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...Women run on women's issues, like abortion," says Sharon Rodine, president of the National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC). "It's the way in." As a rule, they don't cross over to the male power center once elected. For example, a solid majority of women in the Congress stood behind Democratic Representative Barbara Boxer of California in 1989 when she took on Illinois' powerful Henry Hyde in an attempt to restore Medicaid funds to pay for abortions for victims of rape or incest. The Boxer amendment passed both houses of Congress, but was vetoed by the President. Although...
...safety for women. The problem has begun to concern doctors, patients and now lawmakers. In June Congress's General Accounting Office released a report condemning the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for failing to promote studies that took adequate account of the differences between the sexes. The Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues, which commissioned the study, introduced a $237 million legislative package in July aimed at achieving "parity in medical research." Said caucus co-chair Patricia Schroeder of Colorado: "Doctors aren't getting the kind of guidance they need when they try to prescribe for women...
...doctors, we think we're helping women when we may actually be harming them." Meanwhile, no new contraceptive method has been approved in the U.S. since the 1960s. Overall, the NIH spends only 13% of its $7.7 billion budget on women's health issues, < according to the Women's Caucus...
CHAMPIONS OF progressive legislationlike Arline Isaacson, co-chair of theMassachusetts Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus,are not so quick to decide. Isaacson says the twocandidates' fiscal conservatism is the mostdisheartening...
...things happend on the way to theballot box," says Marie Morse of the NationalWomen's Political Caucus. "People feel safe with amale politician if they feel they are in any kindof danger...