6. Health and Illness

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We must grow towards a movement that focuses not only on abortion rights but on a whole range of women's health and justice issues.

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Economic justice is not a stepping stone to the "real" goal, peace, but a fire-in-the-belly issue in its own right.

Summary:Programs run by Native American and Alaska Native women are vital in ensuring the protection and long-term support of Indigenous women who have experienced sexual violence.

Summary:Some Indigenous women interviewed by Amnesty International said they didn't know any women in their community who had not experienced sexual violence.

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Dialogues about the girls' suffering have motivated 131 excisers to quit, and three villages to renounce the practice.

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The current biodefense expansion has the potential to seriously threaten public safety, international security, and the vitality of open biomedical research, and to drain scarce resources from key public health programs.

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Amidst armed conflict, humanitarian disaster, and entrenched gender inequality, these organizations struggle to end violence against women and girls.

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Thirty-nine years ago, on January 20, 1968, I was shot and paralyzed from my mid-chest down during my second tour of duty in Vietnam. It is a date that I can never forget, a day that was to change my life forever.
As I now contemplate another January 20th I cannot help but think of the young men and women who have been wounded in the war in Iraq. They have been coming home now for almost three years, flooding Walter Reed, Bethesda, Brooke Army Medical Center and veterans hospitals all across the country.

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We have demanded too little from our leaders, excused far too much.