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Bush Admin. Proposes Onerous Funding Restrictions That Would Protect Religious Refusals by Health Care Providers

Posted on August 22, 2008
Wash. Post: Protections Set for Antiabortion Health Workers, by Rob Stein: The Bush administration yesterday announced plans to implement a controversial regulation designed to protect doctors, nurses and other health-care workers who object to abortion from being forced to deliver...

Questions Raised About HPV Vaccine Gardasil

Posted on August 21, 2008
A number of news stories this week have raised questions about Gardasil, Merck's HPV vaccine, including its cost, effectiveness, and the marketing campaign promoting the vaccine. Brian Lehrer examined the issue on the Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC) this morning; you...

More on Candidates' Abortion Views

Posted on August 20, 2008
Wash. Post: Candidates' Abortion Views Not So Simple, by Jonathan Weisman: The narrative of the presidential campaign appeared to be set on the issue of abortion: Sen. Barack Obama was the abortion-rights candidate who was reaching out to foes, seeking...

Anti-Abortion Group Challenges FEC Regs

Posted on August 20, 2008
Via PaperTrail (The Center for Public Integrity): A new anti-abortion group has its sights set beyond just running ads and launching viral Internet attacks on Barack Obama. The group wants to overturn the federal election law that could rein in...

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Calif. Supreme Court Rules Doctors Cannot Deny Fertility Treatments Due to Patient's Sexual Orientation

Posted on August 19, 2008
Via Law.com: Three months after approving same-sex marriage, the California Supreme Court gave gay rights another boost Monday by unanimously ruling that doctors can't invoke religion to refuse treating homosexual patients (pdf).... Monday's case began in 2001 when Oceanside, Calif...

Proposed South Dakota Abortion Ban Invokes Discredited "Post-Abortion Syndrome" Claim

Posted on August 18, 2008
The discredited claim that abortion causes mental trauma (see previous post) is one of the arguments being used to bolster a ballot initiative that will go before South Dakota voters this fall. The proposed measure would ban all abortions except...

Study Shows Abortion Does Not Increase Risk of Mental Health Problems

Posted on August 18, 2008
Yet again, the allegation that abortions cause women mental trauma has been discredited. But that's not going to stop anti-choice advocates from pressing the claim, nor from trying to make women feel so guilty about abortion that the mental trauma...

Obama and McCain Discuss Abortion and Supreme Court Justices at Religious Forum

Posted on August 17, 2008
USA Today: Religion, ethics experts comment on forum, by Cathy Lynn Grossman: Sen. Barack Obama, frequently leaning on Bible passages, and Sen. John McCain, sharply delineating his opposition to abortion, sought to burnish their Christian credentials with voters Saturday night...

More on the Democratic Abortion Plank

Posted on August 15, 2008
NY Times, Domestic Disturbances: Walking the Abortion Plank, by Judith Warner: ?Are Democrats Now Pro-Life?? asked ABC News this week, in an online story that pretty much summed up the buzz surrounding the party?s new official platform. This year?s language...

Argentina: Recent Abortion Confidentiality Decisions

Posted on August 14, 2008
Via Mart�n Hevia (Escuela de Derecho, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) and Mercedes Cavallo (LLM Candidate and Sexual and Reproductive Health Law Scholar, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, 2008-2009): On June 4, 2008, the Argentine Criminal Division VI of the...

Call for Papers - Assisted Reproductive Technology

Posted on August 14, 2008
William Mitchell Law Review, Vol. 35, Issue II (Winter 2008-2009): The William Mitchell Law Review is proud to dedicate a portion of its second issue to Assisted Reproductive Technology and the Law in its upcoming Volume 35 (Winter 2008-2009). We...

Gloucester, Mass., Principal Who Discussed "Pregnancy Pact" Resigns

Posted on August 13, 2008
NY Times: Principal Who Discussed Pregnancy Pact Resigns, by Katie Zezima: The principal of the public high school in Gloucester, Mass., resigned Tuesday, two months after telling a reporter that a group of girls at the school made a pact...

National Zoo's Panda Won't Give Birth

Posted on August 13, 2008
NBC News: Zoo's Giant Panda Will Not Give Birth: The Smithsonian National Zoo's female giant panda Mei Xiang will not give birth to a cub this year, zoo officials announced Wednesday.Zoo officials said they believe Mei Xiang lost a developing...

Anti-Abortion Democrats Respond to Democratic Reproductive Rights Plank

Posted on August 13, 2008
...but the political blogs differ on whether they love it or hate it. The Opinionator (NYT): Abortion Rewrites, by Chris Suellentrop: Pro-life liberals and the Democratic platform: Steven Waldman, the editor-in-chief of Beliefnet, is disappointed by the abortion plank in...

Democratic Platform's Language on Reproductive Rights

Posted on August 11, 2008
Political Radar (ABC News): Dems Adopt Platform in Pittsburgh: ABC News' Teddy Davis reports: A Democratic panel adopted the party's platform "Renewing America's Promise" during a Saturday meeting in Pittsburgh. The statement of party principles will now be presented to...

Researchers Block Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Damage

Posted on August 11, 2008
ScienceDaily: Damage To Fetal Brain Blocked Following Maternal Alcohol Consumption: In a study on fetal alcohol syndrome, researchers were able to prevent the damage that alcohol causes to cells in a key area of the fetal brain by blocking acid...

AZ Sheriff Violated Inmate's Right to Abortion

Posted on August 08, 2008
Arizona Republic: Abortion pits ACLU vs. Arpaio, by Michael Kiefer: The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday asked that Sheriff Joe Arpaio be held in contempt of court for violating a 2005 ruling regarding county jail inmates' rights to be...

Bush Administration Appears to Back off of Controversial HHS Regs

Posted on August 08, 2008
Reuters: HHS chief denies new rule to attack contraception, by Maggie Fox: A widely circulated draft U.S. regulation that would define many forms of contraception as abortion will not be proposed in that form, if at all, Health and Human...

The Right-Wing Attack on Contraception

Posted on August 05, 2008
Science Progress: Contraception Is the New Abortion: The Latest Right Wing Trend? Attack Birth Control, by Jessica Arons (7/28): The Bush administration has taken its latest swipe at contraception, but again under the pretense of opposing abortion. By manipulating scientific...

US H.I.V Rate Widely Underreported

Posted on August 04, 2008
The New York Times: H.I.V. Study Finds Rate 40% Higher than Estimated, by Lawrence K. Altman: MEXICO CITY ? The United States has significantly underreported the number of new H.I.V infections occurring nationally each year, with a study released here...

New Study Shows Most Maternal Deaths in US are Not Preventable

Posted on August 02, 2008
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology: Maternal Death in the 21st Century: Causes, Prevention and Relationship to Caesarean Delivery by, Clark et al Volume 199, Issue 1, Pages 36.e1-36.e5 (July 2008) Conclusion: Most maternal deaths are not preventable...

More on Proposed Bush Admin. Reg Defining Birth Control Pill as Abortion

Posted on July 31, 2008
Wall St. Journal: Treating the Pill as Abortion, Draft Regulation Stirs Debate, by Stephanie Simon: Set aside the fraught question of when human life begins. The new debate: When does pregnancy begin? The Bush Administration has ignited a furor with....

Pre-Pregnancy Diabetes Linked to Higher Risk of Birth Defects

Posted on July 30, 2008
US News & World Report/HealthDay News: Pre-Pregnancy Diabetes Boosts Risk for Birth Defects: Women who develop diabetes before they become pregnant are three to four times more likely than non-diabetic women to have a baby with at least one birth...

NY Times Magazine Photo Essay Examines the Young Women of Yearning for Zion Ranch, The Texas Polygamous Religious Sect

Posted on July 30, 2008
NY Times: Children of God, by Sarah Corbett: On a humid Wednesday in late June, as she waited to be summoned by a grand jury, 16-year-old Teresa Jeffs hitched up her navy blue prairie dress and hoisted herself into the...

Iranian Woman Sentenced to Death for Forced Prostitution

Posted on July 29, 2008
Via Equality Now: Women's Action 29.2: Iran: Kobra Najjar Faces Imminent Execution by Stoning for Prostitution Equality Now is urgently concerned about Kobra Najjar, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery who lost her final appeal for...

Ruthann Robson Reviews Nancy Polikoff's New Book on Marriage

Posted on July 29, 2008
Wellesley Center for Women: Families of Affinity, by Ruthann Robson (CUNY Law School) (reviewing Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families Under The Law, by Nancy Polikoff): The same-sex marriage debate is actually two debates. The more well-known version...

Fourth Circuit Accepts En Banc Review of Virginia "Partial-Birth Abortion" Ban

Posted on July 28, 2008
Via How Appealing: "Federal appeals court to review Va. abortion ban": The Richmond Times-Dispatch has a news update that begins, "The full 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will rehear a challenge to Virginia's ban on a late-term abortion procedure....

Abortion and the 2008 Presidential Election

Posted on July 28, 2008
Patchwork Nation blog (Christian Science Monitor): On Abortion Issue, Obama may have an edge, by Dante Chinni: Abortion, long a divisive issue in American politics, has not played a large role in the 2008 presidential campaign up to now. Neither...

Pregnancy Motivates Many Women to Quit Smoking

Posted on July 28, 2008
USA Today: Pregnancy can motivate smokers to kick habit, by Liz Szabo: Ashley Adams had no trouble quitting smoking during her pregnancy. Morning sickness and dry heaves made her too nauseated to crave cigarettes. And seeing pictures of low-birth-weight babies...

Scott Gerber on Chief Justice John Roberts

Posted on July 27, 2008
Wall St. Journal: Roberts Can Do Better Than Consensus, by Scott Gerber (Ohio Northern Univ. College of Law): Now that John Roberts has completed his third term as chief justice, it's appropriate to take stock of how he's doing. Most...

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