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Colorado Groups to Submit Another "Personhood" Initiative

Posted on July 04, 2009
The Gazette (Colorado Springs): Groups to make another try for 'personhood' measure, by Mark Barna: Two anti-abortion groups, Colorado Right to Life and Personhood USA, will submit a new "personhood" initiative to the Colorado Legislative Council on Thursday in hopes...

Consuming the Placenta

Posted on July 04, 2009
Time Magazine: Afterbirth for Dinner, by Joel Stein: There is so much you can't know about your spouse when you get married, like that one day she will want to eat her placenta. But there are two things you don't...

Nineteen House Dems Vow to Oppose Health Care Reform that Includes Abortion Services

Posted on July 04, 2009
Daily Women's Health Policy Report: Nineteen House Dems Plan to Vote Against Health Reform if Abortion Funding is Included: Nineteen House Democrats recently sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stating that they will not vote for health...

Martha Davis on the Importance of a Transnational Perspective in Teaching Reproductive Rights

Posted on July 04, 2009
Martha F. Davis (Northeastern University) has posted Reproductive Rights in the Legal Academy: A New Role for Transnational Law on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Most law school courses approach reproductive rights law from a purely domestic perspective, as an...

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Study Suggests Daily Sex, Rather Than "Saving Up" Sperm, Improves Odds of Pregnancy

Posted on July 01, 2009
Science Fair (USA Today): Don't save that sperm -- daily sex may increase pregnancy chances: Couples hoping to conceive a child likely improve their odds with daily sex before ovulation, rather than refraining before making an attempt, finds a study....

Catholic Hospital System Ends Joint Venture with Insurer that Covers Abortion Services

Posted on July 01, 2009
Boston Globe: Caritas ends joint venture, by Michael Paulson & Kay Lazar: Caritas Christi Health Care, the financially challenged Catholic hospital system founded by the Archdiocese of Boston, is abruptly ending its joint venture with a Missouri-based health insurer at...

Chlamydia, The "Silent STD"

Posted on July 01, 2009
Wall Street Journal: Chlamydia, the Silent STD That Can Cause Infertility, by Melinda Beck: One of the biggest frustrations in public-health circles today involves a tiny bacterium called Chlamydia trachomatis. Chlamydia infection is the most common sexually transmitted disease, responsible...

Ignoring the Octomom

Posted on July 01, 2009
Kimberly D. Krawiec (Duke University) has posted Why We Should Ignore the 'Octomom' on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Thanks to the ?Octomom? - a single, low-income, California mother of six, who recently gave birth to octuplets conceived through IVF...

Arizona Senate Sends Abortion Restrictions To Governor's Desk

Posted on June 30, 2009
The Arizona Republic: Senate OKs abortion restrictions, by Casey Newton: Bills seek waiting period, stiffer penalties for late-term procedure The Arizona Senate voted Tuesday to require a 24-hour waiting period for abortions and to increase penalties for a controversial late-term...

Senate Bill Condemning Anti-Choice Violence Faces Opposition

Posted on June 30, 2009
The Minnesota Independent: Klobuchar bill condemning Tiller murder faces GPO opposition, by Andy Birkey: Weeks after Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed in his Kansas church, the U.S. Senate is debating a resolution condemning violence against abortion providers...

NY To Pay Women for Eggs for Stem Cell Research

Posted on June 30, 2009
Wash. Post: New York to Pay Women to Give Eggs for Stem Cell Research, by Rob Stein: New York has become the first state to allow taxpayer-funded researchers to pay women for giving their eggs for embryonic stem cell research,...

Gender Differences in Processing the Appearance of Babies

Posted on June 28, 2009
Time Magazine: Is an Ugly Baby Harder to Love, by Jeffrey Kluger: Moms might want to hang on to those Mother's Day cards they got last month. There may not be much more familial goodwill forthcoming ? at least not...

Obama Plans to Meet with Pope

Posted on June 28, 2009
Daily Women's Health Policy Report: Pope, Obama to Hold Meeting After G-8 Summit: Pope Benedict XVI has agreed to meet with President Obama at the Vatican on July 10, according to White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs, the AP/Boston Globe reports....

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Virginia Abortion Ban

Posted on June 28, 2009
Daily Women's Health Policy Report: Federal Appeals Court Upholds Virginia Abortion Ban: The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in a 6-5 decision on Wednesday upheld Virginia's 2003 law banning what abortion-rights opponents call "partial-birth" abortion, a...

Generic Version of Plan B

Posted on June 27, 2009
The Wall Street Journal: FDA Approves Generic Version of Plan B, by Brian Kalish: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a generic version of the controversial Plan B morning-after contraceptive. For now, the generic version, made by...

Commentary on Motherhood

Posted on June 27, 2009
The New York Times: Insult and Injury, by Judith Warner: I recently went to a girls-only dinner that was organized in honor of a friend who not long before had begun a prestigious new job. . . . . [and]...

Human Rights Watch on the Consequences of Immigration Policy on Women's Health and Families

Posted on June 25, 2009
Human Rights Watch: US: Immigration Policy Harms Women: Immigration detention is the fastest growing form of incarceration in the United States. On any given day, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) holds 33,000 immigrants in detention, about 10 percent of...

Dissuading Women from Seeking an Abortion

Posted on June 24, 2009
Guttmacher Policy Review: All That's Old Is New Again: The Long Campaign To Persuade Women to Forego Abortion, by Rachel Benson Gold: Just days after assuming office, prochoice President Barak Obama laid out his vision for a public policy agenda...

New Information on Nixon's Position on Abortion

Posted on June 24, 2009
The New York Times: On Nixon Tapes, Ambivalence Over Abortion, Not Watergate, by Charlie Savage: On Jan. 23, 1973, when the Supreme Court struck down state criminal abortion laws in Roe v. Wade, President Richard M. Nixon made no public...

More on Common Ground

Posted on June 23, 2009
Daily Women's Health Policy Report: Antiabortion Group's National Convention Focuses on 'Common Ground' in Abortion-Rights Debate: The National Right to Life Committee last week held its national convention in Charlotte, N.C., attracting as many as 1,300 antiabortion-rights advocates from around...

Scholarships for Proving Virginity

Posted on June 22, 2009
Salon.com: Scholarships for Virgins?, by Frieda Klotz: Girls living in a small province of Sierra Leone called northern Biriwa are being offered scholarships to college -- but only if they can prove they are virgins, an African news website has...

Reduced Pregnancy Rates and Supervised Foster Care

Posted on June 22, 2009
Daily Women's Health Policy Report: Closely Supervised Foster Care Linked With Reduced Pregnancy Rates for Delinquent Teens, Study Says: Teenage girls with a history of delinquency who were placed in individualized foster care programs were less likely than their peers...

Daddy on Board

Posted on June 21, 2009
Salon.com: Daddy on board, by Katharine Mieszkowsk:Today's fathers spend more time with their children than ever. One of them talks about why that's a good thing As a father, Jeremy Adam Smith has played many roles. The 39-year-old editor and...

Staying Together 'For The Sake Of The Kids' Doesn't Necessarily Help Them, Says Study

Posted on June 20, 2009
ScienceDaily: Staying Together for the Sake of the Kids Doesn't Necessarily Help Them, Says Study, by Susan Lang: The research is clear: Adolescents tend to fare better -- academically and behaviorally -- when they live with both biological parents. But...

Teens are Less Likely to Use Contraception

Posted on June 19, 2009
Guttmacher Institute news release: No Crystal Ball Needed: Teens are Heading in the Wrong Direction: Just as Likely to Have Sex, But Less Likely to Use Contraception Than They Were A Few Years Ago Between 2003 and 2007, the progress...

Health Policy Report Shows a Decline in Childbirth-Related Injuries

Posted on June 19, 2009
Daily Women's Health Policy Report: Childbirth-Related Injuries Decline, Linked with Use of Instruments, AHRQ Report Finds: There were nearly 158,000 potentially avoidable childbirth-related injuries to women and their infants in 2006, a significant decline from 2000, according to a report...

New Poll Examines Public Opinion on Obama, Sotomayor and Abortion

Posted on June 18, 2009
The New York Times: Obama Poll Sees Doubt on Budget and Health Care, by Jeff Zeleny and Dalia Sussman: Judge Sonia Sotomayor, whom Mr. Obama nominated to the Supreme Court three weeks ago, is still widely unknown to the public,...

Baby Gender Test: Parents File Suit

Posted on June 18, 2009
New York Post: 'Boy Blunder ' Gender Test, by Dareh Gregorian: Congratulations -- it's a boy! Or a girl! A group of New York moms has filed suit against the makers of a "99.9-percent accurate" baby-gender test, claiming the results...

Obama Seeks to Develop Common Ground on Abortion Policy with Faith-Based Office

Posted on June 17, 2009
U.S. News and World Report: Obama Seeks Common Ground on Abortion by, Dan Gilgoff Over the last month or so, the Obama administration has met with ... dozens of ... activists on both sides of the abortion issue as it...

Is There a Next Generation of Abortion Providers?

Posted on June 16, 2009
Salon.com: Is there a next generation of abortion providers?, by Kate Harding: Is if the threat of violence and divisive politics weren't enough, getting trained is almost impossible" I vividly remember our abortion training in medical school -- kind of...

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