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SC House and Senate Reach Compromise on Abortion Ultrasound Bill

Posted on April 17, 2008
And another ultrasound bill advances. These bills are gaining momentum in the states, thanks to the Supreme Court's tacit encouragement in Gonzales v. Carhart. TheState.com: Abortion ultrasound compromise reached: Women seeking an abortion would have the option of viewing an...

OK Legislature Overrides Gov's Veto of Abortion Bill

Posted on April 17, 2008
Tulsa World: Legislature overrides Henry's veto of abortion bill, by World Capitol Bureau: OKLAHOMA CITY -- Both houses of the Oklahoma Legislature have voted to override Gov. Brad Henry's veto of a controversial abortion bill. Henry late Wednesday vetoed Senate...

Norway: Christian Democratic Party Proposes New Abortion Law

Posted on April 17, 2008
Aftenposten: Christian party proposes new abortion law, by Catherine Stein: The Christian Democratic Party (Kristelig Folkeparti, KrF) of Norway has proposed a new abortion law, which includes obligatory counselling for everyone considering abortion ? and also free contraception for youths...

Yale Senior's Art Project on Self-Abortion Stirs Controversy

Posted on April 17, 2008
Yale Daily News: For senior, abortion a medium for art, political discourse, by Martine Powers: Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself "as often...

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CDC Study Shows Dramatic Decline in US Teen Pregnancy Rate

Posted on April 17, 2008
AFP: US teen pregnancy rate near historic low: study: CHICAGO (AFP) ? The teen pregnancy rate in the United States has fallen to historic lows, abortion rates have declined dramatically and more women are having children out of wedlock, a...

Call for Papers: Reproductive Justice Anthology

Posted on April 16, 2008
Via SisterSong: Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective: SisterSong is excited to announce that the creation of a special anthology on Reproductive Justice is currently underway. Please accept this invitation from SisterSong to submit a contribution to be considered for...

Internet Sexuality Information Services (ISIS) Exposes Ideas for Preventing HIV and other STDs with Underwear Design Contest

Posted on April 16, 2008
Via press release from Internet Sexuality Information Services, Inc. (ISIS) and Brickfish: SAN DIEGO, CA (April 5, 2008) Internet Sexuality Information Services, Inc. (ISIS), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting sexual health, and Brickfish, a social media advertising platform, are...

FL Legislature Considers "Medically Accurate" Sex-Ed Bill

Posted on April 16, 2008
Orlando Sentinel: Some State Lawmakers Pitch Uniform Sex Education, by Claudia Zequeira: The reason two neighboring school districts can teach sex ed so differently is because Florida law, while clearly preferring abstinence instruction, doesn't mandate it...

Access to Safe and Legal Abortion in Europe

Posted on April 15, 2008
The report "Access to Safe and Legal Abortion in Europe," by the Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, was issued last month. Here is the summary: Abortion is legal in the...

Law Student Writing Contest: Alice Paul Feminist Jurisprudence Essay

Posted on April 15, 2008
The Women and the Law and Legal Rhetoric programs at American University Washington College of Law are seeking student submissions for the Alice Paul Feminist Jurisprudence Essay Contest. The award is $1000 for the best unpublished student essay. The winner...

Student Scholarship: A Feminist Legal Response to Plan B Regulation

Posted on April 15, 2008
Amanda Allen (3L, CUNY Law School) has posted A Plan C for Plan B: A Feminist Legal Response to the Ways in Which Behind-the-Counter Emergency Contraception Fails Women on SSRN. Here is the abstract: On August 24, 2006, the Food...

Clementine Rossier on Abortion Secrecy in Burkina Faso

Posted on April 15, 2008
Clementine Rossier has posted Abortion: An Open Secret? Abortion and Social Network Involvement in Burkina Faso, Reproductive Health Matters, Vol. 15, No. 30, pp. 230-238, November 2007, on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Abortion in Burkina Faso is a subject...

Dr. Pablo Rodriguez on the POPLINE Controversy

Posted on April 14, 2008
RH Reality Check: A Slippery Slope: The POPLINE Controversy, by Pablo Rodriguez, MD: Call it censored, call it buried, call it lost?the search term ?abortion? was all of the above for approximately a month on POPLINE 1?a publicly-funded database that...

The Pope's Visit

Posted on April 14, 2008
NY Times: The Pope?s Visit: Candles, Clergy and Communion for 57,000, by Sewell Chan: ...He will be accompanied on this trip by an entourage of about 30 Vatican officials and 70 journalists. The Archdiocese of Washington estimates that the pope?s...

Democratic Candidates on Religion and Reproductive Rights

Posted on April 14, 2008
At the CNN faith forum last night, the Democratic candidates discussed reproductive rights issues. Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report: Obama, Clinton Call for Allocating More Resources To Fight Spread of HIV/AIDS: Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N...

Obama Endorsed by Two "Abortion Foes"

Posted on April 14, 2008
Wash. Post: For Obama, Unexpected Support: Antiabortion Lawmakers' Backing May Help in Pa., Ind., by Shailagh Murray: As strong and consistent abortion foes, Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. and former congressman Timothy J. Roemer are anomalies in a Democratic Party...

NPR on Johns Hopkins Database Fiasco and George Tiller Saga

Posted on April 10, 2008
You can listen to the following segments by clicking the links below. Magazine Led to Database's 'Abortion' Search Block, by Brenda Wilson: An inquiry into why the world's largest database on reproductive health blocked searches using the term "abortion" has...

NJ Gov Expected to Sign Family Leave Bill

Posted on April 10, 2008
The Bergen Record: Family Leave Bill Awaits Corzine's Signature, by Elise Young: Four million New Jersey workers need just one more signature ? Governor Corzine's ? to start taking six weeks' leave to care for new children or sick relatives....

Stem Cells Derived From Skin Show Promise in Treating Parkinson's

Posted on April 08, 2008
Boston Globe: 'Blank' stem cells showing promise, by Colin Nickerson: Cambridge scientists have used stem cells that were "reprogrammed" from ordinary skin cells to alleviate symptoms of Parkinson's disease in rodents, illustrating the vast medical potential of this new type...

Kansas Senate Passes Bill Allowing Family Interference with Abortion Decisions

Posted on April 08, 2008
Wichita Eagle: Bill would let families try to stop abortions, by Dion Lefler: The state Senate passed and sent to the governor a bill to strengthen abortion reporting requirements Thursday evening. The bill includes a provision that would allow family...

Scalia Tells Roger Williams Law Students He Would Not Be Confirmed Today

Posted on April 08, 2008
Boston Globe/AP: Scalia says he'd have difficulty winning confirmation now, by Eric Tucker: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Monday he would have had difficulty winning confirmation to the nation's highest court if he were nominated today because the...

Study Shows Exercise During Pregnancy Benefits Fetus

Posted on April 08, 2008
HealthDay News: Exercise During Pregnancy Has Baby Benefits, Too: Exercise does a body good -- two bodies when the one exercising is a pregnant woman. A new study shows that when a mom-to-be works out, her fetus reaps cardiac benefits....

South Korea: Public Health Experts Advocate Easing Restrictions on Abortion

Posted on April 07, 2008
Reuters: Illegal abortion, South Korea's open secret, by Lee Jiyeon: At a clinic in a fashionable area of Seoul, young women sit in plush leather couches waiting for a doctor to give them an illegal abortion. By the hundreds of...

Recent News Stories Address Concerns About Abstinence Education

Posted on April 07, 2008
Ms. Magazine Feminist Wire Newsbriefs: Recent Study Highlights Need for Comprehensive Sex Education in Florida: Frightening survey results from the University of Florida reveal the necessity of comprehensive sex education in schools. The Associated Press reports that the survey shows...

Dean of Johns Hopkins Public Health School Lifts Database Restrictions on Searches for "Abortion"

Posted on April 07, 2008
NY Times: Health Database Was Set Up to Ignore ?Abortion?, by Robert Pear: Johns Hopkins University said Friday that it had programmed its computers to ignore the word ?abortion? in searches of a large, publicly financed database of information on...

KS Agency Refuses to Turn Over Abortion Records to County DA

Posted on April 04, 2008
Kansas City Star: State health department refuses to turn over abortion records subpoenaed by Johnson County district attorney, by Diane Carroll: A Kansas agency has refused to turn over abortion records subpoenaed by Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline...

61% of Nigerians Newly Infected with HIV/AIDS Are Women and Girls

Posted on April 04, 2008
allAfrica.com: Nigeria: 61 Percent of New HIV/Aids Infections Are Women-NACA: The National Agency For The Control of AIDS (NACA) has revealed that an estimated sixty one percent of Nigerians that are newly infected with HIV/AIDS are women and young girls...

Book Review: Fatal Misconception, by Matthew Connelly

Posted on April 04, 2008
Wall Street Journal: The War Against Fertility, by Martin Morse Wooster: It is a clich� but nevertheless true that philanthropists and government bureaucrats often do more harm than good, not least when they set out to change the world. In...

U.S.-Government-Funded Website Censors Abortion Info

Posted on April 04, 2008
Wired: U.S. Funded Health Search Engine Blocks 'Abortion', by Sarah Lia Stirland: A U.S. government-funded medical information site that bills itself as the world's largest database on reproductive health has quietly begun to block searches on the word "abortion," concealing...

St. Louis University Law School: Symposium on Disability, Reproduction & Parenting

Posted on April 03, 2008
Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy and the Center for Health Law Studies present: 20th Annual Saint Louis University Health Law Symposium Friday, April 4, 2008 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Location: Courtroom The desire to form...

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