Lure of Cash Aids India’s Efforts to Reduce Number of Women Dying in Childbirth

Emily Wax reports for The Washington Post: “India’s high maternal mortality rate, while reduced by half in the past 20 years, remains a national embarrassment. Mothers dying in childbirth also create broken families that are an economic impediment.”

Vatican Revises Abuse Process, but Causes Stir

Reporting for The New York Times, Rachel Donadio writes: “The Vatican issued revisions to its internal laws on Thursday making it easier to discipline sex-abuser priests, but caused confusion by also stating that ordaining women as priests was as grave

Protection for Title IX Whistleblowers

David Moltz of Inside Higher Ed

For Mel Gibson, Scandal Puts Him In a Harsh Light Again

NOW Vice President Erin Matson interviewed by USA Todays’ Olivia Barker about why Mel Gibson’s latest scandal reminds us why domestic violence is a public health crisis: “Tape recordings purported to be Gibson unleashing a barrage of insults, racial slur…