of marriage....
5/2/2003	Right-Wing Judicial Nominee Ducks Questions in Second Hearing In what became a frustrating three-hour session for Senate Democrats, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a second hearing on President Bush's nomination of John Roberts to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals....
5/1/2003	Feminist Majority Supports Owen Filibuster WASHINGTON, DC – The Feminist Majority commends Senate Democrats for holding strong on a filibuster against Priscilla Owen, President Bush’s judicial nominee to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals....
4/30/2003	Democrats Filibuster Right-Wing Judicial Nominee Owen Amid what Republicans have coined "Judges Week" to declare their intent to push through a number of Bush's far-right judicial nominees, Democrats yesterday began a filibuster of the nomination of Priscilla Owen to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals....
4/29/2003	Supreme Court Refuses to Consider Abortion Privacy Case The US Supreme Court yesterday refused to consider a case challenging a South Carolina regulation that allows records of women who have had abortions to be copied and removed from clinics by state officials, with no guarantee of privacy for the women....
4/29/2003	Bush Stacking Federal Courts WASHINGTON, DC – The Feminist Majority stands together with a broad coalition of women’s rights, civil rights, disability rights, labor and environmental groups today to urge the Senate to block President Bush from stacking the courts with right-wing judges....
4/28/2003	Coalition Opposes Right-Wing Court Nominees A coalition of progressive, civil rights, and feminist groups, including the Feminist Majority, held a press conference today to voice opposition to President Bush's right-wing nominees for the federal courts....
4/25/2003	Supreme Court Hears Nike’s Sweatshop Abuse Case The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case that will determine whether Nike can be sued for statements in which they denied the use of child labor and substandard wages in sweatshops in Asia....
4/22/2003	Sen. Santorum Slammed for Anti-Gay Remarks Just four months after Senator Trent Lott (R-MS) was forced to resign over racist remarks as Senate majority leader, Republican Senate conference chair Rick Santorum (R-PA) is under fire after the Associated Press published his anti-gay comments, likening consensual gay sex with bigamy, polygamy, incest, and adultery....
4/21/2003	Anti-Women Judicial Nominees up for Debate Next Week When Congress returns from recess next week, on the agenda will be debate and possible votes on the Senate floor on the nominations of Jeffrey Sutton to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and Priscilla Owen to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals....
4/17/2003	Filibuster Strategy Against Owen Gains Support The Senate should use a filibuster to block the re-nomination of Priscilla Owen, a far-right ideologue who is part of President Bush's plan to pack the court with reactionary judges, the New York Times editorial page stated today....
4/14/2003	Manager Fired for Refusing to Fire "Unattractive" Woman, Suit Charges A former L'Oreal regional sales manager has filed a suit against the company alleging she was fired after a male executive told her to dismiss a salesperson because she was unattractive, according to the Associated Press....
4/8/2003	Cross Burning Decision Could "Doom" Anti-Abortion Extremists' Case The US Supreme Court's recent ruling that outlaws cross burning when it is intended to frighten or terrorize has set a precedent that could "doom" a pending appeal by anti-abortion extremists who use "UN-WANTED" wild-west style posters and a Web site to terrorize abortion providers, the LA Times reported today....
4/2/2003	Kuhl Retracts Controversial Positions; Refuses To Opine on Abortion Rights In a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, far-right judicial nominee Carolyn Kuhl carefully refused to clarify her viewpoints on abortion rights and retracted past statements in which she supported discrimination and sexual harassment....
4/2/2003	Democrats Maintain Estrada Filibuster, Senate Passes Tymkovich Senate Democrats defeated the fourth cloture vote today with a vote of 55-44, maintaining a two-month filibuster against Miguel Estrada....
4/1/2003	Supreme Court Hears Affirmative Action Case As crowds of students and activists gathered outside of the Supreme Court today, justices heard arguments in a case challenging the University of Michigan's affirmative action policy....
3/31/2003	Hearing, Vote Scheduled for Right-Wing Judicial Nominees The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow on Carolyn Kuhl, a Bush nominee to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, whose record is anti-women’s rights....
3/28/2003	Anti-Women Judicial Nominee Approved by Senate Committee The Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday approved by a 10-9 partly-line vote the nomination of anti-women Priscilla Owen to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals....
3/26/2003	Supreme Court Hears Gay Rights Case The US Supreme Court today heard arguments in the case of Lawrence v....
3/26/2003	Senate Committee to Vote Tomorrow on Anti-Woman Judicial Nominee The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote tomorrow on President Bush’s re-nomination of Priscilla Owen to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals....
3/24/2003	Feminist Majority Foundation Announces 2003 Campus Program Award Winners Congratulations to this year's outstanding winners of the FMF Campus Program Awards....
3/19/2003	Upcoming NOW v. Scheidler Chat Series: Feministcampus.org Celebrates Women's History Month with Special Online Programming Please join us at throughout March as we continue our online chat series on "Reproductive Rights Under G.W....
3/19/2003	Army of God Terrorist Network Must Be Cracked Feminist Majority Foundation’s Latest Clinic Survey Finds Violence is on the Rise WASHINGTON, DC – With the conviction of James Kopp for the intentional murder of Dr....
3/19/2003	“Choose Life” License Plates Making Gains in States Since January, when a South Carolina judge ruled “Choose Life” specialty license plates unconstitutional because they provided a forum for anti-abortion supporters and not pro-choice advocates, anti-abortion forces promoting the plates have won victories in several states and in the courts....
3/18/2003	Democrats Block Estrada Cloture Votes, Senate Confirms Bybee In their continued efforts to stack the federal courts with conservative judges, Republicans held a third cloture vote today on the nomination of Miguel Estrada to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, considered to be the second most influential court in the nation....
3/18/2003	Kopp Found Guilty of Intentional Murder, Clinic Violence Up James Kopp, the confessed assassin of abortion provider Barnett Slepian, MD, was found guilty today of intentional murder....
3/14/2003	Senate Passes So-Called “Partial-Birth” Abortion Ban After rejecting several amendments protecting women’s reproductive health and rights, the Senate yesterday passed a bill that will ban so-called “partial-birth” abortions....
3/14/2003	University of Michigan Gains More Support for Affirmative Action Program The United States Supreme Court received 64 briefs in February from over 300 organizations and various groups backing the affirmative action practices at the University of Michigan, according to the New York Times....
3/12/2003	EC, Health Exception Amendments to Abortion Procedures Ban Defeated The Senate on Tuesday rejected an amendment introduced by Senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Harry Reid (D-NV) to provide $10 million over five years to improve awareness about emergency contraception (EC), make EC available to rape victims in emergency rooms across the country, and require insurance companies to cover prescription contraceptives....
3/10/2003	Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Another Anti-Woman Nominee The Senate Judiciary Committee approved another one of President Bush’s far-right, anti-woman judicial nominees late last week....
3/10/2003	Senate to Vote Today on Abortion Procedures Ban The Senate is expected to vote later today on legislation that would ban most safe abortion procedures at any stage of pregnancy....
3/6/2003	Indiana Superior Court Temporarily Blocks In-Person Abortion Counseling Law Superior Court Judge David Dreyer issued a temporary restraining order Monday, once again blocking Indiana’s highly contested in-person abortion counseling law....
3/5/2003	Feminist Majority Opposes Nomination of Jeffrey Sutton to the Sixth Circuit WASHINGTON, DC – The Feminist Majority urges the U.S....
3/5/2003	Feminist Majority Opposes Sutton, Bush’s Latest Far-Right Judicial Nominee The Coalition for a Fair and Independent Judiciary, a group comprised of the Feminist Majority and a number of civil rights, women’s rights, and human rights organizations, held a press conference today to express opposition to the nomination of Jeffrey Sutton, President Bush’s latest far-right judicial nominee, to the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit....
2/27/2003	Senate Committee Approves Cook and Roberts; Estrada Filibuster Continues Despite attempts by Democratic Senators to use a parliamentary rule to block a vote of two far-right judicial nominees, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 14-3 today to recommend the nomination of John G Roberts, Jr to the DC Circuit and 12-2 to recommend Deborah L Cook to serve on the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit....
2/26/2003	Feminists Will Work to Keep Clinics Safe Eleanor Smeal Vows to Keep Fighting Anti-Abortion Violence WASHINGTON, DC – Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, promised to continue to defend women’s reproductive health care clinics, despite the U.S....
2/26/2003	Supreme Court Sides With Anti-Abortion Protestors The US Supreme Court decided today 8-1 that abortion clinics could not be protected from forcible blockades by anti-abortion extremists under federal racketeering laws....
2/21/2003	Never Go Back Campaign in Full Swing! The Feminist Majority Foundation's Never Go Back campaign to save abortion rights is in full swing....
2/14/2003	Abortion Ban Reintroduced in Congress Far-right Republicans renewed efforts to severely limit abortion rights yesterday with the introduction of the so-called “partial-birth” abortion ban in the House of Representatives....
2/12/2003	Former Domino’s President Presents Plans for New Catholic University Former Domino’s Pizza founder and right-wing philanthropist Tom Monaghan announced that he will spend $200 million to build a new Roman Catholic university in Florida....
2/11/2003	Debate on Estrada Continues; Action Possible Today With action anticipated sometime today, debate heated up on the floor of the US Senate over President Bush’s nomination of Miguel Estrada to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals....
2/11/2003	Alternative to Affirmative Action Less Effective, Study Finds Two reports released this month by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University suggest that affirmative action alternatives—specifically the “race-neutral” percent plans advocated by the Bush Administration—are ineffective in promoting racial diversity....
2/7/2003	Bill Introduced in Senate to Expand Family Medical Leave Senators Christopher Dodd (D-CT) and Edward Kennedy (D-MA) commemorated the 10th anniversary of the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Wednesday, introducing a bill that extends unpaid leave for family or medical problems to millions of US working men and women....
2/6/2003	Senate Debate on Estrada Begins; Democrats Consider Filibuster A divided Senate began floor debate yesterday on President Bush’s nomination of Miguel Estrada to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals....
2/5/2003	Opposition to Estrada Mounts With a full Senate vote on President Bush’s nomination of Miguel Estrada to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals possible today, efforts to block the vote with a filibuster have heightened to a fever pitch....
2/3/2003	Estrada Vote Expected Wednesday; Democrats Urged To Filibuster With the full Senate expected to vote Wednesday on Miguel Estrada, President Bush’s latest far-right judicial nominee, the Feminist Majority joins a growing list of civil rights, women’s rights and other progressive organizations that are urging Senate Democrats to filibuster a vote on Estrada....
1/30/2003	Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Conservative Nominee for Influential Circuit Court The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10-9 along straight party lines in support of confirming Miguel Estrada to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, one of the most influential appeals courts in the nation....
1/29/2003	Federal Appellate Court Nominees: Hearings Today, Vote Tomorrow In an apparent effort to push the President’s federal judicial court nominees towards confirmation, the Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee today held hearings on three of the most reactionary of Bush’s Appellate Court nominees....
1/27/2003	Feminist Majority Opposes Bush’s Anti-Women Judicial Nominee Feminist Majority Opposes Bush’s Anti-Women Judicial Nominee Kuhl’s nomination seen as warm-up to Supreme Court battle Los Angeles – With a judicial record that is clearly anti-women, Carolyn Kuhl, President Bush’s nominee to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, poses an imminent danger to women’s rights, Katherine Spillar, executive vice-president of the Feminist Majority declared today....
1/27/2003	Feminist Majority Opposes Bush’s Latest Anti-Woman Judicial Nominee The Feminist Majority joined a group of women’s rights, civil rights, consumer rights, environmental, labor and other progressive groups in a press conference Friday in Los Angeles to oppose President Bush’s nomination of anti-women judicial nominee Carolyn Kuhl to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals....
1/23/2003	Students Gather in DC to Support Abortion Rights Pro-choice student leaders from around the country attended a speak-out on abortion rights this morning in Washington, DC, celebrating the 30th anniversary of Roe v....
1/23/2003	Abortion Rights Threatened by Likely Supreme Court Vacancy Rumors continue to grow that at least one Supreme Court justice will retire in May....
1/22/2003	Activists Celebrate Anniversary of Roe v. Wade Pro-choice advocates marked the 30th anniversary of Roe v Wade today with events that included a student leadership conference sponsored by the Feminist Majority Foundation....
1/21/2003	Unborn Victims of Violence Act Introduced in Senate Far-right Republicans in the US Congress continued their attack on abortion rights last week with the introduction of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act in the Senate....
1/20/2003	Bush Continues Opposition to Affirmative Action on MLK Day President Bush is scheduled to attend a congregation today at a primarily African-American Baptist church in Glenarden, MD....
1/17/2003	Court Rules FL Sexual Predator Act Unconstitutional A three-judge panel for the 3rd District Court of Appeals in Miami ruled unanimously on Wednesday that the Florida Sexual Predator Act is unconstitutional, because judges cannot evaluate an offender’s threat to the community....
1/16/2003	Women Take Majority in Washington’s Supreme Court With the election of Justice Mary Fairhurst, women now have a 5-4 majority in Washington state’s Supreme Court for the first time in the state’s history....
1/16/2003	Supreme Court to Consider Applicability of Family Leave Act on State Workers The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments for Nevada Department of Human Resources v....
1/16/2003	Bush Administration Opposes Affirmative Action President Bush announced yesterday that his administration would file a brief in the Supreme Court supporting the lawsuit of white students against the University of Michigan's admission policy, which considers race, along with geography, test scores, grades, and a host of other personal achievements....
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1/15/2003	Abortion Rights Dinner Draws Presidential Hopefuls All of the Democrats who have declared their intention to run for President in 2004 say they will attend a fund-raising dinner to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Roe v....
1/13/2003	CA High Court Rules That Rape is Still Rape if Victim Changes Mind In a ruling that changes the legal definition of rape in California, the CA Supreme Court ruled recently that rape could still occur if a victim changes his or her mind during sexual intercourse....
1/9/2003	Democrats Vow To Filibuster Anti-Women Judicial Nominee Led by Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Richard Durbin (D-IL), Democrats vowed to filibuster President Bush’s renomination of anti-women, anti-civil rights Judge Charles Pickering to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit....
1/8/2003	Bush Brings Back Anti-Women Judicial Nominees President Bush renamed several anti-women judicial nominees yesterday including Charles Pickering and Priscilla Owen – both nominated to the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and both rejected by the Democratic-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee last year....
1/8/2003	Texas Supreme Court Rules Against Medicaid Funding for Abortions The Texas Supreme Court on December 31 ruled 8-0 that state denial of funding for abortions for poor women with pregnancies that are risky or damaging to their health is not a violation of the Texas Constitution’s Equal Rights Amendment and equal protection provisions, the Austin American-Statesman reported....
1/6/2003	Congress to Consider Anti-Abortion Legislation Congress will reconvene tomorrow at noon after a long recess, with anti-abortion legislation and confirmation of President Bush’s judicial nominees on its agenda....
1/5/2003	Democrats Uphold Filibuster Against Owen With a vote of 52-44, Senate Democrats upheld a filibuster today on President Bush's nomination of Priscilla Owen to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and launched the latest fight against Bush's campaign to pack the courts with right wing judges....
1/2/2003	Religious Institutions Sue to Halt Insurance Coverage for Contraceptives Catholic and Protestant institutions in New York refuse to give up the fight, despite a bill mandating health-insurance coverage for birth control, mammograms and screenings for cervical cancer and bone disease, taking effect at the start of this year....
12/27/2002	Students to Meet in Capital for Roe Anniversary On January 22-23, 2003, student leaders from across the country will gather in Washington, DC to strategize for abortion rights on the 30th anniversary of Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court decision that gave all American women the right to safe, legal abortion....
12/20/2002	Lott to Step Down as Senate Majority Leader In a victory for civil rights and women’s rights, Senator Trent Lott (R-MS) announced his decision today to step down from his position as Senate Majority Leader....
12/20/2002	Supreme Court Asks for Bush Opinion in Anti-Abortion Violence Case In a somewhat unusual move, the US Supreme Court asked the Bush administration’s Solicitor-General for his opinion on a case involving anti-abortion extremists who circulated “WANTED” posters for abortion providers and launched a Web site called the “Nuremberg Files” that lists abortion providers’ personal information and declares them guilty of crimes against humanity....
12/19/2002	Registrations Soar for the Never Go Back Student Conference! Students from across the country are traveling as far west as Alaska and as far south as Florida to come together for what will be the historic Never Go Back National Student Leadership Conference in Washington DC on Jan 22 and 23 to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of Roe v....
12/17/2002	Bush to Stack DC Appeals Court with Far-Right Judges In a continued effort to stack the court with far right extremists, the Bush administration plans to fill two seats on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit that have been vacant for years....
12/5/2002	Supreme Court to Determine Constitutionality of Homosexual Sex Bans On Monday the US Supreme Court agreed to hear a case questioning the constitutionality of Texas’ sodomy law, which makes oral or anal sex between same-sex partners – but not opposite-sex partners – a crime....
12/5/2002	Argentina Passes Law Offering Free Contraceptives Argentina’s Congress passed a law recently providing free birth control and advice nationwide....
12/4/2002	Supreme Court Hears Argument in Clinic Violence Case The Supreme Court heard arguments today in NOW v Scheidler, a landmark case brought to curtail violence against women’s reproductive health care centers....
12/3/2002	Supreme Court Will Hear Affirmative Action Cases The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear two related affirmative action cases involving the University of Michigan and white student applicants charging they were unconstitutionally denied admission because of their race....
11/25/2002	Missouri Court Rules on “Partial-Birth” Abortion Ban The Eastern District of the Missouri Court of Appeals court overturned the state’s late-term abortion ban because it does not contain an exception for the life or health of the woman, the Kaiser Daily Reproductive Health Report stated....
11/19/2002	Indiana: In-Clinic Counseling Mandate Suspended Granting a request by the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP), the US Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals last Thursday suspended an Indiana law mandating in-clinic counseling for women seeking abortions....
11/19/2002	Anti-abortion Group’s Campaign Contribution Case Accepted by Supreme Court The Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments yesterday in FEC versus Beaumont, a case brought by North Carolina Right to Life challenging the federal law that prohibits corporate contributions....
11/18/2002	School Vouchers Again on Horizon in States A new campaign has been launched by the libertarian law firm Institute for Justice (IJ) to use state courts to overturn laws barring public funds to be used for religious schools in the form of vouchers....
11/12/2002	Future Senate Leader Puts Anti-Abortion Policy at Top of Agenda Senator Trent Lott (R-MS), who will lead the Repblican majority in the Senate, made it clear that his top priority is limiting women’s right to choose by passing anti-abortion legislation....
11/6/2002	Bush Court Stacking Easier After Election Outcome With Republicans now in control of the U.S....
11/4/2002	Afghan Female Judge Dismissed for Meeting Without Headscarf Afghan officials acknowledged Saturday that a female judge was dismissed last month, because she appeared without a headscarf at a meeting with President Bush and the First Lady, according to Reuters....
11/4/2002	Supreme Court to Hear Challenges to Megan’s Law For the first time since the first Megan’s law was passed in New Jersey in 1994, the US Supreme Court will consider two appeals to sex offender registration requirements now in effect in all 50 states....
11/4/2002	Nigerian Government Vows to Stop Stonings The Nigerian government promised last week to stop the Islamic courts from carrying out sentences of death by stoning....
10/31/2002	Democrats Poised to Control Majority of Governor Positions Across the country Republicans are facing strong challenges in gubernatorial races, many of them from women....
10/25/2002	Judge Lifts Court Order, Clinic Patient Records Protected Two weeks after Iowa prosecutors requested the withdrawal of a subpoena demanding release of pregnancy test data from the Planned Parenthood clinic in Storm Lake, Judge Frank Nelson on Tuesday lifted the court order....
10/24/2002	Arizona Supreme Court Rules Against Ban on Medicaid Funding for Abortions Arizona’s Supreme Court ruled earlier this week that the ban on using Medicaid funding to perform medically necessary abortions on low-income women was unconstitutional, reversing a state appeals court ruling....
10/17/2002	Brown University Includes Pro-choice Message in Love you Body Day Event The BROWN UNIVERSITY Leadership Alliance recently organized events for Love Your Body Day, a campaign of the National Organization for Women on body image and eating disorder....
10/17/2002	Tight Senate Races Hold Key to Balance of Power With the current Senate at only a one-vote majority for the Democratic Party, the mid-term elections on November 5 are seen as crucial by both liberals and conservatives alike....
10/10/2002	Iowa Officials Request Withdrawal of Subpoena for Clinic Pregnancy Test Results Citing inadequate time and resources for further litigation, Buena Vista County attorney Phil Havens submitted a request yesterday to the Iowa Supreme Court seeking a withdrawal of his subpoena demanding release of pregnancy test data from the Planned Parenthood clinic in Storm Lake, Iowa....
10/10/2002	Indian Supreme Court Takes Action Against Ultrasound Use for Sex Selection The Indian Supreme Court issued an order on Monday demanding that all governing bodies in Indian states and territories prevent unregistered clinics from advertising prenatal ultrasound testing and fetal sex selection services, according to Kaiser Daily Reproductive Health Report....
10/9/2002	Vote on Right-Wing Judicial Candidate Delayed Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee postponed its vote on the nomination of Dennis Shedd to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals....
10/2/2002	US Supreme Court Justice Scalia Allows Louisiana’s Anti-Abortion License Plates US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia yesterday refused an emergency request to block Louisiana from issuing an anti-abortion license plate....
9/25/2002	California Becomes First State To Enact Civil Remedy For Victims Of Domestic Violence California is leading the nation for women once again....
9/19/2002	Anti-Women Judicial Nominee Does Little To Appease Critics In Senate Committee Hearing Michael McConnell consistently tried to distance himself from his anti-women’s rights and anti-civil rights writings during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday on his nomination to a lifetime seat on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals....
9/17/2002	Feminist Majority Opposes President Bush’s Anti-Women Judicial Nominee *Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee Must Vote Against McConnell* WASHINGTON, DC - With a judicial record that is clearly anti-women, Michael McConnell, President Bush’s nominee to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, poses an imminent danger to women’s rights, Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority declared today....
9/16/2002	Women’s Groups Oppose Bush’s Latest Right-Wing Judicial Nominee; McConnell To Have Senate Committee Hearing Wednesday The Feminist Majority joined several abortion rights, civil rights and other progressive groups in opposing President Bush’s nomination of Michael McConnell, a right-wing judicial activist, to the Tenth US Circuit Court of Appeals....
9/13/2002	Indian Feminists Protest Court Ruling For Sati Devotees Indian feminists are protesting a recent Rajasthan court ruling allowing devotees to pray at temples dedicated to women who have committed sati....
9/11/2002	Nigerian State Government Ignores Women’s Plea For Life The government of the Katsina state in Nigeria will not stop an Islamic court’s sentence of death by stoning of Amina Lawal....
9/9/2002	PA Supreme Court Rules Domestic Violence Victims Must Testify Against Their Abusers The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled last week that victims of domestic violence must testify against their abusers regardless of whether they intend to press charges....
9/6/2002	California Governor Signs Landmark Bills For Women’s Rights In keeping with the state’s status as a pioneer in the protection of women’s rights, California Governor Gray Davis signed four bills yesterday that will ensure that California women have access to comprehensive reproductive healthcare services....
9/5/2002	Senate Committee Votes To Reject Conservative Judicial Nominee President Bush’s nomination of ultra-conservative, anti-abortion rights Priscilla Owen to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit was defeated today in a 10-9 vote by the US Senate Judiciary Committee....
9/5/2002	Ashcroft Appoints VAWA Opponent to Violence Against Women Committee