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8/30/2000 - Women's Rights Protesters In Mexico Force Legislatures To Overturn Anti-Abortion Bill
Earlier this month legislatures in the state of Guanajuato passed a bill blocking women's access to abortion even in cases of rape....
8/14/2000 - Mexican Legislators Deny Access To Abortion In Rape Case
President-elect Vicente Fox, of the Roman Catholic Church-supported National Action Party (PAN), is forced to make clear his position on abortion due to the recent case of Paulina del Carmen....
8/8/2000 - Women Protest Anti-Abortion Law in Mexico
Hundreds of Mexican women protested anti-abortion legislation that passed in Mexico’s Guanajuato state, which is governed by President-elect Vicente Fox’s conservative National Action Party (PAN)....
8/4/2000 - Urgent Need For Legalization of Abortion in Kenya
Physicians and public health advocates are urging the Kenyan government for immediate legalization of abortion, an issue they say is crucial to ensuring complete reproductive health care services to women....
8/1/2000 - Abortion Controversy in Ireland Provokes Rape Debate
Ireland's Attorney General Michael McDowell claimed on July 30th that women would make false rape accusations if the Irish government allowed survivors of rape to have abortions....
7/28/2000 - New Bills In France Would Allow Greater Access To Abortions And Contraceptives
France is proposing a new law that would extend the legal period for abortion from 10 to 12 weeks of pregnancy....
7/24/2000 - Irish Women Have More Late Abortions
Irish women are nearly three times as likely to have late abortions than British women, according to the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS)....
7/19/2000 - Nearly 2500 Irish Women Traveled To England For Abortions Last Year
According to a report released by the British Pregnancy Service (BPAS), 2,460 Irish women a year travel to England for abortions - or twenty women a week....
7/17/2000 - Thousands of Rape Survivors in Thailand Are Silent; Abortion Laws Remain Stringent
Women's groups are fighting to help rape survivors in Thailand, where the stigma and shame associated with rape has pushed thousands of young women into muted suffering and suicide....
7/14/2000 - Vancouver RU 486 Doctor Receives Death Threat
The day after Dr....
7/13/2000 - Reproductive Rights Key to Empowering Women, UN Reports
The United Nations' commemoration of World Population Day on July 11th emphasized the crucial link between reproductive rights and women's empowerment....
7/12/2000 - Mexican PAN Has Anti-Women's Rights Record
The recently elected right-wing National Action Party (PAN), led by president-elect Vicente Fox, has a disturbing history of hostility towards women's human rights....
7/5/2000 - Mexican Elections Are Proclaimed As Democratic Victory But Women's Rights Are Endangered
Although Vicente Fox Quesada's presidential victory on July 2nd has been seen as an advancement for democracy, he has failed to clearly outline a position promoting women's rights in his policy priorities....
6/30/2000 - Women's Vote Key in Mexico's Elections
The outcome of the Mexican presidential elections this weekend may depend on women's vote, but little from the candidates' supposedly woman-oriented dialogue will advance women's rights....
6/29/2000 - Elections in Mexico Further Threaten Women's and Gay Rights
After seventy-one years of struggle for democracy in Mexico to overthrow the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the world's longest ruling political party with a history of corruption and economic irresponsibility, feminists and lesbian and gay rights activists face an even greater threat to their equality in Sunday's upcoming elections: the possibility of the National Action Party (PAN) coming to rule....
6/28/2000 - Women Gain Access To Birth Control In Buenos Aires
Women's rights activists in Argentina's capital, as well as health advocates and physicians, are celebrating a momentous advancement in promoting the reproductive rights of women....
6/26/2000 - Extension of UK Abortion Law to Northern Ireland Defeated
Pro and anti abortion forces demonstrated outside of Parliament in Northern Ireland on Tuesday over the possible extension of Great Britain's 1967 Abortion Act to Ireland....
2/27/1997 - Senate Votes for Unrestricted Release of International Family Planning Funds
The Senate has voted 53-46 in favor a joint-resolution granting President Clinton’s request to release $385 million for international family planning on March 1 instead of July 1....
2/27/1997 - Vast Majority of British Support Abortion Rights
A recent MORI poll has found that 64 percent of British women and men support "legal abortion for all who want it." This number represents a ten percent increase in support of abortion rights over the past 17 years; an even larger number of persons approve the right for an abortion in cases of rape and incest, or when the woman's life is at stake....
2/26/1997 - Owner of Bombed Atlanta Nightclub is Sister of Abortion Doctor
The owner of the lesbian and gay Atlanta nightclub that was bombed February 21 is the sister of the late Dr....
2/25/1997 - Extremist "Army of God" Group Takes Credit for Atlanta Bombings, Promises to Attack Again
An anti-abortion extremist group calling itself the "Army of God" has claimed responsibility for the bombs which exploded at an Atlanta abortion clinic and lesbian nightbar....
2/24/1997 - Atlanta Lesbian and Gay Club Bombed
Federal investigators are looking into the possibility of a serial bomber in Atlanta after a February 21st explosion at a lesbian and gay night club injured at least five people....
2/21/1997 - Portugal Narrowly Rejects Abortion Rights Bill
After a long, heated national debate, Portuguese lawmakers yesterday narrowly defeated a bill which would have allowed unrestricted abortions during the first twelve weeks of pregnancy....
2/20/1997 - Supreme Court Upholds Fixed Buffer Zones to Protect Abortion Clinics
On Wednesday, February 19th, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Schenk v....
2/20/1997 - Falls Church, VA Abortion Clinic Firebombed, Anti-Abortion Extremist Arrested
On February 18th, anti-abortion extremist James Anthony Mitchell, 38, broke into and firebombed a Falls Church, Virginia abortion clinic....
