Monday, November 9, 2009 at 4:31PM Traffic. You sit in it every day on your way to the office or school, hear about it on the news. It’s bothersome, yet another price we pay for a stable job or well-situated home. But there’s another, more pernicious meaning of the word, one that is more than a mere annoyance of modern life.
Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 5:28PM The truth is, violence against women and girls can happen outside of an abusive family or partnership. UNICEF reported as early as 1984 that “abortions after prenatal sex determination stated that 7,999 out of 8,000 of the aborted fetuses were females.” Alarming as this statistic was decades ago, what is more alarming is that this is simply a facet of the violence that occurs against women on a daily basis.
