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	<title>Morning Quickie &#187; women&#8217;s rights</title>
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		<title>Do-It-Yourself Abortion Leads To Tragic Death</title>
		<link>http://morningquickie.com/2012/05/23/do-it-yourself-abortion-leads-to-tragic-death/</link>
		<comments>http://morningquickie.com/2012/05/23/do-it-yourself-abortion-leads-to-tragic-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 04:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Britain&#8217;s Daily Mail has become internationally notorious, largely because of the pink &#8220;sidebar of shame&#8221; down the right-hand side of the increasingly apoplectic website &#8212; a one-stop shop for celebrity body snarking and general judgement of famous women for being too fat, being too thin, wearing slutty clothes, wearing frumpy clothes, giving birth by elective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ignore Sexism And It Will Go Away</title>
		<link>http://morningquickie.com/2012/05/22/ignore-sexism-and-it-will-go-away/</link>
		<comments>http://morningquickie.com/2012/05/22/ignore-sexism-and-it-will-go-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 04:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JMW</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[anti-sexual discrimination legislation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[discrimination at work]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Isobel Redmond]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of Australia&#8217;s leading female politicians has suggested that women facing sexual discrimination at work should just ignore it and it will disappear. Isobel Redmond made the comments at a women&#8217;s leadership event in Adelaide. These comments seem more suited to a grey-suited politician from the an earlier era, not a liberal Australian political leader. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suing Obama Over Birth Control Rules</title>
		<link>http://morningquickie.com/2012/05/21/suing-obama-over-birth-control-rules/</link>
		<comments>http://morningquickie.com/2012/05/21/suing-obama-over-birth-control-rules/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 05:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kait</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since Barack Obama has introduced the new healthcare bill, he has faced an onslaught of opposition against the birth control mandate, which obliges most employers to include birth control coverage in company health care packages, regardless of the organization’s stance on the issue. It was an effort by the government to improve health care for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Abortion Protests Hit Parliament Hill</title>
		<link>http://morningquickie.com/2012/05/11/anti-abortion-protests-hit-parliament-hill/</link>
		<comments>http://morningquickie.com/2012/05/11/anti-abortion-protests-hit-parliament-hill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 22:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kait</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abortion access]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abortion law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Campaign Life Coalition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[definition of life]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://morningquickie.com/?p=46922</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, anti-abortion protestors gathered at Parliament Hill in Ottawa for the annual March for Life. Campaign Life Coalition is demanding the Conservatives take a second look at abortion laws in Canada. Stephen Harper and the Tories have repeatedly stated they will not change any legislation regarding abortion. However, Conservative MP Steven Woodsworth brought a motion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy International Midwife Day</title>
		<link>http://morningquickie.com/2012/05/04/happy-international-midwife-day/</link>
		<comments>http://morningquickie.com/2012/05/04/happy-international-midwife-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 20:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JennY</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[May 4]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tanzania]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honour of May, 4, the day that recognizes how important midwives are worldwide, it is even more important to recognize what happens in countries without midwives or access to reliable healthcare. Tanzania, for example, has a dangerously low number of women&#8217;s health care professionals and midwives. Because of this, it is one of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Female President Of Malawi Puts Women First</title>
		<link>http://morningquickie.com/2012/05/01/joyce-banda-first-female-president-of-malawi-puts-women-first/</link>
		<comments>http://morningquickie.com/2012/05/01/joyce-banda-first-female-president-of-malawi-puts-women-first/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 03:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JMW</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feminism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are few women in the world right now who are as inspirational as Joyce Banda, the new President of Malawi. Banda is the survivor of an abusive marriage, a successful business woman, and latterly a top ranking politician. As the Vice President, she became President of Malawi in April by default following the death [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lazy Sunday Ali G Feminist Post</title>
		<link>http://morningquickie.com/2012/04/29/lazy-sunday-ali-g-feminist-post/</link>
		<comments>http://morningquickie.com/2012/04/29/lazy-sunday-ali-g-feminist-post/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ali G interviews Naomi Wolf about feminism! For Your Reading Pleasure:Lazy Easter Sunday PostLazy Sunday RIP Whitney PostLazy Sunday Hair PostLazy Sunday Awful Proposal PostLazy Sunday Irish Muppets Post]]></description>
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		<title>100,000 Women Genitally Mutilated In Britain</title>
		<link>http://morningquickie.com/2012/04/25/100000-women-genitally-mutilated-in-britain/</link>
		<comments>http://morningquickie.com/2012/04/25/100000-women-genitally-mutilated-in-britain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JennY</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[clitoris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[female genital mutilation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Female genital mutilation surgery (FGM) is still being offered in the UK, despite being illegal. This thought horrifies me. Investigators from the Sunday Times report that doctors have offered to do the procedure on girls as young as ten. They also reportedly video taped a doctor, a dentist and an alternative medical practitioner offering to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona Signs Most Restrictive Abortion Law Yet</title>
		<link>http://morningquickie.com/2012/04/13/arizona-signs-most-restrictive-abortion-law-yet/</link>
		<comments>http://morningquickie.com/2012/04/13/arizona-signs-most-restrictive-abortion-law-yet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JennY</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://morningquickie.com/?p=46545</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is an argument that life begins at conception, rather than at viability. But one American politician has decided that life actually begins at a mother&#8217;s last period when she&#8217;s not even pregnant! Sounds ridiculous, right? But that didn&#8217;t stop Arizona governor Jan Brewer from signing a bill into law that says life begins two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forced Sterilization Program Revealed In Uzbekistan</title>
		<link>http://morningquickie.com/2012/04/12/forced-sterilization-program-revealed-in-uzbekistan/</link>
		<comments>http://morningquickie.com/2012/04/12/forced-sterilization-program-revealed-in-uzbekistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 03:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JMW</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[forced sterilization]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[infertility]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Maternal and infant mortality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[secret sterilization]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tubal ligation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women are being sterilized without their permission or knowledge in Uzbekistan as the result of a secret government policy to keep statistics for maternal and infant death artificially low. Uzbekistan is a small dictatorship in Central Asia and has recently gained strategic importance to countries involved in the conflict in Afghanistan (including the US) as [...]]]></description>
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