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Randall Terry Launches Bid for Presidency and Vows to Run Graphic Anti-Abortion Ads During Super Bowl

Posted on January 20, 2011
ABC News: Activist Vows Graphic Anti-Abortion Ads During Super Bowl, by Devin Dwyer: Randall Terry Launches Bid for President to Secure Ad Time During Super Bowl Veteran anti-abortion activist Randall Terry says he's mounting a Democratic primary challenge to President...

Susanna Mancini and Michel Rosenfeld on Judges as Moral Arbiters in the Abortion Context

Posted on January 20, 2011
Susanna Mancini (University of Bologna; Johns Hopkins University, Bologna Center) & Michel Rosenfeld (Cardozo Law School) have posted The Judge as Moral Arbiter? The Case of Abortion on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The purpose of this essay is to...

Contraception as Prevention Remains a Debate Under Health Care Law

Posted on January 20, 2011
The Nation: Does Contraception Count as Prevention?, by Sharon Lerner: Dozens crowded into the National Academies building in a snow-blanketed Washington last Wednesday morning to attend a meeting of the committee charged with making recommendations as to whether birth control...

Ohio Bill Seeks to Ban Post-Viability Abortions

Posted on January 19, 2011
The Columbus Dispatch: Ohio bill would ban late-term abortions, by Jim Siegel: As a new report shows abortion rates in the United States leveling off after years of decline, Ohio appears set to make a new attempt at joining many...

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Bill Introduced in House Would Prevent Abortion Providers From Receiving Family Planning Grants

Posted on January 19, 2011
Feminist Daily News: Abortion Provider Prohibition Act Introduced in the House (1/13): Late last week, Representative Mike Pence (R-IN) introduced the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act in the House. If passed, the bill would amend Title X of the...

Broad Religious Refusal Bill Introduced in Nebraska

Posted on January 19, 2011
Journal Star.com: Omaha senator introduces Freedom of Conscience Act, by JoAnne Young & Kevin O'Hanlon: Omaha Sen. Pete Pirsch wants to ensure no employee of a health care facility or medical student is forced to do something they are opposed...

Philadelphia Doctor Who Provided Abortions Under Horrific Conditions Faces 8 Counts of Murder

Posted on January 19, 2011
CBS News - cbsphilly.com: Philly Doctor Facing 8 Counts Of Murder, by Walt Hunter: Eyewitness News has learned that a West Philadelphia doctor, his wife and eight other suspects are now under arrest following a grand jury Investigation. Sources say...

Oprah Winfrey Recalls Suicidal Thoughts Upon Becoming Pregnant at 14

Posted on January 18, 2011
CNN - This Just In blog: Winfrey: Losing baby as a teen was 'my second chance', by Jason Hanna: In the inaugural interview on "Piers Morgan Tonight," talk show queen Oprah Winfrey recalled contemplating suicide at 14 because she was...

A Reaction to Data Showing Stall in Decline of U.S. Abortion Rate

Posted on January 18, 2011
Politics Daily: Economics of Abortion: Recession and Contraception Among Key Factors, by Delia Lloyd: For the first time since 1981, the long-term decline in U.S. abortions has stalled. And experts are pinning the blame on the recession. In other words,...

New NYC Schools Chancellor Apologizes for Birth Control Remark

Posted on January 17, 2011
NY Post: Black apologizes for birth control quip, by Yoav Gonen: Schools Chancellor Cathie Black apologized yesterday for her off-color quip that birth control could help solve school overcrowding and for comparing her decisions on how to deal with limited...

Legal Scholars Testify in Hearing Addressing Canada's Laws Against Polygamy

Posted on January 17, 2011
Vancouver Sun: Tradition of monogamous marriage traced in polygamy hearing, by Daphne Bramham: There is a consistent, 2,500-year tradition of marriage as the monogamous union of two people and a 750-year tradition of polygamy as a crime, an expert testified...

MTV's "Skins": "Most Dangerous Show" for Teens?

Posted on January 17, 2011
Newsweek: The Most Dangerous Show on Television, by Jessica Bennett: MTV's controversial new series, Skins, portrays teens as experimental and sex-obsessed, lying to their parents and sneaking out at night. In other words, it shows them as they really are...

David Orentlicher on Multiple Embryo Transfers

Posted on January 16, 2011
David Orentlicher (University of Iowa College of Law; Indiana University School of Law) has posted Multiple Embryo Transfers: Time for Policy on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The birth of eight children to Nadya Suleman led to an outcry over...

Study Finds Pregnant Women Carry A Mixture of Toxic Chemicals

Posted on January 16, 2011
LA Times: What pregnant women don't know they're carrying -- toxic chemicals, new study finds, by Mary Forgione: Pregnant women are warned off cigarettes and alcohol to safeguard the health of their fetuses. But a new study identifies 163 environmental...

In Swaziland Many Turn to Circumcision to Protect Against HIV

Posted on January 15, 2011
The Atlantic: The Kindest Cut, by Shaun Raviv: Swaziland turns to mass circumcision. Banele Shabangu is scared because he should be scared. Because a man in a mask is about to stick a needle into the base of his penis....

British Women Weigh Legal Options After Conceiving With Contraceptive Implant

Posted on January 15, 2011
The Telegraph: The women who kept their babies after contraceptive implant failed, by Laura Donnelly: When women opt to be fitted with contraceptive implants, the last thing they expect is to get pregnant. But last week it emerged that hundreds...

Post-Abortion Counseling Group Tries to Stay Above the Political Fray

Posted on January 15, 2011
The New York Times: Post-Abortion Counseling Group Finds Itself on the Firing Line, by Shoshana Walter: Exhale, a nonprofit organization based in Oakland, offers free counseling to any woman who has had an abortion. For years, however, the group has....

A Conversation with Amy Chua Compares Chinese and Western Mothers

Posted on January 15, 2011
Time Magazine: Chinese vs Western Mothers: Q&A with Amy Chua, by Belinda Luscombe: "A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids. They wonder what these parents do to produce so many math whizzes and music...

Nursing Student Challenges Vanderbilt University Policy Requring Care for Women Undergoing Abortions

Posted on January 15, 2011
The Christian Post: Nursing Student Fights School Policy Requiring Abortion Pledge, by Stephanie Samuel: A nursing student has partnered with a Christian legal defense group in filing a complaint against a Nashville, Tenn., university policy that requires participation in abortion...

Katha Pollitt Responds to Naomi Wolf and Naming Complainants in Rape Cases

Posted on January 15, 2011
The Nation: Naomi Wolf: Wrong Again on Rape, by Katha Pollitt: Should the press reveal the names of complainants in rape cases? In the Guardian [1], Naomi Wolf says yes?beginning (but you knew this was coming) with the two women...

Idaho Pharmacist Refuses to Fill Prescription for Patient She Suspected of Having Abortion

Posted on January 14, 2011
Idaho Press-Tribune: Planned Parenthood files complaint against Nampa pharmacist, by Sharon Strauss: Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest has filed a letter of complaint with the Idaho Board of Pharmacy regarding the actions of a Nampa pharmacist...

Iowa Doctor Allowed to Keep Dispensing Abortion Pill Via Videoconferencing

Posted on January 14, 2011
Des Moines Register: Iowa doctor faces no sanction for remote-control abortion system, by Tony Leys: Iowa medical regulators have declined to punish a Planned Parenthood doctor for using a controversial long-distance video system to provide abortion pills by remote control...

State Legislators Propose Bans on Abortion Coverage in State Health Insurance Exchanges

Posted on January 14, 2011
Ms. Magazine: Anti-Abortion Bills Proposed in FL and NE: Last week, Representative Matt Gaetz (R-RL) in Florida and Representatives Annette Dub (D-NE) and Beau McCoy (R-NE) in Nebraska proposed bills that, if passed, would ban abortion coverage in insurance policies...

Guttmacher Institute Survey Shows Abortion Protest Increase

Posted on January 12, 2011
NPR: Decline In Abortions Appears Stalled, But Protests Rise, by Julie Rovner: For the first time in three decades, the number and rate of abortions performed in the United States is no longer declining, according to the latest survey from...

Study Finds that Closely Spaced Pregnancies May Increase Risk of Autism

Posted on January 11, 2011
Time Magazine: Closely Spaced Pregnancies May Contribute to Autism, by Alice Park: As researchers continue to learn more about autism?its causes and risk factors?it is increasingly clear that there isn't a single driver for the developmental disorder, and no simple...

After Years of Decline, U.S. Abortion Rate Hits Plateau

Posted on January 11, 2011
Wash. Post: Falloff in abortion rate and in number of procedures stalls, by Rob Stein: The rate at which women are getting abortions and the total number of procedures being performed in the United States, both of which had been...

Darren Rosenblum et al. in a Conversation on Surrogacy

Posted on January 10, 2011
Darren Rosenblum (Pace Law School) et al. have posted Pregnant Man?: A Conversation on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Essay includes a first-person narrative of having a child through surrogacy, responses to that narrative by other law professors and...

Michele Goodwin on Viability of Tort Law to Address Harms to Children Born Through Assisted Reproductive Technology

Posted on January 09, 2011
Michele Goodwin (University of Minnesota Law School) has posted A View from the Cradle: Tort Law and the Private Regulation of Assisted Reproduction on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In this article, Goodwin analyzes the viability of tort law to...

The Constitution as Envisioned by Justice Scalia

Posted on January 09, 2011
NY Times: If Scalia Had His Way, by Jeffrey Rosen: Constitutional originalism is all the rage these days. In Congress, the new Republican House majority opened the session with a reading of the Constitution and a requirement that every proposed...

Summary of 2010 Legislative Trends Shows Abortion Restrictions Dominated

Posted on January 08, 2011
Guttmacher News Release: State Legislative Trends in 2010?Abortion Restrictions Once Again Dominate: Even as state legislators were largely preoccupied by ongoing budget crises in 2010, issues related to reproductive health and rights nonetheless garnered significant legislative attention...

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