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Conference - Gender and the Law: Unintended Consquences, Unsettled Questions

Posted on December 22, 2008
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Harvard University): Gender and the Law: Unintended Consequences, Unsettled Questions Unsettled questions of gender and the law present a broad range of challenges in courtrooms, legislatures, and everyday lives...

Call for Papers: Women, Incarceration and Human Rights

Posted on December 22, 2008
A Feminism and Legal Theory Project Workshop (Emory University School of Law): Women, Incarceration and Human Rights: February 27-29th, 2009 Atlanta, Georgia From 1995 ? 2006, the number of incarcerated women in the United States increased 64 percent making the...

New Magazine for Women in Litigation

Posted on December 17, 2008
The new Sue Magazine caters to female litigators: Sue, For Women in Litigation has been created to promote a new generation of professionals who are making a significant impact on the world through their work and their lives-while being true...

Obama Team Reviewing Bush Admin.'s Last-Minute Health Care Reg

Posted on December 17, 2008
Wall St. Journal: Bush-Era Abortion Rules Face Possible Reversal, by Laura Meckler: The outgoing Bush administration this week will finalize a regulation establishing a right of conscience allowing medical staff to refuse to participate in any practice they object to...

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A Conversation with the Director of Stanford's Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research & Education

Posted on December 16, 2008
NY Times: A Conversation With Renee A. Reijo Pera: Using Embryos to Put Fertility First, by Claudia Dreifus: As director of Stanford?s Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education, Renee A. Reijo Pera, 49, a professor of obstetrics...

Message from EngenderHealth on Global Gag Rule

Posted on December 16, 2008
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FDA Panel Recommends Approval of New Version of Female Condom

Posted on December 15, 2008
Daily Women's Health Policy Report: FDA Panel Recommends Approval of New, Less Costly Female Condom: An FDA advisory panel on Thursday voted 15-0 to recommend approval of the new, less costly version of the female condom developed by the Female...

Survey Indicates Many Teens Electronically Share Sexually Suggestive Images of Themselves

Posted on December 12, 2008
Press Release from the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy: THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT TEEN AND UNPLANNED PREGNANCY AND COSMOGIRL.COM REVEAL RESULTS OF SEX & TECH SURVEY: Large Percentage of Teens Posting/Sending Nude/Semi Nude Images...

Vatican Issues Statement Condemning a Variety of Reproductive Technologies

Posted on December 12, 2008
Wash. Post: Vatican Condemns Cloning, Embryonic Stem Cell Research, by Michelle Boorstein & Rob Stein: The Vatican, in its first authoritative statement on reproductive science in more than 20 years, today condemned human cloning, designer babies, embryonic stem cell research...

Planned Parenthood's Kansas Affiliate Challenges Kline's Retention of Patient Records

Posted on December 11, 2008
The Associated Press reported yesterday on the legal efforts of Planned Parenthood's attorney to prevent former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline from taking copies of patient files with him when he leaves office. Here's more background on the case from...

Supreme Court Heard Arguments Yesterday in AT&T v. Hulteen

Posted on December 11, 2008
NY Times: Justices Hear Bias Case on Maternity, Pensions and Timing, by Adam Liptak: The argument of an employment discrimination case at the Supreme Court on Wednesday was full of references to one of the court?s more controversial decisions in...

Anti-Choice Advocates Take Aim at Planned Parenthood's Government Funding

Posted on December 10, 2008
Wall St. Journal: Abortion Foes Open a New Front, by Stephanie Simon: Abortion opponents are pressing state and local governments to stop sending taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood, arguing that the nonprofit group has plenty of cash and shouldn't be...

WSJ Opinion Column on Alex Kuczynski's Surrogacy Piece

Posted on December 10, 2008
Wall St. Journal: Rent-a-Womb Is Where Market Logic Leads, by Thomas Frank: At long last, our national love affair with the rich is coming to a close. The moguls whose exploits we used to follow with such fascination, it now...

Responses to Ross Douthat on the Republican Party and Abortion

Posted on December 10, 2008
The New York Times has published several letters responding to Ross Douthat's op-ed about the GOP and abortion. You can find a link to the op-ed, and my own response to Douthat, here.

It's the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Posted on December 10, 2008
Via the United Nations: Human Rights Day: Dignity and Justice for All of Us: The universal declaration of human rights: A living document Many things can be said about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). It is the foundation...

Supreme Court to Hear Arguments Tomorrow in AT&T v. Hulteen (Title VII Pregnancy Discrimination Case)

Posted on December 09, 2008
Via Feminist Law Professors: Tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in the case, AT & T v. Hulteen ? the case revolving around the interpretation of the scope of gender discrimination and pregnancy discrimination in employment under Title...

Jonathan Herring on the Legal Status of the Body

Posted on December 09, 2008
Johnathan Herring (University of Oxford - Faculty of Law) has posted Your Body, My Body, Our Bodies on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article considers the legal status of the body. It argues that our bodies are in constant...

The Future of Abortion: Controversies and Care

Posted on December 09, 2008
The Abortion Review is making available papers from a conference, The Future of Abortion: Controversies and Care, held in London in June 2008: The BPAS conference The Future of Abortion: Controversies and Care was a groundbreaking event. It took place...

NYT Public Editor Comments On Alex Kuczynski's Surrogacy Article

Posted on December 09, 2008
NY Times: The Privileged and Their Children, by Clark Hoyt: ...The magazine article about gestational surrogacy ? a woman?s bearing the biological child of someone else ? posed a very different issue. The facts were not in dispute. But the...

Call for Participation: Gender, Sexuality and Law

Posted on December 08, 2008
The Canadian Law and Society Association invites papers and proposals on the Political Economy of Gender and Sexuality in Legal Scholarship: Canadian legal feminism has a strong tradition of examining the political economy of law's regulation of gender and sexuality...

South Dakota's "Informed Consent Law" and the Doctor-Patient Relationship

Posted on December 08, 2008
New England Journal of Medicine: South Dakota's Abortion Script Threatening the Physician-Patient Relationship, by Zita Lazzarini: Under a law that went into effect in July, physicians in South Dakota must tell any woman seeking an abortion that she is terminating...

Catholic Church Creating Premature Uproar Over FOCA and Religious Refusals

Posted on December 07, 2008
The Christian Science Monitor: Catholic groups fear abortion rights bill, by Ben Arnoldy: First on the Obama administration's to-do list: a stimulus package, bailouts, and ... abortion? Given the imperatives of the economic crisis, picking an abortion fight early on...

What Does the "Pro-Life" Movement Want? Don't Ask Ross Douthat.

Posted on December 07, 2008
The New York Times today published an astoundingly uninformed, naive defense of the current "pro-life" movement, by Ross Douthat, a senior editor at The Atlantic. See: Abortion Politics Didn?t Doom the G.O.P.: An iron law of recent American politics dictates...

Dahlia Lithwick on Selective Solicitude for Health Care Providers' Rights of Conscience in the Reproductive Health Context

Posted on December 06, 2008
Slate: Nursing Grudges, by Dahlia Lithwick: What does it tell us about the state of the abortion wars today that battles once waged over the dignity and autonomy of pregnant women have morphed into disputes over the dignity and autonomy...

Yet Another Study Debunks Myth of a "Post-Abortion Syndrome"

Posted on December 06, 2008
ABC News/Reuters: Abortion Not Seen Linked With Depression: No high-quality study done to date can document that having an abortion causes psychological distress, or a "post-abortion syndrome," and efforts to show it does occur appear to be politically motivated, U...

Planned Parenthood Offers Gift Certificates; Anti-Choice Groups Object

Posted on December 06, 2008
Indy Star: Gift certificate covering abortion stirs controversy, by Francesca Jarosz: For the folks at Planned Parenthood, it is a creative way to help ensure that women receive important health services at a time when money is tight. For members...

KS Supreme Court Sanctions Former AG for Mishandling of Planned Parenthood Abortion Records

Posted on December 05, 2008
Kansas City Star: High court sanctions Kline for handling of abortion records, by Joe Lambe & Laura Bauer: The Kansas Supreme Court this morning sanctioned Phill Kline for his handling of Planned Parenthood records and ordered him to give copies...

Politicizing Statutory Rape Reporting Requirements

Posted on December 05, 2008
Last night Bill O'Reilly reported on a "sting operation" some UCLA college students conducted on Planned Parenthoods to catch them in the act of refusing to report statutory rape when minors come in seeking confidential reproductive health care. Here is...

Couples Torn Over What To Do With Extra Frozen Embryos

Posted on December 04, 2008
NY Times: Parents Torn Over Fate of Frozen Embryos, by Denise Grady: For nearly 15 years, Kim and Walt Best have been paying about $200 a year to keep nine embryos stored in a freezer at a fertility clinic at...

Perspectives on HIV/AIDS, Gender Violence, and Marriage, from Population Action International

Posted on December 03, 2008
RH Reality Check: In Their Own Beds: HIV and Marriage, by Amy Coen: This World AIDS Day, Population Action International is exploring a different side of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, one that many people might not even realize is an issue...

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