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European Court of Human Rights to Rule on Ireland's Abortion Laws

Posted on October 09, 2008
Wall St. Journal: When Justices Prefer Not to Judge: Court May Pass on Abortion Again, by Paula Park: A European court may decide whether a woman has a basic right to abortion to preserve her health. Or, some observers fear,...

Supreme Court Declines to Review Decision Protecting Incarcerated Women's Right to Abortion

Posted on October 09, 2008
RH Reality Check: Supreme Court Will Not Hear Case Limiting Abortion Rights, by Amy Roth: The Supreme Court opened its new term with some good news for women: it rejected an appeal from the state of Missouri, which had hoped...

McCain "Palling Around" With Anti-Choice Activists?

Posted on October 09, 2008
Recent news stories document McCain's links to a number of different anti-choice activists. Right Wing Watch: McCain Campaign Palling Around With Schenck: Since Sarah Palin decided to go after Barack Obama for his essentially non-existent ties to William Ayers, maybe...

New York Times Looks Back at "Citizen Ruth"

Posted on October 08, 2008
New York Times: Critics' Picks: 'Citizen Ruth', by A.O. Scott: A. O. Scott looks back at Alexander Payne's 1996 film with Laura Dern as a pregnant glue-sniffer who becomes a pawn in the abortion debate.

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Yale Journal of Law and Feminism: Symposium on Pregnancy Discrimination Act

Posted on October 08, 2008
Yale Journal of Law and Feminism: Respecting Expecting: The 30th Anniversary of the PDA: Please join the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism at a Symposium celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. We will be commemorating this...

Reva Siegel on Dignity and Abortion Regulation After Casey and Carhart

Posted on October 08, 2008
Reva Siegel (Yale Law School) has posted Dignity and the Politics of Protection: Abortion Restrictions Under Casey/Carhart on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This essay on the law and politics of abortion analyzes the constitutional principles governing new challenges to...

Supreme Court Against Rejects Appeal of Jury Verdict in "Wanted" Posters Case

Posted on October 06, 2008
The Supreme Court has again declined to consider an appeal by the American Coalition of Life Activists (ACLA) to overturn a multi-million-dollar jury verdict against the group. In the mid-1990s, ACLA had posted "Wanted" signs that accused certain abortion providers...

Supreme Court Lets Stand 9th Circuit Ruling on Choose Life License Plate

Posted on October 06, 2008
The Supreme Court will not review a Ninth Circuit decision, Arizona Life Coalition, Inc. v. Stanton, which held that the Arizona License Plate Commission violated the free speech rights of the Arizona Life Coalition when it denied the group's application...

Why Won't Democrats Talk About Abortion?

Posted on October 06, 2008
SocialistWorker.org: Why won't they talk about abortion rights?, by Elizabeth Schulte: IT WAS the elephant in the room. But there was almost no mention of it at all--just the barest passing reference by Joe Biden--in last night's vice presidential debates...

Another Anti-Abortion Legal Scholar Endorses Obama

Posted on October 04, 2008
Articles of Faith (Boston Globe): Another Anti-Abortion Scholar for Obama, by Michael Paulson: A second prominent anti-abortion Catholic legal scholar has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president. Nicholas P. Cafardi, a law professor and the former dean of the Duquesne...

Catholic Voters Differ on How to Apply Church's Teachings on Abortion & Other Issues

Posted on October 04, 2008
NY Times: Catholic Church Is Riven by Internal Debate, by David D. Kirkpatrick: As the Roman Catholic Church observes its annual ?respect life? Sunday in this heated presidential election season, the unusually pitched competition for Catholic voters is setting off...

The Supreme Court and the Presidential Election

Posted on October 03, 2008
The Seattle Times: Think About the Supreme Court When You Vote for President, by Ellen Goodman: When the court opens Monday, it will look like an oasis of calm in the capital. There are no neon-bright cases on the docket...

'Safe-Haven' Laws Intended for Newborns Being Used for Teens

Posted on October 03, 2008
NY Times: Parents Give Up Youths Under Law Meant for Babies, by Erik Eckholm: The abandonments began on Sept. 1, when a mother left her 14-year-old son in a police station here. By Sept. 23, two more boys and one...

Palin and Biden Talk to Katie Couric About Roe v. Wade

Posted on October 01, 2008
CBS News: Palin, Biden Trade Views On Abortion:

Dieting History May Affect Weight Gain During Pregnancy

Posted on October 01, 2008
Wash. Post/HealthDay News: Dieting History Tied to Weight Gain in Pregnancy: Women with a history of dieting or other practices that restrict their eating habits may be more vulnerable to gaining too much or too little weight during pregnancy, a...

Asian-White Couples Face Distinct Pregnancy Risks

Posted on October 01, 2008
LA Times: Asian-white couples have distinct pregnancy risks, by Shari Roan: The risk of having problems in pregnancy, such as gestational diabetes, preterm labor or low birth weight, differ among various ethnic groups, studies have shown. Now a study looking...

Sarah Palin Talks to Katie Couric About Abortion

Posted on September 30, 2008
As she did when discussing her own daughter Bristol's decision to carry her pregnancy to term, Governor Palin often talks about abortion in a way that suggests that, although she is personally opposed to abortion, she views the decision as...

Studies Find Link Between Talcum Powder and Ovarian Cancer

Posted on September 29, 2008
The American Cancer Society reports: It has been suggested that talcum powder may be carcinogenic to the covering layer of the ovaries through the migration of talcum powder particles (applied to the genital area, sanitary napkins, diaphragms, or condoms) through...

An Annotated Bibliography on LGBTQ Youth by Sarah Valentine

Posted on September 29, 2008
Sarah Valentine (CUNY School of Law) has posted Queer Kids: A Comprehensive Annotated Legal Bibliography on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Youth on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This annotated bibliography is published at 19 Yale Journal of Law...

Poll Suggests California Abortion Initiative Could Pass This Time

Posted on September 26, 2008
San Diego Union-Tribune: Third abortion initiative given chance of passing, by John Marelius: A twice-defeated initiative requiring parental notification before an unmarried minor can get an abortion appears to have a better chance of passing this year, according to a...

Australian Supreme Court Grants Abortion for 12-Year-Old

Posted on September 26, 2008
The Australian: Abortion ordered for 12-year-old girl by Queensland Supreme Court, by Michael McKenna: DOCTORS have been ordered to perform an abortion on a 12-year-old Queensland girl who is 18 weeks pregnant after a suspected rape. In a landmark decision,...

Bernard Dickens on Assisted Reproduction

Posted on September 26, 2008
Bernard Dickens (University of Toronto - Faculty of Law) has posted Legal Developments in Assisted Reroduction on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Courts have been quite consistent in allowing ex-partners in marriages or similar relationships, usually men, to veto the...

Report Shows Mixed Statistics on Abortion Rates in U.S.

Posted on September 24, 2008
LA Times: The 'why' behind new abortion stats, by Shari Roan: Abortion rates in the United States have declined to their lowest levels since 1974, according to a report released today. However, Latina and black women obtain abortions at rates...

Hillary Clinton and Cecile Richards on Proposed HHS Regs

Posted on September 20, 2008
NY Times Op-Ed: Blocking Care for Women, by Hillary Rodham Clinton & Cecile Richards: LAST month, the Bush administration launched the latest salvo in its eight-year campaign to undermine women?s rights and women?s health by placing ideology ahead of science:...

NAPW Law Student Writing Competition

Posted on September 20, 2008
Via National Advocates for Pregnant Women: NAPW Law Student Writing Competition 2008-2009 Academic School Year. $1,000 first prize Issues of concern to pregnant and birthing women have often been missing from discussion in law school courses and among reproductive rights...

"Travis judge tells woman to stop having kids"

Posted on September 19, 2008
Via the Sentencing Law and Policy Blog: The title of this post is the title of this alternative sentencing story out of Texas. Here are some of the basic details: A judge in Travis County has ordered a woman to...

Call for Papers: Second Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference

Posted on September 18, 2008
University of Baltimore School of Law?s Second Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference is seeking submissions on Applied Feminism: How Feminist Legal Theory is Changing the Law: This call for papers seeks submissions for the University of Baltimore School of Law?s...

Catholic Voters Struggle With Abortion Issue

Posted on September 17, 2008
NY Times: Abortion Issue Again Dividing Catholic Votes, by David Kirkpatrick: ...A struggle within the church over how Catholic voters should think about abortion is once again flaring up just as political partisans prepare an all-out battle for the votes...

Carter Dillard on Antecedent Law

Posted on September 17, 2008
Carter Dillard (Westerfield Fellow, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law) has posted Antecedent Law: The Law of People Making on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In our conception of law we have largely presumed the process by which the...

Naomi Cahn on the Regulation of Reproductive Technology and Incest

Posted on September 17, 2008
Naomi Cahn (George Washington University Law School) has posted Accidental Incest: Drawing the Line - Or the Curtain? - For Reproductive Technology on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article calls for setting limits on the number of offspring born...

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