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An Audio Diary Follows a Journey of Changing Gender

Posted on September 07, 2010
NPR: Becoming Miles: The Journey Of Changing Sexes, by Sarah Reynolds: Megan Taylor grew up feeling she was living in the wrong body. In her 20s, she decided to do something about it. First, she changed her name to Miles....

Thanks To My Summer Research Assistants!

Posted on September 07, 2010
Now that Labor Day has come and gone, it's time to say THANKS to my fabulous research assistants, CUNY Law students AMY HAGER ('11) and JENN FEELEY ('12), for their work this summer researching issues for this blog.

California's Senate Candidates Debate Gender Issues

Posted on September 06, 2010
Feminist News (Feminist Majority Foundation): Boxer and Fiorina Debate in CA: Incumbent Senator Barbara Boxer (D) faced Republican challenger Carly Fiorina in a debate yesterday where they addressed many feminist issues. Regarding abortion, Boxer said, "If my opponent's views prevailed,...

Advocates Track Sexism Targeted at Women Running for Office

Posted on September 06, 2010
Wash. Post: Women's groups call out political sexism, by Krissah Thompson: The list includes the talk radio host who called a female senator a "prostitute" for cutting a deal to benefit her state, the male challenger who pointed out his...

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IL Supreme Court Declines to Hear Parental Notification Appeal

Posted on September 06, 2010
Feminist News (Feminist Majority Foundation): IL Supreme Court Will Not Hear Parental Notification Appeal: The Illinois Supreme Court announced yesterday that they will not hear an appeal related to a state law that requires parental notification 48 hours in advance...

Justice Ginsburg's Speech at Tenth Circuit Conference Focuses on Gender Equality

Posted on September 06, 2010
Slate Magazine: The Mother of All Grizzlies, by Dahlia Lithwick: Ruth Bader Ginsburg shows how feminism is done. Again. Anyone who didn't already believe Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to be fashioned of pure steel was reminded of the fact Friday...

Are Universities' "Sex Weeks" Cause for Concern?

Posted on September 06, 2010
College Inc. (Wash. Post blog): Should 'Sex Week' worry college leaders?, by Daniel de Vise: Several of the nation's premiere universities host Sex Weeks: weeklong celebrations of human sexuality, typically led by students, with activities that can range from the...

Obama Administration Asks Judge to Lift Stem Cell Research Ban While Case Proceeds

Posted on September 06, 2010
Wall St. Journal: Judge Is Asked to Lift Stem-Cell Funds Ban, by Laura Meckler: The Obama administration asked a federal judge Tuesday to allow the government to continue funding embryonic stem-cell research while a case challenging the program makes its...

Center for Reproductive Rights Report: 2010 Trends in Abortion Restrictions

Posted on August 31, 2010
Center for Reproductive Rights: A First Look Back at the 2010 State Legislative Session: Every year, anti-choice state legislators propose measures intended to restrict women's access to abortion, including mandatory delays, biased counseling provisions and other burdensome and unnecessary requirements...

Glenn Cohen and Daniel Chen on Whether Subsidizing Assisted Reproduction Decreases Adoption Rates

Posted on August 31, 2010
I. Glenn Cohen (Harvard Law School) & Daniel L. Chen (Duke Law School) have posted Trading-Off Reproductive Technology and Adoption: Does Subsidizing in Vitro Fertilization Decrease Adoption Rates and Should it Matter? on SSRN. Here is the abstract: For those...

Glenn Beck Rally Exploits Dr. King's Legacy to Push Anti-Abortion-Rights Message

Posted on August 30, 2010
RH Reality Check: Glenn Beck, Alveda King, and Reproductive Rights, by Marjorie Signer: Even if you just wanted Glenn Beck and his over-publicized rally to go away, please take a minute to read what African American clergy, and civil rights...

In Response to Judge's Ruling, NIH Halts Own Researchers' Embryonic Stem Cell Experiments

Posted on August 30, 2010
The Checkup (Wash. Post blog): NIH shuts down its own stem cell research, by Rob Stein: The National Institutes of Health Monday ordered all of its researchers conducting research on human embryonic stem cells to immediately halt their experiments. The...

Virginia's Abortion Debate Focuses on South Carolina's Regulations

Posted on August 30, 2010
The Roanoke Times: Virginia's abortion debate turns to South Carolina rules, by Julian Walker: Abortion rights advocates and opponents are using that state's regulations for clinics to make their case. RICHMOND -- Virginia's continuing debate over abortion has turned to...

Wal-Mart Asks Supreme Court to Hear Largest Gender Discrimination Lawsuit

Posted on August 27, 2010
NY Times: Wal-Mart Asks Supreme Court to Hear Bias Suit, by Steven Greenhouse: Wal-Mart Stores asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to review the largest employment discrimination lawsuit in American history, involving more than a million women workers, current and...

90 Years Later, Remembering the Struggle for the 19th Amendment

Posted on August 27, 2010
NY Times (Op-Ed): A Forgotten Fight for Suffrage, by Christine Stansell: LOOKING back on the adoption of the 19th Amendment 90 years ago Thursday ? the largest act of enfranchisement in our history ? it can be hard to see...

Michael Kinsley on the Moral Inconsistency of Stem Cell Research Opponents

Posted on August 26, 2010
AtlanticWire: The Moral Inconsistency of Stem Cell Opponents, by Michael Kinsley: OK, let?s go through this one more time. Half of all pregnancies end in miscarriages, usually in the first couple of weeks, before a woman even knows that she...

Study Shows "Abortion" Is Googled More in Conservative Areas

Posted on August 26, 2010
Boston Herald: ?Abortion? Googled more in conservative areas, by Renee Nadeau Algarin: A study by two Children?s Hospital doctors has found that Google searches on ?abortion? rise in areas with more conservative abortion policies or where the procedure is less...

New Missouri Law Requires Abortion Providers to Hand Their Patients Brochures Declaring that Life Begins at Conception

Posted on August 26, 2010
STLtoday.com: New Mo. abortion law counters some philosophy, theology, by Tim Townsend: It's a question that has perplexed philosophers, theologians and scientists for thousands of years. Pythagorean Greeks, early Christian church fathers, Talmudic rabbis, Sunni and Shia thinkers, Hindu brahmin...

Many Turn to India for Surrogacy Services

Posted on August 25, 2010
Slate Magazine (Double X): India, the Rent-a-Womb Capital of the World, by Amanda Fontanella-Khan: The country's booming market for surrogacy. You can outsource just about any work to India these days, including making babies. Reproductive tourism in India is now...

Defending Planned Parenthood's Efforts to Increase Access to Safe Abortions in Rural Iowa

Posted on August 24, 2010
RH Reality Check: A Pioneering Effort to Increase Rural Women's Access to Safe Abortion in Iowa, by Kathleen Reeves: For the past two years, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland has been using video-conferencing and a remote-controlled drawer to dispense abortion...

Call for Submissions: Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society's 2011 Symposium

Posted on August 24, 2010
The Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society Announces our 2011 Symposium: Gender, Justice, & Victim Rights: A Gendered Perspective of Victims in the Criminal Justice System February 25, 2011 University of Wisconsin Law School Madison, Wisconsin We are seeking...

Washington State Board of Pharmacy to End Rule Forbidding Pharmacies to Discriminate or Delay in Dispensing Medications

Posted on August 24, 2010
RH Reality Check: A Step Backward in Washington: State to Undo Rule Mandating Pharmacies Fill Prescriptions Without Discrimination, by Amie Newman: On Tuesday, August 17th the Washington State Board of Pharmacy made it official. They intend to revise the rules...

Making the Case for Home Births

Posted on August 24, 2010
The Guardian (UK): In defence of home births, by Sali Hughes: Sali Hughes doesn't judge women who give birth in hospitals, so why, she argues, can't people accept her decision to opt for a home birth? For most women like...

Virginia AG Says State Can Impose Tougher Oversight of Abortion Clinics

Posted on August 24, 2010
Wash. Post: Virginia can impose tougher abortion clinic oversight, AG Cuccinelli says, by Anita Kumar: RICHMOND -- Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II has concluded that the state can impose stricter oversight over clinics that perform abortions, a move immediately...

Federal Judge Enjoins President Obama's Stem Cell Research Expansion

Posted on August 24, 2010
New York Magazine: Judge Blocks Obama's Stem Cell Research Expansion: In a setback to the Obama administration?s efforts to expand stem cell research, a judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking the federal government from funding any medical research that...

India Pays Newlyweds to Delay Childbirth

Posted on August 22, 2010
NY Times: India Tries Using Cash Bonuses to Slow Birthrates, by Jim Yardley: SATARA, India ? Sunita Laxman Jadhav is a door-to-door saleswoman who sells waiting. She sweeps along muddy village lanes in her nurse?s white sari, calling on newly...

Germany's Constitutional Court Rules Same-Sex Partners Entitled to Equal Inheritance Rights

Posted on August 21, 2010
Feminist Wire (Ms. Magazine): German Same-Sex Couples to Receive Equal Inheritance Rights: Germany's Federal Constitutional Court has ruled that registered same-sex partners should receive the same inheritance rights as married couples. According to theAssociated Press, the court decided yesterday in...

Birth Control Beyond the Pill

Posted on August 21, 2010
NY Times: Birth Control Doesn?t Have to Mean the Pill, by Michelle Andrews: There was a time when Becky Thurmond Fowler neglected to take her birth control pills for days on end. But she didn?t worry, because she and her...

Abortion a Possible Explanation for Mystery of "L.A. Basement Babies"

Posted on August 21, 2010
L.A. Now blog (LA Times): In L.A. basement babies case, abortion a possible reason for deaths, by Andrew Blankstein & Kate Linthicum: Detectives trying to unravel the mystery of two dead babies found wrapped in newspapers from the 1930s in...

Examining the Link Between Adultery and Stoning

Posted on August 21, 2010
NY Times: Crime (Sex) and Punishment (Stoning), by Robert F. Worth: It may be the oldest form of execution in the world, and it is certainly among the most barbaric. In the West, death by stoning is so remote from...

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