‘Daily feminist news’ collects news stories from around the world and brings them to you, Lip reader. If you have any stories to add, let us know in the comments below. SLUT, the play, opens at the New York Fringe Festival A play based on the actors’ own experiences with sexual assault opened at…
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Ireland looks set to legalise abortion this week, albeit in very limited circumstances. According to The Guardian, the numbers are stacking up in favour of the reforms that will allow abortion when a woman’s life is in danger or when a woman is at risk of suicide if the pregnancy continues. If a woman…
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On 25 June, Texas Senator Wendy Davis stood for nearly eleven hours in order to block a controversial abortion bill referred to as ‘SB5’ (Senate Bill 5) being put forward by the Texas Republicans. In doing so, Davis was utilising the political technique of filibustering, discussing the issues surround SB5 at length in order to…
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Julia Gillard ousted as Prime Minister After months of media speculation on strife within the Labor Party, Julia Gillard called for a leadership spill on Wednesday. A vote took place on Wednesday night and as a result, Kevin Rudd came to replace Gillard as leader of the Party and Prime Minister. Gillard has announced her…
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Yesterday in Texas, Senator Wendy Davis literally took a stand for women’s rights in her state. As the Republican Party attempted to push through a Bill that would severely limit access to abortion for Texan women, and reduce the number of clinics legally allowed to perform such procedures from 42 to 5, Senator Davis…
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A little over a week ago, somebody kind of important said something kind of foreboding/worthy of an eyeroll (depending on which side of the political fence you sit on, really) about abortion and playthings and men in blue ties… Today, Lip’s somebodies have their say. * ‘Reproductive rights’ are vital for a safe and equal…
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On Tuesday, Julia Gillard launched ‘Women for Gillard’, a campaign aimed at reminding women of Labor’s – and the Coalition’s – record on women’s issues. It was partly inspired by a similar campaign that Obama ran in 2012. The Prime Minister raised a number of issues where she said she wouldn’t want to see women going…
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Abortion often goes unaddressed in Canada for long stretches until something big happens to provoke the conversation. Last week was one of those times. Dr Henry Morgentaler, an iconic abortionist and polarising Canadian figure died of a heart attack in his Toronto home on 29 May. He was 90. Morgentaler was responsible for almost single-handedly…
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Man ‘tricks’ girlfriend into taking ‘abortion pills’ A Florida man, John Weldon, has been charged with first-degree murder after giving his partner a labour-inducing drug that terminated her pregnancy. The woman, Remee Lee, believed she was taking a pill for a bacterial infection, prescribed by the father of the accused man, a fertility doctor. It…
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* Trigger warning : some content contained in this article may be disturbing to some readers.* A Philadelphia doctor has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the first-degree murders of two babies, and will receive a mandatory life sentence for the murder of a third. He will also be sentenced today for the involuntary manslaughter…
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A Tasmanian pharmacist, Rod Scaife, has claimed that he will boycott stocking and selling RU486, the controversial abortion drug, if it becomes legal in Tasmania. Scaife’s statement comes after the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee recently recommended that RU486 be covered under the benefits scheme. If the drug is legalised and incorporated in this scheme,…
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Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has brushed off threats from the Catholic Church regarding the country’s plans for abortion reform. Politicians who support the upcoming legislation have been threatened with excommunication. The proposed bill would legalise abortion in situations when the pregnant woman’s life was in danger. Legislators stress the bill clarifies rather than changes…
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I’m excited about RU486. I felt like a bit of a fool, jumping up and down on the night of Friday 26 April because the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee advised the Government to add the abortion pill to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. Do you know what that means? Medical abortions for as little as $12….
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A Melbourne doctor has revealed that a Victorian couple demanded an abortion because the woman was carrying a girl. In response, obstetricians have proposed keeping a foetus’s sex a secret until it is too late to terminate the pregnancy. Dr Mark Hobart revealed in an interview with the Sunday Herald Sun that the couple wanted…
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