According to a new report issued by the U.S. State Department, the sexual abuse of children in Afghanistan has reached an all-time high with 60 percent of girls now being married before their 16th birthday.
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World-class skeleton athlete Megan Henry who missed the Sochi Olympic games after experiencing life-threatening side-effects from the Nuva Ring contraceptive device is calling Merck's $100 million settlement offer to affected women "laughable."
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In a powerful presentation at the Catholic University of America, law professor Helen Alvare destroyed all of the prevailing myths about contraception - that it empowers women, controls population and decreases unintended pregnancies.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSThe White House is planning a Working Families Summit in June to discuss ways to get women out of their homes and into the workplace - whether they want to or not.
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After weeks of intense media scrutiny, a pharmaceutical firm has agreed to provide life-saving drugs to seven year-old Josh Hardy who will die of a bone marrow disorder if he does not receive them soon.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The Associated Press (AP) is under fire for publishing a grossly misleading photo of a Christian scouting organization in which the boys appeared to be saluting Hitler, then doing nothing about it for days even though the organization received death threats so vile they had to be reported to the authorities.
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he case of 14 year-old Justina Pelletier has many Americans wondering if it could happen to them, but a new op-ed appearing on
National Review Online shows how shockingly easy it can be to "legally kidnap" a child in the U.S. - especially when it involves ideology.
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Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE), which received $2.75 million in taxpayer funds in 2012, is under fire after posting a video online that promotes bondage and sado-masochism (BDSM) to teens.
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The Burnett-Downey film,
Son of God, soared past its best opening weekend box office estimates by raking in $26.5 million in ticket sales.
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Girl Scouts CEO Anna Maria Chavez is under fire once again by critics of her liberalized version of the Scouts for producing a video they say is full of disingenuous statements and outright fabrications - something they prove in a hard-hitting six minute rebuttal now available on YouTube.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
he case of 14 year-old Justina Pelletier has many Americans wondering if it could happen to them, but a new op-ed appearing on National Review Online shows how shockingly easy it can be to "legally kidnap" a child in the U.S. - especially when it involves ideology.
