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The National Library of Medicine defines menstrual stigma as “the negative perception of menstruation and those who menstruate, characterizing the menstruating body as abnormal and abject”. [6] Menstrual stigma has significant impacts on the lives of those women including their health, education, economic opportunities, and participation in ...
According to Texas Penal Code, Section 37.10, it is a crime to make an alteration that is false in a government document or record. [18] [19] According to the Legislative Reference Library of Texas the Texas Legislature Online system "... is not the official record of those actions, and [the Legislative Reference Library staff] enters actions ...
The jurists said that the case of a woman's menstrual period (istihadha) does not waive the obligatory prayer on her behalf, because this woman is pure and can read and recite the Quran, and since the ruling on istihadha blood is different from the impurity of menstrual blood, it is sufficient for a woman's menstrual period to purify herself of blood that is in excess of her usual monthly ...
Texas State Library, Abortion laws - Trigger laws, accessed Feb. 13, 2024 The Guardian, Murder charges dropped against Texas woman for ‘self-induced abortion’ , April 10, 2022
Abortion in Texas is illegal in most cases. [1] There are nominally exceptions to save the mother's life, or prevent "substantial impairment of major bodily function", but the law on abortion in Texas is written in such an ambiguous way that life-threatening or harmful pregnancies do not explicitly constitute an exception.
The HuffPost/YouGov poll consisted of 3,000 completed interviews conducted May 8 to 29 among U.S. adults, including 124 women who are childless and reported not wanting children in the future. It was conducted using a sample selected from YouGov's opt-in online panel to match the demographics and other characteristics of the adult U.S. population.
A proposal by the Italian Parliament to introduce a menstrual leave policy in 2017 sparked debate in Europe on how menstrual health impacts women in the workforce. The bill would have introduced a policy for companies to offer three days paid leave to women who suffer severe menstrual cramps; the policy was not enacted. [1]
Supreme Court precedents have long protected access by adults to non-obscene sexual content on First Amendment grounds, including a 2004 ruling that blocked a federal law similar to the Texas measure.