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General Social Survey: American Women Are Getting Sadder

Posted on September 20, 2009
NY Times Op-Ed Column: Blue Is the New Black, by Maureen Dowd: ...According to the General Social Survey, which has tracked Americans? mood since 1972, and five other major studies around the world, women are getting gloomier and men are...

Operation Rescue Warns of Its Financial Woes

Posted on September 18, 2009
Kansas City Star : Anti-abortion group singing the blues, by Lewis Diuguid (op-ed columnist): It's hard to feel sorry for Operation Rescue. The forthright and forceful Wichita-based anti-abortion group is tapped out. The cash it had to be the loud...

Conservative Religiosity and Teen Birth Rates

Posted on September 18, 2009
NY Times: Religion?s Link to Teen Pregnancy, by Lisa Belkin: A report this week in the journal Reproductive Health describes what researchers call ?a strong association? between the teenage birth rate of a particular state and its ?level of religiosity...

More on "Abortion Neutral" Health Reform

Posted on September 18, 2009
NY Times: In Health Care Battle, a Truce on Abortion, by Peter Steinfels:?And one more misunderstanding I want to clear up: Under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortion, and federal conscience laws will remain in...

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Tying Family Planning to Efforts to Reduce Carbon Emissions

Posted on September 18, 2009
Salon.com: Condoms against climate change, by Andrew Leonard: Thomas Malthus: Prophet of overpopulation doom, or the first family planner? From "Fewer Emitters, Lower Emissions, Less Cost: Reducing Future Carbon Emissions by Investing in Family Planning": The historical relevance of Malthus'...

Bridget Crawford on Taxing Surrogacy

Posted on September 18, 2009
Bridget J. Crawford (Pace University School of Law) has posted Taxation, Pregnancy and Privacy on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article frames a discussion of surrogacy within the context of existing income tax laws. A surrogate receives money for...

Anti-Abortion Protester is Killed in Michigan

Posted on September 16, 2009
NY Times: Abortion Protester Is Killed in Michigan, by Emma Graves Fitzsimmons: A man who had long opposed abortion and was known nationally among anti-abortion protesters was shot to death Friday morning while staging a protest outside a Michigan high...

Courtney Joslin on Same-Sex Parents and Interstate Recognition of Parentage

Posted on September 16, 2009
Courtney G. Joslin (UC Davis School of Law) has posted Interstate Recognition of Parentage in a Time of Disharmony: Same-Sex Parent Families and Beyond on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In a number of recent cases, litigants have argued that...

Motherhood and Kim Clijsters' U.S. Open Victory

Posted on September 16, 2009
Salon.com: Did motherhood help Clijsters win?, by Vincent Rossmeier: Research suggests women might actually become better athletes after giving birth Every year on my birthday, after reminding me of the agonizing hours of labor pains she suffered through just to...

Risa Goluboff on Abortion, Vagrancy, and Fundamental Rights

Posted on September 11, 2009
Risa Goluboff (University of Virginia) has posted Dispatch from the Supreme Court Archives: Vagrancy, Abortion, and What the Links Between Them Reveal About the History of Fundamental Rights on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Essay explores the implications for...

Obama Mentions Abortion During Speech on Health Care Reform

Posted on September 11, 2009
NY Times: Check Point: Examining Obama's Assertions, by David M. Herszenhorn: ...Mr. Obama, in his speech, forcefully rejected contentions that the legislation would limit end-of-life care or even encourage euthanasia. Both of those claims are indeed false...

NOW Weighs in on Health Care Reform and Reproductive Health

Posted on September 11, 2009
National Organization for Women: NOW Urges Single-Payer as Best for Women: Says Reproductive Health Care Must Be Covered President Barack Obama's address to Congress and the people of the United States resonates at a time when people are fed up...

ACLU Asks Court to End Government Funding of Overtly Religious Abstinence-Only Program in Mississippi

Posted on September 11, 2009
ACLU press release (9/9): ACLU Asks Court to End Government Funding Of Religion In Mississippi Abstinence-Only Program: Jackson, MS ? The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Mississippi today asked a federal court in Mississippi to end government...

Conservative Groups Oppose United Nations Sex Ed Guide

Posted on September 09, 2009
NY Times: U.N. Guide for Sex Ed Generates Opposition, by Steven Erlanger: PARIS ? A set of proposed international sex education guidelines aimed at reducing H.I.V. infections among young people has provoked criticism from conservative groups that say the program...

Scholarship by Michelle Oberman

Posted on September 09, 2009
Michelle Oberman (Santa Clara Law) has posted Thirteen Ways of Looking at Buck v. Bell on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article is a review essay of Paul Lombardo's THREE GENERATIONS, NO IMBECILES: EUGENICS, THE SUPREME COURT AND BUCK...

A Look at the Importance of Birth Order

Posted on September 09, 2009
NY Times: Birth Order: Fun to Debate, but How Important?, by Perri Klass: . . . Everyone takes it personally when it comes to birth order. After all, everyone is an oldest or a middle or a youngest or an...

"Revista Argentina de Teor�a Jur�dica" Publishes Special Issue on Reproductive & Sexual Health Law

Posted on September 09, 2009
Via Mart�n Hevia (School of Law, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; Global Fellow, International Reproductive & Sexual Health Law Programme, University of Toronto): Revista Argentina de Teor�a Jur�dica of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella is the law journal of the School...

Bridget Crawford on Third Wave Feminism

Posted on September 08, 2009
Bridget J. Crawford (Pace University School of Law) has posted The Third Wave's Break from Feminism on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Janet Halley proves that third-wave feminism is wrong - wrongly decribed, that is. Young feminists in the United...

Uganda's Plan to Distribute Female Condoms Encounters Resistance from Funders Including PEPFAR

Posted on September 08, 2009
Time Magazine (8/30): The Battle in Uganda Over Female Condoms, by Nick Wadhams: On the surface, it seems like a fine idea; reproductive rights groups certainly think so. In July, the Ugandan government announced that, using cash from the U.N....

Controversial Anti-Abortion Bishop Resigns Post

Posted on September 08, 2009
Time Magazine: Was an Anti-Abortion Bishop Too Vocal for the Vatican?, by Amy Sullivan: For suddenly departing politicans and CEOs, the standard line is to "spend time with my family." Now the Catholic church may have its own version of...

Abortion Remains at Center of the Health-Care Debate

Posted on September 08, 2009
Newsweek (8/29): Return of the Abortion Question, by Eleanor Clift: Opponents of health-care reform are gearing up to bring abortion back into the debate. Much has been made in the coverage of Sen. Ted Kennedy's death about his religious faith...

UN Addresses Economic Consequences of Divorce for Women Worldwide

Posted on September 08, 2009
Women's E-News: U.N. Tackles Universal Problem for Women: Divorce, by Theresa Braine: Guardians of the U.N.'s treaty on women's rights have begun to address one of the most daunting challenges for women the world over: financially surviving divorce. Setting international...

Guttmacher Institute Examines Benefits of Home Visiting Programs

Posted on September 08, 2009
Guttmacher Institute news release: Home Visiting Programs Touted by Obama Administration Improve Health and Well-Being of Both Women and Children:Programs Have Attracted Attention as Part of Health Care Reform and President?s ?Common Ground? Initiative Around Abortion Home visiting programs that...

Sudanese Court Fines Woman for Wearing Pants

Posted on September 07, 2009
NY Times: A Fine but No Lash for Sudan Woman Who Wore Pants, by Jeffrey Gettleman: NAIROBI, Kenya ? A Sudanese court on Monday decided not to lash a woman for wearing trousers in public but convicted her of violating...

Deborah Tuerkheimer on Domestic Violence Homicide

Posted on September 05, 2009
Deborah Tuerkheimer (DePaul University) has posted Control Killings on SSRN. Here is the abstract: A defendant on trial for murdering his intimate has forfeited his constitutional right to confront her as a witness, provided that, by taking her life, he...

Linda McClain and Joanna Grossman on Gender Equality and Citizenship

Posted on September 05, 2009
Linda C. McClain (Boston University) and Joanna L. Grossman (Hofstra University) have posted Gender Equality: Dimensions of Women's Equal Citizenship on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Citizenship is the common language for expressing aspirations to democratic and egalitarian ideals of...

Reports Shows Dallas Leading Nation in Repeat Teen Births

Posted on September 05, 2009
The Dallas Morning News: Dallas leads nation in repeat teen births, study finds, by Robert T. Garrett: AUSTIN ? Dallas leads the nation in the percentage of teen births that aren't the mother's first delivery, a nonpartisan national research group...

Abortion's Stigma Affects Doctors' Willingness to Provide

Posted on September 01, 2009
Wash. Post: Abortion Stigma Affects Doctors' Training And Choices, by Sandra G. Boodman: When Devin Miller, leader of the abortion rights group Medical Students for Choice at Virginia Commonwealth University, heard about the slaying of George Tiller, a Kansas physician...

Three Americans Prosecuted Under New International Child-Sex-Trafficking Initiative

Posted on September 01, 2009
Wash. Post: 3 Americans Face Child-Sex Charges, by Ashley Surdin: Men Held in Cambodia Are the First Prosecuted Under Trafficking Initiative LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31 -- Three Americans accused of traveling to Cambodia to have sex with children are expected...

Dr. Tiller's Death Won't Deter Nebraska's Dr. LeRoy Carhart From Providing Abortions Late in Pregnancy

Posted on September 01, 2009
Newsweek: The Abortion Evangelist, by Sarah Kliff: LeRoy Carhart is determined to train as many late-term-abortion providers as possible?or the practice just might die with him. Leroy Carhart was at his abortion clinic near Omaha when he got the phone...

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