A newly released study from a team of organizations suggests high-tech birthing procedures including cesarean sections have led to an unnecessary increase in hospital charges. The report (see a href= "http://www.childbirthconnection.org/pdfs/evidence-based-maternity-care.pdf" target= "_blank"PDF/...div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=IwVvM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=IwVvM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=FkHbM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=FkHbM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=MaZQM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=MaZQM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=y21hM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=y21hM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~4/416883092" height="1" width="1"/

Dr. Henry Morgentaler, a Canadian abortion rights leader, will receive the Order of Canada today in Quebec. The Order of Canada is the country's highest civilian honor. A a href= "http://www.gg.ca/media/doc.asp?lang=eDocID=5514" target= "_blank"press release/a from the Canadian Governor Gene...div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=uOBiM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=uOBiM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=yCLmM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=yCLmM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=V2yvM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=V2yvM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=MG0rM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=MG0rM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~4/416883094" height="1" width="1"/

Parents of a young woman who was 14 years old when she received an abortion in 2004 are suing Planned Parenthood for allegedly ignoring evidence of statutory rape. Their daughter, "Jane Roe", was accompanied by an unrelated 21-year-old man, who claimed to be her step-brother, when she sought an abor...div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=wn4lM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=wn4lM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=y58sM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=y58sM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=4lJVM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=4lJVM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=BTE8M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=BTE8M" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~4/416117589" height="1" width="1"/

A West Virginia law regarding political advertising law was challenged last week by an anti-abortion group. The group, West Virginians for Life sought an injunction, barring the laws impact on their proposed campaign, reported the a href= "http://www.nationalpartnership.org/site/News2?JServSessionI...div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=jrgAM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=jrgAM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=7YqBM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=7YqBM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=1mLMM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=1mLMM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=0JfzM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=0JfzM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~4/416117593" height="1" width="1"/

Recent polls of California voters show a shift toward voting 'Yes' on Proposition 8, which seeks to ban same-sex marriage by constitutionally defining marriage as between one man and one woman. Internal polling from a href= "http://www.eqca.org/site/pp.asp?c=kuLRJ9MRKrHb=4026385" target= "_blank"...div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=5OioM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=5OioM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=KLlTM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=KLlTM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=8ltBM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=8ltBM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=2z4eM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=2z4eM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~4/415029924" height="1" width="1"/

As voter registration in Colorado closed on Monday, state officials noted that thousands of the new Colorado voter registration forms were completed incorrectly. Many of the errors are related to a box left unchecked in the form's identification section, related to holding a state driver's license o...div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=xNogM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=xNogM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=qwY6M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=qwY6M" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=SUsTM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=SUsTM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=rXeyM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=rXeyM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~4/415015880" height="1" width="1"/

The 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded yesterday to three scientists working with HIV and HPV. Two French researchers, Francois Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, were reworded for their work discovering the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). German scientist, Dr. Harald zur Hausen, was also ...div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=IeQJM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=IeQJM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=NGMJM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=NGMJM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=DEEXM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=DEEXM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=K1X9M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=K1X9M" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~4/414126366" height="1" width="1"/

Yesterday the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from the state of Missouri regarding a woman's right to abortion in prison. The original case against the state, Crawford v. Roe, stemmed from a 2005 incident where Missouri prison officials denied a female inmate transportation to an abortion fa...div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=q0KEM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=q0KEM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=H8etM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=H8etM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=PcLDM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=PcLDM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=YUgVM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=YUgVM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~4/414110928" height="1" width="1"/

Last week's USAID decision regarding Marie Stopes International (MSI), one of the world's leading family planning organizations, is drawing criticism from prominent international organizations. The a href= "http://feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=11318" target= "_blank"USAID decision...div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=Uy0pM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=Uy0pM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=1sN5M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=1sN5M" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=A23KM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=A23KM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=JUShM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=JUShM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~4/413058833" height="1" width="1"/

The Supreme Court rejected an appeal in the case of American Coalition of Life Activists (ACLA) v. Planned Parenthood for the third time today. The a href= "http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/faclibrary/case.aspx?case=American_Coalition_of_Life_Activists_v_Planned_Parenthood_of_Columbia/Willamette...div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=sEIIM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=sEIIM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=A5oHM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=A5oHM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=cKhjM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=cKhjM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=XdXXM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=XdXXM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~4/413058834" height="1" width="1"/

A bill supporting funding for research to examine the environmental causes of breast cancer was recently passed in both chambers of Congress. The bill (see a href= "http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:s.00579:" target= "_blank"PDF/a) was sent to President Bush for approval this week. ...div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=lVJKM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=lVJKM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=4OoaM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=4OoaM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=JSQVM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=JSQVM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=14SeM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=14SeM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~4/410551059" height="1" width="1"/

Several conservative Utah state lawmakers announced plans this week to sponsor anti-choice legislation in the 2009 legislative session. Among other provisions, the new series of bills would ban abortion except in cases of incest, rape, or endangerment of maternal health, according to the a href= "h...div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=b75MM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=b75MM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=fZC4M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=fZC4M" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=dPWzM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=dPWzM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=F3lLM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=F3lLM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~4/410551060" height="1" width="1"/

In a South Dakota Supreme Court case heard this week a lawyer for the Secretary of State argued that the name of a 2006 donor to an anti-choice organization should be made public. The anonymous contributor gave a total of $750,000 to Promising Future Inc., an anti-choice organization founded by Stat...div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=cb19M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=cb19M" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=7E3FM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=7E3FM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=IcL2M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=IcL2M" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=l1PrM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=l1PrM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~4/409543459" height="1" width="1"/

Paul Newman's death has been felt throughout the feminist community. He and his partner, Joanne Woodward, have supported organizations like the National Organization for Women and Ms magazine since the 1970s. Ellie Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority Foundation, remembers Paul Newman as "a...div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=41tWM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=41tWM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=TErrM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=TErrM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=g9UwM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=g9UwM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=mcPRM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=mcPRM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~4/409532285" height="1" width="1"/

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) gave instructions to its staff in several African nations yesterday to no longer provide US funded contraception supplies to Marie Stopes International (MSI). MSI is one of the largest family planning organizations in the world. Acc...div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=an2aM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=an2aM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=F0v9M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=F0v9M" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=Im3uM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=Im3uM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=x1r4M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=x1r4M" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~4/409532286" height="1" width="1"/

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit yesterday against a San Francisco-based Harley Davidson dealership alleging gender discrimination against a former employee. According to the a href= "http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/01/BAJ2139B40.DTLtype=pri...div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=wxagM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=wxagM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=t0UVM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=t0UVM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=tvsrM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=tvsrM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=dzBRM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=dzBRM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~4/408507421" height="1" width="1"/

A new Federal Immigration Authorities mandate requires immigrant women ages 11 to 26 seeking permanent residence to be vaccinated against the Human Papillomavirus. Women’s and immigrant rights are arguing that the a href= "http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f...div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=dMBdM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=dMBdM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=LpN4M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=LpN4M" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=boJZM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=boJZM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=gHgmM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=gHgmM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~4/408507422" height="1" width="1"/

Unequal treatment of athletic coaches under Title IX is becoming a frequent basis for lawsuits across the country. A new Title IX lawsuit was filed this week in Texas as two California schools settled their own gender discrimination cases. A former Texas Southern University (TSU) women's basketb...div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=AITXM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=AITXM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=Qwg2M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=Qwg2M" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=EJiBM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=EJiBM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=rqsKM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=rqsKM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~4/408457750" height="1" width="1"/

The Senate recently rejected Friday's economic stimulus package that included a provision that would have addressed birth control pricing. The Bush administration reportedly objected to the bill because, according to the a href= "http://www.nationalpartnership.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr001=ny...div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=J0gEL"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=J0gEL" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=2pAwL"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=2pAwL" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=WJs3L"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=WJs3L" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=OjlFL"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=OjlFL" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~4/407516648" height="1" width="1"/

The Department of Justice granted over $114 million yesterday as part of its efforts to address and prevent violence against women across the country. The Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women released the funds to all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and US territories throug...div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=N2dyL"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=N2dyL" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=AzIBL"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=AzIBL" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=ywDRL"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=ywDRL" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?a=k1W6L"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/FeministDailyNews?i=k1W6L" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~4/407505397" height="1" width="1"/