Sexuality and Feminity
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Wal-Mart Goes Anti-DV; Arab Women Manhandled
judge could determine Friday whether to allow an Oklahoma law to go forward that will post information online about women who get abortions in the state, CNN reported Dec. 18. The law would require doctors to fill out a 10-page questionnaire for every abortion performed, including a woman"s age, marital status, race and years of education. "We don"t feel that the government should be able to run a grand inquisition into women"s private lives," Jennifer Mondino, an attorney challenging the law on behalf of the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights, told CNN. *Older women who take antidepressants may have a higher risk of stroke and death compared to women not on the medication, according to a study, ABCNews.com reported Dec. 14. The study compared six-year data on 5,500 postmenopausal women who began taking antidepressants after enrolling in a trial by the Women"s Health Initiative. "The annual risk (of stroke) was 0.3 percent for women who did not take antidepressants and ranged from 0.4 to 0.5 percent for women who did," Dr. Jordan W. Smoller, assistant vice chairman of psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital told ABC News.com. "In a sample this large, that is a statistically significant difference, but it means that by far, most women did not have a stroke." *A woman accused of threatening an anti-abortion demonstrator by knife outside a women"s clinic in Duluth, Minn., last month has pleaded not guilty to an assault charge, the Chicago Tribune reported Dec. 17. The woman"s next court appearance on second-degree assault is Feb. 16. Kimberly St. Louis is an editorial intern at Women"s eNews through the New York Arts Program. She is a senior at Ohio Wesleyan University studying journalism and politics and government.Pages: 1 [2]