It also calls for workers to meet regularly with independent monitors who would make sure the factory is obeying safety and overtime laws. The Pill A government panel recommended Tuesday that Japan end its decades-old ban and legalize birth control pills. Because of a legal loophole that allows birth control pills to be prescribed for menstrual pain, an estimated 200,000 Japanese women already use them. However, they must take higher-dose pills than ones that are made in the U.S., which leads to a higher risk of side effects. Japan is the only industrialized country that bans birth control pills for the purpose of contraception, although they have a huge abortion industry.
Studies show that most Japanese women are ignorant about oral contraceptives.
The bill would make benefits such as health insurance and retirement benefits available to the domestic partners of federal employees. Supporters include federal employee labor unions, gay, lesbian and bisexual rights groups, religious and educational groups and businesses in the private sector. The polls were commissioned to help Republicans understand why women vote for Democrats more often than men. DiVall told a group of Republicans seeking office that women think that education, health care and environmental protection are important. Women also think any budget surplus should be used to help working families, while men think it should go towards reducing the deficit, she said.