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Health Care Compromise on Abortion Angers Both Sides

Posted on December 20, 2009
NY Times: Abortion Compromise Draws Fire From Both Sides, by Katharine Q. Seelye: The abortion compromise in the Senate has angered advocates on both sides of the issue. Senator Ben Nelson, the Nebraska Democrat, had been holding up the Senate...

Senator Nelson: Anti-Choice But Not Pro-Life

Posted on December 19, 2009
Salon.com: Being anti-life in defense of pro-life, by Thomas Schaller: Nelson affirms the old saw about caring about the beginning and end of life-- but little in between I'm sure you're familiar with the critique of the so-called "pro-life" movement...

Health Care Talks Are Down to the Wire

Posted on December 19, 2009
Wall St. Journal: 3rd UPDATE: Senate Health-Care Talks Come Down To Wire, by Patrick Yoest: WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) worked Friday to secure the needed votes to pass sweeping health-care overhaul legislation, as Republicans threatened...

How About a Female "Person of the Year"?

Posted on December 19, 2009
Salon.com: The (female) person of the year, by Kate Harding: Since Time hasn't given a solo woman that honor since 1986, we asked some feminist writers for their picks In 1999, Time magazine changed its "Man of the Year" title...

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Prolific Sperm Donor Now Voices Concerns About Fertility Clinic Policies

Posted on December 19, 2009
Newsweek Magazine: Mapping the God of Sperm, by Rachel Lehmann-Haupt: One of the Midwest's most prolific sperm donors may hold the key to understanding how genes affect our health. It's a crisp fall day in Northville, Mich., a small suburb...

Obama Signs Omnibus Spending Bill Including Defunding of Abstinence-Only Sex Ed Programs and Lifting Ban on DC Abortion Funding

Posted on December 17, 2009
ACLU Press Release: President Signs Omnibus Bill Including Major Civil Liberties Policy Advances For Washington, D.C.: Bill Lifts 20-Year Ban On DC Abortion Funding, Ends Discriminatory School Voucher Program And Defunds Abstinence-Only Sex Education Programs WASHINGTON ? President Obama today...

Lower Chamber of Spanish Parliament Votes to Liberalize Abortion Laws

Posted on December 17, 2009
Herald Sun/AFP: Spanish lawmakers vote to legalise abortion: SPANISH lawmakers have approved a bill to legalise abortion, overriding a wall of protest from the Roman Catholic Church and the conservative opposition. Tabled by the Socialist government, the abortion reform on...

Congress Approves Omnibus Spending Bill, Affecting Funding for Abortion and International Family Planning

Posted on December 16, 2009
Women's Heath Policy Report (National Partnership for Women & Families): Senate Approves FY 2010 Omnibus Spending Bill: The Senate on Sunday approved a $446.8 billion omnibus spending bill (HR 3288) that combines six of the seven remaining fiscal year 2010...

Abortion Remains Sticking Point in Health Care Debate

Posted on December 16, 2009
OnPolitics (USA Today): Abortion remains issue in health care debate: As Democrats met at the White House to discuss how to get a health care bill passed, a group of anti-abortion advocates from Pennsylvania staged a "pray-in" today in their...

Low-Income Women Denied Cancer Screenings

Posted on December 16, 2009
Time Magazine: Poor Women Denied Free Cancer Screenings: (ALBANY, N.Y.) ? As the economy falters and more people go without health insurance, low-income women in at least 20 states are being turned away or put on long waiting lists for...

Washington D.C. City Council Passes Marriage Equality Ordinance

Posted on December 16, 2009
NY Times: D.C. Approves Gay Marriage, by Ian Urbina: The City Council passed a measure Tuesday legalizing same-sex marriage, making the nation?s capital the first jurisdiction below the Mason-Dixon Line to allow such unions. The bill, which passed by an...

Drug Combination May Benefit Women With Advanced Breast Cancer

Posted on December 15, 2009
Wall St. Journal: Drug Combination Shown to Aid Breast-Cancer Survival: SAN ANTONIO -- Some women with very advanced breast cancer may have a new treatment option. A combination of two drugs that more precisely target tumors significantly extended the lives...

Menopausal Drugs and Big Pharma

Posted on December 15, 2009
NY Times: Menopause, as Brought to You by Big Pharma, by Natasha Singer and Duff Wilson: MILLIONS of American women in the 1990s were told they could help their bodies ward off major illness by taking menopausal hormone drugs. Some...

Irish Supreme Court Rules Sperm Donor Has Right to Visit His Son

Posted on December 15, 2009
Boston Globe: Irish court says sperm donor can see son: DUBLIN - The Irish Supreme Court ruled that a gay man who donated his sperm to a lesbian couple should be permitted to see his 3-year-old son regularly - in...

Uganda Bans Female Genital Mutilation

Posted on December 15, 2009
Time Magazine: Uganda Outlaws Female Circumcision: (KAMPALA, Uganda) ? Uganda's parliament has approved a bill banning female genital mutilation. Minister of Ethics and Integrity James Nsaba Buturo said that the new law, passed without opposition late Thursday, could give offenders...

Latinas and Abortion Coverage in Health Care Reform

Posted on December 15, 2009
CNN Opinion: Latinas Need Voice in Abortion Debate, by Sylvia Henriquez (National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health): When Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered her oath last summer, many women -- and especially Latinas -- felt renewed hope as a champion of...

HPV Vaccine No Longer Mandatory for Immigrant Women

Posted on December 15, 2009
RH Reality Check: Eliminating HPV Vaccine Mandate For Immigrant Women: A Victory on the Road to Reproductive Justice, by Miriam Yueng (National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum) & Amanda Allen (Reproductive Justice Fellow/Georgetown Women?s Law and Public Policy Fellow): This...

Military Abortion Ban Imposes Unconscionable Burdens on American Servicewomen

Posted on December 15, 2009
Religion Dispatches: Military Abortion Ban: Female Soldiers Not Protected by Constitution They Defend, by Kathryn Joyce: Unable to get an abortion during a tour of duty in Iraq a soldier is left with no option but to do it herself?a...

Mothers in the Military

Posted on December 15, 2009
Newsweek Magazine: This Mom's Army, by Kathleen Deveny: A mother prepares for war. Mandi Bohrer has wanted to be in the military ever since high school. After graduating from West Point in 1998, she was stationed in South Korea, where...

Survey Shows that Recession Has Strained Family Planning Centers as Demand Rises

Posted on December 14, 2009
Guttmacher Institute news release: Recession Puts Strain on Family Planning Centers as Demand Rises and Resources Shrink:Women of Reproductive Age Disproportionately Uninsured Publicly funded family planning providers are struggling to meet a growing need for subsidized contraceptive care, which is...

Male Prostitution Legalized in Nevada

Posted on December 14, 2009
Salon.com: Nevada legalizes male prostitution, by Kate Harding: But a lobbyist fears equal opportunity will destroy the brothel industry On Friday, one of Nevada's most important industries took a big step toward gender equality. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean men in...

Lieberman Will Vote Against Health Care Bill

Posted on December 13, 2009
NY Times: Lieberman Rules Out Voting for Health Bill, by Robert Pear & David M. Herszenhorn: WASHINGTON ? In a surprise setback for Democratic leaders, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut, said on Sunday that he would vote against...

Shanghai's New Effort to Encourage More Children Meets with Hesitation

Posted on December 13, 2009
Wash. Post: In aging China, a change of course, by Ariana Eunjung Cha: Looming population crisis forces officials to rethink one-child policy, but couples hesitate SHANGHAI -- Wang Weijia and her husband grew up surrounded by propaganda posters lecturing them...

Michelle Duggar Has Baby Number 19

Posted on December 13, 2009
MSNBC.com: Duggar baby No. 19 arrives early, by Mike Celizic:Michelle Duggar had emergency C-section; delivers 1 lb, 6 oz Josie Brooklyn Make that ?19 Kids and Counting? ? but not before something of a scare due to an emergency C-section...

Lax Regulation of Surrogacy Can Lead to Ethical Dilemmas

Posted on December 13, 2009
NY Times: Building a Baby, With Few Ground Rules, by Stephanie Saul: Unable to have a baby of her own, Amy Kehoe became her own general contractor to manufacture one. For Ms. Kehoe and her husband, Scott, the idea seemed...

Italy Approves Use of Early Abortion Pill in Hospitals

Posted on December 10, 2009
BBC News: Abortion pill gets final approval in Italy: The sale of the abortion pill RU486 has been given final approval in Italy, despite protests from the Vatican and the government in the Catholic country. Unlike in other European countries,...

Three Women Challenge Ireland's Abortion Ban in European Human Rights Court

Posted on December 10, 2009
Politics Daily: Does Ireland's Abortion Law Violate Human Rights?, by Delia Lloyd: . . . Yesterday, in a potentially landmark case, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, France, heard the case of three women seeking to overturn...

Bill to Liberalize Spain's Abortion Laws is Amended

Posted on December 10, 2009
The Associated Press is reporting that a bill pending in the Spanish parliament that would liberalize Spain's abortion laws has been amended to require parental consent for teens. The story is available here.

Robin West on De-Constitutionalizing the Right to Abortion

Posted on December 10, 2009
Robin L. West (Georgetown University Law Center) has posted From Choice to Reproductive Justice: De-Constitutionalizing Abortion Rights on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Essay argues that the right to abortion constitutionalized in Roe v. Wade is by some measure...

Thanks To My Research Assistants!

Posted on December 10, 2009
Thanks to my fabulous research assistants, CUNY Law students AMY HAGER (2L) and CHRISTINA TENUTA (3L), for their work this semester researching issues for this blog.

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