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Planned Parenthood pleased Crist vetos ultrasound and abortion bill listen

06/11/10 Seán Kinane
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Tags: abortion, abortion rights, Planned Parenthood, pro-choice, Women's rights

Today, Governor Charlie Crist vetoed a controversial bill that would have required women seeking an abortion to pay for an ultrasound.

On Twitter, the state’s Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink said “I commend the veto of 1143, the ultrasound bill - Governor Crist did the right thing.” U.S. Representative Kendrick Meek, State Senator Dan Gelber, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida also applauded Crist’s veto.

Barbara Zdravecky is the CEO and President of Planned Parenthood ...

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Facing protests Crist will not say whether he will veto ultrasound bill listen

05/12/10 Seán Kinane
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Tags: Charlie Crist, abortion rights, Women's rights

Protesters will gather Thursday in Sarasota and St. Petersburg to ask Gov. Charlie Crist to veto a controversial abortion bill passed by the state Legislature. It requires women seeking an abortion to first view an ultrasound of their fetus, and restricts private health insurance from offering abortion coverage.

On Wednesday, WMNF asked Crist whether he would veto or sign the controv...

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Interfaith peace listen

03/08/10 Doris Norrito
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Tags: Peace conference, Women's rights, human rights

About 150 women of all faiths assembled today to worship together for world peace. The common message expressed in song and dance was, 'let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me'. Representatives of Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths read from the scriptures of each holy book the message of peace as expressed by prophets.

Ann Goldman, a Jew, read from Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament. Pilar Saad, a Muslim, read from the Koran.

Sister Anne Dougherty showed an astronaut’s mo...

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Outback To Pay $19 million for Sex Discrimination Suit listen

12/30/09 Concetta DeLuco
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Tags: Women's rights, women's issues, outback steakhouse, working conditions, equal employment rights

Outback Steakhouse will pay $19 million as part of a settlement in a major sex discrimination lawsuit brought against the company by the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC).

The Tampa-based Outback Steakhouse is part of OSI Restaurant Partners. The $19 million agreement was decided yesterday and comes as the result of a suit filed in 2006.

OSI Restaurant Partners is headquartered in Tampa and was founded in 1988. Besides Outback, OSI also owns restaurants such as Carrabba...

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Civil Rights Icon Visits USF - St. Pete listen

10/22/09 Kate Bradshaw
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Tags: Women's rights, Barack Obama, Equal Pay, civil rights, Lilly Ledbetter, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Democratic National Convention, Supreme Court

The first bill President Obama signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. It allows workers to file legal action within 180 days after receiving any discriminatory paycheck – that is, wages based on unfair factors like gender. The legislation’s namesake spoke in St. Petersburg today.

The rural Alabama native had never intended to get into politics. Her plans, Ledbetter told a captive audience at USF St. Pete, hit a snag decades into her career. After nearly 20 years as a region...

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McCollum announces expansion of InVest program to reduce domestic violence homicides listen

07/16/09 Seán Kinane
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Tags: Women's rights, violence prevention

A pilot program that aims to reduce the number of fatal domestic violence cases in Florida is expanding into six new counties. Attorney General Bill McCollum announced today the growth of the Intimate Violence Enhanced Services Team, or InVest.

The InVest program is already in place in Alachua, Duval, Orange, Seminole, and St. Lucie counties. Attorney General McCollum, who is running for the Republican nomination for Governor, announced Thursday that the p...

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Michelle Goldberg on controversial Afghan marriage law listen

04/15/09 Mitch E. Perry
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Tags: Women's issues, women's rights, politics, Afghanistan

This morning in the Afghanistan capital of Kabul, hundreds of Afghan women protested in front of the Parliament building calling on the government to modify the controversial law on marital life of Shiite women.

However, as the protesting women carried banners inscribed with slogans in favor of equality between men and women, a group of men began pelting stones at protesters in an attempt to disperse them. Police cordoned off the protestors to enable them dispersing peacefully.

Wide cr...

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Women's Show-ARNE ARNESON on Abortion listen

01/24/09 Mary Glennie

Tags: Women's rights, abortion, Roe v. Wade

An interview with Arne Arneson on abortion rights

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Tampa honors Sen. Helen Gordon Davis listen

10/16/08 Seán Kinane
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Tags: Helen Gordon Davis, Women's rights, Womens issues

The city of Tampa declared today Helen Gordon Davis Day in honor of the former state senator, who has been fighting for equality for women and others since before entering politics in 1974. The declaration was made at a luncheon in her honor at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Tampa organized by the Centre for Women and the Florida Displaced Homemakers Network.

Gordon Davis said she could not resist speaking about women’s issues even though she was warned not to...

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Gloria Steinem speaks at Eckerd College listen

03/06/08 Dawn Morgan & Emily Reddy
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Tags: Women's rights

Last night at Eckerd College, three generations of feminists came together for a panel discussion on the women’s movement.

Gloria Steinem led a conversation with Dorothy Pitman Hughes, Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards and an audience of 1,200 students and community members.

Steinem caused a stir over the weekend with a comment that being a prisoner of war didn’t qualify John McCain to be president.

In a press conference before the event, Steinem said many reporters misinterpreted...

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