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contents I SPRING 11 VOLUME XXI • NUMBER 2 26 “The lack of solid data about rape…means we—as a society— do not really know how preva- lent this violent crime is.” —CAROL E. TRACY UP FRONT 6 LETTERS 10 KEEPING SCORE NEWS NATIONAL 12 The Budget Battles Begin; Get Out of Jail Free—From Drugs; The Means to a Wichita Abortion; Fight On, Wisconsin!; Short Takes; Calendar GLOBAL 20 Women of the Arab Spring; Modern Amazons; Embracing Their Roundness; Short Takes 32 5 At St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix, a bishop blew up over a lifesaving abortion. FEATURES 26 Rape Is Rape BY STEPHANIE HALLETT If a woman isn’t bruised and bleeding, will her rape be counted? 32 Treatment Denied BY MOLLY M. GINTY The opinions that count most at Catholic hospitals are those of bishops, not doctors. Are they whom women want to entrust with their reproductive health care? 36 The Forgotten Women of West Mesa BY LAURA PASKUS Eleven women were murdered and dumped on an Albuquerque, N.M., borderland. Why haven’t the crimes been solved? And can’t we do better for the most vulnerable women in society? www.msmagazine.com SPRING 2011 | 3 40 what would bell hooks say? BY JENNIFER WILLIAMS Ms. called the iconoclastic scholar, writer and activist to find out. LEFT: ROGER L. WOLLENBERG/UPI /LANDOV; RIGHT: SERWAA ADU-TUTU