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Stories by Melinda Tuhus

Are Women Having Too Many C-sections?

C-sections are being performed in the U.S. at a rate that far exceeds international recommendations. A clash over the high rate and related health issues has broken out between midwives and obstetricians.
Posted on Feb 8, 2007, Source: Women's eNews

Social Security: The Female Problem

As the public debate intensifies over the Bush administration's drive to privatize Social Security, women have a special stake in the outcome.
Posted on Jan 25, 2005, Source: Women's eNews

BETWEEN THE LINES: ACLU Battles Racial Bias in Drug War

"While the ratio of drug use by whites and blacks is relatively the same, the war on drugs has exacerbated racial disparities in incarceration. In some southern states, more than a third of African American males have lost their right to vote and their access to federal funds for a college education."
Posted on Apr 1, 2000, Source: AlterNet