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Posters on Teenage Pregnancy Draw Fire
The curly-haired baby looks out from the poster with sad eyes and tears dripping down his tawny cheeks.  “I’m twice as likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teen,” the text next to his head reads.  Read more, click here.

Arkansas Adopts a Ban on Abortions After 12 Weeks
Arkansas adopted what is by far the country’s most restrictive ban on abortion on Wednesday —at 12 weeks of pregnancy, when a fetal heartbeat can typically be detected by abdominal ultrasound. Read more, click here.

Why Do We Hate Successful Women?
It’s one of our current ironies that the same liberal people complaining that there are not enough women CEOs seem to harbor a special contempt for the women CEOs we do have. We like to say there aren’t enough women in the higher echelons of spectacularly successful business people, but when women do rise to those echelons, we attack them for that spectacular success. Read more, click here.

Texas GOP: Planned Parenthood Is Convincing Teens To Get Pregnant So It Can Perform Their Abortions
Texas has already spent the past year targeting Planned Parenthood, effectively defunding the organization’s affiliates and forcing thousands of women to search for new doctors. But their crusade isn’t over yet. Read more, click here.


Where is India's feminist movement headed
On the night of June 28, 2012, the sarpanch, or the elected head of the village council, of Singar village in rural Haryana, his nephew and two other men allegedly abducted a 15-year-old girl. According to the official complaint, The Hindu reported, the four men beat her up and then took turns repeatedly raping her. Read more, click here.

The Feminization of Farming
ACROSS the developing world, millions of people are migrating from farms to cities in search of work. The migrants are mostly men. As a result, women are increasingly on the front lines of the fight to sustain family farms. But pervasive discrimination, gender stereotypes and women’s low social standing have frustrated these women’s rise out of poverty and hunger.  Read more, click here.