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Sotomayor Remains Elusive on Abortion

Posted on July 16, 2009
Wash. Post: Sotomayor Avoids Pointed Queries, by Amy Goldstein, Paul Kane, & Robert Barnes: Before nominating Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, President Obama did not ask her about abortion rights or any other "specific legal issue," she testified yesterday...

Sotomayor: Second Day Summary

Posted on July 15, 2009
Daily Women's Health Policy Report: Sotomayor Calls Roe 'Settled Law', Says Health of Woman Must Be Considered: During the second day of her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor said she views the 1973 Roe v...

Sotomayor Questioned on Abortion Law During Confirmation Hearings

Posted on July 15, 2009
NY Times: Republican Senators Press Sotomayor on Abortion Views, by David Stout: Judge Sonia Sotomayor refused on Wednesday to be pinned down about her views on abortion rights, a subject she said President Obama never brought up before he nominated....

Confirmation Hearings Abundant with Abortion Protestors, Including Jane Roe

Posted on July 15, 2009
Wash. Post: The Scene: Culture Wars Intrude on a Day of Cordiality, by Ann Gerhart: It was but a blip of perhaps 20 seconds, a hiccup in an orderly, polite proceeding, some shouted words about abortion being wrong. Heads swiveled...

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Live Blogging Day 3 of Sotomayor Hearings

Posted on July 15, 2009
The Caucus (NYT): Live Blogging Sotomayor Hearings, Day 3, by Kate Phillips.

U.S. Organizations Speak Out on Women and HIV to Inform Health Policy and National AIDS Strategy

Posted on July 13, 2009
Center for Health and Gender Equity press release: U.S. Organizations Speak Out on Women and HIV to Inform Health Policy and National AIDS Strategy: (Washington, D.C.)-Fourteen U.S. organizations working on issues related to human rights, women, and HIV/AIDS submitted a...

Spain's Proposed Abortion Reform Draws Opposition from Catholic Church

Posted on July 13, 2009
RH Reality Check: The Church Battles Reforms in Spain's Abortion Law, by Angela Castellanos: A draft of Spain's reformed abortion bill has ignited the Catholic Church, which called its congregation as well as the Catholic politicians to vote against the...

First Day of Judge Sotomayor's Confirmation Hearing

Posted on July 13, 2009
PBS.org: Sotomayor Pledges 'Fidelity to the Law' at Hearing: Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor appeared before a Senate panel Monday, starting confirmation hearings that could culminate with lawmakers endorsing her as the first Hispanic female justice on the top U...

President Obama Chooses a New Surgeon General

Posted on July 13, 2009
Wash. Post: Obama Selects Alabama Doctor as Surgeon General, by Michael Shear: President Obama has chosen Regina Benjamin, a family physician from Alabama, to be the next Surgeon General, filling a key public health post ahead of an expected surge...

Questions For Judge Sotomayor

Posted on July 13, 2009
NY Times Op-Ed: Questions for Judge Sotomayor: Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama?s nominee for the Supreme Court, is scheduled to appear today at a confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Op-Ed editors asked seven legal experts to pose...

Congress Debates Increased Screening for Postpartum Depression

Posted on July 12, 2009
Time Magazine: Should All Mothers Be Screened for Postpartum Depression?, by Catherine Elton: A month after Melanie Blocker-Stokes gave birth, she stopped eating and sleeping. She had convinced herself that she was a terrible mother, and she was paranoid that...

Parents Struggle with Telling Children about Their Surrogate Births

Posted on July 12, 2009
NY Times: No Stork Involved, but Mom and Dad Had Help, by Sara Rimer: ...While there is no widely agreed upon number for surrogate births, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine estimates 400 to 600 births a year from 2003...

NY Times Commentary on Obama, the Pope, and Abortion

Posted on July 11, 2009
Room for Debate (NY Times): Does Obama Have a Friend in the Vatican?: President Obama received a warm welcome at the Vatican on Friday in his first meeting with Pope Benedict XVI. Indeed, the Vatican has generally seemed more eager...

The Place of Women on the Supreme Court

Posted on July 11, 2009
NY Times: The Place of Women on the Court, by Emily Bazelon: In late February, three weeks after she had an operation for a recurrence of cancer, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to Barack Obama?s first address to Congress. Given...

Scientists Report Creating Human Sperm from Stem Cells

Posted on July 10, 2009
Time Magazine: Scientists Create Human Sperm from Stem Cells, by Alice Park: Researchers at Newcastle University in England report they have coaxed the first human sperm cells from embryonic stem cells, in a remarkable demonstration of how quickly the field...

Catholics for Choice on the Pope and the President

Posted on July 10, 2009
Catholics for Choice Press Release: The Pope and the President: Many Similar Outlooks but Very Different Roles: Washington DC - Jon O'Brien, president of Catholics for Choice, issued the following statement about the meeting today between President Barack Obama and...

Obama Meets with Pope

Posted on July 10, 2009
Reuters: Obama at Vatican for first meeting with pope, by Jeff Mason: VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama arrived at the Vatican on Friday for his first meeting with Pope Benedict and what the White House says will...

Study Suggests Way to Reduce Limited Risk of Infection from Abortion Pill Use

Posted on July 09, 2009
NY Times: Abortion Pill Study Suggests Way to Limit Infection, by Denise Grady: A large study of the pills used to induce abortion has found that infections are rare but can be made even less common if the pills are...

Abortion Coverage and Health Care Reform

Posted on July 09, 2009
Time Magazine: Could Abortion Coverage Sink Health-Care Reform?, by Karen Tumulty: Should government-subsidized health coverage pay for abortion procedures? For more than three decades, that question has seemed pretty much settled. The Hyde Amendment, passed by the House on September,...

Uganda Moves to Ban Female Genital Mutilation

Posted on July 08, 2009
Salon.com (Broadsheet): Uganda to outlaw female genital mutilation, by Lynn Harris: Let's make sure this one doesn't get lost in this week's Palin/Jackson shuffle: Uganda has moved to outlaw female genital mutilation. "God knew what he was doing when he...

A Lack of Medicaid Funded Abortions Forces Many to Carry Pregnancies to Term

Posted on July 08, 2009
Guttmacher Institute news release: Restricting Medicaid Funding For Abortion Forces One in Four Poor Women to Carry Unwanted Pregnancies to Term: Approximately one-fourth of women who would obtain a Medicaid-funded abortion if given the option are instead forced to carry...

House Committee To Vote On Lifting DC Abortion Funding Ban

Posted on July 07, 2009
ACLU press release: House Committee To Vote On Lifting DC Abortion Funding Ban: WASHINGTON ? The House Appropriations Committee is expected to vote this evening on a financial services appropriations bill that includes a provision lifting a 20-year-old ban on...

The Silence on Stillbirths

Posted on July 07, 2009
Wash. Post: Even Doctors Avoid Talking About Stillbirth, by Alan Goldenbach: About a month after our son died, my wife and I made our first visit back to her obstetrician's office hoping to get answers to some of the questions...

Risks of Pregnancy and Diabetes

Posted on July 07, 2009
USA Today: Expectant mothers with diabetes face risky challenge, by Mary Brophy Marcus: Before she became pregnant, Molly Duerr never understood why expectant moms would say they didn't care if it were a boy or a girl, only that the...

Despite Court Order, Arizona Sheriff Continues to Block Prisoners' Access to Abortion

Posted on July 06, 2009
ACLU Press Release (7/2): "America's Toughest Sheriff" Agrees To Stop Requiring Court Orders For Abortions But Creates New Obstacle: PHOENIX - The American Civil Liberties Union late yesterday asked an Arizona court to prevent Maricopa County Sheriff Joseph Arpaio from...

Abrams & Brooks on Same-Sex Marriage and the "Accidental Procreation" Argument

Posted on July 06, 2009
Kerry Abrams (University of Virginia) & Peter Brooks have posted Marriage as a Message: Same-Sex Couples and the Rhetoric of Accidental Procreation on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In his dissent in the 2003 case Goodridge v. Department of Health,...

Teens' Planned Parenthood Records Remain Private in Ohio

Posted on July 06, 2009
ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project (7/1): Ohio Supreme Court Protects The Privacy of Medical Records in Abortion Case: The Ohio Supreme Court today moved to protect the privacy of minors? medical records when the minor is not a party in a...

India: New Delhi High Court Decriminalizes Gay Sex

Posted on July 06, 2009
NY Times (7/2): Indian Court Overturns Gay Sex Ban, by Heather Timmons & Hari Kumar: In a landmark ruling Thursday that could usher in an era of greater freedom for gay men and lesbians in India, New Delhi?s highest court...

Daily Kos: Obama and the Elusive Common Ground on Abortion

Posted on July 04, 2009
Daily Kos: The Fog is Lifting over Common Ground on Abortion, by Frederick Clarkson: President Obama has made much about finding common ground on abortion, and Democratic oriented think tanks like Third Way and Faith in Public Life have ballyhooed...

Obama Reassures Catholic Health Care Workers in Advance of Meeting with Pope

Posted on July 04, 2009
Wash. Post: Obama Reaches Out Before Vatican Trip, by Jacqueline L. Salmon: President Barack Obama said today that he still favors a "robust" federal policy protecting health-care workers who have moral objections to performing some procedures even though he plans...

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