Report of
the WEBCAST
Marathon
"Full
Spectrum for Women´s Holistic Health"
May 28
- International Women's Health Day
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ACTION about Madres de Plaza de Mayo send to FIRE for webcast that day.....
The Marathon in
,
| María
Eugenia Chávez of
SIPAM in México, speaks over the phone with FIRE about the
Campaign, "Right to the Health, Right Citizen of the
Women" by the Latin American and Caribbean Women’s Health
Network (LACWHN) in her country on May 28th. |
|
| Disabilities
rights feminist
activist, Laura Hershey live on FIRE about current reproductive
rights and health issues of women with disabilities in the USA and their
connections to women with disabilities in other countries. |
|
| USA polygamist
community survivor, Laura Chapman tells
FIRE´s Margaret Thompson her story of escape from a Mormon community. She
believes polygamy is not about "consenting adults" and describes
the health effects of such practice on women. |
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| A National
Radio Project Women´s Desk contribution to FIRE´s webcast Marathon,
where Latina health activist Belma Gonzalez of a San Francisco
Women´s Health Clinic speaks about the barriers to women´s health care
that have to be broken in the USA public health system. |
|
| Center for
Reproductive Law and Policy Executive
Director, Kathy Hall Martínez speaks to FIRE´s María Suárez
over the phone about Bush´s Global Gag Rule that prohibits AID funding to
groups that even mention the word "abortion" in third world
countries. She addresses the need to gather information about how the Rule
affects women in their countries and the need to lobby against this
policy. |
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| Fairness and
Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) Women´s Desk director,
Jennifer Posner, speaks over the phone with FIRE´s María Suárez
about US media
coverage of the Global Gag Rule in the USA. |
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| Native American women´s health activist Diane Williams speaks on "Making Contact" of the National Radio Project about Native American women´s reproductive health issues. She believes that when public policy skips prevention, the price is tenfold…for women and for the system. |
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