From an Intact America alert:

This past Monday, the New York Times published an article claiming that mass-circumcision efforts are “one of the most promising, proven methods for preventing HIV in Africa”—and this is simply not true. Study after study shows that circumcision does not prevent the spread of HIV, and in fact increases the risk, because circumcised men think they are safe, and don’t use condoms.

The most offensive part of the article, however, is this quote from Robert Bailey, an epidemiologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago who helped design Kenya’s circumcision efforts (that country’s 330,000 circumcisions so far are just a third of the government’s goal). “We’re hacking away at it every month,” Dr. Bailey said. “Those foreskins are flying.”

It seems that these doctors, who have built their careers from these mass-circumcision programs, have forgotten we’re talking about human beings with normal, functional, important body parts. “Hacking?” Really?

Article here. Excerpt:

'VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — A woman who tried to sell her baby boy at a Taco Bell restaurant in southwest Washington will be free from jail soon.

Under an agreement with Clark County prosecutors, 36-year-old Heidi Knowles pleaded guilty on Thursday to reckless endangerment and was sentenced to 77 days in jail by a county judge.

The Columbian reports (http://bit.ly/pYcLlp ) Knowles has already served that amount of time and will be released this week.

According to court documents, prosecutors say Knowles approached a woman in the restaurant on July 14, handed her 1-year-old boy to a woman and offered to sell him for between $500 and $5,000. She declined and called 911.'

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'Feminists and society like to say we live in a Patriarchy. Because men hold more leadership positions than women. But why are all the gender concerns towards women only? None for men! NO UN panels, NO national committees, NO State organizations, NO university departments. None. All for women!

Excuse me, What "Patriarchy"???

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'Nurse Suzanne Maree Dyason fell in love with a male prisoner at the Maryborough Correctional Centre known only as "DH" and had a sexual relationship with him between March 2006 and July 2009, the Courier Mail reports.

The Queensland Civil and Administration Tribunal (QCAT) was told Dyason tried to hide the illicit affair from her superiors and used childhood nicknames in letters and phone calls with DH to avoid detection.
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The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia requested Dyason be banned for three years but Judge Kingham has ordered the ban to be reduced to 18 months and compelled Dyason to seek counselling from a psychologist who specialised in "boundary violation issues".'

Story here. Excerpt:

'FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A grandmother who threw her 2-year-old granddaughter to her death from a sixth-floor walkway at Virginia's largest shopping mall told detectives in a taped confession that she felt unloved by her family and jealous of the attention her granddaughter received.

More than anything, Carmela dela Rosa told detectives, she was angry at her son-in-law James Ogdoc for taking her daughter away from her and saw killing the infant as a way to get back at him, according to the confession. The tape was played to jurors Tuesday at the woman's murder trial.

"I just saw James through her, through the baby," dela Rosa said in the hour-long videotaped confession to a Fairfax police detective. "I thought about James and I threw her."

Press release here. Excerpt:

'WASHINGTON, Sept. 28, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Despite calls to address the growing epidemic of abusive teenage girls, Vice President Biden glossed over the problem during his Tuesday appearance on ABC's The View. Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE) is calling on the Vice President to remove the veil of silence that envelops the problem.

Surveys now show high school girls are more likely than boys to engage in physical violence with their dating partners. But VP Biden only spoke of girls as victims and never mentioned them as possible perpetrators. Host Whoopi Goldberg even asked the Vice President a direct question about the reality of dating violence, but Biden did not respond to the question:

"And will you just also remind people, remind the women that the way to get a man's attention is not to hit him? Do not hit him. (applause) Because this is something violence in itself, is something we need to teach kids is not to perpetrate on each other. No?"

Vice President Biden joined the ladies of The View (ABC) yesterday, to discuss teen dating violence and sexual assault. The picture he painted of dating violence was so inaccurate and so bizarre, yes, we're outraged!

Now we need to set him straight!

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, 10% of high school girls, compared to only 9% of boys, have engaged in dating violence in the previous year. So SAVE sent VP Biden a letter, asking him to address the growing problem of dating violence by teen girls: http://www.saveservices.org/2011/09/save-sends-letter-to-vp-biden-regarding-his-upcoming-appearance-on-the-view

Unfortunately, Biden not only ignored our letter, he falsely portrayed teen dating violence as only done by boys, to girls. See the video here: http://theview.abc.go.com/ - then click on the Tues. September 27 button.

Article here. Excerpt:

'ALLEGING "false" sexual assault claims had hampered his efforts to right the global economy, former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn yesterday claimed immunity from prosecution.

Criminal charges were dropped last month when prosecutors lost faith in the credibility of the hotel maid alleging assault, Nafissatou Diallo, but she is pursuing her civil case for undisclosed monetary damages from Mr Strauss-Kahn, once a presidential hopeful in France.

Mr Strauss-Kahn's lawyers claim it is irrelevant that he was no longer head of the IMF when Ms Diallo filed her civil case on August 8, saying: "Mr Strauss-Kahn's absolute immunity persisted until he was able to leave the United States."

Mr Strauss-Kahn went on the attack, accusing Ms Diallo of imperilling his efforts, at the helm of the IMF, to rescue the world economy at a crucial time after the financial crisis.

The effort to repeal the draconian Massachusetts 209A law is on track after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ordered the Mass. Attorney General’s office to allow the initiative petition supported by The Fatherhood Coalition (http://www.fatherhoodcoalition.org/) to proceed.

Under the so-called ‘domestic violence’ law many individuals are separated from their children, thrown out of their homes, forced into the court system and even incarcerated for non-violent acts and for charges without any merit. Due process rights are ignored under a law which presumes a person is guilty before any crime is committed.

The most benign actions, even unintentional ones, are considered criminal by a law destructive to normal healthy relationships within families.

The nationwide travesty of 'abuse prevention' laws began in Massachusetts in 1978.

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'BOSTON—Alimony isn't forever in Massachusetts anymore.

The state abolished most lifetime spousal support Monday, joining several states where alimony payments have come under scrutiny as payers argue they are struggling in the rocky economy

Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick signed a measure that generally ends alimony when the payer reaches retirement age or when the recipient begins living with a romantic partner.

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'WOMEN will be able to serve in any frontline combat role within five years after a historic change by the Government. Federal Defence Minister Stephen Smith said cabinet approved the change during a meeting yesterday.

"This is a change which has the strong support from the chief of the defence force," he said today.

Currently 93 per cent of Australian Defence Force (ADF) positions were open to women.

The other seven per cent excluded women "simply on the basis of sex", Mr Smith said.

These included jobs such as mine disposal divers, air force defence guards and infantry and artillery frontline positions.

These jobs make up 17 per cent of employment opportunities in the ADF.

Mr Smith said the discrimination would be removed over five years in a "careful and methodical" way.

The first implementation report would go to the Government in the first quarter of 2012.

Tomorrow (Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011) Vice President Joseph Biden will make an appearance on ABC's talk show The View to discuss teen dating violence -- and we're asking you to contact the White House to make sure VP Biden gets his facts straight!

We would like VP Biden to emphasize these three critical facts during his appearance on The View:

1. Teenage girls are now more likely than males to be the initiators of dating partner violence.
2. Female abusers need help, not a cold shoulder.
3. The problem of dating violence against boys needs to be highlighted.

This morning SAVE sent a letter to VP Biden asking him to address these 3 issues: http://www.saveservices.org/2011/09/save-sends-letter-to-vp-biden-regarding-his-upcoming-appearance-on-the-view/

Article here. Excerpt:

'Fall sports season is in full swing for New Jersey high schools. But for many students, this may be the last year they play if supporters of Title IX gender quotas get their way in American high schools.

Last November, the Washington, D.C.-based National Women’s Law Center filed federal complaints against 12 school districts. The charge? Because the gender balance of male and female athletes did not exactly mirror the overall population of the student body, the school districts were discriminating. This numbers game assumed that boys and girls have identical interests in identical numbers.
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With few options to address those complainants, schools must make the numbers work. They will have little choice but to eliminate male teams or significantly slash their rosters. As many as 1.3 million male high school athletes nationwide could be permanently sidelined — although that would not create any opportunities for female high school athletes.

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'Mr. Haynesworth, then 18 and never in trouble with the law, had been mistakenly identified by the victim as her assailant. He was arrested on suspicion of having committed five rapes and assaults in his neighborhood, and was tried for four of them. He was convicted in three and sentenced to 84 years in prison.

DNA has since proved that he did not commit two of the rapes he was tried for. The DNA from those two cases pointed to another man, in prison for having committed multiple rapes in the same neighborhood that occurred after Mr. Haynesworth’s arrest. That man, Leon Davis, who identified himself to victims as “the Black Ninja,” is serving multiple life terms plus 100 years.

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'As a young man:

• Teach them that “feminism” means promoting women’s rights and interests.
• Discuss how being a feminist does not mean women hate men or that women think men are the enemy.
• Teach them that by taking a role in feminism they will be helping everyone, not just women.
• Teach them that because they are at the top of society’s hierarchy, they have a responsibility and an ability to be part of social change and justice for everyone.
• Simply talk to them and use probing questions when teachable moments arise. Allow them to reach their own conclusions.'