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Anti-Choice Group Backs Avowedly Pro-Choice Candidate for Mass. Governor

Posted on July 26, 2010
Boston Globe: Abortion foes lend support to Cahill, by Stephanie Ebbert: Wins endorsement despite backing for right to choose Independent candidate for governor Timothy P. Cahill last week picked up the endorsement of a key Massachusetts antiabortion group despite his...

Student Writing Competition on Women's Bodily Freedom

Posted on July 26, 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS WOMEN'S BAR ASSOCIATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND THE WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW: LEGAL ESSAY WRITING COMPETITION The status and future of women's bodily freedom in American policy-making and jurisprudence. The Modern American announces the American...

Daniel Sperling on Reproductive Law and Policy in Israel

Posted on July 25, 2010
Daniel Sperling (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) has posted Commanding the ?Be Fruitful and Multiply? Directive: Reproductive Ethics, Law and Policy in Israel on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The article provides an up-to-date overview of reproductive ethics, law and...

Carter Dillard on Procreation, Harm, and the Constitution

Posted on July 25, 2010
Carter Dillard (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law) has posted Procreation, Harm, and the Constitution on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Essay provides relatively novel answers to two related questions: First, are there moral reasons to limit the...

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Supreme Court at its Most Conservative in Decades

Posted on July 25, 2010
NY Times: Court Under Roberts Is Most Conservative in Decades, by Adam Liptak: WASHINGTON ? When Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and his colleagues on the Supreme Court left for their summer break at the end of June, they...

UK Gov't Survey Shows High Pregnancy Rate Among Sexually Active Teens

Posted on July 23, 2010
Daily Mail (UK): One in five girls 'pregnant by the age of 18', by Laura Clark: One in five sexually-active teenage girls has been pregnant by the age of 18, shocking figures have revealed. The first survey of its kind...

Moderate Caffeine Intake Safe in Pregnancy, Experts Say

Posted on July 23, 2010
WebMD: Moderate Coffee Drinking OK in Pregnancy, by Denise Mann: New Guidelines Say Moderate Amounts of Caffeine Won't Increase Miscarriage Risk Many pregnant women cut out caffeine the minute they find out they are expecting because of fears that their...

Dead Animals in Boxes Left Outside Chicago Abortion Clinics

Posted on July 23, 2010
Huffington Post: Dead Animals Left At Local Planned Parenthood Clinic With Anti-Abortion Message For Doctors: Police investigating a suspicious package outside of an Old Town Planned Parenthood clinic Thursday morning discovered a dead opossum in a box--likely left by anti-choice...

Mark Egerman on Inmates' Right to Elective Abortions Under the Eighth Amendment

Posted on July 23, 2010
Mark Egerman (fellow, Georgetown University Law Center, and staff counsel, National Abortion Federation) has posted Roe v. Crawford: Do Inmates Have an Eighth Amendment Right to Elective Abortions?, on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This note examines the legal questions...

Stem Cells from Umbilical Cord Blood Save Lives

Posted on July 23, 2010
Time Magazine: How Saving Umbilical Cords Saves Lives, by Bonnie Rochman: As their due date creeps closer, many pregnant women pack a go bag for the hospital: toothbrush, iPod, cute bringing-baby-home outfit. But in recent months, savvy mothers-to-be have started...

Oklahoma Judge Issues Temporary Injunction Blocking State's Pre-Abortion Ultrasound Law

Posted on July 22, 2010
The Oklahoman: Oklahoma's abortion law stays blocked for now, by Nolan Clay: An Oklahoma County judge today issued a temporary injunction blocking enforcement of the state's tough new abortion law. A tough new abortion law remains on hold. An Oklahoma...

Columnist Argues Mortgage Companies Should Discriminate, Even Against Those on Parental Leave, to Limit Risk

Posted on July 22, 2010
The Atlantic: Mortgage Companies Should Discriminate, by Daniel Indiviglio: Lately, there have been several news stories chastising mortgage companies for taking new measures to discriminate among borrowers. Fannie Mae was the target of a few of these criticisms, for doing...

Poll Shows Californians Support Abortion Rights

Posted on July 22, 2010
The Orange County Register: Poll: Californians back abortion rights, by Dena Bunis: Seven in 10 Californians continue to support the right of women to get a legal abortion and endorse the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, which...

Center for Reproductive Rights - Columbia Law School Fellowship - Nov. 1 Deadline

Posted on July 22, 2010
The CRR-CLS Fellowship is a two-year, post-graduate fellowship offered by the Center for Reproductive Rights (?the Center?) and Columbia Law School (?the Law School?). The Fellowship is designed to prepare recent law school graduates for legal academic careers in reproductive...

Gaia Bernstein on Reproductive Technologies and Donor Anonymity

Posted on July 21, 2010
Gaia Bernstein (Seton Hall University School of Law) has posted Regulating Reproductive Technologies: Timing, Uncertainty and Donor Anonymity on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Two global trends have emerged in the regulation of Artificial Reproductive Technology (?ART?): the adoption of...

Teen-Friendly Retail Chain's New Maternity Line Stirs Controversy

Posted on July 21, 2010
Broadsheet (Salon.com): Is Forever 21 glamorizing teen pregnancy?, by Sara Libby: The youth-friendly chain stirs up controversy by launching a maternity line I recently marveled at the sheer ginormousness of the Forever 21 store that opened in downtown Washington D...

"Family Guy" Abortion Episode Banned by Fox Will Be Released on DVD

Posted on July 21, 2010
Broadsheet (Salon.com): American TV: Still not ready for an abortion, by Mary Elizabeth Williams: Emotionally loaded, bitterly divisive issue, meet taboo-busting, equal-opportunity-offending comedy show. What took you so long? When "Family Guy" creators announced a year ago they were ready...

ACOG Issues New Guidelines Seeking to Lower C-Section Rate

Posted on July 21, 2010
NY Times: New Guidelines Seek to Cut Rate of Repeat C-Sections, by Denise Grady: Most women who have had Caesarean sections can safely give birth the normal way later, studies have shown, but in recent years more and more hospitals,...

Senate Judiciary Committee Advances Kagan's Nomination with Lindsey Graham Voting in Favor

Posted on July 21, 2010
NY Times: Senate Panel Backs Kagan Nomination, With One Republican Vote, by Sheryl Gay Stolberg: Solicitor General Elena Kagan moved one step closer to becoming a Supreme Court justice on Tuesday when the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 13 to 6,...

Mortgage Lenders Reluctant to Lend to Prospective Borrowers on Maternity or Paternity Leave

Posted on July 19, 2010
NY Times: Seeking a Mortgage? Don?t Get Pregnant, by Tara Siegel Bernard: Expectant parents shopping for a home are not the only ones concerned about the date of the baby?s arrival. Mortgage lenders are taking a harder look at prospective...

Study Finds Vaginal Gel Cuts Risk of Contracting HIV

Posted on July 19, 2010
Wash. Post: Vaginal gel cuts risk of HIV infection, study shows, by David Brown: For the first time a vaginal gel that a woman can use during sexual intercourse has been shown to markedly cut the risk of becoming infected...

HIV Increasingly Affects Women, Yet Men Shape the Global Response

Posted on July 19, 2010
Salon.com: Women: The missing weapon against AIDS, by Ryan Brown: The U.N. calls for more female voices to lead the global response to the epidemic If you were to sketch the global face of HIV today, it would likely look...

Unsafe Abortion A Major Problem in Ghana Despite Procedure's Legal Status

Posted on July 19, 2010
Guttmacher News Release: Unsafe Abortion a Major Cause of Maternal Death in Ghana: Lack of Awareness of Abortion Law Is a Barrier to Better Health More than one in 10 pregnancy-related deaths in Ghana are the result of unsafe abortions....

Gail Dines's Book, "Pornland," Addresses How Pornography Affects Human Sexuality

Posted on July 19, 2010
Newsweek Magazine: 'Pornland': How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality, by Gail Dines: Profits, not pleasure, drive the porn industry. Indeed. Playboy logos adorn backpacks and Miley Cyrus looks like a stripper dancing on a pole. Yes. Female porn stars are...

Obama Administration Will Ban Abortion Coverage In High Risk Insurance Pools

Posted on July 19, 2010
ACLU Press Release: WASHINGTON ? The Obama administration announced today that it intends to exclude abortion coverage from the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plans, or high-risk insurance pools, created by the recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act...

Pro-Choice Advocates Criticize Obama Administration Over Health Law

Posted on July 16, 2010
NPR: Abortion Supporters Now Blast Administration Over Health Law, by Julie Rovner: Regardless of your beliefs about abortion, at some point you almost have to feel sorry for the Obama administration. First, it got hammered for something it didn't do...

Justice Ginsburg Discusses Roe and Access to Abortion

Posted on July 15, 2010
Politico: Ginsburg: Roe will hold, by Manu Raju: ASPEN, Colo. ? Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg declared Thursday that abortions would continue to be available to women regardless of the legal challenges now being waged by opponents of Roe....

Arlen Specter on Kagan's Nomination Hearing

Posted on July 15, 2010
USA Today: Specter: 'Kagan did just enough to win my vote', by Arlen Specter: Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan did little to undo the impression that nominating hearings are little more than a charade in which cautious non-answers take the...

Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Nebraska's Abortion Screening Law

Posted on July 15, 2010
Omaha World-Herald: Judge blocks abortion screening law, by Martha Stoddard: LINCOLN ? State attorneys were reviewing their legal options Wednesday after a federal judge stopped a new Nebraska abortion law from taking effect. U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp said...

Randy Beck on the Origins of Roe v. Wade's Trimester Framework

Posted on July 14, 2010
Randy Beck (University of Georgia Law School) has posted Self-Conscious Dicta: The Origins of Roe v. Wade?s Trimester Framework on SSRN. Here is the abstract: One of the controversies arising from Roe v. Wade has concerned whether the opinion's trimester...

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