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State Legislatures Consider Ultrasound Legislation

Posted on February 09, 2009
The Associated Press published an article yesterday listing twelve states currently considering bills to offer or mandate ultrasounds before abortion. The article is available here.

Congress Extends Health Insurance for Low Income Children

Posted on February 09, 2009
The New York Times: Obama Signs Children's Health Insurance Bill, by Robert Pear: The House gave final approval on Wednesday to a bill extending health insurance to millions of low-income children, and President Obama signed it this afternoon, in the...

Anne Donchin on Assisted Reproduction Policy

Posted on February 09, 2009
Anne Donchin (Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis) has posted Toward a Gender Sensitive Assisted Reproduction Policy on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The recent case of the UK woman who lost her legal struggle to be impregnated with her own frozen...

Obama to Expand Faith-Based Initiative

Posted on February 05, 2009
NY Times: White House Faith Office to Expand, by Jeff Zeleny & Laurie Goodstein: President Obama signed an executive order Thursday to create a revamped White House office for religion-based and neighborhood programs, expanding an initiative started by the Bush...

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Justice Ginsburg Undergoes Surgery for Pancreatic Cancer

Posted on February 05, 2009
NY Times: Justice Ginsburg Undergoes Surgery for Pancreatic Cancer, Court Says,by Adam Liptak: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent surgery at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York on Thursday for what was apparently early-stage pancreatic cancer, according to a...

Obama's Potential Impact on the Supreme Court

Posted on February 04, 2009
The New York Times: To Nudge, Shift or Shove the Supreme Court Left, by Adam Liptak: ...The vacancies that are likely to open up in the early years of the Obama presidency will, if the conventional wisdom holds, arise from...

Study Explores Reproductive Health Care Preferences and Perceptions Among Different Racial & Ethnic Groups

Posted on February 03, 2009
Guttmacher Institute: Reproductive Health Service Preferences and Perceptions of Quality Among Low-Income Women: Racial, Ethnic and Language Group Differences, by Davida Becker & Amy O. Tsui: Although racial and ethnic disparities in reproductive health outcomes are well documented, there is...

Commonly Used Chemicals Found to Lower Fertility

Posted on February 02, 2009
Wash. Post/HealthDay News: Common Chemicals May Delay Pregnancy, by Steven Reinberg: Chemicals known as perfluorinated chemicals, which are pervasive in food packaging, pesticides, clothing, upholstery, carpets and personal care products, may delay pregnancy, a new study suggests...

Octuplets' Birth Raises Questions About Fertility Treatment Policies

Posted on February 02, 2009
TIME: Octuplets Fallout: Should Fertility Specialists Set Limits?, by Bonnie Rochman: Just about the time that eight babies began growing inside a California woman's womb, some nationwide policies about fertility treatment were being codified. In June, the American Society for...

Conference on ART and the Politics of Reproduction

Posted on February 01, 2009
Via the Barnard Center for Research on Women: The Scholar & Feminist Conference XXXIV THE POLITICS OF REPRODUCTION: New Technologies of Life Saturday, February 28, 2009 Barnard College 3009 Broadway (at 117th St) New York, NY 10027 Increased demand for...

Women's Law Project Launches Blog

Posted on February 01, 2009
The Women's Law Project has started a blog. Here is a recent post: Family Planning and the Stimulus Package Earlier this week, the House of Representatives passed an economic stimulus package. A previous version of the bill had included provisions...

Planned Parenthood Decries Removal of Family Planning Provision from House Stimulus Package

Posted on February 01, 2009
Politico: Planned Parenthood v. Obama, by Josh Gerstein: President Obama?s only been in office for eight days and some of his friends are already steaming mad at him. The president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Cecile Richards, just sent an...

Senate Stimulus Bill Includes $400 Million in STI Prevention

Posted on February 01, 2009
The Washington Times: Stimulus bills include STD prevention, by Stephen Dinan: The two sides of Capitol Hill appear to be engaging in a bidding war to see who can put more money toward the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases in...

"Catholic" Hospitals Serve the Public and Rely Heavily on Public Funds

Posted on January 28, 2009
Given the uproar the Catholic Church has initiated over FOCA, and its ominous warnings of hospital closures, a little reminder is in order. Hospitals affiliated with the Catholic Church serve the public, and they rely heavily on public dollars to...

Catholic Churches Again Raising Specter of Hospitals Closing Due to FOCA

Posted on January 28, 2009
CBS News: Abortion Foes Warn Of Hospital Closures, by Brian Montopoli: On the past two Sundays, parishioners at the Holy Family Church in Nutley, New Jersey, have received a stark warning: If the Obama administration and Democratic Congress have their...

Continuing Education Program on Drugs, Pregnancy, and Parenting

Posted on January 28, 2009
National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) presents: Drugs, Pregnancy and Parenting: What the Experts in Medicine, Social Work and Law Have to Say Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 Time: 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Place: New York University School of....

The Reality Behind the "Crack Baby" Hysteria

Posted on January 28, 2009
NY Times: The Epidemic That Wasn?t, by Susan Okie: ...When the use of crack cocaine became a nationwide epidemic in the 1980s and ?90s, there were widespread fears that prenatal exposure to the drug would produce a generation of severely...

Obama Asks Dems To Drop Family Planning From Stimulus Package

Posted on January 28, 2009
The Atlantic: On Obama's Urging, House Dems To Drop Family Planning From Stimpak, by Marc Ambinder: According to the AP, President Obama called Henry Waxman and personally asked that the provision making it easier for states to pay for family...

Glenn Cohen on the Use of ART To Create Disabled Children

Posted on January 28, 2009
I. Glenn Cohen has posted Intentional Diminishment, the Non-Identity Problem, and Legal Liability on SSRN. The article has been published as part of a symposium by the Hastings Law Journal. Here is the abstract: This Article, lying at the intersection...

Teens and Risky Sexual Behavior: Myth vs. Reality

Posted on January 27, 2009
New York Times: The Myth of Rampant Teenage Promiscuity, by Tara Parker-Pope: Parents have worried for generations about changing moral values and risky behavior among young people, and the latest news seems particularly worrisome.... The news is troubling, but it?s...

Symposium Celebrating History of Women Lawyers

Posted on January 27, 2009
Rutgers School of Law - Newark presents: ?Rutgers School of Law-Newark Celebrates Women Reshaping American Law? - Feb. 13, 2009 United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be the keynote speaker for the symposium "Rutgers School of Law-Newark...

Symposium Honoring Martha Nussbaum

Posted on January 27, 2009
The Gender and Sexuality Law Program at Columbia Law School presents: A Symposium Honoring the Contributions of Professor Martha Nussbaum to the Scholarship and Practice of Gender and Sexuality Law Feminism as Liberalism Carlos Ball Professor of Law, Rutgers Law...

In Economic Slump, More Women Donate Their Eggs

Posted on January 26, 2009
CBS News: Down Economy + Egg Donations = Fast Cash, by Cindy Hsu: In these tough economic times, people are getting more creative to make ends meet. According to fertility clinics, more and more women are turning to egg donation...

Obama Stimulus Package Includes Funds for Expanded Medicaid Family Planning Services

Posted on January 26, 2009
San Francisco Chronicle: Economic stimulus or just more pork?, by Zachary Coile: As Congress rushes toward what leaders of both parties predict will be a speedy passage of an $825 billion economic stimulus package, critics from GOP lawmakers to government...

Legal Scholarship on the Global Gag Rule

Posted on January 25, 2009
Check out my colleague Ruthann Robson's post this morning, on the Constitutional Law Prof Blog, surveying scholarship focusing on the global gag rule: President Obama's decision in his first days to reverse the so-called "global gag rule" or "Mexico City...

Student Scholarship: Modern Genetic Testing

Posted on January 25, 2009
Dov Fox (Yale Law School) has posted Reproduction Law in International Perspectives on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The word "eugenics" derives from the Greek words eu (good) and gen (relating to birth), or eugenes, which means "good in birth."...

Female Researchers Seek to Decode Female Desire

Posted on January 25, 2009
In this week's New York Times Magazine, Daniel Berger writes about research into women's desire and arousal, in What Do Women Want?. Here is an interesting passage regarding the current focus on biological difference and sexual desire: To account partly...

Constance Cook, NY Abortion Rights Pioneer, Dies

Posted on January 25, 2009
NY Times: Constance E. Cook, 89, Who Wrote Abortion Law, Is Dead, by Dennis Hevesi: Constance E. Cook, a former New York State assemblywoman who was co-author of the law that legalized abortion in the state three years before the...

Public to Pregnant Women: Don't Have An Abortion, But Don't Have A Child Either If It Means Inconveniencing Others

Posted on January 24, 2009
Apropos my blogging-for-choice comment that we need to change the judgmental, punitive way we talk about women and pregnancy.... NY Times: Candace Parker Is Balancing Career and Family, by Karen Crouse: The Los Angeles Sparks? Candace Parker is carrying a...

President Obama Repeals Global Gag Rule

Posted on January 24, 2009
New York Times: Obama Reverses Rules on U.S. Abortion Aid, by Peter Baker: WASHINGTON ? President Obama repealed rules on Friday that restricted federal money for international organizations that promote or provide abortions overseas, sweeping aside a pillar of the...

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