Also, Congressional supporters of domestic violence prevention programs succeeded in adding a clarification for concerning temporary waivers for battered women to the budget resolution. Further, the U.S. Postal Service introduced a new stamp in late May which will carry a message about the National Domestic Violence Hotline which has received over 100,000 call to date. Thanks for the help. Women of all cultures, races, occupations, income levels, and ages are battered - by husbands, boyfriends, lovers and partners. According to The Nation, Bill McCartney, founder of Promise Keepers and former college football coach, staunchly supported his daughter when she choose to have an abortion after being impregnated by his star quarterback.
Statistics are hard to come by due to the confidentiality of medical records.
But the scuttle-butt among abortion providers is that clinic demonstrators do not hesitate to use their services. Parallels are often drawn between society's treatment of the environment, animals, or resources and its treatment of women. In resisting patriarchal culture, eco-feminists feel that they also resist plundering and destroying the Earth. It is sometimes wrapped up with Goddess worship and vegetarianism. Some see this version of feminism as little more than a warmed over version of previously existing -isms.