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.”
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 an offense as pedophilia.”
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David Moltz of Inside Higher Ed
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…