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Health & Welfare

Catholic hospitals often only choice for women of color in Milwaukee

By Parker Schorr (Wisconsin Watch) and Rikha Sharma Rani (Fuller Project) | December 18, 2019

Expectant mothers in Milwaukee County have a wealth of hospitals to choose from. For the county’s black and Hispanic women, however, the choice is often a false one.

Abortion

Wisconsin law increases abortion delays, risk

By | January 27, 2013

Planned Parenthood has not provided abortions by medication since April, claiming a new abortion law’s language was too vague to comply with. As a result, many women have had surgical abortions instead and face delays in making appointments.

Children

State refusal to pursue WIC grant under fire

By Bill Lueders | August 15, 2011

Advocates for Wisconsin’s Women, Infants and Children nutrition program want the state to reconsider its decision not to seek nearly $9 million in federal grants to make the benefits more convenient and less open to fraud.

sexual assaults

Sexual assault reports decline as victims seeking services rise

By | June 23, 2010

While the number of victims seeking sexual assault services is rising, the Office of Justice Assistance reports that sexual assaults reported to law enforcement in Wisconsin dropped in 2009, with two counties, Iron and Buffalo, reporting zero sexual assault cases.

Crime

Author warns of ‘national epidemic’ of campus sexual assaults

By | April 26, 2010

In this academic year, between 200,000 and 450,000 college students will be raped.

That’s what author Jessica Valenti and founder of the Feministing blog told a UW-Madison audience Thursday night. She calls it a “national epidemic,” and she blames what advocates call our rape culture.

Accountability

Suffering in silence: Campus sexual assaults vastly underreported

By | February 28, 2010

At University of Wisconsin campuses, most victims do not report crimes. The statistics are inconsistent. And most rapists go free.

Depression

Depressed mothers face barriers to treatment

By Sara Jerving | October 31, 2009

More than 65 percent of depressed mothers don’t get adequate treatment for depression, according to a nationwide study released this fall by the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. The study of 2,130 women found that black, Hispanic and other minority mothers, as well as uninsured mothers, were among the least likely to be helped.

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