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• Pakistan: Fundamentalists attack vaccinators
  2 July 2013, by siawi3

  What is behind the the sudden upsurge of violence towards polio vaccinators in Pakistan? “By attacking these workers, the perpetrators of these attacks are cutting down people’s rights to services, particularly women and girls” . “When you target these people, you are effectively trying to destroy those parts of society that allow people to live with dignity.”

• Canada: My Disservice to My Transgender Patients
  15 June 2019, by siawi3

  Was she truly of a different nature, or had she, with her relative youth, not accumulated distorting grievances?

• India: Depriving government school children of tasty and nutritious food because of certain religious beliefs
  13 May 2019, by siawi3

  Instead of standing up to the imposition of religious agenda in a public scheme, Government of Karnataka, has gone along and asked for the menu submitted by APF to be reviewed by the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) and Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI).

• USA: How Should Judges Handle Suspects Who Say God Told Them to Kill?
  9 May 2019, by siawi3

  A woman is stabbed to death. The suspect, her husband, admits to the crime but says he was only acting on God’s orders. As a judge, what do you do with that information? Is the man insane to the point that it should affect his sentencing? At what point should someone’s “divine revelation” be dismissed by the law?

• France : Prostitution et santé
  2 décembre 2013, par siawi3

  Acte sexuel imposé par l’argent, la précarité et les inégalités, le système prostitueur constitue la dernière violence des hommes contre les femmes que la loi ne condamne pas. La prostitution, c’est un nombre incalculable et quotidien de pénétrations vaginales, anales, buccales non désirées. La question de la santé des personnes prostituées ne peut être posée si l’on refuse d’ouvrir les yeux sur cette réalité.

• Bolivie : Des infirmiéres obligées de porter le voile
  1er décembre 2009, par siawi2
  « On nous oblige à nous engager à être voilée si nous voulons être employées dans cet hôpital », explique une salariée du nouvel hôpital « République Islamique d’Iran » inauguré le 24 novembre à La Paz par le président bolivien Evo Morales et le président  (...)
• USA: Religious right launches fresh assault on abortion rights
  1 December 2009, by siawi

  Catholics and evangelicals join forces to put abortion at centre of Senate debate on healthcare reform

• USA: Congress wants to defund Planned Parenthood ASAP. In Trump’s America, that’s very scary.
  21 December 2016, by siawi3

  Ultimately, if the government decides to cut PPFA’s Title X funding and stop reimbursing the organization for Medicaid patients, it means many people with low incomes — primarily women of color — will be shit out of luck if they need any number of the services Planned Parenthood provides other than abortion. “For people who won’t be able to pay, it literally is going to be a life and death situation.”

• Why is Bush So Interested in Our Vaginas?
  20 July 2008
  (Published by: http://www.opednews.com, July 17, 2008)
  In the latest christo-fascist-taliban-esque move, Bush wants to put his John Hancock on an Abortion Proposal that would guarantee the religious right of objection to a medical procedure or  (...)
• USA: Under Trumpcare Rape and Domestic Abuse are Excludable Pre-Existing Conditions
  5 May 2017, by siawi3

  Earlier today the House narrowly passed Trumpcare, also known as the American Health Care Act, by a 217-213 vote. No Democrats backed the bill, and 20 Republicans broke ranks to oppose it. Trumpcare, the new GOP health-care-reform bill, will allow states to deny coverage for pre-existing conditions, including rape, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

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