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For the Initiative Radio with Angela McKenzie – Monday, October 17, 2011 http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.1.swf Information: On this week’s edition of Initiative Radio, Angela McKenzie turns things over to Annamarya Scaccia, her fellow Peter Jennings Project Fellow for Journalists and the US Constitution. Scaccia conducted four interviews that examine the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act … Continue reading »

New guidelines applied August 1 by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to the Affordable Care Act [15], requiring that employers include coverage of women’s preventive care, including birth control have drawn fierce opposition from the religious. The new guidelines require all new private insurance plans to cover preventive services—including, for example, breast exams and … Continue reading »

Contributed by Annamarya This week has seen a tremendous victory for women’s right to health care. On Monday, the US Department of Health and Human Services released new guidelines under the Affordable Care Act that require new health insurance plans to include FREE access to birth control and women’s preventive services. Insurance companies’ inclusion of these … Continue reading »

Published on The Daily Femme – Monday, May 16, 2011 Contributed by Annamarya Rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo is worse than previously thought, a new study released Wednesday and to be published in June by the American Journal of Public Health has found. According to the latest study, which The New York Times … Continue reading »

Published on The Daily Femme – Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Contributed by Annamarya Earlier this month, 42 senators, including liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans, sent Attorney General Eric Holder a borderline emotional letterurging him to amp up the federal prosecutions of adult pornography. This communique comes on the heels of Holder’s recent disbanding of the Obscenity Prosecution … Continue reading »

Published on The Daily Femme – Friday, Feb. 25, 2011 Contributed by Annamarya In a landmark move, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. announced on Wednesday that the Obama administration will cease to defend the Clinton-era Defense of Marriage Act on the grounds that it’s unconstitutional. Holder wrote in a six-page letter to House Speaker John Boehner … Continue reading »

Published on The Daily Femme – Friday, Feb. 11, 2011 Contributed by Annamarya It’s no secret that I am a proponent of decriminalizing prostitution and working to legitimize an industry that’s often seen as salacious, immoral and taboo. It’s about building a sex-positive society. It is about, as I’ve written before for The Daily Femme, a legalization … Continue reading »

Published on The Daily Femme – Monday, Oct. 11, 2010 Contributed by Annamarya Last week, Clutch, a magazine directed towards young, contemporary women of color, published a blog post that struck a very deep chord with me: “What If Your Man Was Sexually Abused?” The post, written by Shahida Muhammad, addressed primarily the double-standard often applied … Continue reading »