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Study Suggests Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol May Affect Male Fertility

Posted on July 01, 2010
CNN: The Chart (blog): Drinking during pregnancy may hurt sons' fertility: Scientists have found another reason that women should avoid alcohol during pregnancy: It could affect their sons? ability to father their own children in the future. Researchers in Denmark...

Kagan's Approval Appears Likely After Second Day of Questioning

Posted on July 01, 2010
USA Today: Kagan approval seems sure after hearings, by Joan Biskupic: WASHINGTON ? Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan finished two long days of Senate questioning on Wednesday, appearing headed to confirmation as the fourth female justice in history. "I believe...

ACLU Asks Government to Ensure Religiously Affiliated Hospitals Provide Emergency Reproductive Health Services

Posted on July 01, 2010
ACLU Press Release: NEW YORK ? The American Civil Liberties Union today asked the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services to ensure that religiously-affiliated hospitals provide emergency reproductive care as required by federal law, specifically the Emergency Medical Treatment and...

Planned Parenthood Challenges Nebraska Law Requiring Mental Health Screenings Before Abortion

Posted on June 30, 2010
RH Reality Check: Roundup: Lawyer Says Only Way To Not Violate LB594 Is To "Cease Providing Abortion Care", by Robin Marty: Planned Parenthood of the Heartland yesterday announced their lawsuit against Nebraska politicians who passed the a law requiring all...

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Study Finds Abortion Has Not Played Dominant Role in Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings

Posted on June 30, 2010
NY Times: Study Finds Questioning of Nominees to Be Useful, by Adam Liptak: Ever since nominees to the Supreme Court started to subject themselves to comprehensive grilling in 1939, their confirmation hearings have been dismissed by the legal elite as...

Former Deputy Ass't AG Accuses Kagan of Manipulating ACOG Statement on "Partial-Birth Abortion" Ban

Posted on June 29, 2010
National Review Online: Kagan?s Abortion Distortion, by Shannen W. Coffin: When President Obama promised in his inaugural address to ?restore science to its rightful place,? he never explained what that rightful place would be. Documents recently released in connection with...

Kagan on Gonzales v. Carhart and Health Exceptions in Abortion Regulation

Posted on June 29, 2010
C-Span offers a searchable video and transcript of the Kagan hearings here. If you search for "abortion," you can hear the (short and not exactly illuminating) exchange between Kagan and Senator Feinstein on Gonzales v. Carhart and the need for...

Kagan Reveals Little During Confirmations Hearings

Posted on June 29, 2010
NY Times: Kagan Follows Precedent by Offering Few Opinions, by Charles Savage & Sheryl Gay Stolberg: Elena Kagan deflected questions about her own views on gun rights and abortion during her Supreme Court confirmation hearings on Tuesday, instead describing Supreme...

Senator Cronyn Op-Ed on Elena Kagan

Posted on June 29, 2010
USA Today (Op-Ed): Sen. Cronyn: I smell a judicial activist, by John Cronyn: Monday, the Senate Judiciary Committee begins our hearings on the nomination of Elena Kagan to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court of the United...

Kagan Hearings Are "Full of Ghosts"

Posted on June 29, 2010
Slate Magazine: The Kagan Hearings, by Dahlia Lithwick:Elena Kagan's confirmations are about whether she's really John Roberts or Thurgood Marshall. There is something achingly familiar about Monday afternoon's opening day of Solicitor General Elena Kagan's Supreme Court Senate confirmation hearings...

Separate Reproductive Health Checkups Recommended for Teenage Girls

Posted on June 25, 2010
LA Times: Teenage girls may need two annual preventive health checkups: Most kids have a well-child medical check-up once a year. That's what the experts recommend for school-age children and teenagers. But one medical group suggests that teenage girls should...

New UN Commission Examines Effect of Laws on National HIV/AIDS Responses

Posted on June 25, 2010
VOANews.com: New UN Commission Probes HIV and the Law, by Joe DeCapua: A new U.N. commission was launched Thursday to look at how laws affect national HIV/AIDS responses. The U.N. Development Program (UNDP) and UNAIDS say, ?Nearly 30 years into...

Independent Expert Report Concludes that Fetuses Cannot Feel Pain Before 24 Weeks

Posted on June 25, 2010
The Australian: No pain for fetus prior to 24 weeks, by Mark Henderson & Lanai Vasek: THE human fetus cannot feel pain before the age of 24 weeks, according to an independent review of scientific evidence. Nerve connections in the...

As Confirmation Hearings Near, G.O.P. Characterizes Kagan as a "Political Lawyer"

Posted on June 25, 2010
NY Times: G.O.P. Bears Down on Kagan as Hearings Near, by Sheryl Gay Stolberg: WASHINGTON ? After weeks of lying low, Republicans on Wednesday began stepping up their attacks on Elena Kagan, and are laying the groundwork to oppose her...

2010 Gruber Women's Rights Prize Recipients Are Announced

Posted on June 24, 2010
Gruber Foundation press release: 2010 Gruber Women?s Rights Prize Recipients Hailed for Courageous Efforts in Advancing Women?s Sexual and Reproductive Rights Two Organizations Recognized for Extending and Defending the Rights of Women Through Litigation, Law Reform, and Education June 23,...

ACLU Releases Report on Nominee Elena Kagan

Posted on June 24, 2010
ACLU press release: ACLU Releases Report On Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan: NEW YORK ? The American Civil Liberties Union today released a report summarizing the civil liberties and civil rights record of U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan, nominated by...

More on Feminism and Abortion Rights

Posted on June 24, 2010
Wash. Post: A feminism that spans from Palin to Pelosi, by Kathleen Parker: Proving one's feminist bona fides has become the latest challenge for women aspiring to public office. Is she a "real" feminist who walks in lock step with...

Former Acting Solicitor General Walter Dellinger Foresees Potential End to Roe v. Wade

Posted on June 24, 2010
Politico: Predicting an end to Roe v. Wade, by James Hohmann: Former acting Solicitor General Walter Dellinger predicted Tuesday night that the Supreme Court will overturn Roe vs. Wade, the landmark decision that gives women abortion rights. The noted liberal...

Op-Ed Urges Approval of Pill for Over-the-Counter Use

Posted on June 23, 2010
NY Times (Op-Ed): Let the Pill Go Free, by Kelly Blanchard: LAST month, the 50th anniversary of the Food and Drug Administration?s approval of the birth control pill was marked by a lot of discussion about the ways in which...

New York Pro-Choice Groups Differ Over Strategy on Reproductive Health Bill

Posted on June 23, 2010
NY Times: Abortion Rights Supporters Squabble Over Bill, by Nicholas Confessore: ALBANY ? For years, lawmakers in New York have been trying to pass legislation that would protect existing abortion rights by codifying the Supreme Court?s 1973 Roe v. Wade...

Health Care Overhaul Provides More Protection for Pregnant Women and New Mothers

Posted on June 23, 2010
Chicago Tribune: Pregnant women, new mothers get more protections under healthcare law, by Michelle Andrews:Among the changes: expanding Medicaid's reach, preventive screenings, support services and insurance coverage requirements By the time women reach 44 years old, roughly 85% have given...

Ohio Supreme Court Rules That Workers Can Be Denied Maternity Leave if They Are Not Eligible For Sick Leave

Posted on June 23, 2010
Dayton Daily News: Supreme Court denies maternity leave; policy is ?pregnancy-blind?, by William Hershey: COLUMBUS ? Workers denied maternity leave by their employers are not victims of sex discrimination if they are not eligible for sick leave, the Ohio Supreme...

Researchers Link Household Chemical to Pregnancy Hormone Change

Posted on June 23, 2010
CBS 5: Study: PBDEs Causing Pregnancy Hormone Change: SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) - Bay area researchers have now linked a household chemical, found in almost everyone, to reduced levels of an important hormone found in pregnant women. The chemical is...

Gloria Steinem on Palin's Feminism

Posted on June 23, 2010
CBS News: Gloria Steinem on Palin: Feminists Don't Criminalize Abortion: In an interview, writer and activist Gloria Steinem responded to Sarah Palin calling herself a feminist, saying, "you can't be a feminist who says other women can't" have an abortion...

Grant Miller on the Effects of Family Planning in Colombia

Posted on June 23, 2010
Grant Miller (Stanford University School of Medicine) has posted Contraception as Development? New Evidence from Family Planning in Colombia on SSRN. Here is the abstract: There has been considerable debate in the last decade about whether or not family planning...

Disturbing Racial Disparities in Maternal Mortality Rates Persist in New York

Posted on June 21, 2010
Huffington Post: Despite Global Improvements, Pregnant Women Dying Needlessly in New York, by Michelle Chen: This year, maternal health advocates got the heartening news that the death rate of women in childbirth was declining worldwide, while the rate of child...

Coalition Aims to Encourage Abortion Clinics to Convey Information About Adoption

Posted on June 21, 2010
NY Times: Campaigning for Adoption as Common Ground in Abortion Debate, by Susan Dominus: What if groups that demanded reproductive choices for women actually offered them? Mark these words: Adoption Access Network. Few people have ever heard of it, but...

Miami Herald Commends Governor Crist on Abortion Bill Veto

Posted on June 21, 2010
Miami Herald Editorial: A necessary veto on abortion bill:OUR OPINION: Crist keeps state on moderate course on abortion Women in Florida are the rightful beneficiaries of Gov. Charlie Crist's veto of HB 1143. The bill required most women seeking abortions...

Melissa Jacoby on Assisted Reproduction and Consumer Lenders

Posted on June 21, 2010
Melissa B. Jacoby (UNC School of Law) has posted Credit for Motherhood on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Prepared for a symposium on Globalization, Families and the State, this essay builds on prior work exploring the impact of consumer lenders...

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