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Today is the anniversary of the Fourteenth Amendment

Posted on July 28, 2009
JURIST: Today in Legal History: On July 28, 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, granting citizenship to former slaves and protecting due process of law and equal protection of laws in the States, was ratified. Learn more about...

Sotomayor is Endorsed by Senate Judiciary Committee

Posted on July 28, 2009
NY Times: Senate Panel Endorses Sotomayor in 13-6 Vote, by David Stout: WASHINGTON ? The Senate Judiciary Committee voted, 13 to 6, on Tuesday to endorse the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, easing her path to likely confirmation...

Parental Involvement Laws for Abortion: Irrational and Dangerous

Posted on July 27, 2009
JURIST: Abortion Parental Notice Laws: Irrational, Unnecessary and Downright Dangerous, by Caitlin Borgmann: On July 14, in Zbaraz v. Madigan, the Seventh Circuit lifted a permanent injunction that had prevented enforcement of Illinois? parental notice for abortion law since its...

Preliminary Hearing Tomorrow for Man Charged with Doctor Tiller's Murder

Posted on July 27, 2009
Daily Women's Health Policy Report: Preliminary Hearing Set for Suspect in Murder of Abortion Provider Tiller: A preliminary hearing for Scott Roeder, the man charged with the May 31 murder of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller, is set for Tuesday,...

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Shrinking Work Force Leads China to Modify One-Child Policy

Posted on July 25, 2009
NY Times: 1 Plus 1: Shanghai Tweaks Child Rules, by David Barboza: SHANGHAI ? Thirty years after China began enforcing a one-child policy, this city is actively encouraging young couples to have a second child. City officials are planning to...

Slow Embryo Heart Rate May Indicate Greater Miscarriage Risk for IVF Recipients

Posted on July 24, 2009
Reuters: Slow heart rate predicts failed fertility therapy, by Michelle Rizzo: NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A slow embryo heart rate could mean that mothers who have undergone in vitro fertilization are at increased risk for miscarriage, according to a...

Substitute for Embryonic Stem Cells Shows Promise

Posted on July 24, 2009
ScienceNow: Embryonic Stem Cell Substitute Passes Acid Test, by Gretchen Vogel: Scientists have for the first time demonstrated that a possible alternative to controversial embryonic stem (ES) cells shares one of their key abilities. So-called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells...

ACLU Praises Pregnancy Prevention Bill

Posted on July 24, 2009
ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project press release: House Bill To Support Unintended Pregnancy Prevention And Parenting Programs A Welcome Step, Says ACLU: Bill Would Improves Lives Of Women And Families WASHINGTON ? An important bill aiming to improve access to reproductive...

Study Shows Adolescents' Contraceptive Use Has Higher Failure Rate

Posted on July 24, 2009
Guttmacher Institute news release: Adolescent Women's Contraceptive Use is Less Consistent than that of Adult Women, With a Much Higher Failure Rate: New Analysis Compares Evidence from More Than 40 Countries A new study of women?s contraceptive use around the...

Pregnancy and the Swine Flu Threat

Posted on July 23, 2009
US News & World Report: Dealing with the Swine Flu Threat During Pregnancy, by Deborah Kotz: The worldwide death toll from swine flu is now at 700, according to the World Health Organization. And the U.S. government is gearing up...

International Guidelines for Mothers Taking Antiretrovirals May Change

Posted on July 23, 2009
Reuters: WHO may change ARV guidelines for pregnant mothers, by Wendell Roelf: CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - International guidelines for mothers taking antiretrovirals (ARVs) may change, a senior WHO official said, with new evidence showing HIV infection rates among babies are...

Debate Over Abortion Endures

Posted on July 23, 2009
USA Today: Abortion fight is 'enduring divide', by Joan Biskupic: WASHINGTON ? During confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., asked whether she believed court rulings on abortion had ended the national controversy...

Federal Bill Takes a Common Ground Approach on Abortion

Posted on July 23, 2009
Broadsheet (Salon.com): How's that "common ground" going?, by Frances Kissling: A new bill on abortion reduction shows serious strain -- but also progress After four years of behind-the-scenes negotiating, pro-choice groups turned out in full force for the introduction of...

Changing View on Abortion Among Young Latinos

Posted on July 23, 2009
Nuestra Vida, Nuestra Voz (National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health): Young Latinos Shift Views on Abortion: A recent poll by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life along with the Pew Hispanic Center, shows that among first-generation U.S...

Is Refusal to Consent to C-Section Evidence of Child Abuse?

Posted on July 22, 2009
Volokh Conspiracy (7/16): Refusal to Consent to Caesarean Section as Neglect of the Child? From today's very interesting decision in New Jersey Div. of Youth & Family Servs. v. V.M. (N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div.): Defendants V.M. [the mother] and...

Jimmy Carter Protests Treatment of Women by Organized Religion

Posted on July 22, 2009
Blogher: Jimmy Carter protests religion's treatment of women, by Mata H: Editor's note: Jimmy Carter officially departed the Southern Baptist church in 2000, but still stayed on at Maranatha Baptist in Plains, Georgia, teaching Sunday School. He held on to...

Report Calls for More Protection for Abortion Providers

Posted on July 22, 2009
RH Reality Check: New Report: Abortion Providers = American Human Rights Defenders, Now Under Increasing Attack, by Jodi Jacobson: A new report by the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) calls on both the federal and state governments to address the...

More on Abortion Coverage and Health-Care Reform

Posted on July 22, 2009
Wash. Post: Health-Care Reform Efforts Marred by Abortion Dispute, by Dan Eggen & Rob Stein: President Obama, who has vowed to find common ground on culture-war issues, finds himself in the middle of a classic Washington dispute over abortion that...

Pregnancy Rates Alarmingly High Among Teens In Foster Care

Posted on July 22, 2009
Time Magazine: Teen Pregnancy: Reaching Epidemic Levels in Foster Care, by Amy Sullivan: What's tougher than being a pregnant teenager? Try being a pregnant teenager in foster care. Miranda Sheffield had pinballed in and out of more than 10 foster...

Catholic Church Stands By Opposition to Abortion in Cases of Incest

Posted on July 21, 2009
Time Magazine: A Sequel to the Case of the Pregnant Nine-Year Old, by Jeff Israely: The Catholic Church (and Pope Benedict XVI) were presented with a public relations powder keg last March when news broke that a nine-year-old Brazilian girl...

Withdrawal Method Re-Examined

Posted on July 21, 2009
NY Times: Withdrawal Method Finds Ally, by Pam Belluck: Which birth-control method is more effective: condoms or withdrawal? For sex educators and others, the answer is glaringly obvious. Withdrawal before ejaculation, the so-called pullout method, is a last resort, they...

NY Times on Shackling Female Inmates During Childbirth

Posted on July 21, 2009
NY Times editorial: Childbirth in Chains: The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists called several years ago for an end to the barbaric and medically hazardous practice of shackling female prisoners during labor. In addition to further frightening these vulnerable...

Health Care Reform and Abortion Coverage

Posted on July 20, 2009
NY Times: Health Bill Might Direct Tax Money to Abortion, by Robert Pear & Adam Liptak: WASHINGTON ? An Obama administration official refused Sunday to rule out the possibility that federal tax money might be used to pay for abortions...

South African Government Fails To Support Circumcision To Help in HIV/AIDS Prevention

Posted on July 20, 2009
NY Times: South Africa Is Seen to Lag in H.I.V. Fight, by Celia W. Dugger: ORANGE FARM, South Africa ? ...Circumcision has been proven to reduce a man?s risk of contracting H.I.V. by more than half. Yet two years after...

Richard Storrow on Therapeutic Reproduction

Posted on July 20, 2009
Richard Storrow (CUNY Law School) has posted Therapeutic Reproduction and Human Dignity on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Bioethicists have long looked to literature for insight into the difficult questions that arise from developments in biotechnology. Two recent novels, Kazuo...

New Arizona Law Hinders Access to Abortion Services

Posted on July 20, 2009
Huffington Post op-ed: New Arizona Law Restricts Access to a Range of Reproductive Health Services, by Sharon Camp (Guttmacher Institute): On July 13, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law a measure that establishes--among other restrictions on access to sexual...

House Lifts 20-Year Ban On DC Abortion Funding

Posted on July 17, 2009
ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project press release: WASHINGTON ? The U.S. House of Representatives late Thursday passed the Financial Services appropriations bill lifting a 20-year old ban on the use of locally generated tax dollars for abortions in the District of...

Senate Expected to Confirm Sotomayor in August

Posted on July 17, 2009
NY Times: Senate Likely to Vote on Sotomayor in August, by Neil A. Lewis: WASHINGTON ? Judge Sonia Sotomayor completed her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, acknowledging regret for having said that a ?wise Latina? judge could...

Expanded Access Expected with New One-Dose Version of Emergency Contraception

Posted on July 16, 2009
Reuters (7/13): UPDATE 1-New Teva emergency contraceptive to expand market: ...Israel-based Teva, the world's biggest generic drug company, and Hungarian drug maker Richter Gedeon GDRB.BU said on Monday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave final approval to their Plan...

Obama Admin. To Allow Battered Women To Receive Asylum

Posted on July 16, 2009
NY Times: New Policy Permits Asylum for Battered Women, by Julia Preston: The Obama administration has opened the way for foreign women who are victims of severe domestic beatings and sexual abuse to receive asylum in the United States. The...

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