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Influencers made millions pushing 'wild' births - now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world 4 littlemissmartypants Nov 2025 Nov 2025 14 1996
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My Mother's Story: Free Spirit, Activist Teen Locked Up, Drugged, Re-Educated, 1969 Spain Franco Fascist Dictatorship 2 appalachiablue Nov 2025 Nov 2025 6 1407
This FDA Decision Could Transform Menopause Care 1 niyad Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 1225
I was trying to run for the presidency in Uganda - yet men still found the audacity to call me 'baby, sweetheart, darlin 0 niyad Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 1270
'Still work to be done': Iceland marks 50 years since Women's Day Off protests 0 niyad Nov 2025 Nov 2025 1 1118
'Attacked no matter what they do': why female politicians face relentless cycle of abuse 0 niyad Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 948
In Sudan, war is being waged on women and children (trigger warning) 0 niyad Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 953
Alliance Defending Freedom Succeeded in Overturning Roe. Now It's Turning to the United Kingdom. 0 niyad Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 1029
When the Headline Gets It Wrong: Feminism Isn't the Problem--Patriarchy Is (trigger warning) 0 niyad Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 926
Open Carry Dude Assaults Wife, Kills Two Sons, Keeps Second Amendment Safe 34 niyad Aug 2015 Nov 2025 27 12709
Man gropes Mexico president as she speaks with citizens on the streets 4 Deep State Witch Nov 2025 Nov 2025 14 1608
Jennifer Siebel Newsom's documentary: Miss Representation 0 littlemissmartypants Nov 2025 Nov 2025 6 1067
A sweeping study found thousands of stillbirths occur without clear warning signs 1 Diamond_Dog Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 1113
NC Women have a Revolutionary History: 24 October 1774 0 littlemissmartypants Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 950
I've lived as a man & a woman -- here's what I learned Paula Stone Williams 2 littlemissmartypants Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 1353
Half of Heart Attacks in Younger Women Aren't From Clogged Arteries 14 littlemissmartypants Oct 2025 Oct 2025 37 3756
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 littlemissmartypants Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 865
"I will cut adrift..." Virginia Wolf 0 littlemissmartypants Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 1130
Latina midwives merge cultural wisdom with modern care 1 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 5710
Expatriarch - "Patriarchy isn't real": Why men provide for their wives 2 ihaveaquestion Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 1361
Anti-abortion groups furious as FDA approves generic abortion pill 0 BlueWaveNeverEnd Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 1134
'Women adrift': How single women lived independently in early Chicago 1 littlemissmartypants Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 1243
Planned Parenthood clinics in Louisiana close 0 littlemissmartypants Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 1118
Afghan women lose their 'last hope' as Taliban shut down internet 1 Eugene Sep 2025 Sep 2025 9 2442
Watch the full film: A Virgin's Sacrifice (aka A Woman's Sacrifice, 1922) 0 littlemissmartypants Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1452
Texas' Newest Abortion Law Allows $100,000 Rewards for Snitching on Pregnant Women 3 niyad Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 1456
Let's talk, ladies! 3 cilla4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 2453
A surplus of men A deficit of peace 7 suegeo Sep 2025 Sep 2025 11 3885

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Afghanistan bans female authors from university curricula 0 niyad Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1329
The Push to Eliminate New York State's Voluntary Intoxication Loophole: 'You Should Be Allowed to Get Drunk and Not Be 0 niyad Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 2104
One woman killed every 10 minutes: The harrowing global reality of femicide (trigger warning) 0 niyad Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 2140
The Silent Epidemic of Femicide in the United States (trigger warning!!) 0 niyad Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1091
Days of the Theocracy--Kristin Lems 0 niyad Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 1232
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 littlemissmartypants Sep 2025 Sep 2025 1 847
Health Rounds: New menopause pill eases hot flashes, night sweats 0 littlemissmartypants Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 1551
South Korean Woman Cleared Decades After Biting Attacker's Tongue During Attempted Rape 1 BlueWaveNeverEnd Sep 2025 Sep 2025 14 2665
narrow key pianos. 4 mopinko Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 2537
Unmarried mothers forced to give up babies for adoption in England 1 littlemissmartypants Aug 2025 Aug 2025 11 1419
Under Trump, a New Focus for a Birth Control Program: Helping Women Get Pregnant 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Aug 2025 5 1936
The 19th Amendment, Explained 1 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 1148
"Good Morning, Beautiful" message thoughts... 5 littlemissmartypants Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 1446
Just a little factoid for Women's Equality Day, Aug. 26. Alice Paul died in 1977 2 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 1182
A statue of women's rights pioneers Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton 2 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 1164
Trump's Republican Trifecta Sets Up Massive Transfer of Tax Dollars from Reproductive Health Clinics to Unregulated Cris 2 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 1231
Over a Million Women Are at Risk of a Pay Cut Under a New Trump Rule 0 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 1018
Bad Romance: Women's Suffrage 0 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 993
Women's Equality Day: Celebrate the Victories. Confront the Backlash. 0 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 916
Rebecca Watson (Skepchick) - Costco Gives Misogynists a Win by Not Selling Abortion Medication 3 ihaveaquestion Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 1317
Opinion: Yesterday's Witch Hunts and Today's Misinformation Crisis Have Much in Common 1 littlemissmartypants Aug 2025 Aug 2025 14 1137
My Husband Said God Wanted Him To Spank Me. Then He Made A Chilling Request That Had Me Gasping For Air. 2 irisblue Aug 2025 Aug 2025 13 1673
Why did so many women in a tiny Hungarian village poison their husbands? 4 littlemissmartypants Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 1941
FGM: Outrage as baby dies after genital mutilation in The Gambia 1 Eugene Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 1070
US Seeks to Rename (and defund) UN Aviation Program Over Term 'Gender' 1 Eugene Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 1037
DEI's Collapse and the Cost to Black Women 1 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 1041
Bipartisan Group of Congresswomen Call for Funding of American Women's History Museum 0 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 908
'The matter is in his hands alone': president of Sierra Leone urged to ban FGM as court rules it tantamount to torture 0 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 873
Mass rape, forced pregnancy and sexual torture in Tigray amount to crimes against humanity - report 0 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 975
Pregnant and Unmarried? In Tennessee, That's Now Grounds for Denial of Care. 0 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 941

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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US judge blocks Trump's effort to defund reproductive health organisation 0 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 863
T####'s Support Erodes as Women, Workers and Even Republicans Push Back 0 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 908
Poverty is a Policy Choice--and Women Deserve More 0 niyad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 886
Nature didn't forget. 13 littlemissmartypants Aug 2025 Aug 2025 54 2924
Happy Anniversary Of The First Women's Rights Convention! 1 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 1152
How the global trade in donkey skins threatens the lives of women and girls 3 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 1413
Declaration of Sentiments---Seneca Falls, July 19-20 1848 Women's Rights 1 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 1123
Feminist icon Gisele Pelicot awarded France's top civic honour: Report 0 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 1067
Attacks on Abortion Access Are as Old as White Supremacist Patriarchy Itself. Here's How We Fight Back. 2 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 1215
'Misogyny Is a System': Julie Suk Wants to Reimagine U.S. Institutions--and Build a Democracy of Equality 0 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 1117
The Seneca Falls Convention: Setting the National Stage for Women's Suffrage 0 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 1057
African manhood is broken - and it's costing women their lives( Urgent Trigger warning!!) 1 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 1758
An Open Letter to Rep. Kat Cammack From a Medical Doctor: It's Abortion Bans That Make Doctors Afraid to Act, Not 'the 1 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 1405
Anne Marie Allen tells The Women's Podcast about her gruelling life within Opus Dei 10 bucolic_frolic Jul 2025 Jul 2025 37 3023
Inside Liberty University's Secret Maternity Home 1 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 1463
Invisible victims How Colombia plans to support children orphaned by femicide 0 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 1326
'We Need to Shift Who Has Power in This Country': Cynthia Richie Terrell Knows How We Can Cultivate Gender Balance in P 0 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 1234
The U.N. Should Condemn the U.S.' Human Rights Record on Abortion 0 niyad Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 985
The wage gap, explained. 5 eppur_se_muova Jun 2025 Jun 2025 27 2344
Inequalities across the continent: research, women and health. 0 littlemissmartypants Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 1374
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