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We’re Having The Same Birth Control Debates We Had 100 Years Ago

“Preventing women from contraception is inhumane,” said Margaret Sanger in 1916.   01/08/2016 12:41 pm ET   Barbara Goldberg UNDERWOOD ARCHIVES VIA GETTY IMAGES Outside the crumbling Brooklyn building where the first U.S. birth control clinic opened 100 years ago, Alexander Sanger reflected on the move that landed his grandmother in jail and fueled a controversy over women's reproductive rights that has raged ever since. "This is where it all started," said the grandson of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger in his first visit to the Brownsville, Brooklyn, site where she started her clinic in 1916. "She threw down the gauntlet and said, 'Preventing women from contraception is inhumane,'" said Sanger, 68, chairman of the International Planned Parenthood Council and a former president of Planned Parenthood New York City. City records show the desolate building with bricked up windows is not abandoned, although it appears ...

MAAJABU YA DUNIA MWANAUME MMOJA AMPA MIMBA MKWEWE! ZAMBIA,KITWE MAN IMPREGNATES MOTHER-IN-LAW

A WOMAN of Kitwe narrated before the Ganerton Local Court how her husband impregnated her biological mother when she visited their matrimonial home. Appearing before senior magistrate Fredrick Ndhlovu. was Grace Banda, who sued her husband, Mwila Kalobo for divorce. The two got married in 2006 and have two children. Banda, a trader at Kitwe’s Chisokone Market, told the court that all was well in their marriage when the two tied the knot in 2006 until she discovered her husband’s adulterous affair with her biological mother. She narrated that her mother visited their matrimonial home from the village in 2010 and stayed with them for three months. She said she would leave home in the morning to sell merchandise at Chisokone Market and would only return home from work around 19:00 hours. “My mother visited us from the village and she stayed with us for three months. Whenever I went out, I used to leave her home with the children. But one day, my mother decided ...

TATIZO LA MAJI JIMBO LA NYAMAGANA MKOANI MWANZA LAMTESA MABULA

Mbunge wa Jimbo la Nyamagana Stanslaus Mabula akifafanua jambo ofisini kwake. Mbunge  wa Jimbo la Nyamagana Mkoani Mwanza (CCM) Stanslaus Mabula amesikitishwa na  baadhi ya wakazi wa jimbo hilo kukabiliwa na ukosefu wa Maji safi na salama  huku baadhi ya miradhi ya maji ikichukua muda mrefu bila utekelezaji wake  kukamilika kwa wakati. Mabula ameelezea masikitiko yake baada ya  kupokea malalamiko kutoka kwa wakazi wa jimbo la Nyamagana, juu ya kukosa  huduma ya maji ya bomba licha ya jimbo hili kuzungukwa na ziwa Victoria. Mabula  ambae alikuwa Mstahiki Meya wa Jiji la Mwanza katika uongozi uliomalizika  mwishoni mwa mwaka jana, amebainisha kuwa ipo miradi ya maji ambayo bado  haijatekelezwa kutokana na serikali kushindwa kutoa pesa kwa wakati jambo  ambalo amesema kuwa atalisemea mara kwa mara katika vikao vya bunge lijalo ili  kufanikisha upatikanaji wa fedha kwa ajili ya kutekeleza miradi hiyo. ...

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