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(Responding to the California Legislative Analyst's Report of 1/21/10) (i) May 3, 2010 The Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) conducts rigorous research and disseminates its findings to address the [...]

Summary In recent years, various legislatures have enacted laws and ordinances mandating a waiting period for women seeking to obtain abortions. Legal challenges to such statutes have been successful, except [...]

The effects that such factors as wages, welfare policies and access to physicians, family planning clinics and abortion providers have on abortion rates and birthrates are examined in analyses based [...]

Summary Approval of legal abortion increased dramatically among Americans between 1965 and 1973 (from an average of 41 percent for six different reasons in 1965 to 68 percent in 1973). [...]

Summary Reform of abortion laws in the United States stemmed from concern over the health consequences of illegal abortion. Feminists were relative latecomers to the movement, and abortion did not [...]

In a 1991 study based on a nationally representative sample of more than 1,500 unmarried minors having an abortion, 61% of the respondents said that one or both of their [...]

Two major conclusions emerge from the year-long study by the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine about how legalized abortion affects the public health: * 'Fewer deaths and a [...]

In what ways has increased access to legal induced abortion changed behavior; and what has been the impact, if any, of such changes on population growth and public health? We [...]

Context: Income thresholds for Medicaid eligibility for pregnant women were raised in two phases between 1987 and 1991. During roughly the same period, the U.S. fertility rate rose and the [...]

'Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford and poor people can't.' President Jimmy Garter, press conference, July 12, [...]

As of January 1997,34 states were enforcing restrictions on Medicaid funding for abortions. Determining whether these restrictions affect women's reproductive decisions was the object of a fixed-effects log-linear analysis using [...]

Summary In the 1984 election, Ronald Reagan, the Republican presidential incumbent and an opponent of legal abortion, defeated Walter Mondale, a prochoice Democrat, by a wide margin. Despite Reagan's sweep [...]

Summary There are a number of distinctive differences in the characteristics and attitudes of the members of the two major organizations supporting and opposing legal abortion--the National Abortion Rights Action [...]

'Direct action simply recognizes what in fact is taking place, that innocent human lives are being destroyed, and that the only appropriate response is one that stops this killing.' (Curtis [...]

AIDS is now the world's leading infectious cause of death. The World Health Organization estimates that 2.5 million people died of AIDS in 1998 -- nearly 1 million were women [...]

In this essay I examine the function of pregnancy and narrative in two Romantic tales' engagement with a Fichtean notion of subjectivity. I begin by tracing how Friedrich von Hardenberg [...]

Yoga is a physical and mental practice that involves the body, mind and spirit. The practice, which originated in India, is designed to enhance awareness, create a mind-body-spirit balance, cleanse, [...]

Is yoga a religion? No. However, it can be part of a religious/spiritual practice. Is yoga a replacement for conventional treatment? No. You should continue any current medication or treatment [...]

Review the following 'Questions To Ask' about yoga so you're prepared to discuss this important health issue with your health care professional. Where did you learn to teach yoga? Are [...]

Yoga has been practiced in the United States since the late 19th century, but it gained popularity in the 1960s. According to results of a 2008 survey conducted by the [...]

If you have a medical condition for which you are receiving treatment, yoga should be considered an additional therapy, not a replacement. Talk to your health care professional if you [...]

What's the difference between being obese and being overweight? In both overweight and obese people, the defining characteristic is excess body fat. The difference is a matter of degree. Overweight [...]

While Americans' fat consumption has decreased over the past several decades from 37 percent to 33 percent, their rate of obesity has risen from 12 percent in 1991 to as [...]

Review the following 'Questions To Ask' about obesity so you're prepared to discuss this important health issue with your health care professional. Have my body composition and risk factors--as well [...]

Losing as little as five to 10 percent of your body weight and maintaining that loss can significantly improve your health by increasing glucose tolerance and lowering blood pressure and [...]

Health care professionals and researchers stress that if you are obese, losing as little as five to 10 percent of your body weight can improve or prevent many of the [...]

An excess of body fat--the defining characteristic of obesity--results from an imbalance between the amount of calories you take in and those you expend. The reasons for this imbalance are [...]

America has become a nation of chronically overweight people. Today approximately 66.3 percent of American adults are either overweight or obese, and 32 percent are obese, according to the National [...]

Violence against women, also known as interpersonal violence, is a crime of power and control. It occurs in the context of many different types of relationships and takes many forms. [...]

Review the following 'Questions To Ask' about violence against women so you're prepared to discuss this important health issue with your health care professional. Will you keep a record of [...]

If things are so bad, why doesn't she just leave her abuser? Shelters often are full, and family, friends and the workplace are frequently less than fully supportive of a [...]

Help is available by calling the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or TDD 1-800-787-3224. You can reach the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673. And the Stalking Hotline [...]

Prevailing myths about intimate-partner violence often encourage denial about abusive situations and prevent women from getting the help they need. Remember: Domestic violence can happen in any type of relationship, [...]

Emotional and verbal abuse, attempts to isolate and threats and intimidation within a relationship may be an indication that physical abuse is to follow. Even if these behaviors are not [...]

Schnitzler's novella Fraulein Else can be read as the last representative and 'death-sentence' of the bourgeois tragedy. A comparison with Lessing's Emilia Galotti informs my reading of the later story [...]

An examination of Else Lasker-Schuler's connection to the discourse of hysteria so pervasive in her day tells us much about how she viewed herself as a woman and an author. [...]

Losing as little as a five to 10 percent of body weight and maintaining that loss can significantly improve the health of obese patients by increasing glucose tolerance and lowering [...]

Yoga has been practiced in the U.S. since the late 19th century, but it gained popularity in the 1960s. According to results of a study sponsored by the Yoga Journal [...]

Health care professionals and researchers stress that if you are obese, losing as little as five to 10 percent of your body weight can improve or prevent many of the [...]

An excess of body fat-the defining characteristic of obesity-results from an imbalance between energy intake and energy expenditure (i.e., consuming more calories than are needed to support your body's energy [...]

This article investigates the complex interrelation between death, femininity, and art in Annette von Droste-Hulshoff's work. It traces a development from Droste's early works, in which creative expression of the [...]

This essay introduces a nearly forgotten Expressionist poet, Henriette Hardenberg (1894-1993), whose work often focuses on the relationship between a subject and her 'body.' Using feminist philosopher Elizabeth Grosz's concept of a 'body image,' said to determine sexual identity, I conduct a series of close readings to show that Hardenberg's writing can be read in opposition to constructing such an image. Hardenberg, herself a dancer, represents the 'body' as a space whose boundaries are fluid, perpetually in motion, so that the reader is unable to visualize it, and sexual identity can be recognized as, by definition, unstable. (CR), If the body is the site of sexual difference, the place that identifies a given subject as 'male' or 'female,' then it is the poetry and prose of a recently [...]

Review the following 'Questions To Ask' about yoga so you're prepared to discuss this important health issue with your health care professional. 1. Where did you learn to teach yoga? [...]

1. Is yoga a religion? No. However, it can be part of a religious/spiritual practice. 2. Is yoga a replacement for conventional treatment? No. You should continue any current medication [...]

Policymakers across the country are increasingly interested in ensuring that workers have paid sick days. In addition to concerns about workers' ability to respond to their own health needs, there [...]

Policymakers across the country are increasingly interested in ensuring that workers have paid sick days. In addition to concerns about workers' ability to respond to their own health needs, there [...]

In 'The Effects of Mandatory Delay Laws on Abortion Patients and Providers' by Frances A. Althaus and Stanley K. Henshaw [26: 228-231 & 233], an incorrect number was given in [...]