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Legal Momentum Publishes Report on Abstinence-Only Education

Posted on February 19, 2008
Legal Momentum has published Sex, Lies and Stereotypes: How Abstinence Only Harms Girls, a report based upon recommendations arising from an expert roundtable led by Julie Kay at Harvard Law School in September 2006. Download the pdf file (note: file...

Italy: Protestors Rally to Defend Abortion Rights

Posted on February 19, 2008
AP: Italians Rally to Defend Abortion Law: ROME (AP) ? Hundreds of women rallied in Rome and Naples on Thursday to protest police interrogation of a woman after she underwent an abortion and to oppose a campaign push by some...

Court Again Upholds Texas Fetal Protection Law

Posted on February 14, 2008
Meanwhile, here in the U.S., Texas punishes causing the death of a fetus as capital murder. AP: Court upholds Texas fetal protection law, by Jim Vertuno: Texas' highest criminal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a state law that allows prosecution...

Canadian "Unborn Victims of Crime Act" To Be Voted on in March

Posted on February 14, 2008
Canadian Press: Tory MP's bill to recognize unborn crime victims raises abortion rights alarm: OTTAWA - A Conservative MP brought the families of murdered women to Parliament Hill on Thursday to back legislation that would treat unborn babies as separate...

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Archbishop Objects to Clinton Rally at St. Mary's University

Posted on February 13, 2008
AP: Archbishop Objects to Clinton Rally, by Michelle Roberts: SAN ANTONIO (AP) ? Archbishop Jose Gomez complained Wednesday about plans for a rally by Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, an abortion rights supporter, at a Catholic university. The archbishop released...

Calif. Teacher Shows 8th Graders Graphic Anti-Abortion Film, "The Silent Scream"

Posted on February 13, 2008
San Jose Mercury News: Milpitas teacher screens anti-abortion clips in 8th-grade class, by Sharon Noguchi: A Milpitas science teacher has been placed on leave after showing parts of the graphic anti-abortion film "The Silent Scream" to five eighth-grade classes...

Italian Police Confiscate Aborted Fetus

Posted on February 13, 2008
Reuters: Police raid sparks Italy pre-election abortion row, by Silvia Aloisi: ROME, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The confiscation of an aborted foetus by Italian police has rekindled a highly charged debate over abortion in Catholic Italy before national elections...

South African Parliament Votes To Ease Abortion Restrictions

Posted on February 13, 2008
Via the National Partnership Daily Women's Health Policy Report: The South African Parliament on Thursday unanimously passed a bill that would relax some restrictions on abortion, Reuters reports. The legal changes would provide for 24-hour abortion facilities; eliminate preapproval processes;...

McCain on Abortion

Posted on February 12, 2008
Republicans for Choice Claims They Do Not Endorse McCain Here's what some interpreted as an endorsement by Republicans for Choice (from the RFC website (emphasis added)): As moderate and conservative pro-choice Republicans are we happy with the results of the...

Abortion Features Prominently in Italy's Elections

Posted on February 12, 2008
AP: Abortion figuring prominently in early campaign for April elections: ROME: Abortion is playing an important early role in Italy's election campaign, with front-runner Silvio Berlusconi endorsing a universal moratorium and a prominent journalist on Tuesday announcing an anti-abortion ticket...

"Era of Twins" May Be Changing

Posted on February 12, 2008
N.Y. Times: For an Era of Twins, the End May Be Near, by Susan Dominus: Walk around the Upper West Side with a double stroller, as I do from time to time, and it?s amazing how long it can take...

NPR on McCain's Abortion Stance

Posted on February 12, 2008
Here's an NPR segment from February 2, in which Julie Rovner addresses addresses "misperceptions about McCain's abortion stance" and the fact that "many voters appear to assume, incorrectly, that McCain is pro-choice."

Teens Protest Abstinence-Only Education--and Get Suspended

Posted on February 11, 2008
Via CNN Video: Sex shirts lead to suspension Two junior high school students got in trouble for where they put some condoms. KMOV's Matt Sczesny reports. The eighth graders' shirts read, "Safe Sex or No Sex," and had wrapped condoms...

Pro-Choice Republican Group Endorses McCain

Posted on February 11, 2008
Wow. Emily Douglas writes for RH Reality Check: The pro-choice Republican organization Republicans for Choice has endorsed Sen. John McCain for President, saying that he was the group's "second choice" to Rudy Giuliani. Chairman of the group Ann Stone told...

Scientists Discover New Human HIV Receptor

Posted on February 11, 2008
N.Y. Times: Scientists Find New Receptor for H.I.V., by Lawrence Altman: SAN FRANCISCO ? Government scientists have discovered a new way that H.I.V. attacks human cells, an advance that could provide fresh avenues for the development of additional therapies to...

Pharmacy Boards and Religious Refusals in the Pharmacy

Posted on February 08, 2008
Womenstake: Forget State Legislatures. Work with Your Pharmacy Board to Stop Refusals, by Gretchen Borchelt: Anti-choice state legislators just won?t give up. In states like Indiana, legislators continue to introduce legislation that would give pharmacists a right to refuse to...

Pres. Bush tries to revive ban on needle-exchange programs in Wash. DC

Posted on February 08, 2008
Washington Post: What's the Point? (editorial): Tucked into President Bush's 2009 budget proposal is the resurrection of a provision, dumped by Congress last year, that prohibits the District from using its own money to fund needle-exchange programs. This is unconscionable,...

Romney's Suspending His Campaign

Posted on February 07, 2008
CNN.com: GOP sources: Romney to suspend campaign, from John King: Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will suspend his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, GOP sources tell CNN. Romney had won 270 delegates in through the Super Tuesday contests, compared...

Regulation Directs Maryland School District To Inform Parents If Student Is Pregnant

Posted on February 06, 2008
Washington Post, Pregnancy Notification Policy Alarms Some Health Experts, by Susan DeFord: A revised regulation that directs Howard County school officials to notify parents when students reveal they are pregnant has drawn criticism from health experts who say it violates...

Pres. Bush's 2009 Budget Drastically Cuts Funding For International Reproductive Health Services

Posted on February 06, 2008
Via Population Action International: President Bush's proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2009, released today, would dramatically cut funding for international family planning and sexual and reproductive health programs. The proposed funding level of $327 million represents a $134 million (or...

DOCUMENTARY FILM, "SILENT CHOICES," ADDRESSES ABORTION AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS

Posted on February 06, 2008
DOCUMENTARY FILM SILENT CHOICES BREAKS THE SILENCE ABOUT ABORTION AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS WINNER ? Best Documentary, 2007 Roxbury Film Festival Wednesday, February 20 ? 7 p.m. Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Avenue New York, NY Tickets: $5 Presented by the...

Stop it, NOW!

Posted on February 05, 2008
What is wrong with NOW? Instead of celebrating that we have two pro-choice democratic frontrunners with 100% approval ratings from Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America, NOW is once again trying to sabotage Obama's chances by unnecessarily dividing democratic voters...

Live in a Feb 5 Primary State?

Posted on February 05, 2008
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Extreme, Anti-Choice Measures Introduced in Georgia Legislature

Posted on February 05, 2008
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Truly inconceivable: Birth control itself at risk in proposed legislation that lays very heavy hand on reproductive choice, by Maureen Downey (editorial board): Today, young women of college age are casting votes in the Georgia presidential primary...

Battle of the Republican Flip-Floppers

Posted on February 05, 2008
The Fact-Checker (Wash. Post): Who is the Champion Flip-flopper?, by Michael Dobbs: As the primary season comes to a climax in the 2008 campaign, the two leading GOP candidates are invoking the waltz and windsurfing images to gain some vital...

Marsha Garrison on Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technology

Posted on February 01, 2008
Marsha Garrison (Brooklyn Law School) has posted Regulating Reproduction on SSRN. It will be published in the George Washington Law Review. Here is the abstract: Can - should - the United States abandon the laissez-faire, market-based approach to reproductive technology...

Chinese Maker of Early Abortion Pill Is Linked to Tainted Cancer Drugs

Posted on January 31, 2008
NY Times: Tainted Drugs Tied to Maker of Abortion Pill, by Jake Hooker & Walt Bogdanich: BEIJING ? A huge state-owned Chinese pharmaceutical company that exports to dozens of countries, including the United States, is at the center of a...

Study Finds That One Third of Illinois Teachers Do Not Teach Comprehensive Sex Ed

Posted on January 31, 2008
The Chicago Tribune: School sex ed lacking in Illinois, study finds, by Stephanie Banchero: Doctors should begin teaching adolescent sex education, a new study argues, because schools in Illinois aren't doing a good enough job. The study, to be published...

Nina Crimm on the Global Gag Rule

Posted on January 31, 2008
Nina J. Crimm (St. John's University School of Law) has published and posted The Global Gag Rule: Undermining National Interests By Doing Unto Foreign Women and NGOs What Cannot Be Done At Home, Cornell International Law Journal,Vol. 40, No. 587,...

Indiana Senate Approves Pharmacist Refusal Bill

Posted on January 29, 2008
The Indiana Senate has been busy, and that's not good for women. Indianapolis Star: Senate approves abortion-medicine bill: The Senate today passed a bill that would let a pharmacist refuse to dispense medicines they believed will lead to abortion or...

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