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Shelby Knox Blogs About House Hearing on Abstinence-Only

Posted on April 27, 2008
Via the ACLU's Take Issue, Take Charge blog: Shelby Knox blogs the House Hearings Assessing Abstinence-Only Programs (4/24): Shelby Knox grew up as a conservative Southern Baptist in Texas turned progressive activist and documentary film subject. She recently graduated from...

Chilean Contraception Case Prompts Plans for "Massive Apostasy"

Posted on April 27, 2008
Womens eNews: Chile Birth-Control Case Spurs 'Apostasy' Planning, by Matt Malinowsky: Chilean judges, siding with the Vatican, have dealt a major blow to the Bachelet government by ending free emergency contraception in public clinics. A women's rights group is organizing...

Iowa Governor Signs HPV Vaccine Law

Posted on April 27, 2008
DesMoines Register: Governor signs law requiring some health plans to cover HPV shot, by Tony Leys (4/19): Gov. Chet Culver signed a bill Friday that will require some health insurers to cover a cervical-cancer vaccine, but Culver said he doubts...

Abortion Laws Around the World

Posted on April 26, 2008
Reuters: FACTBOX: Abortion law around the world: Britain will mark the 40th anniversary of the day the Abortion Act came into force on April 28, 1968. Studies by the Guttmacher Institute and the World Health Organisation, published last October, show...

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Kathryn Joyce on "Catholics and Contraception"

Posted on April 26, 2008
AlterNet: Catholics and Contraception, by Kathryn Joyce: In the midst of the wall-to-wall press coverage of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the U.S. last week, The New York Times paused to note that many American Catholics pay little heed to...

FL Abortion Bill With Ultrasound Mandate Appears In Jeopardy

Posted on April 25, 2008
Herald Tribune: Abortion bill in trouble: A proposed law to require women to get an ultrasound before having an abortion in Florida appears to be in jeopardy. The bill was supposed to be taken up in the Senate today after...

South Dakota Voters Will Consider Another Abortion Ban

Posted on April 25, 2008
NY Times: S. Dakota to Revisit Restrictions on Abortion, by Monica Davey: Voters in South Dakota this fall will once again be asked to consider a sweeping limit on abortion, the secretary of state announced on Friday. The new proposal...

Researching the Relationship Between Sex Ed and Sexual Activity Among Teens

Posted on April 25, 2008
The Journal of Adolescent Health: Abstinence-Only and Comprehensive Sex Education and the Initiation of Sexual Activity and Teen Pregnancy, by Pamela Kohler et al.: In April, the Journal of Adolescent Health published a study examining the effect of formal sex...

Bridget Crawford on Motherhood and Third-Wave Feminism

Posted on April 24, 2008
Bridget Crawford (Pace Law School) has posted Third-Wave Feminism, Motherhood and the Future of Legal Theory on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper theorizes the noticeable absence of law from discussions of motherhood by feminists who came to political...

House Committee Debates Federally Funded Abstinence-Only Education

Posted on April 24, 2008
How much evidence does Congress need to have about the ineffectiveness of abstinence-only education before it stops debating these programs and starts defunding them? L.A. Times: Federal funding of abstinence-only sex education programs debated, by Sarah Wire: WASHINGTON -- Continued...

Teen Pregnancy Rate versus Teen Birth Rate

Posted on April 24, 2008
Our Bodies Our Blog: What's the Truth About Teen Pregnancy? You may have seen recent headlines such as "US teen pregnancy rate near historic low" and been somewhat confused (I certainly was). After all, didn't the CDC just announce that...

Presidential Candidates on Abortion

Posted on April 23, 2008
CNN Politics.com Election Center 2008 has a section on abortion, including summaries of the candidates' positions on abortion and clips of the candidates speaking about abortion.

Voting by Gender for Delegates in Pennsylvania

Posted on April 23, 2008
Interesting post by David Cohen on Feminist Law Professors: No, this is not a post about Obama/Clinton and gendered support patterns. Rather, this is a post about something else related to sex difference and voting that some, if not all,...

ME Middle School Offers Prescription Contraceptives But Has Few Takers

Posted on April 22, 2008
Associated Press: Middle school has 1 taker months after contraceptives furor, by David Sharp: PORTLAND, Maine -- For all the firestorm surrounding the decision to make prescription contraceptives available at King Middle School, only one girl has used the service...

Pope's U.N. Remarks Appear to Denounce Stem Cell Research

Posted on April 22, 2008
Daily Women's Health Policy Report: Pope at U.N. Speaks Against Science That He Says Violates 'Order of Creation': Pope Benedict XVI on Friday at the United Nations General Assembly spoke against technology and science that he said violates the "order...

Yale Refuses to Install Student's Art Project Without Disclaimer

Posted on April 22, 2008
Associated Press: Yale: 'Abortion' art won't be displayed without disclaimer, by John Christofferson: NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) ? Yale University said Monday it will not install an art project by a student who claims to have filmed herself inducing repeated...

Much of the Public Is Unfamiliar with McCain's Opposition to Aborion Rights

Posted on April 22, 2008
Newsweek: A Maverick, But He?s No Moderate, by Sarah Kliff & Holly Bailey: John McCain boasts one of the most consistent pro-life voting records in the Senate, but he doesn't do much boasting about it. Even during the primaries?when touting...

New York Asian Women's Center Presents Screening of "Holly"

Posted on April 22, 2008
Via the New York Asian Women's Center website: The New York Asian Womens Center presents A Special Screening of the film HOLLY An insightful and poignant film addressing HUMAN SEX TRAFFICKING Thursday, May 01, 2008 6:15 PM to 8:45PM Quad...

MO House Approves Abortion Waiting Period and State-Mandated Information

Posted on April 22, 2008
Kansas City Star: Missouri House backs new abortion mandates, by Kit Wagar & Jason Noble: JEFFERSON CITY | Legislation that would require women and their doctors to run a gantlet of new requirements before terminating pregnancies was approved Thursday by...

Florida Senate Rejects Comprehensive Sex Ed Proposal

Posted on April 21, 2008
Daily Women's Health Policy Report: Fla. Senate Rejects Proposal To Add Comprehensive Sex Education Amendment to Evolution Bill: The Florida Senate on Thursday rejected a proposal to add a comprehensive sex education amendment to an education bill (S 2692) that...

The Philosophical Divide Among Anti-Choice Advocates

Posted on April 21, 2008
Wall Street Journal: Antiabortion Initiatives Divide Movement, by T.W. Farnam: Abortion opponents are pushing ballot measures in five states this year. But the campaigns show as much division as unity in the antiabortion movement. In California, an initiative would add...

Reva Siegel on "Woman-Protective Anti-Abortion Argument"

Posted on April 21, 2008
Reva Siegel (Yale Law School) has posted The Right's Reasons: Constitutional Conflict and the Spread of Woman-Protective Antiabortion Argument on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Lecture investigates the social movement dynamics that produced woman-protective antiabortion argument...

Miss. House Panel To Study Bill Restricting Abortions for Minors

Posted on April 20, 2008
Daily Women's Health Policy Report: Miss. House Speaker To Appoint Panel To Study Bill Regulating Abortions for Minors: Mississippi House Speaker Billy McCoy (D) on Wednesday announced that he will appoint a "diverse group" of House members to study a...

Cardinal Who Led Vatican's Campaign Against Abortion Dies

Posted on April 20, 2008
AP: Vatican cardinal who led campaign against abortion dies, by Frances D'Emilio: VATICAN CITY (AP) ? Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, a Colombian prelate who helped lead the Vatican's campaign against abortion and insisted condoms do not prevent HIV transmission, has...

Student Scholarship: Procreative Rights, and Child Welfare and Future Persons

Posted on April 19, 2008
Carter Dillard (LLM candidate, NYU) has posted two articles on SSRN. Here are the abstracts: Rethinking the Procreative Right: Few principles are as universally accepted in legal scholarship today, but based on such scant support, as the fundamental nature and...

Pro-Choice Catholic Lawmakers Attend Pope's Mass

Posted on April 18, 2008
Associated Press: Abortion-rights lawmakers to receive Communion, by Laurie Kellman: WASHINGTON (AP) ? Catholic members of Congress who publicly support the right to abortion will trek to Nationals Park Thursday for a Mass celebrated by a pope who has said...

Pope Says American Secularism Leads to Pro-Choice Views

Posted on April 18, 2008
TIME/CNN: The Pope Faces His US Flock, by Jeff Israely and David Van Biema: For many years and more frequently in the past month, Benedict has been lauding America's vigorous piety, which he has said is partially a result of...

On-Line Resource Helps Determine "Extremely Preterm Birth Outcome Data"

Posted on April 18, 2008
NY Times: New Calculator Factors Chances for Very Premature Infants, by Denise Grady: Researchers are reporting that they have developed a new way to help doctors and parents make some of the most agonizing decisions in medicine, about how much...

Yale Claims Student's Art Project Is Fiction

Posted on April 18, 2008
In a statement yesterday by Yale University spokewoman Helaine Klasky, Yale asserted that the controversial art project described in the Yale Daily News (see yesterday's post) was a work of "creative fiction": Ms. Shvarts is engaged in performance art...

Supreme Court Upholds KY's Use of Lethal Injection

Posted on April 17, 2008
I know, it's not about abortion. But it is about life. Was "'serious' and 'humble' Catholic" Chief Justice Roberts trying to impress the Pope on his visit to the United States? NY Times: Justices Uphold Lethal Injection in Kentucky Case,...

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