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Palin Refuses to Call Abortion Clinic Bombers "Terrorists"

Posted on October 25, 2008
Daily Kos: Another Wink and Nod from Sarah Palin, by Meteor Blades: Under the pre-Patriot Act definition of the law, William Ayers and many of his compatriots in the Weather Underground certainly qualify as terrorists. Unlike the abortion clinic bombers...

Depression During Pregnancy May Increase Risk of Preterm Birth

Posted on October 25, 2008
CNN: Depression during pregnancy doubles risk of preterm birth, by Anne Harding: Depressed moms-to-be are more likely than nondepressed women to have a preterm birth, and the worse their mood, the greater their risk, says a new study published in...

No Entries in Contest Awarding $10,000 to an Engaged Couple for Avoiding Premarital Sex

Posted on October 24, 2008
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Don?t have sex, win a $10,000 wedding, by Helena Oliviero: There seems to be one small problem with a contest that would pay $10,000 to an engaged couple ? they can?t be engaged in premarital sex. How else...

Palin "Great Uniter" for Pro-Choice Movement

Posted on October 24, 2008
Stumper (Newsweek): How Sarah Palin Has Helped Pro-Choice Activists, by Sarah Kliff: Sarah Palin is well known for rallying her base, getting social conservatives behind the Republican ticket. But there?s another constituency that she has gotten plenty excited lately: the...

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A Call to End Interference with Distribution of Contraceptive Supplies in Africa

Posted on October 24, 2008
Center for Health and Gender Equity: Global Health and Policy Experts Unite in Message to USAID: Rescind Decision to Deny Contracetive Supplies in Africa: More than 140 leaders from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America - including Members...

What ?Pro-Abortion Movement?"

Posted on October 23, 2008
Amanda Allen, CUNY Law School '08 and my former research assistant, recently began her tenure as the first fellow at Law Students for Reproductive Justice. She has written a wonderful post on the LSRJ blog, Repossess Reproductive Justice, responding to...

Catharine MacKinnon: "Obama Is The Way Forward For Women"

Posted on October 22, 2008
Wall St. Journal Op-Ed: Obama Is the Way Forward for Women:Abortion rights and equal pay are at stake in the election, by Catharine MacKinnon: Women are at a crossroads in our struggle for legal equality as a means to social...

Billionaire Offers $25 Mil. Prize for Development of Pet Contraception

Posted on October 21, 2008
Wall St. Journal: Billionaire Pledges $50 Million for Pet Contraception, by Robert Frank: Philanthropists for years have used the ?prize model? to spark societal innovations?from space (the X Prize) to the environment (Goldman Prize). The idea is to create a...

VA "Pro-Life Pharmacy" Will Sell No "Artificial Birth Control"

Posted on October 21, 2008
Wash. Times: Va. pharmacy caters to pro-life customers, by Julia Duin: When Divine Mercy Care Pharmacy opens Tuesday in a Chantilly shopping center, it will have on display a picture of St. John Leonardi, the 16th-century patron saint of pharmacists....

Catholic Group Supports Obama

Posted on October 21, 2008
Chicago Tribune: Catholics for Obama: No qualms about abortion issue, by Rex W. Huppke: ...Even in an election where religious issues have taken a back seat to the economy, terrorism and health care, the subject of abortion is bound to...

Helen Knowles on Kennedy's Opinion in Gonzales v. Carhart

Posted on October 20, 2008
Helen J. Knowles (State University of New York - SUNY at Oswego) has posted Clerkish Control of Recent Supreme Court Opinions? A Case Study of Justice Kennedy's Opinion in Gonzales v. Carhart on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In recent...

Conference: Child-Centered Jurisprudence and Feminist Jurisprudence

Posted on October 20, 2008
The Center for Children, Law & Policy at the University of Houston Law Center is hosting a conference on Child Centered Jurisprudence and Feminist Jurisprudence: Exploring The Connections And The Tensions on Friday, November 14, 2008: This conference in November...

Notre Dame Event Addresses When "Pro-Life" Voters Have "A Sufficient 'Proportionate' Reason to Justify a Vote for a Pro-Choice Candidate"

Posted on October 19, 2008
Via Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture: On Wednesday, October 8, the Notre Dame Center for Ethics & Culture sponsored a conversation between Gerard Bradley, Notre Dame Professor of Law and member of the Catholics for McCain National Steering...

Charles P. Kindregan Jr. and Steven Snyder on ABA Model Act Governing ART

Posted on October 19, 2008
Charles P. Kindregan, Jr. (Suffolk University Law School) and Steven Snyder have posted Clarifying the Law of ART: The New American Bar Association Model Act Governing Assisted Reproductive Technology on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article examines the new...

US Infant Deaths Drop but Still Exceed Rates in Most Industrialized Nations

Posted on October 19, 2008
NY Times: Infant Deaths Decline in U.S., by Gardiner Harris: Infant deaths in the United States declined 2 percent in 2006, government researchers reported Wednesday, but the rate still remains well above that of most industrialized countries and is one...

Dutch Nonprofit Group Offers Free Abortion Services To Spanish Women Aboard Boat

Posted on October 17, 2008
ABC News: Dutch 'Abortion Boat' Docks in Spain, by Christine Brouwer: A Dutch nonprofit organization is offering Spanish women free abortions on a boat anchored in international waters off Spain's coast. The boat, operated by the abortion-rights group Women on...

Supreme Court Case Brought by Anti-Choice Group Paved Way for Corporate- and Union-Sponsored Political Ads

Posted on October 17, 2008
PaperTrail (Center for Public Integrity): ELECTION ?08: Supreme Court Ruling Looms Large in ?08 Political Ads, by Marianne Lavelle: Wonder why you?re seeing so much corporate- and union-sponsored political advertising this election cycle? You have the anti-abortion movement to thank...

CUNY LSRJ Hosts Panel on "Pro-Choice Politics"

Posted on October 16, 2008
The CUNY chapter of Law Students for Reproductive Justice is hosting a panel tonight entitled, "Pro-Choice Politics: Where Are They?" Participating on the panel are Vanessa Valenti of Feministing and Sabrina Shulman of NARAL Pro-Choice New York. I will be...

More on Abortion in Last Night's Presidential Debate

Posted on October 16, 2008
Beliefnet: How Obama Won the Abortion Part of the Debate: Common Ground and Sacred Sex, by Steven Waldman: ...The discussion began with McCain on the offense, painting Obama as the extremist. McCain focused on the two issues in which Obama...

Candidates Address Abortion in Final Debate

Posted on October 16, 2008
Slate: Safe, Legal, and Boring: Can Obama Take the Politics out of Abortion?, by William Saletan: McCain has been trying to make the election a referendum on character: Country first, Obama pals around with terrorists, yada yada yada. How does...

Panel Discussion: New Scholarship on Reproductive Rights

Posted on October 16, 2008
The Center for Reproductive Rights and Columbia Law School recently launched a Reproductive Rights Fellowship for graduates pursuing legal academic careers in reproductive health and human rights. A panel discussion will take place on Monday, October 20, 2008, at Columbia...

Joanna Erdman et al. on Medication Abortion in Canada

Posted on October 14, 2008
Joanna N. Erdman, Amy Grenon, and Leigh Harrison-Wilson have published Medication Abortion In Canada: A Right-To-Health Perspective, American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 98, pp. 1764-1769, 2008. Here is the abstract: The right to health under the International Covenant on...

Palin's Misleading Attacks on Obama Over Abortion

Posted on October 14, 2008
Time: How Valid is Palin's Abortion Attack on Obama?, by Michael Scherer: With less than 23 days to go before Election Day, John McCain and Sarah Palin are launching a range of attacks on their Democratic opponent that revolve around...

Voters in 3 States Will Face Anti-Abortion Ballot Initiatives This Nov.

Posted on October 13, 2008
NYT Editorial: Abortion Rights on the Ballot, Again: Once again this year, opponents of women?s reproductive rights have managed to get initiatives aimed at ending or limiting abortion rights on ballots ? in South Dakota, Colorado and California. These measures,...

Lawsuit Challenges Oklahoma Ultrasound Mandate

Posted on October 12, 2008
U.S. News & World Report/HealthDay: New Ultrasound Mandate Law Challenged in Oklahoma Abortion Case: An Oklahoma law forbidding a woman from having an abortion until she has an ultrasound and has a physician give her a description of the fetus...

CT Supreme Court Invalidates Opposite Sex Marriage Requirement

Posted on October 10, 2008
Via How Appealing: "High Court Grants Gay Marriage Rights": The Hartford Courant provides a news update that begins, "Same-sex couples won the right to marry in Connecticut in an historic ruling by the Supreme Court today. Citing the equal protection...

Bush, McCain, Palin: Anti-Abortion But Hardly Pro-Life

Posted on October 10, 2008
NY Times Op-Ed Column: Can This Be Pro-Life?, by Nicholas Kristof: The Bush administration this month is quietly cutting off birth control supplies to some of the world?s poorest women in Africa. Thus the paradox of a ?pro-life? administration adopting...

Wall St. Journal Examines McCain and Obama's Approaches to the Court and the Constitution

Posted on October 10, 2008
Wall St. Journal: Barack Obama: The Present Is Prologue, by Jess Bravin: ...On legal matters, including Supreme Court appointments, an Obama administration would likely be shaped by its leader's strong convictions on constitutional law. As in other areas, Sen...

Yale Law School Conference on Sexual and Reproductive Rights

Posted on October 10, 2008
Today through Sunday, Yale Law School hosts a conference on "The Future of Sexual and Reproductive Rights.": Constitutional law and politics have changed greatly since the last outpouring of legal scholarship on questions of reproductive rights in the 1980s and...

Erwin Chemerinsky on How the Election Might Affect the Supreme Court on Abortion & Other Issues

Posted on October 09, 2008
LA Times Op-Ed: The Candidates and the Supreme Court, by Erwin Chemerinsky: Why are the two major presidential candidates virtually ignoring the importance of this election in determining the composition of the Supreme Court and the future of constitutional law?...

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