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Post Roe: A Federal Solution in the Making…?

Will Women’s Healthcare Clinics on Federal Lands, be a Post-Roe Reality in 2022 and Beyond? Mary Kay Elloian, MBA, JD, Esq   [Subscribe to TheLegalEdition on Substack for more articles and information!] July 15, 2022 When doctors have to call their lawyers before giving care – we are in an…

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Crisis at the US Southern Border: Migrants, Mothers & Medical Care

April 12, 2021 – The date has changed, but the migration situation continues from Trump, to the Biden administration. Once again, the US Southern Border is deluged with migrants from nations referred to as the “Northern Triangle Countries of Central America” – namely, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. To make…

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Crisis at the Border – Migrants, Motherhood & Medical Care

Guest is Denice Labertew. She is a women’s rights advocate, professor, and former US envoy to foreign states – providing policy guidance to protect the rights of women and girls. Her work includes negotiating regulations in the Violence Against Women Act, and advocating for human rights at the recent UN Universal Periodic Review – on the US Treatment of migrant women and girls detained at the US/Mexican border.

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The Sound of Silence – The Hidden Epidemic of Domestic Abuse and Trauma

Guest: Judith Herman, MD, formerly a full-time Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, at Harvard Medical School; and co-founder former Director of Training at the Victims of Violence Program in the Department of Psychiatry, at Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of several books, including the groundbreaking book, Trauma and Recovery, The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror.

Discussion on the insidiousness and pervasiveness of domestic abuse – and the mistreatment of victims by the very people and institutions that should be protecting them. How these institutions have functioned for generations with impunity, including the Catholic Church, Hollywood, government and even the private sector. She explores what it is like for victims who suffer repeated abuse as well as institutional bias – where victims are treated with contempt by society, by the judicial system and even their own families.

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