Noteworthy News

This is f*cked up. The Cincinnati Planned Parenthood Clinic must give a family that is suing the clinic all records on abortion patients younger than 18, a judge ruled.The documents are being sought in a lawsuit by the family of a teenage girl. The suit alleges that Planned Parenthood never got parental consent to perform an abortion on the girl, as required by Ohio law.

From womensenews:
The Supreme Court on Monday gave plaintiffs greater latitude in prosecuting domestic violence cases, The Associated Press reported July 19. In Hammon v. Indiana, the court ruled that statements made by victims of crime in emergency situations are permissible in court even if those victims do not testify at trial. In a separate case, the justices held that a Washington man's "right to confront his accuser" was not violated because he could not cross-examine his ex-girlfriend, who claimed in a 911 call that he had assaulted her.

Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., introduced a bill June 22 to require all HIV-prevention programs funded by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief to address violence against women and would strike the requirement that one-third of the funding under the plan be directed toward abstinence-only programs. At the United Nations AIDS summit in New York three weeks ago, violence and discrimination against women were highlighted as a major factor in higher infection and death rates among women.