The police, he had long since learned, didn't understand about the need to punish bad women.

Above all, it punishes women for being improperly dressed in public.

The minister states that Pakistani law does not punish women for adultery.

If the state can punish women for using legal drugs during pregnancy, where does its power stop?

Reports pointed out that though the act had been passed for women's protection, it seemed it was being used almost exclusively to punish poor women.

"We continually chastise and punish women for doing exactly what we've recommended they do," Baldwin says.

These bans only serve to punish pregnant women and the children they bear.

He blasted the organization for supporting a women's right to choose, saying that God punishes women who have had abortions by giving them disabled children.

Pension systems must not punish women for being mothers.

A Turkish court overturned a similar law eight years ago, after it was used almost exclusively to punish women.