var digesttext = "<!-- Header --><style type=\"text/css\">P.item { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 10px; border-bottom: 1px solid #999; line-height: 1.45em }a { color: #04E; }#items { font-size: 13px; }SPAN.description { color: #222; line-height: 1.25em }SPAN.date { color: #888; font-size: 11px; }SPAN.date A { color: #247; }SPAN.grey { color: #888; font-weight: bold; font-size: 22px; }</style><div id=\"items\"><!-- Items --><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~3/VyHYkGRXeS8/uswirestory.asp\">ACLU Challenges Arizona Restriction on Inmates\' Abortion Rights </a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">02/08/10 20:28 from <a href=\"http://www.feminist.org\">Feminist Daily News</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\">The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is again asking an Arizona court to stop Maricopa County Sheriff Joseph Arpaio from preventing female inmates from accessing abortion services. A 2005 lawsuit struck down the Sheriff\'s policy of pro..</span><br /></p><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~3/1bPHO5ZY0MI/uswirestory.asp\">Syria Increases Minimum Sentence for Honor Killing</a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">02/08/10 20:28 from <a href=\"http://www.feminist.org\">Feminist Daily News</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\">Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued a decree last week that increased the penalty for honor killing to a minimum prison sentence of two years. The law previously limited the maximum sentence to one year. According to the </span><br /></p><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~3/8yiKSKDNRZQ/uswirestory.asp\">Appropriations Bill Could Eliminate DC Funding Bans</a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">02/08/10 20:28 from <a href=\"http://www.feminist.org\">Feminist Daily News</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\">The federal appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2010 includes several items that would end funding bans affecting several different issues in Washington, DC. If passed in its current form, the bill would eliminate a prohibition on using DC-..</span><br /></p><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~3/1bCOJv9LGR4/uswirestory.asp\">DC To Begin Recognizing Out-of-State Same-Sex Marriages </a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">02/08/10 20:28 from <a href=\"http://www.feminist.org\">Feminist Daily News</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\">The District of Columbia officially began recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other states this morning. Congress had a 30 day review period after the bill was signed by DC Mayor Adrian Fenty to reject the measure. The review period..</span><br /></p><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~3/geefv-Yd5ds/uswirestory.asp\">Uganda to Ban Female Genital Mutilation </a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">02/08/10 20:28 from <a href=\"http://www.feminist.org\">Feminist Daily News</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\">A law will be passed banning female genital mutilation (FGM) in Uganda, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni announced Friday. In his announcement, Museveni referenced a resolution passed last year by the United Nations that declared FGM a vio..</span><br /></p><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~3/3OeRlRV_U7I/uswirestory.asp\">Alabama School District Ends Single-Sex Classes</a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">02/08/10 20:28 from <a href=\"http://www.feminist.org\">Feminist Daily News</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\">School officials in Lawrence County, Alabama, have agreed to end single-sex classes. The school district reached a settlement after being notified by the American Civil Liberties Union that its sex segregated programs ... </span><br /></p><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~3/5auS0ZKRl4w/uswirestory.asp\">Number of Homeless Female Veterans Rising</a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">02/08/10 20:28 from <a href=\"http://www.feminist.org\">Feminist Daily News</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\">The number of homeless female veterans has doubled in the past decade, according to the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), even though the overall number of homeless veterans has decreased. Current estimates indicate there are 6,500 homele..</span><br /></p><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~3/uHQYvOC97hQ/uswirestory.asp\">House Appropriations Committee Rejects Abortion Ban Amendment</a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">02/08/10 20:28 from <a href=\"http://www.feminist.org\">Feminist Daily News</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\">The House Appropriations Committee rejected an amendment yesterday to the federal appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2010 that would have enabled the continuance of a ban on using local funds to help low-income women in Washington, DC acce..</span><br /></p><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~3/hik1JiBeZc4/uswirestory.asp\">NIH Issues New Stem Cell Guidelines </a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">02/08/10 20:28 from <a href=\"http://www.feminist.org\">Feminist Daily News</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\">The National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued new regulations Monday that ease restrictions on stem cell research. The new guidelines allow the use of embryonic stem cells that have been discarded from in-vitro ferti... </span><br /></p><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FeministDailyNews/~3/9DVEEwZjrOQ/uswirestory.asp\">UN Envoy Calls on Afghanistan to Fight Violence Against Women</a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">02/08/10 20:28 from <a href=\"http://www.feminist.org\">Feminist Daily News</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\">Kai Eide, the United Nations Special Envoy to Afghanistan, urged Afghan leaders to fight violence against women at a meeting in Kabul where he announced a new UN report on the subject. 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