Written By: Deb Bauder – 3/15/2023 (updated 4/24/2023) Imagine having a niece who is 3 months pregnant going to her obstetrician due to bleeding and being told to go to the ER if it happens again. When she again experiences bleeding the next day and goes to the ER as directed you would want … Continue reading Secular Healthcare Preserves Reproductive Justice
Written by: Barbara Ford – A4W News Group Although men have been sympathetic and supportive of reproductive rights, they often don’t know what they can do, or feel uncomfortable talking with other men about what has been a traditionally “woman’s issue.” What is Reproductive Justice? What is reproductive justice, and what does it mean … Continue reading How Can Men Get Involved in the Reproductive Justice Movement?
Written by: Deb Bauder – A4W News Group Larger numbers of women and younger people (under ager 30) are registering or planning to vote since the Dobbs decision weakened abortion rights. A survey raises the possibility that young women are likelier than their older counterparts to see the Supreme Court’s ruling and the ensuing scramble … Continue reading Women’s Rights: Keeping Young Voters Energized Through the Midterm and Beyond
Abortion is a difficult topic to talk about. Now more than ever it is important to be able to speak about abortion in clear, medically accurate, non-stigmatizing ways. WA Pro Choice has given us a guide on talking about abortion in an open, nonjudgmental way, so we can support people around us who need abortion … Continue reading How to Talk About Abortion in 2022: A Handbook Your Grandma Fought For
The Supreme Court has just walked back the rights of over half the people in our country and now women’s bodily autonomy is controlled by politicians. Women will now have to compromise their health, undergo great financial stress, live months if not years with the consequences of rape, give up a child they bore, or … Continue reading Advocates for Women Statement on Roe v Wade
Problem. Period. Part 2 of 2 Written by: Vicki Roberts-Gassler | Advocates for Women, News Group In emerging economies, where poverty is even deeper and more widespread than in wealthier countries, the problems associated with periods are compounded. The instances of girls staying home from school while they have their period for lack of access … Continue reading Problem. Period. part 2
Problem. Period. Part 1 of 2 Written by: Vicki Roberts-Gassler | Advocates for Women, News Group Menstruation – It affects half the world: How can it be a problem? And yet – even in liberal countries of the developed world menstruation is a taboo subject. The taboo can be broken to comic effect: the movie … Continue reading Problem. Period.
Sex trafficking, alas, is alive and well in the US, a century and a half after the Civil War ended slavery, or at least legal slavery. In Seattle, the underground economy in sex generates more revenue than for drugs or guns! In their article “4 questions answered on sex trafficking in the US” Prof. … Continue reading Sex Trafficking – Alive and Well in the Puget Sound
The recent mass shootings in Atlanta, have focused attention on the misogynist motivations involved in many mass and individual acts of violence against women. Violence against women is a systemic worldwide crisis that is perpetuated through an underlying message: Male sexual violence is to be expected and women are responsible. Below are two articles … Continue reading Calling it like it is: Misogynistic Male Violence
As we observe Women’s History Month, with International Women’s Day celebrated on March 8, today’s Unitarian Universalist women are involved in promoting gender equity in U*U communities around the world. Here is a look at the International Women’s Convocation. The International Convocation of Unitarian and Universalist Women, now known as the International Women’s Convocation (IWC), … Continue reading UU Women In Action: International Women’s Day
