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Survey Shows that 71% of Voters Support Eliminating Co-Pays for Birth Control

Posted on October 13, 2010
RH Reality Check: Got Birth Control? Americans Overwhelmingly Support Eliminating Co-Pays for Contraception, by Jodi Jacobson: A large majority of American voters believes that insurers should include birth control as a fully covered preventive health service, along with colonoscopies, annual...

Nov. 2, 2010: London Conference on the Rise of Reproductive Technologies

Posted on October 12, 2010
University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies in association with The Guardian "Making Babies in the 21st Century: the Rise of Reproductive Technologies" 18.45 - 20.15, Tuesday 2 November 2010 Baroness Onora O'Neill (Chair, Nuffield Foundation) Professor Marcia Inhorn (William...

In France, Generous State-Paid Benefits for Mothers Don't Translate to Women's Equality

Posted on October 12, 2010
NY Times: Where Having It All Doesn?t Mean Having Equality, by Katrin Bennhold: PARIS ? Could there be anything more French than this workout? Weeks after giving birth, French women are offered a state-paid, extended course of vaginal gymnastics, complete...

NJ Doctor Faces Possible Loss of License for Gross Negligence in Abortion Provision

Posted on October 12, 2010
nj.com: N.J. doctor faces loss of license, new late-term abortions charges, by Susan K. Livio: TRENTON ? On Aug. 13, three women seeking second-trimester abortions followed physician Steven Brigham from his Camden County office to a Maryland clinic he owns,...

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In Second Trimester, Study Suggests Women Prefer Surgical Abortion to Pill

Posted on October 12, 2010
Reuters: Women prefer surgical abortion to pill in second trimester, by Amy Norton: NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who undergo an abortion during the second trimester may often prefer a surgical procedure to the "abortion pill," a small UK...

Rachel Maddow to Narrate Special on Dr. George Tiller

Posted on October 12, 2010
The Huffington Post: Rachel Maddow Narrating Special on George Tiller, Murdered Abortion Doctor (VIDEO): Rachel Maddow announced on her show Monday that she will be narrating a special on the murder of Dr. George Tiller, the Kansas abortion doctor slain...

Proposed Legislation Would Require NYC "Crisis Pregnancy Centers" to Disclose Stance on Abortion

Posted on October 12, 2010
The New York Times: The True Mission of ?Crisis Pregnancy Centers?, by Susan Dominus: Imagine a young woman riding the subway, consumed by her thoughts: she is pregnant, considering abortion, but unsure of where to turn. She looks up midcommute...

First Embryonic Stem-Cell Treatment on Patient Begins

Posted on October 11, 2010
ABC News: Medical Milestone: Genetics Company Begins First Embryonic Stem-Cell Treatment on Patient, by David Wright & Dan Childs: First Study to Focus on How Patient With Spinal Cord Injuries Will React to Treatment For years, scientists have held out...

In Op-Ed, Laura Bush Advocates for Women's Rights in Afghanistan

Posted on October 11, 2010
The Washington Post (op-ed): Afghanistan must embrace women's rights, by Laura W. Bush: The haunting portrait of a young, disfigured Afghan woman on Time magazine's cover this summer issued a stark reminder that the stakes in Afghanistan are high --....

Professor Discusses Complexities of Gender Identity in Athletics

Posted on October 11, 2010
ESPN Outside the Lines: Professor: Sports need gender policies, by Lindsay Rovegno & Julie Foudy: Caster Semenya's life changed because of eight seconds. It took 11 months before she could start to piece it back together. In August 2009, the...

Northern Ireland Bishops Oppose Medical Conference Addressing Abortion Provision

Posted on October 11, 2010
BBC News: Bishops criticise holding of abortion seminar: The Catholic Bishops of Northern Ireland have criticised the holding of a conference dealing with abortion The bishops said they "deplored and opposed" the two-day conference which was organised by the Family...

Australian Couple Faces Trial Over At-Home Abortion

Posted on October 11, 2010
The Sydney Morning Herald: Abortion rallies support Cairns couple, by Lisa Martin: Women have rallied across Australia in support of a young Queensland couple facing trial this week over a home abortion. Tegan Simone Leach, 20, and her partner, Sergie...

Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Rejects Resolution to Regulate Religous Refusals to Provide Abortion, Even After Polish Woman's Death

Posted on October 11, 2010
Center for Reproductive Rights press release: Abortion Opponents Undercut Council of Europe Resolution on Conscientious Objection: Today, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) undercut a resolution intended to regulate the use of conscientious objection by reproductive healthcare...

Former Iowa Governor Branstad Urges Ban on Telemedicine for Dispensing Abortion Pills

Posted on October 11, 2010
SiouxCityJournal.com: Branstad: Using telemedicine to give abortion pills wrong, by Rod Boshart: IOWA CITY ? Former Gov. Terry Branstad says he believes using telemedicine to prescribe and dispense abortion-inducing pills is inappropriate and the practice should be discontinued in Iowa...

In England, Conflicting Views Over Appropriate Response to Public Sex

Posted on October 11, 2010
NY Times: Here?s the Pub, Church and Field for Public Sex, by Sarah Lyall: PUTTENHAM, England ? . . . Puttenham, about an hour?s drive from London, has fewer than 2,500 residents and is famous for its ancient church; its...

In Canadian Case, Parents and Surrogate Disagreed Over Abortion

Posted on October 07, 2010
Jezebel: Parents Push Unwilling Surrogate To Have An Abortion, by Anna North: A Canadian couple discovered their fetus had Down syndrome, and they wanted an abortion. But because they were using a surrogate, their case got a lot more complicated....

Amanda Felkey & Kristina Lybecker on Abortion Availability and Use of Oral Contraceptives

Posted on October 07, 2010
Amanda J. Felkey (Lake Forest College) and Kristina M. Lybecker (Colorado College) have posted Variation in Pill Use: Do Abortion Laws Matter? on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Economists have studied the impact of legalized abortion on a variety of...

Conference to Address Search for Common Ground in Abortion Debate

Posted on October 07, 2010
Princton University: A Conference on Life & Choice in the Abortion Debate: October 15 & 16, 2010 Inspired by President Obama?s call during his Notre Dame address for those on different sides of the abortion issue not only to work...

Pro-Choice Protest Demands Repeal of New Zealand's Restrictive Abortion Laws

Posted on October 07, 2010
Voxy News Engine: Pro-Choice Protest To Hit Wellington Streets, by Emily Mountier: A protest will be held on Tuesday at 1pm outside the Court of Appeal in Wellington demanding the repeal of New Zealand's current restrictive abortion laws. The demonstration...

NIH First Entity to License a Patent on a New AIDS Drug

Posted on October 07, 2010
The New York Times: H.I.V.: National Institutes of Health Licenses Its Patent on a New Drug for AIDS, by Donald G. McNeil: In a move that gave official American backing to the controversial idea of a ?patent pool,? the National...

Justice Kagan Makes Her Mark on First Day of Court Term

Posted on October 07, 2010
USA Today: Kagan fills seats, makes her mark on first day of court term, by Joan Biskupic: WASHINGTON ? Their membership has changed, and they haven't sat together in months. Yet on Monday when Supreme Court justices took up the...

Rebels in Congo Gang-Rape Over 200 Women

Posted on October 07, 2010
The New York Times: Frenzy of Rape in Congo Reveals U.N. Weakness, by Jeffrey Gettleman: LUVUNGI, Democratic Republic of Congo ? Four armed men barged into Anna Mburano?s hut, slapped the children and threw them down. They flipped Mrs. Mburano...

Supreme Court's Stealth Attack on Women's Rights

Posted on October 07, 2010
Slate Magazine: Watch as We Make This Law Disappear, by Barry Friedman & Dahlia Lithwick: How the Roberts Court disguises its conservatism. It's dark and silent. Reporters trickle into the grand ceremonial room from a door on the left; like...

US Condemns Alleged Stoning of Woman in Pakistan

Posted on October 07, 2010
Feminist Wire (Ms. Magazine): Alleged Stoning of Woman in Pakistan Condemned by US: Last week, the US Department of State released a statement condemning the alleged stoning of a woman by members of the Taliban in northwest Pakistan. "The vicious...

Scott Titshaw on INA Recognition of Parent-Child Relationships Stemming from Assisted Reproductive Technology

Posted on October 06, 2010
Scott Titshaw (Mercer University School of Law) has posted Sorry, Ma'am, Your Baby is an Alien: Outdated Immigration Rules and Assisted Reproductive Technology on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The growing use of assisted reproductive technology (ART) and legal recognition...

U.S. Apologizes for "Abhorrent" STD Experiments in Guatemala

Posted on October 06, 2010
MSNBC: U.S. apologizes for Guatemala STD experiments, by Robert Bazell: Government researchers infected patients with syphilis, gonorrhea without their consent in the 1940s U.S. government medical researchers intentionally infected hundreds of people in Guatemala, including institutionalized mental patients, with gonorrhea...

Conference on Surrogacy: November 5th at Rutgers School of Law-Camden

Posted on October 05, 2010
Conference Announcement: Making Sense of Surrogacy Rutgers School of Law-Camden Please join us on Friday, November 5 from 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. for an inter-disciplinary conference on surrogacy 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast 9:00 a.m. Welcome 9:15-10:45 a...

NOW Condemns Sexist & Heterosexist Remarks by Senator DeMint

Posted on October 05, 2010
NOW press release: NOW Condemns Sen. Jim DeMint's Dangerous Comments on Gays and Sexually Active Single Women Unfit to Teach: The National Organization for Women is outraged by the ignorant, homophobic comments Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) made on Friday at...

Babies Conceived via IVF Perform Better Than Peers on Some Educational Development Tests

Posted on October 05, 2010
Time Magazine: Building a Brighter Kid: Consider IVF, by Bonnie Rochman: Most parents-in-waiting like to daydream that their unborn child might develop a cure for cancer or improve upon the theory of relativity ? in short, save the world. Now,...

Scientists May Have Found Technique to Predict IVF Embryo Success

Posted on October 05, 2010
BBC News: Checks 'predict embryo success': US scientists say they have developed a technique to accurately predict which IVF embryos have the best chance of success. The Stanford University team looked at cell division speed in the first days of...

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