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Former Kansas Attorney General Subpoenaed in Dr. Tiller's Murder Trial

Posted on January 06, 2010
Kansas City Star: Kline subpoenaed for Roeder trial, by Judy L. Thomas: Former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline said Tuesday that he has been subpoenaed to testify at the trial of the man charged with killing Wichita abortion provider George...

Martha Fineman on "The Sexual Family"

Posted on January 06, 2010
Martha Albertson Fineman (Emory Law) has posted The Sexual Family on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This chapter is in Feminist and Queer Legal Theory: Intimate Encounters, Uncomfortable Conversations, M.A. Fineman, J. E. Jackson, and A. P. Romero, Eds. (Ashgate...

South Korean Doctors Embark on Campaign to Stop Abortion

Posted on January 05, 2010
NY Times: South Korea Confronts Open Secret of Abortion, by Choe Sang Hun: . . . In a country where abortion is both widespread and, with few exceptions, against the law, Dr. Choi and Dr. Shim are hoping to force...

Lifetime to Air Movie Based on Spate of Teen Pregnancies at High School in Gloucester, Mass.

Posted on January 05, 2010
myLifetime.com: "The Pregnancy Pact" premieres Saturday, January 23 at 9 pm et/pt. Sidney Bloom (Thora Birch), an online-magazine journalist, returns to her hometown to investigate the sudden spike in teenage pregnancies at her old high school. Almost immediately, she comes...

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Canadian Study Finds Pregnant Women Having More Ultrasounds Than Recommended

Posted on January 05, 2010
The Canadian Press: Study says pregnant women having more ultrasounds than recommended: TORONTO ? A new Canadian study finds that some women are having more ultrasounds than recommended. The study published Monday online in the Canadian Medical Association Journal says...

FDA Plans to Study Safety of Prescription Drug Use During Pregnancy

Posted on January 05, 2010
Medical News Today: FDA To Study Safety Of Drugs Taken By Women While Pregnant: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is funding a new programme to study the effects of prescription drugs taken by women while they are pregnant....

Nadya Suleman's Doctor Accused of "Gross Negligence" in Disciplinary Complaint

Posted on January 04, 2010
AFP: 'Octomom' doctor accused of 'gross negligence': LOS ANGELES ? The fertility doctor who treated the woman who gave birth to octuplets last year has been accused of "gross negligence," a disciplinary complaint filed by the California Medical Board showed...

Abortions Performed in Illinois Reached 10-Year High in 2008

Posted on January 03, 2010
MyFOXchicago.com: Abortions At 10-Year High in Illinois: The number of abortions performed in Illinois reached a 10-year high in 2008, newly compiled state records show. The uptick could be due to the state's flagging economy and to the first full...

Right-Wing Spanish Newspapers Publish Death Notices for "Victims of Abortion" Following Liberalization of Spain's Abortion Laws

Posted on January 03, 2010
Examiner.com: Death Notice for Aborted Children, by Joseph Speranzella: A death notice has been published in several Spanish daily newspapers for all the "innocent victims" of abortion, where lawmakers earlier this month approved a bill to liberalise the procedure...

Experts Discuss Legal and Ethical Issues Surrounding Surrogacy

Posted on January 03, 2010
NY Times: The Baby Market, by the Editors: The Times recently published an article on the ethical and legal issues surrounding the use of surrogates in reproduction, which become even more complicated when the parents are essentially contractors who find...

Babies Born at the Stroke of Midnight

Posted on January 03, 2010
Slate Magazine: Can you have the first newborn of the year on purpose?, by Michelle Tsai:Midnight's Babies The first babies to be born in 2008 will have a chance to win savings bonds and other goodies from local businesses, not...

Updates on the Fates of Two Women with Unplanned Pregnacies

Posted on January 03, 2010
Motherlode (NY Times): The Fate of Two Unplanned Pregnancies, by Lisa Belkin: By far the most trafficked Motherlode post this year was when Emmie, a single young woman about to start a prestigious and demanding graduate school program, found herself....

NPR Reflects on a Decade of Stem Cell Research

Posted on December 29, 2009
NPR: Reflecting on a Decade of Stem Cell Research, by Joe Palca: Some say they hold the potential for medical miracles. Others claim they are a moral abomination. Either way, human embryonic stem cells captured headlines during the past decade...

Key Pro-Choice House Dem Suggests She May Support Senate Abortion Language

Posted on December 29, 2009
Huffington Post: Rosa DeLauro, Key Pro-Choice Dem, Makes Case For Senate Abortion Language, by Sam Stein: A key pro-choice House Democrat, working on health care in Congress, hinted on Monday that said she might be willing to support the Senate's...

Women's Health Public Service Announcements Target Men

Posted on December 29, 2009
Salon.com: Breast cancer goes blue, by Tracy Clark-Flory: PSAs about women's health use sex to target men Air a public service announcement in which a woman speaks soberly about the grave risk of breast cancer and male viewers are all:...

Defense of Oklahoma Anti-Abortion Laws Adds to State Spending

Posted on December 28, 2009
Tulsa World: State's bills stack up in fight over anti-abortion laws, by Barbara Hoberock: OKLAHOMA CITY ? The costs of defending two controversial abortion measures continue to rise. In August, an Oklahoma County district judge tossed out Senate Bill 1878,...

Fliers Circulated by Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Center Become Issue in Virginia State Senate Race

Posted on December 28, 2009
Wash. Post: Antiabortion pregnancy center figures in state Senate race, by Derek Kravitz: One brochure boldly states that condoms fail one-third of the time -- by flaws, breaking or deterioration. A nearby diagram of a broken condom shows a small...

Researchers Seek to Increase Safety of Car Travel for Pregnant Women

Posted on December 27, 2009
Business Week: Scientists study car safety for pregnant women, by Zinie Chen Sampson: Researchers and automobile designers are looking for ways to reduce fetal deaths by making automobile travel safer for expectant mothers. Researchers at the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University...

In Mexico, State Anti-Abortion Measures Proliferate in Wake of Mexico City Law Legalizing Abortion

Posted on December 27, 2009
LA Times: Mexico antiabortion forces swaying state legislatures, by Ken Ellingwood: A year after the Supreme Court upheld a Mexico City law allowing abortion in the first trimester, 17 states have amended their constitutions to protect the unborn. Reporting from...

Proponents Hope Health Care Legislation Will Save Abstinence-Only Sex Education

Posted on December 26, 2009
Wash. Post: Abstinence proponents look for aid from new health bill, by Rob Stein: Proponents of sex education classes that focus on encouraging teenagers to remain virgins until marriage are hoping that the rescue plan for the nation's health-care system...

In Split With Bishops, Catholic Health Association Supports Senate Health Care Compromise on Abortion

Posted on December 26, 2009
NY Times: Catholic Group Supports Senate on Abortion Aid, by David D. Kirkpatrick: WASHINGTON ? In an apparent split with Roman Catholic bishops over the abortion-financing provisions of the proposed health care overhaul, the nation?s Catholic hospitals have signaled that...

Pro-Choice Legislators and Advocates Offer Contrasting Reactions to Senate's Abortion Compromise in Health Care Bill

Posted on December 24, 2009
Newsweek: The New Abortion Divide, by Sarah Kliff: At first, it seemed like abortion-rights activists could count on their allies in Congress. When the House of Representatives voted to approve the Stupak amendment in early November, prohibiting plans on the...

NY Times Profiles "Country's Most Influential Conservative Christian Thinker," Robert George

Posted on December 24, 2009
NY Times Magazine: The Conservative-Christian Big Thinker, by David D. Kirkpatrick: On a September afternoon, about 60 prominent Christians assembled in the library of the Metropolitan Club on the east side of Central Park. It was a gathering of unusual...

Judge Rejects Necessity Defense in Trial for Murder of Dr. Tiller

Posted on December 24, 2009
Chicago Tribune: NATION: Judge in abortion case rejects defense strategy: A judge ruled Tuesday that Kansas law does not allow a so-called necessity defense in the trial of a man charged with killing one of the nation's few late-term abortion...

Sen. Nelson Defends Abortion Coverage Compromise

Posted on December 24, 2009
Post-Partisan (Wash. Post): Sen. Ben Nelson offers a defense, by Michael Gerson: I was up early this morning with a call from Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, who was much kinder to me than I was to him in my...

Military to Reverse Policy Calling for Punishment of Pregnant Soldiers in Iraq

Posted on December 24, 2009
Retuers: Military to scrap pregnancy punishment: BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military in Iraq will scrap a policy early next year that has led to the punishment of some soldiers serving in Iraq for becoming pregnant, the commander of U.S....

William Saletan on the Fight Over Abortion Insurance Coverage

Posted on December 24, 2009
Slate Magazine: All Abort, by William Saletan:The fight over abortion insurance is smaller than it looks. After trillions of dollars, decades of debate, and months of legislative haggling, the fate of health care in the United States is coming down...

Court Extends Temporary Injunction of Oklahoma Law That Allows Posting of Abortion Patient Information Online

Posted on December 20, 2009
CNN: Online posting of women's abortion information challenged in Oklahoma, by Wayne Drash: A judge in Oklahoma extended on Friday a temporary restraining order on a law that would post information online about women who get abortions in the state....

Pregnant U.S. Soldiers in Iraq Could Face Court-Martial and Jail Time

Posted on December 20, 2009
Stars and Stripes: U.S. personnel in Iraq could face court-martial for getting pregnant, by Teri Weaver: The Army general commanding U.S. forces in northern Iraq has added pregnancy to the list of prohibitions for personnel under his command. The policy,...

Scott Roeder's Defense Strategy in Trial for Murder of Dr. Tiller

Posted on December 20, 2009
The Associated Press reports on the possibility that Scott Roeder will raise the necessity defense in his trial for the murder of Kansas abortion provider, Dr. George Tiller: Judge mulls pivotal issues in Kan. abortion trial.

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