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Supreme Court Memo: Why the Decline in 5-4 Decisions?

Posted on May 22, 2008
NY Times: At Supreme Court, 5-to-4 Rulings Fade ? but Why?, by Linda Greenhouse: WASHINGTON ? Where have all the 5-to-4 decisions gone? And whatever happened to the ?Kennedy Court?? A year ago at this time, the Supreme Court had...

Women's Groups Debate Supporting Male Presidential Candidate

Posted on May 21, 2008
Women's E-News: Women's Vote up for Grabs if Clinton Not in Race, by Allison Stevens: Some groups working to send New York Sen. Hillary Clinton to the White House are preparing to sit out the rest of the presidential election...

Federal Court of Appeals Strikes Down VA Abortion Ban

Posted on May 21, 2008
The New York Times: Virginia Abortion Ban Struck Down, by Adam Liptak: A federal appeals court panel in Richmond, Va., struck down on Tuesday a Virginia law that made it a crime for doctors to perform what the law called...

McCain and Obama's Contrasting Visions of Supreme Court's Role

Posted on May 20, 2008
L.A. Times: John McCain and Barack Obama: Two visions of the Supreme Court, by David Savage: WASHINGTON ? John McCain and Barack Obama, the two leading presidential candidates, have set out sharply contrasting views on the role of the Supreme...

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Report: Teens Don't Engage in Oral Sex to "Preserve Virginity"

Posted on May 20, 2008
Wash. Post: A Debunking on Teenagers and 'Technical Virginity': Researchers Find That Oral Sex Isn't Commonplace Among Young People Who Avoid Intercourse, by Rob Stein: Contrary to widespread belief, teenagers do not appear to commonly engage in oral sex as...

UK: MPs vote on abortion time limit and other bills

Posted on May 20, 2008
The Press Association: Commons vote on abortion time limit: MPs are squaring up for a Commons showdown over the abortion laws as a sustained attempt is mounted to cut the time limit for the first time in 18 years. A...

Inventor Who Helped Make Abortions Safer Dies

Posted on May 19, 2008
L.A. Times: Harvey Karman, 84; invented device for safer, easier abortions, by Elaine Woo: Harvey Karman, a flamboyant psychologist whose invention made a key contribution to women's reproductive health, particularly by making abortions simpler, cheaper and less painful, died May...

Stress During Pregnancy May Increase Babies' Risk of Asthma, Allergy

Posted on May 19, 2008
Wash. Post/HealthDay: Mom's Stress in Pregnancy May Up Baby's Asthma and Allergy Risk, by Serena Gordon: If an expectant mother is exposed to high levels of stress, her baby may be more likely to develop asthma or allergies later in...

Fathers Vow To Be Their Daughters' "Authority and Protection" at "Purity Ball" in Colorado Springs

Posted on May 19, 2008
NY Times: Dancing the Night Away, With a Higher Purpose, by Neela Banerjee: COLORADO SPRINGS ? In their floor-length gowns, up-dos and tiaras, the 70 or so young women swept past two harpists and into a gilt-and-brocade dining room at...

UK: House of Commons Will Consider Controversial Proposals Concerning Stem Cell Research, ART, and Abortion

Posted on May 18, 2008
BBC News: MPs prepare to face big issues, by Laura Kuenssberg: Questions of morality will dominate the House of Commons at the beginning of this week. As the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill returns to be debated by MPs, the...

Do Women and Women's Organizations Have an "Obligation" to Support Clinton?

Posted on May 18, 2008
Time: The Feminist Divide Over Obama, by Amy Sullivan: When the abortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America announced its endorsement of Barack Obama earlier this week, president Nancy Keenan and her colleagues knew their decision would raise eyebrows...

Thanks to My Research Assistants!

Posted on May 16, 2008
Thanks to my wonderful research assistants this semester for their invaluable help performing research for this blog: Mul Kim (3L), Olivia Lieber (2L), and Christina Tenuta (1L). A special thanks and congratulations to Mul, who graduated today and who has...

CO Group Proposes Extending State Constitutional Rights to Embryos

Posted on May 16, 2008
Denver Post: Personhood petition garners 131,245 signatures, by Electa Draper: A grassroots group seeking to define personhood in the Colorado Constitution as "any human being from the moment of fertilization" signed up 131,245 voters in support of the amendment...

Victory in the Regina McKnight Case

Posted on May 15, 2008
Via the ACLU Blog: Earlier this week, the South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Regina McKnight, a woman convicted in 2001 of homicide after suffering a stillbirth and admitting to cocaine usage, did not have a fair trial. In...

Canada: Emergency Contraceptive Approved for Over-the-Counter Sales

Posted on May 15, 2008
Reuters: Morning-after pill sold over the counter in Canada: TORONTO (Reuters) - The so-called "morning after" pill Plan B has received full over-the-counter status in Canada, drug maker Paladin Labs Inc said on Thursday. Paladin said that following a decision...

Some Take Issue with NARAL's Endorsement of Obama

Posted on May 15, 2008
NY Times: Naral Picks Obama, and Uproar Breaks Out, by Katharine Seelye: The decision by a major abortion-rights group to endorse Senator Barack Obama has created an uproar among some of its affiliates and other abortion-rights advocates. Many said that...

Steven Calabresi on Substantive Due Process After Gonzales v. Carhart

Posted on May 15, 2008
Steven Calabresi (Northwestern Law) has posted Substantive Due Process after Gonzales v. Carhart on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Essay begins in Part I with a doctrinal evaluation of the status of Washington v. Glucksberg ten years after that...

S.C. Supreme Court Overturns Mother's Homicide Conviction for Drug Use During Pregnancy

Posted on May 14, 2008
MyrtleBeachOnline: High court overturns mother's conviction, by Kelly Marshall Fuller and Janelle Frost: The S.C. Supreme Court on Monday overturned a conviction that sent a Conway woman to prison for 12 years. The court ruled that Regina McKnight, who was...

Students Experience Simulated Pregnancy and Parenting

Posted on May 13, 2008
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Playing at pregnancy: Students get parenting lesson, by Aileen Dodd: Other students whispered and stared as Dacula High School senior Lindsay Holbrook waddled down the hall with a round belly peeking through a cotton maternity shirt...

Supreme Court Declines to Review Asylum Claim of Chinese Man Whose Wife Had Forced Abortion

Posted on May 13, 2008
Associated Press: Court turns down Chinese man's asylum claim: WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from a Chinese man who sought asylum in the United States because his wife was forced to have an abortion under...

Abortion Ban in Northern Ireland Puts Women in Debt

Posted on May 13, 2008
BBC News: Abortion costs 'put women in debt': Northern Ireland women who travel to Great Britain for abortions can pay as much as �1,000 and are getting into debt, according to a charity. Abortion remains illegal in Northern Ireland, except...

Pope Denounces Italy's Abortion Law

Posted on May 12, 2008
San Diego Tribune: Pope speaks out against Italy abortion law, by Silvia Aloisi: VATICAN CITY ? Pope Benedict said on Monday that 30 years of legalised abortion had devalued human life in Italy, but the centre-left opposition said legislation had...

KS: Archbishop Tells Governor to Stop Taking Communion

Posted on May 12, 2008
Kansas City Star Editorial: Archbishop Naumann's scandalous dictate to Sebelius, by Barb Shelly: Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann is asking Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to choose between his will and the oath she swore to govern the state of Kansas to...

Gene Linked to Preeclampsia

Posted on May 12, 2008
ScienceDaily: Clues Into How Preeclampsia May Surface In Some Pregnancies: The COMT gene -- known already for its role in schizophrenia -- has been found to play a role in preeclampsia, according to a report in today's advance on-line issue...

"What If Your Mother Had Aborted You?"

Posted on May 12, 2008
Frances Kissling responds, on RH Reality Check, to the question anti-choice advocates love to ask: "What if your mother had aborted you?" It's almost always a question some frustrated anti-choicer asks after a presentation; I've probably been asked that question...

South Sudan Has World's Highest Maternal Mortality Rate

Posted on May 11, 2008
Not a happy mother's day story. Reuters: Battling to take death out of birth in Africa, by Skye Wheeler: JUBA, Sudan, May 11 (Reuters) - Lying on a sagging mattress and wincing slightly, Anna Lado laughs at the idea that...

McCain Abortion Flip-Flop?

Posted on May 11, 2008
ABC News: McCain Poised to Flip on GOP Abortion Platform, by Teddy Davis: Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., faces enormous pressure from social conservatives to ignore his repeated commitment to change the GOP's platform on abortion. "If he were to change...

Concerns Mount Over Contraceptive Patch

Posted on May 09, 2008
US News & World Report: Should the Birth Control Patch Be Pulled?, by Deborah Kotz: News is looking worse and worse for the contraceptive patch made by Ortho Evra. Well-known consumer health advocate Sidney Wolfe petitioned the Food and Drug...

McCain Does Not Mention Roe During Speech on Judiciary; Advocates Say He Used Coded Language

Posted on May 07, 2008
Via the Daily Women's Health Policy Report: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) failed to mention Roe v. Wade in a speech Tuesday outlining his judicial philosophy at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., the Miami Herald reports. The speech led some...

KS Supreme Court Limits Grand Jury's Power to Subpoena Abortion Records

Posted on May 07, 2008
Chicago Tribune: Kansas court limits grand jury's power in abortion case: The state's highest court is allowing a grand jury to keep investigating one of the few U.S. doctors who performs late-term abortions, but is limiting its power to subpoena...

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