As usual, I find myself at the end of the week with a cornucopia of stories and not enough time to post them all, so I’m going to try something different this week and post a wrap–up with links, and if this works well, it may become a regular event. It isn’t that each of these doesn’t deserve its own post, it’s just that no one has invented an 8th day of the week or hired a staff for FPN! Without further ado:
The Global Fund for Women has a fabulous new blog, check it out here.
Stop Family Violence has the latest on the Stamford Marriott rape story. Let’s keep the pressure on Marriott to go beyond apologizing and become an industry leader in ensuring the safety of their guests.
As this blog has reported too many times, the C-section rate in this country is much too high which both raises the costs of maternity care and endangers the lives of mothers and infants. Our Bodies Our Blog points to evidence that if you take away the financial incentive for performing C-sections, the rate mysteriously goes down. Hmmm. And as they also point out, part of the health care reform process is figuring out how to pay for health care. Reigning in unnecessary costs would be a brilliant start although I do have to say there is this nagging thought in the back of my mind that worries about starting with women’s health as the place to cut costs because it can go too far as it did with what became known as drive-by mastectomies where women are released from the hospital much too soon after such major surgery.
This piece by Masum Momaya takes an in-depth look at Google’s controversial advertising policy for abortion services in 15 countries asking if the policy violates women’s rights.
RAWA has this brilliant piece by Malalai Joya about the Afghan elections.
And check out this new DoJ resource for information on Domestic Violence, a lot of really useful stats.
And last, we have this horrific account of acid attacks in Zambia via WNN:
“I didn’t realize that the tongue skin was also peeling off. The young girl was pushing something in her mouth. I opened her mouth to see and found that almost the whole tongue had come off. I had to pull it out like you do with a cow and only a little red thing (tongue) remained.”
These excruciating words by a girl’s older sister describe the aftermath of the worse physical attack a 13 yr old could ever experience.
For all the times I get accused of being an angry feminst, I ask how stories like that could possibly evoke any other response.
Let me know what you think of having regular wrap-up posts.
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