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"Women Veterans Bill of Rights" Does Not Include Abortion Services

Posted on December 03, 2010
Daily Women's Health Policy Report: House Passes 'Women Veterans Bill Of Rights' After Addressing Abortion Concerns: After addressing Republican claims about access to abortion services, the House on Tuesday passed a bill (HR 5953) by voice vote that would require...

Aristides Hatzis on Surrogate Motherhood in Greece

Posted on December 03, 2010
Aristides N. Hatzis (University of Athens) has posted The Regulation of Surrogate Motherhood in Greece, "a critical presentation of the regulation of gestational surrogacy in Greece," on SSRN.

Apple Removes Anti-Abortion, Anti-Gay App

Posted on December 03, 2010
CNET.com: Apple removes anti-gay app from App Store, by Lance Whitney: Apple has removed an iPhone app considered anti-gay following a wave of protests sent through the online petition site Change.org. Initially approved and available in the App Store in...

Dr. Carhart Opens Abortion Clinic in Germantown, MD

Posted on December 02, 2010
The Washington Post: Late abortions being offered in Germantown, by Rob Stein: A Nebraska doctor who is one of the few in the country to perform abortions late in a pregnancy is planning to begin offering the controversial procedures at...

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Catholics for Choice on Pope's Condom Clarification

Posted on November 23, 2010
Catholics for Choice news release: Pope?s Clarification Reveals Significance of Condom Statement: Jon O?Brien, president of Catholics for Choice, issued the following statement on the most recent news from the Vatican on condom use. "The Vatican?s acknowledgement that Pope Benedict?s...

Vatican Confirms Shift in Condom Policy

Posted on November 23, 2010
The New York Times: After Condom Remarks, Vatican Confirms Shift, by Rachel Donadio: Pope Benedict XVI?s recent comments about the use of condoms in select cases apply to women as well as men, the Vatican said Tuesday, a surprising first...

Five Clinics Challenge Louisiana's New Abortion Clinic Regulations

Posted on November 21, 2010
RHReality Check: Roundup: Louisiana Clinics Fight New Abortion Restrictions, by Robin Marty: The state of Louisiana's new abortion clinic regulation rules, passed during the previous legislative session, were already used to shut down one clinic in the state back in...

ACLU Defends Girls Who Wore "I ? Boobies" Bracelets to School

Posted on November 21, 2010
Time Magazine: I ? Boobies: ACLU Defends Girls' Right to Wear Sassy Bracelets, by Bonnie Rochman: I ? boobies. They nourish children. They define a woman's silhouette. And sometimes, they turn toxic. It's the latter that's the subject of Monday's...

2,000 Aborted Fetuses Found In Temple in Bangkok, Where Abortion is Illegal

Posted on November 21, 2010
USA Today: 2,000 aborted fetuses found in Bangkok temple, by Michael Winter: Thai police have arrested three people after the remains of more than 2,000 aborted fetuses were found in a Buddhist temple in Bangkok. One of those charged was...

birthornot.com - Real or Hoax?

Posted on November 21, 2010
New York Daily News: Couple insists abortion-by-vote website is not a pro-life hoax, bloggers try to prove it is fake, by Meena Hartenstein: Alisha Arnold is 16 weeks pregnant ? but whether she will give birth to her baby or...

Democrats Should Be Wary of Confrontation with Catholic Church on Abortion

Posted on November 21, 2010
LA Times Op-Ed: Will abortion be an issue again?, by Tim Rutten: As Democrats continue to sift through the electoral ashes of the midterm meltdown, a number of longtime activists have begun to insist that the party needs to reassert...

Individual Health Insurance Policies Often Do Not Cover Pregnancy

Posted on November 21, 2010
?Chicago Tribune: Many individual health policies do not cover pregnancy, by Michelle Andrews: Individual health insurance policies generally don't cover maternity care, as a recent investigation by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce reported...

NYC Council Preparing a Ruling on Crisis Pregnancy Centers

Posted on November 18, 2010
RHReality Check: "Honest Reproductive Care" At Center of New York City Crisis Pregnancy Center Debate, by Robin Marty: The New York City Council is preparing to make a ruling on whether so called crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) should be required...

Center for Reproductive Rights Files Contempt Motion Against FDA Over Emergency Contraception Age Restriction

Posted on November 18, 2010
Center for Reproductive Rights press release: The Center Takes the FDA Back to Court: For more than a year and a half, the FDA and the Obama Administration has ignored a court order to reconsider its refusal to make emergency...

Frances Kissling on the Search for Common Ground in the Abortion Debate

Posted on November 18, 2010
Salon: How to Think About Abortion, by Frances Kissling: The midterm elections resulted in significant gains in the antiabortion political delegation: In the House, there are 44 more antiabortion votes and six in the Senate. Blue Dog anti-choice Democrats were...

ACLU Demands Walgreens to Stop Discriminating Against Men Buying Emergency Contraception

Posted on November 18, 2010
Austin News KXAN.com: ACLU fights for male contraception buys: The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project Tuesday called upon Walgreens to follow company policy and cease gender discrimination by refusing to sell emergency contraception...

Parenthood Addiction?

Posted on November 15, 2010
Slate Magazine: Parents Are Junkies, by Shankar Vedantam: If parenthood sucks, why do we love it? Because we're addicted. At the end of a long day, after a rotten commute filled with road rage and little accomplished at work, with...

Iowa Abortion Opponents Hope to Block Opening of New Abortion Clinic

Posted on November 15, 2010
Des Moines Register: Abortion opponents will target new Iowa clinic, by Tony Leys: Iowa abortion opponents say they will work to block a Nebraska abortion provider from opening a clinic in Council Bluffs. Dr. LeRoy Carhart has been the center...

CDC Survey Shows Frequent Ineffective Contraception Use

Posted on November 15, 2010
Feminist Wire (Ms. Magazine): Unintended Pregnancies Linked to Ineffective Contraception Use: A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) survey of over 7,000 women revealed that many women, despite their desire to avoid pregnancy, fail to use birth control...

Anti-Choice Activists Describe Plans to Protest Dr. LeRoy Carhart's Expansion of Practice to DC Area

Posted on November 14, 2010
TBD: Local anti-abortion activists' elaborate plans to protest LeRoy Carhart, by Amanda Hess: This week, Nebraska abortion provider LeRoy Carhart, one of the few physicians in the country who will openly perform late-term abortions, announced his plans to expand his...

"UN Women" Board Includes Saudi Arabia, But Iran Ejected

Posted on November 14, 2010
Poverty Matters Blog (The Guardian): Why has Iran been kicked off the board of the UN's new agency for women?, by Sarah Boseley: Setting up a new UN agency is a fraught business. UN Women, designed to fight for the...

"Sexy Breast Cancer" Campaigns Ignore Reality of the Disease

Posted on November 14, 2010
NY Times Magazine: Think About Pink, by Peggy Orenstein: A friend of mine?s 12-year-old daughter has taken to wearing a bracelet, one of those rubber, Lance Armstrong-style affairs, that says on it, ?I ? Boobies.? ?Oh, yeah,? she said, vaguely,...

New Congress is "Most Hostile" to Abortion Since Roe v. Wade Was Decided

Posted on November 14, 2010
The Nation: Antichoicers on the March, by Katha Pollitt: When the 112th Congress convenes in January it will have at least fifty-three additional antichoice Republicans in the House and five in the Senate. Some of the newcomers are particularly extreme:...

Family Describes 10-Year-Old Girl's Childbirth as Happy Event

Posted on November 14, 2010
The Guardian: Too young to be a mother?, by Giles Tremlett: A 10-year-old girl giving birth to a baby in Spain has caused outrage. But she and her family seem happy, so why should we be worried? She is called...

Abortion Issue Helped Democrats in Some Close Senate Races

Posted on November 13, 2010
Politico: Was abortion a wave-stopper for Democrats in 2010?, by Alexander Burns: While almost nothing went right for Democratic candidates this fall, one issue turned out to be a winner in some of the closest Senate races in the nation:...

Women Sharing Abortion Experiences and Support via Twitter

Posted on November 13, 2010
Salon: Tweeting Your Abortion, by Tracy Clark-Flory: Women are taking to Twitter with a blunt statement of fact: "I had an abortion." In fact, so many are tweeting about their experience that the hashtag "#ihadanabortion" began trending on the site...

Q & A With Doctor Warren Hern, Provider of Later Abortions

Posted on November 13, 2010
Time Magazine: Late-Term Abortions: Q&A With the Last Remaining Doctor Who Performs Them, by Bonnie Rochman: No doubt, being an abortion doctor is a stressful and dangerous profession. Being an abortion doctor who performs abortions well into the second and...

Margo Kaplan on Pregnant Women's Right to Refuse Medical Treatment After Gonzales v. Carhart

Posted on November 13, 2010
Margo Kaplan (Brooklyn School of Law) has posted A 'Special Class of Persons': Pregnant Women?s Right to Refuse Medical Treatment after Gonzales V. Carhart on SSRN. Here is the abstract: As several scholars have noted, the Supreme Court?s Gonzales v....

In India, Early Marriage Linked to Poor Reproductive Health

Posted on November 13, 2010
Guttmacher Institute: EARLY MARRIAGE AMONG INDIAN WOMEN LINKED TO POOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND SPOUSAL VIOLENCE: A new study by researchers from the Population Council, New Delhi, and the International Institute for Population Sciences in Mumbai, which looked at the effect...

Anti-Abortion Activist Flip Benham Calls His Stalking Conviction "Bogus"

Posted on November 13, 2010
Star-Telegram: Anti-abortion activist says he was wrongly targeted, by Franco Ordonez: CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The Rev. Flip Benham, convicted Monday of stalking North Carolina doctors who perform abortions, says that he's being wrongly targeted and that authorities are trying to...

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