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Anti-abortion groups furious as FDA approves generic abortion pill 0 BlueWaveNeverEnd Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 1074
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Watch the full film: A Virgin's Sacrifice (aka A Woman's Sacrifice, 1922) 0 littlemissmartypants Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1414
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Let's talk, ladies! 3 cilla4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 2365
A surplus of men A deficit of peace 7 suegeo Sep 2025 Sep 2025 11 3701
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The Push to Eliminate New York State's Voluntary Intoxication Loophole: 'You Should Be Allowed to Get Drunk and Not Be 0 niyad Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 2047
One woman killed every 10 minutes: The harrowing global reality of femicide (trigger warning) 0 niyad Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 2072
The Silent Epidemic of Femicide in the United States (trigger warning!!) 0 niyad Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1025
Days of the Theocracy--Kristin Lems 0 niyad Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 1190
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 littlemissmartypants Sep 2025 Sep 2025 1 806
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South Korean Woman Cleared Decades After Biting Attacker's Tongue During Attempted Rape 1 BlueWaveNeverEnd Sep 2025 Sep 2025 14 2598
narrow key pianos. 4 mopinko Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 2414
Unmarried mothers forced to give up babies for adoption in England 1 littlemissmartypants Aug 2025 Aug 2025 11 1347
Under Trump, a New Focus for a Birth Control Program: Helping Women Get Pregnant 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Aug 2025 5 1820
The 19th Amendment, Explained 1 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 1092
"Good Morning, Beautiful" message thoughts... 5 littlemissmartypants Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 1351
Just a little factoid for Women's Equality Day, Aug. 26. Alice Paul died in 1977 2 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 1142
A statue of women's rights pioneers Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton 2 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 1092
Trump's Republican Trifecta Sets Up Massive Transfer of Tax Dollars from Reproductive Health Clinics to Unregulated Cris 2 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 1151
Over a Million Women Are at Risk of a Pay Cut Under a New Trump Rule 0 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 966
Bad Romance: Women's Suffrage 0 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 948
Women's Equality Day: Celebrate the Victories. Confront the Backlash. 0 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 862
Rebecca Watson (Skepchick) - Costco Gives Misogynists a Win by Not Selling Abortion Medication 3 ihaveaquestion Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 1236
Opinion: Yesterday's Witch Hunts and Today's Misinformation Crisis Have Much in Common 1 littlemissmartypants Aug 2025 Aug 2025 14 1077
My Husband Said God Wanted Him To Spank Me. Then He Made A Chilling Request That Had Me Gasping For Air. 2 irisblue Aug 2025 Aug 2025 13 1591

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Why did so many women in a tiny Hungarian village poison their husbands? 4 littlemissmartypants Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 1843
FGM: Outrage as baby dies after genital mutilation in The Gambia 1 Eugene Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 1011
US Seeks to Rename (and defund) UN Aviation Program Over Term 'Gender' 1 Eugene Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 995
DEI's Collapse and the Cost to Black Women 1 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 966
Bipartisan Group of Congresswomen Call for Funding of American Women's History Museum 0 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 858
'The matter is in his hands alone': president of Sierra Leone urged to ban FGM as court rules it tantamount to torture 0 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 815
Mass rape, forced pregnancy and sexual torture in Tigray amount to crimes against humanity - report 0 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 926
Pregnant and Unmarried? In Tennessee, That's Now Grounds for Denial of Care. 0 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 889
US judge blocks Trump's effort to defund reproductive health organisation 0 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 811
T####'s Support Erodes as Women, Workers and Even Republicans Push Back 0 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 862
Poverty is a Policy Choice--and Women Deserve More 0 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 841
Nature didn't forget. 13 littlemissmartypants Aug 2025 Aug 2025 54 2695
Happy Anniversary Of The First Women's Rights Convention! 1 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 1089
How the global trade in donkey skins threatens the lives of women and girls 3 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 1323
Declaration of Sentiments---Seneca Falls, July 19-20 1848 Women's Rights 1 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 1052
Feminist icon Gisele Pelicot awarded France's top civic honour: Report 0 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 1023
Attacks on Abortion Access Are as Old as White Supremacist Patriarchy Itself. Here's How We Fight Back. 2 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 1127
'Misogyny Is a System': Julie Suk Wants to Reimagine U.S. Institutions--and Build a Democracy of Equality 0 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 1070
The Seneca Falls Convention: Setting the National Stage for Women's Suffrage 0 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 996
African manhood is broken - and it's costing women their lives( Urgent Trigger warning!!) 1 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 1686
An Open Letter to Rep. Kat Cammack From a Medical Doctor: It's Abortion Bans That Make Doctors Afraid to Act, Not 'the 1 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 1339
Anne Marie Allen tells The Women's Podcast about her gruelling life within Opus Dei 10 bucolic_frolic Jul 2025 Jul 2025 37 2882
Inside Liberty University's Secret Maternity Home 1 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 1401
Invisible victims How Colombia plans to support children orphaned by femicide 0 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 1270
'We Need to Shift Who Has Power in This Country': Cynthia Richie Terrell Knows How We Can Cultivate Gender Balance in P 0 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 1190
The U.N. Should Condemn the U.S.' Human Rights Record on Abortion 0 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 945
The wage gap, explained. 5 eppur_se_muova Jun 2025 Jun 2025 27 2232
Inequalities across the continent: research, women and health. 0 littlemissmartypants Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 1319
New head of MI6 will be a woman for first time in British spy history 2 littlemissmartypants Jun 2025 Jun 2025 7 1543
Now Public!! Yay! Here's the video from my local No Kings Rally 1 littlemissmartypants Jun 2025 Jun 2025 9 1603

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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The women at the centre of Somalia's construction boom 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 1207
Southern Baptist Convention Calls to Ban Same-Sex Marriage 3 niyad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 1 1540
Pregnant in Power: U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen Confronts a System Built for Men 0 niyad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 1324
House Judiciary Committee Advances Bill to Repeal FACE Act 0 niyad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 1 1269
Plan C's Road Trip Takes Abortion Access to the People 0 niyad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 1164
Trump's Cartoonish Performance of Masculine Strength, from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. 2 niyad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 8 1455
What Comes After Roe? Fear, Surveillance and Felony Charges 0 niyad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 1205
Entrepreneur 'humiliated' after London Tech Week turns her and baby away 3 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 1759
'Remember the Ladies': Attacks on Gender Equity Remain a Core Feature of Surging Authoritarianism 2 niyad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 1428
In Canada, A Daughter's Fight To Bring Her Murdered Indigenous Mother Home (Trigger Warning) 4 niyad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 1794
'One-Two Punch': Trump Administration Blocks Lifesaving Abortion Care and Announces Mifepristone Safety 'Review'--All in 2 niyad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 1410
"I Ain't Afraid" Holly Near 2 niyad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 8 1661
Lawsuit Challenges Kansas Law That Voids Living Wills for Pregnant Women 2 niyad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 1363
The Maternal Mental Health Crisis: How America Is Failing Its Mothers 0 niyad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 1108
Still Naming the Problem: A New Film Premiering at Tribeca, Then Heading to HBO, Celebrates ...Ms. Magazine 1 littlemissmartypants Jun 2025 Jun 2025 8 1527
So true 8 Demovictory9 Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 1945
Myth and misogyny: how male representations of the female form have changed the way women are viewed 6 littlemissmartypants May 2025 May 2025 13 1945
Astronaut Sally Ride's BD is today. Reading about her, found this site which was surprised that hadn't found erst now. 1 SorellaLaBefana May 2025 May 2025 11 1569
Susan Brownmiller, author of landmark book on sexual assault, dies at 90 5 littlemissmartypants May 2025 May 2025 13 1948
Her Voice, Her Power: The Story of Hira Anwar Generation Girl Code 1 YoshidaYui May 2025 May 2025 3 1679
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