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Yearly Archives: 2001
UK Man Released After 3 Years in Jail on False Rape Charge
In March 1998, Roger Beardmore, 37, was sentenced to 9 years in jail for repeatedly raping a young girl. The victim testified at his trial that between the ages of three and six she had been raped several times while … Continue reading
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Spanish Court Rewards Rapist for Being Drunk
In what it Women’s eNews right calls its “Outrage of the Week,” Spain’s Supreme Court recently reduced the sentence of a man convicted of raping a mentally retarded girl. The sentence for the 18-year-old rapist was reduced from 13.5 years … Continue reading
Letting It All Hang Out
A couple weeks ago Wendy McElroy wrote an article about an extremely odd series of events involving the Boulder Public Library in Boulder, Colorado. The controversy started when library refused to fly a large flag outside its entrance. The library … Continue reading
Kenya’s President Says He’ll Enforce Ban on Genital Mutilation
In a speech on Kenya’s independence day, Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi promised to rigorously enforce a new law making female genital mutilation practices illegal on girls under 17. “Anyone found circumcising a girl of 16 will go straight to … Continue reading
Study Claims Victims of Female Stalkers Not Taken Seriously
A conducted by Australian researchers and published in the American Journal of Psychiatry suggests that law enforcement and agencies dedicated to helping crime victims do not take seriously people who claim to be stalked by women. Researchers Rosemary Purcell, Michele … Continue reading
Should Christina Hoff Sommers Just “Shut the F— Up”?
National Review Online’s Stanley Kurtz recently wrote about an incident that occurred at a Health and Human Services-sponsored conference at which Christina Hoff Sommers was silenced and then rudely dealt with by panel members because she dared to suggest that … Continue reading
Nigeria Sentences Woman to Death for Having Sex
A woman, Safiya Hussaini, was recently sentenced to death in the Nigerian state of Sokoto — which is one of a growing number of Nigerian states to adopt an Islamic law code. Here crime? She had premarital sex. Not surprisingly, … Continue reading
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Paying Crack Addicts Not to Have Children
Is it ethical for private citizens to pay drug-addicted men and women not to have children? That’s the issue raised by Barbara Harris, whose group pays women $200 if they agree to either be sterilized or use a form of … Continue reading
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Are Bikinis Just as Bad as Burkas?
In an op-ed for the Boston Globe historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg and women’s health advocate Jacquelyn Jackson argue that while women in Afghanistan are celebrating the demise of the Taliban by removing their burkas, women in the United States have … Continue reading
If You Disagree with Rob Okun, You’re Not a Good Father
Some feminists and feminist organizations have had a long standing animosity to the Father’s Rights movements, culminating with National Organization for Women‘s 1996 press release claiming the movement was “using the abuse of power in order to control in the … Continue reading