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Opponents of abortion seize the day
Lawmakers concluded a nine-year debate Monday when the Minnesota Senate passed a bill requiring women to wait 24 hours after consulting with a doctor before getting an abortion. The governor almost immediately signed the bill into law.
The governor's quick signature - four hours after passage - was the final triumph in a day of victories for Minnesota's anti-abortion lawmakers and lobbyists.
Getting the bill passed into law has been their first priority for nearly a decade. With the new law in place, Minnesota doctors will have to tell women specific information about the risks of and alternatives to abortion 24 hours before performing the procedure, starting July 1.
Satellite Radio's Sirius Launches All-Gay Channel
Fledgling Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. on Tuesday unveiled a nationwide radio channel aimed at gay audiences, seeking to add subscribers in a previously untapped market.
The all-talk channel dubbed OutQ features around-the-clock shows about news, entertainment and politics for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender listeners.
"What we are trying to do here is give the gay community a town meeting place, if you will," said Sirius vice president of programming, Jay Clark.
White House seeks to expand DNA database
DNA profiles from juvenile offenders and from adults who have been arrested but not convicted would be added to the FBI's national DNA database under a Bush administration proposal.
Under current law, only DNA from adults convicted of crimes can be placed in the national database, which is used to compare those samples with biological evidence from the scenes of unsolved crimes. As of January, there were about 1.3 million DNA samples in the database, U.S. officials say.
Abused killers' last try for freedom
Dozens of female prisoners who killed abusive mates will soon petition the California trial courts, hoping to squeeze through a legal window that offers their only real prospect of freedom.
Bill would do away with no-fault divorce
Divorces could become much more difficult to get in Louisiana if state Sen. Mike Smith gets his way.
Smith, D-Winnfield, has sponsored Senate Bill 319 to do away with no-fault divorces.
The Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony on the bill Tuesday without taking action, but it will consider the bill again, reported The Advocate in Baton Rouge.
The bill would mandate marital counseling before allowing a divorce and require the filing party to establish a cause such as abuse, a felony, conviction, abandonment or adultery.
FTC takes porn spammer to court
The Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on a spam operation that allegedly used deceptive e-mails to lure consumers to pornographic Web sites, seeking a federal court order to shut the spammer down pending a trial.
Foster Mother Arrested For Using Duct Tape On Kids
A Levittown, Pa., woman, honored last year for her work as a foster mother by a local organization, is now under arrest for allegedly wrapping up her foster children with duct tape.
Middletown Township police said Colleen Broe, 34, was charged Wednesday with felony counts of endangering the welfare of children and false imprisonment for restraining the children by using duct tape.
Bastion of Buddhism faces gender debate
This temple is breaking the mold of Thai Buddhism. Its nominal head is a female monk ordained two years ago in Sri Lanka as Dhammananda Bhikkhuni. One of only a few women to have challenged the male makeup of Thailand's 300,000 monks, she now wants to extend that right to other women, and has turned to the Senate for help.
Outdated sex-crime laws leave military women at risk
Two months after a sexual abuse scandal rocked the Air Force Academy, an apologetic Pentagon is scrambling to address the claims by 56 female cadets that they were sexually assaulted at the school in the past decade.
The real scandal confronting military leaders goes far beyond one service academy. Several studies show that sexual abuse and harassment long have plagued women throughout the armed forces. Yet the military repeatedly has failed to adopt reforms that guarantee women in uniform the same protections that women have in civilian life.
Laci Peterson case tied to Roe debate
The head of the National Organization for Women's Morris County chapter is opposing a double-murder charge in the Laci Peterson case, saying it could provide ammunition to the pro-life lobby.
"If this is murder, well, then any time a late-term fetus is aborted, they could call it murder," Morris County NOW President Mavra Stark said on Saturday
Exotic Dance Club Recruits at High School
A club known for nude dancers tried recruiting workers at a high school job fair this week before embarrassed school officials asked its representatives to leave.
Junior Bethany Logan said Mashpee High School students were shocked and amused to see a sign for Zachary's Pub briefly displayed at the fair.
"It's a place in town that people are ashamed of, not a place where you want to see anyone from our school work," she told the Cape Cod Times.
'Morning After' Pill Maker Asks FDA for OTC Switch
Women's Capitol Corp., the maker of Plan B emergency contraception, has filed an application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seeking permission to sell the drug as an over-the-counter product, the company said on Monday.
Plan B (levonorgestrel), which is intended to prevent pregnancy after unprotected intercourse, was approved for sale in the U.S. by prescription in 1999. Each kit contains two pills -- one that is taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex and another that is taken 12 hours after the first.
About 3 million kits have been sold in the U.S. and Canada by prescription so far. It is expected that the FDA will take at least 10 months to review the application for OTC status and issue a decision.
Emergency contraceptives, also sometimes called "morning after" pills, are already available without a prescription in some countries, including France.
Therapy aims to change batterers
Batterers intervention programs have won broad approval from California prosecutors and are beginning to see similar accolades throughout the country. It is the nation's most aggressive intervention policy, and it allows batterers who are convicted of misdemeanor spousal abuse to participate in two-hour weekly therapy sessions for a full year instead of spending time in prison.
The vast majority of convicted batterers in Sacramento County take advantage of the program. Johnson estimates more than 2,100 men agree to the therapy every year.
Advocates for the program say the successes are dramatic.
Real, Honest-to-God Marriage: A Libertarian Definition of Marriage and How Gay People Can Have It NOW
Marriage commitments happen every day with only their own mutual approval to validate their existence. These marriages were once acknowledged in law as Common Law Marriages. But fearing that gays would use them as the basis of claiming legal marriage status most states have rewritten their law to exclude us, or have done away with these laws altogether.
Conservative straights consider our families to be fake, and they would like us to think of them like that too. But they cannot seem to live with the fact that we can voluntarily create loving and supportive families when they need the dictatorship of the law, governments, and mainstream churches to keep their families together.
Serving at greater risk?
Military personnel policies regarding women in combat cannot be based on singular stories, however. The views of enlisted women, who outnumber female officers by more than 5 to 1, differ from those who aspire to flag rank. A 1998 General Accounting Office report, quoting a Rand study, found that only 10 percent of female privates and corporals agreed that "Women should be treated exactly like men and serve in the combat arms just like men."
Many people, including the family of Spec. Johnson, thought their daughters, sisters, and nieces could serve their country without undue exposure to close combat. But in 1994, then-Defense Secretary Les Aspin quietly abolished the Defense Department's "Risk Rule," which spared women in support units from assignments close to the front line. Mr. Aspin also eliminated "substantial risk of capture" as a factor that exempted women from involuntary assignment in or near hundreds of previously all-male positions. Exceptions include the infantry, armor, multiple launch field artillery, Special Operations Forces and helicopters, Navy SEALS and submarines.
War May Redefine Gun Control
Despite the high emotions that surround war - or perhaps because of them - people are focusing again on "normal" life. But what is normal has shifted in ways both obvious and subtle. Consider how war has affected just one issue: the debate over gun control.
Laci's fate puts focus on violence to pregnant women
An expectant mother is more likely to be killed than to succumb to a medical complication, such as embolism or hemorrhaging, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Cara Krulewitch, an epidemiologist at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, looked at death records in Washington, D.C., from 1988 and 1996, and was shocked to discover that 38 percent of pregnant women who died had been victims of homicide.
"We don't expect them to die - or be killed," she said in an interview with salon.com. "But it's beginning to change. There's a sense that the number of deaths may be significantly higher with a frightening number caused by homicide."
New Contraceptive for Women Helps Prevent HIV
A new nonhormonal, low-cost birth control device which can also protect women against HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases is now on the market, its manufacturer said on Wednesday. FemCap Inc., a private company based in San Diego, California, said the silicone rubber device called FemCap completely covers the cervix, preventing sperm from entering the uterus.
Specific legislation to protect women's rights - Women's Affairs Minister
The present policy of the Sri Lankan Government and vision of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is to bring in specific legislation to protect women's rights. It means the rights of both women and the girl child inclusive of all standards set in the Women's Charter of Sri Lanka. I am confident that such measures of protection would enable us to remove most of the existing barriers to the advancement of girl children in Sri Lanka, said Women's Affairs Minister Amara Piyaseeli Ratnayake.
She was addressing the inauguration ceremony of the SAARC Regional Workshop on the Status of the Girl Child held at the Trans Asia Hotel, Colombo Tuesday (22). The Minister said that in South Asia negative cultural practices, social restrictions and abject poverty, militate strongly against the advancement of the girl child. In Sri Lanka the macro social indicators of health and education do not reflect major disadvantages to the girl child.
Crimes against women and children
With most everyone’s attention focused on the war in Iraq, some very disturbing revelations from the Center for Women’s Resources (CWR) hardly caused a stir when they came out in the news recently.
The women’s NGO reported that on the average, 14 women and children are raped and battered daily. Five women and children get sexually harassed every day or one in every five hours. Six children receive punches each day or one in every four hours.
Women sue government, oppose airport no-fly list
Two Bay Area women sued the government Tuesday, joining a growing chorus of air travelers objecting to the "no-fly" lists Uncle Sam uses to keep supposedly suspicious people from boarding airplanes.
Longtime peace activists Rebecca Gordon and Janet Adams checked in to at San Francisco International Airport on Aug. 7 before their flight to Boston.
What happened next stunned them, according to a complaint filed in federal court in San Francisco by the American Civil Liberties Union.
They were detained at the airport and interviewed by police, who later cleared them to board the flight.
That was only after they learned they appeared on a no-fly list and were being cross-checked against a government master list. Their boarding passes were marked with a red "S" for additional searches.
Buffalo Tries to Heal From Anti-Choice Violence
As heavily Roman Catholic Buffalo, New York, celebrates Easter, it is also contending with the recent conviction of the killer of a popular abortion-clinic doctor and is wary about more sectarian violence.
It's About More Than Just Adding Boys to a Girls' Day
Tomorrow's first-ever Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work (SM) will emphasize that both son and daughters will grow up to be parents and to hold jobs and both will need strategies to be able to enjoy their family and work lives.
Role of Women in New Iraq of Concern
The State Department says the Iraq war was fought in part to improve the lot of women. Yet, experts on the status of women in Iraq are concerned that the relative freedom women enjoyed will be lost as conservatives gain power in the new government.
Funding Female-Owned Ventures Makes Business Sense
Female-owned small businesses offer an investment haven from the economy's doldrums, according to a recent study. That could be good news for female entrepreneurs, often reliant on credit cards, family and friends for capital.
Japan's Battlers of Sex Abuse Confront Culture, Law
A Japanese organization is offering for the first time advocacy services for victims of sexual violence. In doing so, the group confronts a culture that inhibits women from talking about their abuse and a legal system that is lenient on rape.
Equal Access to Israel's Western Wall Denied
A 15-year struggle by women's group for equal access to Jerusalem's Western Wall ended in failure this week, when Israel's Supreme Court ordered that women should pray at a site near--but not in--the broad plaza that fronts the wall, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The ancient wall is revered by Jews as the remnants of the biblical Second Temple. Men are allowed to pray aloud in front of the wall wearing shawls
Insult Added to Injury of Breast-Surgery Victim
Insult was just added to the injuries of a woman who underwent a double mastectomy that was performed in error.
"She did not lose her life, and with the plastic surgery, she'll have breast reconstruction better than she had before," said Dr. Harry J. Metropol, speaking last week before a legislative panel on tort reform. "It won't be National Geographic, hanging to her knees. It'll be nice, firm breasts."
The woman in question is Linda McDougal. She lost both her breasts last year after being misdiagnosed with breast cancer.
Pakistan's First Female Marshals Take to the Skies
Inspired by the post-Sept. 11 demand for tighter airline security, 19 women are becoming air marshals for the Pakistan Airport Security Forces. More will likely follow. Trained in all the martial arts, they will also be armed.
Utah Teens Gain State Study of Gender-Pay Inequities
Female high school students in Utah pushed through a bill to study gender inequities in the government payrolls of the conservative state.
Women in Business Ask: Are Women More Ethical?
At Harvard's 12th annual Dynamic Women in Business conference, experts debate whether women at the top of the corporate ladder are driven by different economic or ethical concerns.
Opponents of abortion seize the day
Lawmakers concluded a nine-year debate Monday when the Minnesota Senate passed a bill requiring women to wait 24 hours after consulting with a doctor before getting an abortion. The governor almost immediately signed the bill into law.
The governor's quick signature - four hours after passage - was the final triumph in a day of victories for Minnesota's anti-abortion lawmakers and lobbyists.
Getting the bill passed into law has been their first priority for nearly a decade. With the new law in place, Minnesota doctors will have to tell women specific information about the risks of and alternatives to abortion 24 hours before performing the procedure, starting July 1.
Satellite Radio's Sirius Launches All-Gay Channel
Fledgling Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. on Tuesday unveiled a nationwide radio channel aimed at gay audiences, seeking to add subscribers in a previously untapped market.
The all-talk channel dubbed OutQ features around-the-clock shows about news, entertainment and politics for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender listeners.
"What we are trying to do here is give the gay community a town meeting place, if you will," said Sirius vice president of programming, Jay Clark.
White House seeks to expand DNA database
DNA profiles from juvenile offenders and from adults who have been arrested but not convicted would be added to the FBI's national DNA database under a Bush administration proposal.
Under current law, only DNA from adults convicted of crimes can be placed in the national database, which is used to compare those samples with biological evidence from the scenes of unsolved crimes. As of January, there were about 1.3 million DNA samples in the database, U.S. officials say.
Abused killers' last try for freedom
Dozens of female prisoners who killed abusive mates will soon petition the California trial courts, hoping to squeeze through a legal window that offers their only real prospect of freedom.
Bill would do away with no-fault divorce
Divorces could become much more difficult to get in Louisiana if state Sen. Mike Smith gets his way.
Smith, D-Winnfield, has sponsored Senate Bill 319 to do away with no-fault divorces.
The Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony on the bill Tuesday without taking action, but it will consider the bill again, reported The Advocate in Baton Rouge.
The bill would mandate marital counseling before allowing a divorce and require the filing party to establish a cause such as abuse, a felony, conviction, abandonment or adultery.
FTC takes porn spammer to court
The Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on a spam operation that allegedly used deceptive e-mails to lure consumers to pornographic Web sites, seeking a federal court order to shut the spammer down pending a trial.
Foster Mother Arrested For Using Duct Tape On Kids
A Levittown, Pa., woman, honored last year for her work as a foster mother by a local organization, is now under arrest for allegedly wrapping up her foster children with duct tape.
Middletown Township police said Colleen Broe, 34, was charged Wednesday with felony counts of endangering the welfare of children and false imprisonment for restraining the children by using duct tape.
Bastion of Buddhism faces gender debate
This temple is breaking the mold of Thai Buddhism. Its nominal head is a female monk ordained two years ago in Sri Lanka as Dhammananda Bhikkhuni. One of only a few women to have challenged the male makeup of Thailand's 300,000 monks, she now wants to extend that right to other women, and has turned to the Senate for help.
Outdated sex-crime laws leave military women at risk
Two months after a sexual abuse scandal rocked the Air Force Academy, an apologetic Pentagon is scrambling to address the claims by 56 female cadets that they were sexually assaulted at the school in the past decade.
The real scandal confronting military leaders goes far beyond one service academy. Several studies show that sexual abuse and harassment long have plagued women throughout the armed forces. Yet the military repeatedly has failed to adopt reforms that guarantee women in uniform the same protections that women have in civilian life.
Laci Peterson case tied to Roe debate
The head of the National Organization for Women's Morris County chapter is opposing a double-murder charge in the Laci Peterson case, saying it could provide ammunition to the pro-life lobby.
"If this is murder, well, then any time a late-term fetus is aborted, they could call it murder," Morris County NOW President Mavra Stark said on Saturday
Exotic Dance Club Recruits at High School
A club known for nude dancers tried recruiting workers at a high school job fair this week before embarrassed school officials asked its representatives to leave.
Junior Bethany Logan said Mashpee High School students were shocked and amused to see a sign for Zachary's Pub briefly displayed at the fair.
"It's a place in town that people are ashamed of, not a place where you want to see anyone from our school work," she told the Cape Cod Times.
'Morning After' Pill Maker Asks FDA for OTC Switch
Women's Capitol Corp., the maker of Plan B emergency contraception, has filed an application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seeking permission to sell the drug as an over-the-counter product, the company said on Monday.
Plan B (levonorgestrel), which is intended to prevent pregnancy after unprotected intercourse, was approved for sale in the U.S. by prescription in 1999. Each kit contains two pills -- one that is taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex and another that is taken 12 hours after the first.
About 3 million kits have been sold in the U.S. and Canada by prescription so far. It is expected that the FDA will take at least 10 months to review the application for OTC status and issue a decision.
Emergency contraceptives, also sometimes called "morning after" pills, are already available without a prescription in some countries, including France.
Therapy aims to change batterers
Batterers intervention programs have won broad approval from California prosecutors and are beginning to see similar accolades throughout the country. It is the nation's most aggressive intervention policy, and it allows batterers who are convicted of misdemeanor spousal abuse to participate in two-hour weekly therapy sessions for a full year instead of spending time in prison.
The vast majority of convicted batterers in Sacramento County take advantage of the program. Johnson estimates more than 2,100 men agree to the therapy every year.
Advocates for the program say the successes are dramatic.
Real, Honest-to-God Marriage: A Libertarian Definition of Marriage and How Gay People Can Have It NOW
Marriage commitments happen every day with only their own mutual approval to validate their existence. These marriages were once acknowledged in law as Common Law Marriages. But fearing that gays would use them as the basis of claiming legal marriage status most states have rewritten their law to exclude us, or have done away with these laws altogether.
Conservative straights consider our families to be fake, and they would like us to think of them like that too. But they cannot seem to live with the fact that we can voluntarily create loving and supportive families when they need the dictatorship of the law, governments, and mainstream churches to keep their families together.
Serving at greater risk?
Military personnel policies regarding women in combat cannot be based on singular stories, however. The views of enlisted women, who outnumber female officers by more than 5 to 1, differ from those who aspire to flag rank. A 1998 General Accounting Office report, quoting a Rand study, found that only 10 percent of female privates and corporals agreed that "Women should be treated exactly like men and serve in the combat arms just like men."
Many people, including the family of Spec. Johnson, thought their daughters, sisters, and nieces could serve their country without undue exposure to close combat. But in 1994, then-Defense Secretary Les Aspin quietly abolished the Defense Department's "Risk Rule," which spared women in support units from assignments close to the front line. Mr. Aspin also eliminated "substantial risk of capture" as a factor that exempted women from involuntary assignment in or near hundreds of previously all-male positions. Exceptions include the infantry, armor, multiple launch field artillery, Special Operations Forces and helicopters, Navy SEALS and submarines.
War May Redefine Gun Control
Despite the high emotions that surround war - or perhaps because of them - people are focusing again on "normal" life. But what is normal has shifted in ways both obvious and subtle. Consider how war has affected just one issue: the debate over gun control.
Laci's fate puts focus on violence to pregnant women
An expectant mother is more likely to be killed than to succumb to a medical complication, such as embolism or hemorrhaging, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Cara Krulewitch, an epidemiologist at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, looked at death records in Washington, D.C., from 1988 and 1996, and was shocked to discover that 38 percent of pregnant women who died had been victims of homicide.
"We don't expect them to die - or be killed," she said in an interview with salon.com. "But it's beginning to change. There's a sense that the number of deaths may be significantly higher with a frightening number caused by homicide."
New Contraceptive for Women Helps Prevent HIV
A new nonhormonal, low-cost birth control device which can also protect women against HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases is now on the market, its manufacturer said on Wednesday. FemCap Inc., a private company based in San Diego, California, said the silicone rubber device called FemCap completely covers the cervix, preventing sperm from entering the uterus.
Specific legislation to protect women's rights - Women's Affairs Minister
The present policy of the Sri Lankan Government and vision of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is to bring in specific legislation to protect women's rights. It means the rights of both women and the girl child inclusive of all standards set in the Women's Charter of Sri Lanka. I am confident that such measures of protection would enable us to remove most of the existing barriers to the advancement of girl children in Sri Lanka, said Women's Affairs Minister Amara Piyaseeli Ratnayake.
She was addressing the inauguration ceremony of the SAARC Regional Workshop on the Status of the Girl Child held at the Trans Asia Hotel, Colombo Tuesday (22). The Minister said that in South Asia negative cultural practices, social restrictions and abject poverty, militate strongly against the advancement of the girl child. In Sri Lanka the macro social indicators of health and education do not reflect major disadvantages to the girl child.
Crimes against women and children
With most everyone’s attention focused on the war in Iraq, some very disturbing revelations from the Center for Women’s Resources (CWR) hardly caused a stir when they came out in the news recently.
The women’s NGO reported that on the average, 14 women and children are raped and battered daily. Five women and children get sexually harassed every day or one in every five hours. Six children receive punches each day or one in every four hours.
Women sue government, oppose airport no-fly list
Two Bay Area women sued the government Tuesday, joining a growing chorus of air travelers objecting to the "no-fly" lists Uncle Sam uses to keep supposedly suspicious people from boarding airplanes.
Longtime peace activists Rebecca Gordon and Janet Adams checked in to at San Francisco International Airport on Aug. 7 before their flight to Boston.
What happened next stunned them, according to a complaint filed in federal court in San Francisco by the American Civil Liberties Union.
They were detained at the airport and interviewed by police, who later cleared them to board the flight.
That was only after they learned they appeared on a no-fly list and were being cross-checked against a government master list. Their boarding passes were marked with a red "S" for additional searches.
Buffalo Tries to Heal From Anti-Choice Violence
As heavily Roman Catholic Buffalo, New York, celebrates Easter, it is also contending with the recent conviction of the killer of a popular abortion-clinic doctor and is wary about more sectarian violence.
It's About More Than Just Adding Boys to a Girls' Day
Tomorrow's first-ever Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work (SM) will emphasize that both son and daughters will grow up to be parents and to hold jobs and both will need strategies to be able to enjoy their family and work lives.
Role of Women in New Iraq of Concern
The State Department says the Iraq war was fought in part to improve the lot of women. Yet, experts on the status of women in Iraq are concerned that the relative freedom women enjoyed will be lost as conservatives gain power in the new government.
Funding Female-Owned Ventures Makes Business Sense
Female-owned small businesses offer an investment haven from the economy's doldrums, according to a recent study. That could be good news for female entrepreneurs, often reliant on credit cards, family and friends for capital.
Japan's Battlers of Sex Abuse Confront Culture, Law
A Japanese organization is offering for the first time advocacy services for victims of sexual violence. In doing so, the group confronts a culture that inhibits women from talking about their abuse and a legal system that is lenient on rape.
Equal Access to Israel's Western Wall Denied
A 15-year struggle by women's group for equal access to Jerusalem's Western Wall ended in failure this week, when Israel's Supreme Court ordered that women should pray at a site near--but not in--the broad plaza that fronts the wall, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The ancient wall is revered by Jews as the remnants of the biblical Second Temple. Men are allowed to pray aloud in front of the wall wearing shawls
Insult Added to Injury of Breast-Surgery Victim
Insult was just added to the injuries of a woman who underwent a double mastectomy that was performed in error.
"She did not lose her life, and with the plastic surgery, she'll have breast reconstruction better than she had before," said Dr. Harry J. Metropol, speaking last week before a legislative panel on tort reform. "It won't be National Geographic, hanging to her knees. It'll be nice, firm breasts."
The woman in question is Linda McDougal. She lost both her breasts last year after being misdiagnosed with breast cancer.
Pakistan's First Female Marshals Take to the Skies
Inspired by the post-Sept. 11 demand for tighter airline security, 19 women are becoming air marshals for the Pakistan Airport Security Forces. More will likely follow. Trained in all the martial arts, they will also be armed.
Utah Teens Gain State Study of Gender-Pay Inequities
Female high school students in Utah pushed through a bill to study gender inequities in the government payrolls of the conservative state.
Women in Business Ask: Are Women More Ethical?
At Harvard's 12th annual Dynamic Women in Business conference, experts debate whether women at the top of the corporate ladder are driven by different economic or ethical concerns.