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Judge Rules FDA Must Make Emergency Contraception Available to 17-Year-Olds

Posted on March 23, 2009
NY Times: Plan B Must Be Made Available to 17-Year-Olds, by Natasha Singer: A federal judge on Monday ordered the Food and Drug Administration to make the Plan B morning-after birth control pill available without prescription to women as young...

Study Shows Major Increase in Radiologic Exams on Pregnant Women

Posted on March 22, 2009
ScienceDaily: Radiologic Exams On Pregnant Women More Than Doubled Over 10 Years: Researchers have found that over a 10-year period radiologic exams on pregnant women have more than doubled, according to a study published in the online edition of Radiology...

Joanna Grossman & Gillian Thomas on Job Duties and Pregnancy Discrimination

Posted on March 22, 2009
Joanna L. Grossman (Hofstra Law) and Gillian Thomas (Legal Momentum) have posted Making Pregnancy Work: Overcoming the Pregnancy Discrimination Act's Capacity Based Model on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article considers the gaps and obstacles in current law faced...

Pope Under Fire For Asserting Condoms Aggravate AIDS Problem

Posted on March 20, 2009
NY Times: AIDS Agency Takes Issue With the Pope, by Neil MacFarquhar: The United Nations AIDS agency has joined the chorus of politicians and activists critical of Pope Benedict XVI for saying as he embarked on a tour of Africa...

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Judith Daar on Embryonic Genetics

Posted on March 20, 2009
Judith F. Daar (Whittier Law School) has posted Embryonic Genetics on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Recent discoveries in the world of reproductive medicine allow prospective parents to peer into the genetic future of their children from the earliest moments...

Arlene Roberts on Reproductive Rights and the New Scrutiny of the Fertility Industry

Posted on March 19, 2009
Huffington Post: Octomom, Sextomom and the Looming Incursions on Reproductive Rights, by Arlene M. Roberts: At the end of January, a woman in California gave birth to octuplets. Last October, a woman in New York gave birth to sextuplets. The...

US Birth Rate In 2007 Breaks Record

Posted on March 19, 2009
NY Times: ?07 U.S. Births Break Baby Boom Record, by Erik Eckholm: More babies were born in the United States in 2007 than in any other year in American history, according to preliminary data reported Wednesday by the National Center...

Obama Makes First Judicial Appointment, to Seventh Circuit

Posted on March 18, 2009
Wash. Post: Obama Names Judge to Appeals Court, by Michael A. Fletcher: President Obama yesterday made his first judicial appointment, naming U.S. District Judge David F. Hamilton to the federal appeals court, a choice excoriated by some conservatives even as...

Experts Link Pre-Eclampsia To Risk Of Heart Disease

Posted on March 17, 2009
NY Times: Pregnancy Problem Is a Heart Warning, by Sylvia Pagan Westphal: The aches and pains of pregnancy tend to be forgotten as soon as a mother sets eyes on her newborn. But when it comes to pre-eclampsia, a condition...

New York Ends Mandatory Pregnancy Testing For National Guard Soldiers

Posted on March 17, 2009
Via ACLU press release: New York Ends Mandatory Pregnancy Testing For National Guard Soldiers: NEW YORK ? Under a new policy announced today, women in the New York National Guard serving on a state active duty task force will no...

REAL Act Provides Needed Funding For Comprehensive Sex Ed

Posted on March 17, 2009
Via ACLU press release: ?Responsible Education About Life Act? Provides Needed Funding For Comprehensive Sex Ed: Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) today introduced the Responsible Education About Life (REAL) Act, a bill that designates federal funds...

Obama Nominates Former NYC Health Chief for FDA Commissioner

Posted on March 16, 2009
Women's Daily Health Policy Report: Obama Nominates Former NYC Health Chief Hamburg for FDA Head, Baltimore Health Chief as Deputy: President Obama on Saturday announced his selection of former New York City Health Commissioner Margaret Hamburg as his nominee for...

Peter Steinfels and William Saletan on Stem Cell Research

Posted on March 15, 2009
Peter Steinfels' "Beliefs" column in yesterday's New York Times laments the absence of "moral argument" in the debate over stem cell research. Steinfels suggests that there are important moral questions at stake in the debate, but he doesn't venture to...

Call for Papers: Feminism, Law, and Masculinity

Posted on March 15, 2009
The Feminism and Legal Theory Project of Emory University School of Law has issued a call for papers for a workshop, "Feminism, Law, and Masculinity," to take place Sept 11-12 2009: This workshop will explore the relevance of masculinities studies...

Relentless Pursuit of Abortion Provider Dr. Tiller Soon To Culminate In Trial

Posted on March 14, 2009
Los Angeles Times: Eager for abortion provider's case to move forward, by Robin Abcarian: For activists on both sides of the debate over legalized abortion, the criminal trial of Dr. George Tiller, which begins Monday in a Wichita courtroom, is...

Caroline Corbin on Compelled Listening and Mandatory Pre-Abortion Counseling

Posted on March 14, 2009
Caroline Corbin (University of Miami School of Law) has posted The First Amendment Right Against Compelled Listening on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article argues for a new First Amendment right: the right against compelled listening. Free speech jurisprudence-which...

Spokane, WA, Student Sues College Over Barring Of Anti-Abortion Display

Posted on March 13, 2009
MSNBC: Student barred from showing anti-abortion display suing college: SPOKANE, Wash. - A Spokane Falls Community College student who was barred from putting up an anti-abortion display is suing the college in federal court in Spokane. Beth Sheeran says the...

GOP Chair Suggests Abortion Is "An Individual Choice"

Posted on March 13, 2009
NY Times: In Interview, Republican Chairman Strays From the Party Line on Abortion, by Adam Nagourney: This was supposed to be the week that Michael Steele, the beleaguered new chairman of the national Republican Party, got his groove on, as...

Provider Shortages Loom As Abortion Clinic Workers Near Retirement

Posted on March 12, 2009
The New York Times: Where to Pass the Torch? by, Michael Winerip: WHEN Anne Baker graduated from Southern Illinois University in 1975, she was pleased to be hired as a birth control counselor for a Planned Parenthood clinic, though it...

Georgia Bill That Attempts To Grant Embryonic Rights And Increase IVF Oversight Advances

Posted on March 12, 2009
The Atlanta Journal Constitution: Embryo Rights go too far in Senate (Editorial), by Maureen Downey: Senate Bill 169 ?- the Ethical Treatment of Human Embryos Act ?- declares: ?A living in vitro human embryo is a biological human being who...

Chemical Castration of Sex Offenders Under Scrutiny In Europe

Posted on March 12, 2009
NY Times: Europeans Debate Castration of Sex Offenders, by Dan Bilefsky: Whether castration can help rehabilitate violent sex offenders has come under new scrutiny after the Council of Europe?s anti-torture committee last month called surgical castration ?invasive, irreversible and mutilating?...

FDA Approves New, Lower-Cost Version of Female Condom

Posted on March 11, 2009
Reuters/Center for Health and Gender Equity press release: U.S. Food and Drug Administration Approves New Female Condom: Today, the U.S. Food and DrugAdministration (FDA) granted regulatory approval to the FC2 female condom, a lower-cost, second generation product manufactured by the...

President Obama's Reversal of Stem Cell Funding Ban Reflects Administration's Broader Approach to Science

Posted on March 10, 2009
NY Times: Obama Puts His Own Spin on Mix of Science With Politics, by Sheryl Gay Stolberg: President Obama?s directive on Monday to ?guarantee scientific integrity? in federal policy making could have a far-reaching impact, affecting issues as varied as...

Senate Restores Affordable Contraception For Community Health Centers and College Clinics

Posted on March 10, 2009
RH Reality Check: And the Beat Goes On: Senate Passes Omnibus, Including Affordable Birth Control Act, by Jodi Jacobson: The Senate tonight passed the $410 billion omnibus appropriations bill, originally passed by the House of Representatives two weeks ago...

MA Catholic-Affiliated Hospital System Faces Anti-Choice Criticism For Proposal To Join Forces With Secular Organization

Posted on March 08, 2009
Boston Globe: Caritas draws fire on abortion, by Kay Lazar:Catholic and antiabortion groups in Massachusetts are criticizing a proposal by the Caritas Christi Health Care network, an affiliate of the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, to join forces with a nonreligious...

Vatican Defends Excommunications Related to Nine-Year-Old Rape Victim's Abortion

Posted on March 08, 2009
NY Times/Agence France-Presse: Vatican Backs Excommunications Stemming From an Abortion A senior Vatican cleric on Saturday defended the excommunication of the mother and doctors of a 9-year-old girl who had an abortion in Brazil after being raped. The child was...

President Obama Expected To Lift Restrictions On Federally Funded Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Posted on March 08, 2009
Reuters: U.S. stem cell announcement only a first step, by Maggie Fox: Researchers and advocates have been invited to a White house ceremony on Monday at which President Barack Obama is expected to lift eight years of restrictions on embryonic...

UT Senate Passes Abortion Measure Requiring Information About Fetal Anethesia

Posted on March 06, 2009
Salt Lake Tribune: Senate passes bill mandating 'fetal pain' abortion warnings, by Sheena McFarland: A bill that would require doctors to inform a woman about fetal anesthesia for abortions performed after 20 weeks passed the Senate Thursday. HB222, sponsored by...

Help Reverse Former President Bush's Midnight Regulation

Posted on March 06, 2009
You can sign a letter supporting President Obama's decision to overturn President Bush's last-minute religious refusal regulation. This dangerous measure authorized religiously based limitations on a broad range of reproductive health and other services...

Kansas House Passes Abortion Restrictions

Posted on March 05, 2009

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