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NY Times: NY Lt. Gov. David Paterson Holds Similar Views on Abortion as Gov. Eliot Spitzer

Posted on March 16, 2008
N.Y. Times: Hope for Harmony in a Shaken Albany, by Nicholas Confessore and Jeremy Peters: On Day 442, everything changes. Again. When Gov. Eliot Spitzer took office 14 months ago, he seemed poised to upend the capital?s powers that be,...

Canada abortion debate rekindled as bill passes

Posted on March 16, 2008
Via Reuters: OTTAWA (Reuters) - The long-dormant issue in Canada of when life begins has reemerged with the backing by the House of Commons of a bill that would make it a crime to cause the death of an unborn...

STIs Among Gay Men Often Not Detected

Posted on March 12, 2008
N.Y.Times: Sex Diseases in Many Gay Men Go Unfound, Experts Say, by Lawrence Altman: Many cases of sexually transmitted diseases are escaping detection because gay men are not being tested each year as advised, federal health officials said Wednesday...

National Study Finds High STI Rates Among Teenage Girls

Posted on March 12, 2008
N.Y. Times: Sex Infections Found in Quarter of Teenage Girls, by Lawrence Altman: The first national study of four common sexually transmitted diseases among girls and young women has found that one in four are infected with at least one...

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Conference on Gender and Intellectual Property

Posted on March 12, 2008
American University Washington College of Law's Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, and Women and the Law Program present: The Fifth Annual IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections Exploring the rich intersection of...

Sweden: Liberal Party Proposes Eliminating Parental Opt-Out for Sex-Ed

Posted on March 10, 2008
The Local: Sweden's News in English: Immigrant girls and sex education - who knows best? by David Landes: Parents, students, or the state: who knows best? David Landes looks at the thorny issue of sex education and editorial reactions to...

House Hearing on Paid Parental Leave Leave Bill

Posted on March 10, 2008
Washington Post: A Plea for Parental Leave, by Stephen Barr: Last summer, Amy S. Costantino suddenly went into labor and gave birth to twin sons -- 3 1/2 months premature. Each weighed less than two pounds, and they spent 90...

Noa Ben-Asher on "Baby-Making Markets"

Posted on March 10, 2008
Noa Ben-Asher (Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School) has posted The Curing Law: On the Legal Evolution of Baby-Making Markets on SSRN. Here is the abstract: How has morality shaped current baby-making markets? What bargaining conditions have been set for individuals...

Brooklyn Law School Symposium Today on "Partial-Birth Abortion" Bans

Posted on March 07, 2008
I am looking forward to participating in a symposium today at Brooklyn Law School, "The 'Partial-Birth Abortion' Ban: Health Care in the Shadow of Criminal Liability." My co-panelists are Talcott Camp (Deputy Director, ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project), David Meyer (University...

Carlos Ball on Privacy and Public Sex

Posted on March 06, 2008
Carlos A. Ball (Penn State) has posted Privacy, Property and Public Sex on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article argues that the constitutional right to sexual liberty should include the right to engage in public sex under certain circumstances....

AZ House Passes Bill Regarding Maturity of Minors Seeking Abortion

Posted on March 05, 2008
The Arizona Republic: House passes abortion bill tied to maturity of minors, by Amanda J. Crawford and Mary Jo Pitzl: A minor would have to prove by clear and convincing evidence that she is mature enough to get an abortion...

Caitlin Borgmann on Judicial Deference to Legislative Factfinding

Posted on March 05, 2008
Caitlin Borgmann (CUNY Law School) has posted Rethinking Judicial Deference to Legislative Factfinding on SSRN. Here is the abstract: It is traditionally assumed that the role of ascertaining and evaluating the social facts underlying a statute belongs to the legislatures...

Brazil: Supreme Court to Rule on Stem Cell Research

Posted on March 05, 2008
A legal challenge to a new law permitting stem cell research argues that it violates the right to life. See AP: Brazil Court to Rule on Stem Cells, by Stan Lehman: Brazil's Supreme Court is set to decide if scientists...

Barbara Seaman, Women's Reproductive Health Advocate, Dies at 72

Posted on March 04, 2008
NY Times: Barbara Seaman, 72, Dies; Cited Risks of the Pill, by Margarlit Fox: Barbara Seaman, a writer and patients? rights advocate who was one of the first people to bring the issue of women?s reproductive health to wide public...

VA Senate Votes To Cut State Funding for Planned Parenthood

Posted on March 01, 2008
Washington Post: Senate's Vote Sets Tone on Abortion, by Tim Craig: The Virginia Senate voted Wednesday to cut off state funding to Planned Parenthood of Virginia because it offers abortions, an action that could endanger hundreds of thousands of dollars...

S.C. Law Review Symposium on Equality and the Roberts Court

Posted on February 29, 2008
I am looking forward to participating today in the South Carolina Law Review Symposium, The Roberts Court and Equal Protection: Gender, Race, and Class. I will be speaking on the panel on gender along with Deborah Brake (Pittburgh), David Cohen...

William Saletan Reviews "Embryo," by Robert George and Christopher Tollefsen

Posted on February 28, 2008
From the New York Times Book Review earlier this month: William Saletan reviews "Embryo," by Robert George and Christopher Tollefsen, in Little Children: Thirty-five years after Roe v. Wade, the pro-life movement faces a new challenge: biotechnology. The first human...

Census Analysis Shows Changes in Pregnancy and Employment

Posted on February 28, 2008
NY Times: Shifts in Pregnancy and Work, by Sam Roberts: As women have children later than ever and more work outside the home, they are also working longer into pregnancy and returning to work faster than they did four decades...

David Garrow Reviews Dr. Susan Wicklund's "This Common Secret"

Posted on February 26, 2008
David Garrow reviews Susan Wicklund's book, "This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor," in today's Christian Science Monitor: Abortion is the subject of many books, but it's highly unusual when a volume that looks like yet another partisan...

Stem Cells and the 2008 Presidential Election

Posted on February 26, 2008
CNNMoney.com: Stem cells: A sure bet in the '08 race, by Aaron Smith: NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Whoever wins the White House, stem cell biotechs stand to reap the benefit from an incoming leader who is friendlier to stem cell...

Sweden: Man Sentenced for Spiking Girlfriend's Yogurt with Abortion Pills

Posted on February 26, 2008
AP: Man gets 18 months in jail for putting abortion pills in girlfriend's food: A Swedish court of appeal on Tuesday sentenced a 27-year-old man to 18 months in prison for trying to make his girlfriend miscarry by mixing abortion...

UK: Conservative MP Calls for Reduction in Gestational Limit for Abortions

Posted on February 26, 2008
Reuters (UK): Cameron calls for lower abortion time limit Conservative leader David Cameron has supported a cut in the legal time limit on abortions ahead of a possible vote on the issue in coming weeks. But Gordon Brown's spokesman said...

NY: Catholic Church Opposes Gov. Spitzer's Reproductive Health and Privacy Protection Act

Posted on February 25, 2008
NY Sun: Abortion Battle Brews Between Spitzer, Church, by Jacob Gershman: Tensions are running high between the Spitzer administration and the Catholic Church, which is mounting an unusually aggressive campaign to stop the state from enacting a law that would...

Student-Led Sex Education Divides Parents

Posted on February 25, 2008
Philadelphia Inquirer: Sex ed led by teens is dividing parents, by John Sullivan: A tussle that began with a condom and a banana has morphed into all-out war at a New Jersey high school, with some parents trying to end...

Federal Judge Refuses to Lift Injunction Allowing Wash. Pharmacists To Refuse To Sell Plan B

Posted on February 25, 2008
AP/ Seattle Post Intelligencer: Judge again rules druggists can deny morning-after pill, by Curt Woodward: Pharmacists and drug store owners in Washington can still refuse to sell the "morning-after pill" if they have religious objections to the emergency contraceptives, a...

Anti-Abortion Groups Rally Around McCain

Posted on February 20, 2008
Funny how McCain seems to attract the admiration of both pro-choice and anti-choice groups. Let's just hope that in the general election his true (anti-choice) record is made crystal clear. Washington Times: Pro-Life Groups Choose McCain, by Stephen Dinan: Pro-lifers...

Developments in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Posted on February 20, 2008
Scientific American: Human Embryonic Stem Cells Fix Stroke-Afflicted Rats, by J.R. Minkel: In a new study, rats were spared the limb-weakening effects of a stroke if they were treated with brain tissue cultivated from human embryonic stem cells. But unlike...

Giveaway of emergency contraception angers anti-abortion group

Posted on February 20, 2008
Via the Associated Press: MISHAWAKA, Ind. - A free giveaway of emergency contraception doses at Planned Parenthood health centers in Indiana cities with large college populations has angered an anti-abortion group, whose leader calls it "irresponsible...

Kan. AG Resists Grand Jury Subpoena for Patient Records of Dr. Tiller

Posted on February 19, 2008
AP: Kan. AG Resists Grand Jury Subpoena, by John Hanna: TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) ? Attorney General Stephen Six wants the state's highest court to block a grand jury's subpoena for patient records and other evidence in the investigation of a...

Hundreds of anti-abortion protesters hold gathering in Madrid

Posted on February 19, 2008
Via the Associated Press: MADRID, Spain: Hundreds of anti-abortion demonstrators gathered in Madrid Saturday to protest against government plans to strengthen legislation protecting the confidentiality of women who consult abortion clinics. People carrying Spanish flags and waving images of aborted...

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