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White House Releases First National Plan to Reduce HIV/AIDS

Posted on July 14, 2010
Wash. Post: White House unveils national HIV/AIDS strategy, by Anne E. Kornblut: The White House on Tuesday unveiled the first formal national HIV/AIDS strategy, a plan that aims to reduce the number of new cases by 25 percent in the...

The "New Abortion Providers"

Posted on July 14, 2010
NY Times (Magazine): The New Abortion Providers, by Emily Bazelon: On a clear and mild March day in 1993, the Operation Rescue leader Randall Terry spoke at a rally in southern Florida against abortion. ?We?ve found the weak link is...

At-Home Test that Purports to Determine Fetus's Gender Goes on Sale in UAE

Posted on July 14, 2010
EmiratesBusiness: Home test could lead to more abortions, by Rachel McArthur: Controversial product allows expectant mothers to find out the gender of their unborn baby at just 10 weeks. A controversial new over-the-counter product ? allowing expectant mothers to find...

Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Will Not Endorse Kagan

Posted on July 13, 2010
Boston Globe/Bloomberg News: Lawyers? group says it will not back Kagan: The Lawyers? Committee for Civil Rights, a Washington group that focuses on the legal needs of blacks and other minorities, is declining to endorse Elena Kagan?s nomination to the...

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Elena Kagan's Career Not Defined by her Gender

Posted on July 13, 2010
New Republic: Post-Gender Justice, by Naomi Schoenbaum: What does being a woman mean to Elena Kagan? The past few months have seen plenty of commentary about Elena Kagan?s status as one of only a few women ever nominated to the...

Are Parents Less Happy Than Non-Parents?

Posted on July 13, 2010
New York Magazine: All Joy and No Fun, by Jennifer Senior: Why parents hate parenting. There was a day a few weeks ago when I found my 2 1/2-year-old son sitting on our building doorstep, waiting for me to come...

Reflections on Justice Sotomayor's First Term

Posted on July 13, 2010
Wash. Post: The un-routine sets apart Sotomayor's first term, by Robert Barnes: Several partygoers were on their way into the Supreme Court one Saturday evening in May to toast retiring Justice John Paul Stevens when they ran into Justice Sonia...

Women Found to be More Sexually Active in their Middle Years

Posted on July 13, 2010
Time Magazine: The Science of Cougar Sex: Why Older Women Lust, by John Cloud: Men who cheat on their spouses have always enjoyed an expedient explanation: Evolution made me do it. Many articles (here is one, and here is another),...

Unlike Most Current TV Dramas, "Friday Night Lights" Doesn't Shrink from Abortion

Posted on July 13, 2010
NY Times: Abortion in the Eyes of a Girl From Dillon, by Ginia Bellafante: Seated at Tami Taylor?s kitchen table, Becky Sproles wrenchingly lays out her dilemma: The only child of an embittered single bartender who gave birth to her...

Iran Claims Woman Convicted of Adultery Will Not Be Stoned, But Advocates Remain Concerned

Posted on July 13, 2010
Feminist Wire (Ms.Magazine): Iran Claims Woman Will Not be Stoned: Yesterday, the Iranian government released its first public statement on the Sakineh Mohammedi Ashtiani case, claiming that she will not be executed by stoning. Ashtiani was sentenced to death by...

Governor Jindal Signs Three Louisiana Abortion Restrictions Into Law

Posted on July 13, 2010
Feminist Wire (Ms.Magazine): Louisiana Abortion Bills Become Law: Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal signed three bills on Tuesday instituting new restrictions on abortion rights in the state. The first law requires women seeking abortions in Louisiana to undergo an ultrasound prior...

Scientists Discover Antibody That Neutralizes 91% of HIV Strains

Posted on July 13, 2010
Wall St. Journal: Antibody Kills 91% of HIV Strains, by Mark Schoofs: In a significant step toward an AIDS vaccine, U.S. government scientists have discovered three powerful antibodies, the strongest of which neutralizes 91% of HIV strains, more than any...

Senate Republicans Announce They Will Vote Against Kagan

Posted on July 13, 2010
Politico: McCain to vote no on Kagan, by Josh Gerstein: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) will vote against confirming Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, he announced Wednesday in an op-ed piece to be published in Thursday's USA Today. The main beef...

Op-Ed Urges Well-Meaning Strangers to Think Twice Before Offering Advice to Pregnant Women

Posted on July 13, 2010
LA Times (Op-Ed): Listen to a mom-to-be: Hush, strangers, by Taffy Brodesser-Akner:Pregnancy can be difficult, and your comments, warnings or questions might hit a nerve. Despite how defensive I've become, despite how hormonal I surely am, I am clearheaded enough...

Scientists Closer to Developing Male Birth Control Pill

Posted on July 13, 2010
Care2.com: Scientists May Have Invented First Male Birth Control Pill, by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux: Because this year was the 50th anniversary of the female birth control pill's approval by the FDA, there was much discussion in the past few months about...

Couples Preserve Fertility for Later Parenthood by Freezing Embryos

Posted on July 13, 2010
Wash. Post: By freezing embryos, couples try to utilize fertility while delaying parenthood, by Gillian E. St. Lawrence: When we married in 2001, my husband and I thought about having children someday. It was very important to us, though, that...

Some Are Urging Insurance Companies to Cover Contraceptives At No Extra Cost

Posted on July 13, 2010
Wash. Post: Health insurers may soon offer contraceptives at no extra cost, by Michelle Andrews: The average American woman who wants two children spends roughly five years trying to get pregnant or being pregnant. She spends a much longer time...

House Subcommittee Allocates $735 Million to Family Planning and Reproductive Health

Posted on July 13, 2010
Feminist Wire (Ms. Magazine): House Subcommittee Approves Family Planning Funding: The House State-Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee approved a markup of the FY 2011 appropriations bill yesterday afternoon that will allocate $735 million to family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) programs...

Spain Liberalized Abortion Law Takes Effect Amidst Protests

Posted on July 13, 2010
Buenos Aires Herald: Spain's new abortion law goes into action in midst of protests: Minors between 16 and 17 years of age don't need parental consent In the midst of a social conflict in Spain, the new abortion law goes...

Republicans' Emphasis on Thurgood Marshall Boosted Case for Kagan's Confirmation

Posted on July 13, 2010
Slate Magazine: Thurgood Marshall Made Them Do It, by Dahlia Lithwick: How Republicans inadvertently made the case for confirming Elena Kagan. When Senate Republicans decided to turn the first day of Solicitor General Elena Kagan's confirmation hearing into a referendum...

Note to Readers

Posted on July 13, 2010
Apologies for the unintended hiatus while I have been on vacation. I lost internet access and was unable to update the blog over the past week. -CEB

Poll Shows Australians Support Legal Abortion in First Trimester and Beyond

Posted on July 04, 2010
The Australian: Late-term abortion gets OK, by Adam Cresswell: Research involving more than 1000 Australians has found the vast majority -- 87 per cent -- support allowing abortion in the first 12 to 13 weeks, comprising 61 per cent who...

William Saletan on Kagan and the ACOG Statement on Intact D&E

Posted on July 03, 2010
Slate: When Kagan Played Doctor, by William Saletan: Fourteen years ago, to protect President Clinton's position on partial-birth abortions, Elena Kagan doctored a statement by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Conservatives think this should disqualify her from the...

Protestors Demonstrate Against Spain's New Law Liberalizing Abortion

Posted on July 03, 2010
AFP: Spaniards protest new abortion law: Hundreds of people on Saturday staged a protest outside Spain's highest court to demand the suspension of a new more liberal abortion law, two days before it was to take effect. The protesters, carrying...

Kagan Nomination Seen As Likely, but Senator Hatch Will Vote No

Posted on July 03, 2010
Wash. Post: Kagan finishes Supreme Court confirmation hearings, by Robert Barnes & Amy Goldstein: Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan navigated the last day of her confirmation testimony Wednesday, charting a course between Republican attempts to characterize her as a results-oriented...

U.S. Senate Nominee Sharron Angle Opposes Abortion Even in Cases of Rape and Incest

Posted on July 02, 2010
Huffington Post: Sharron Angle Opposes Abortion Even With Rape, Incest: 'God Has A Plan', by Sam Stein: Since winning the Republican nomination in the Nevada Senate race Sharron Angle has drawn attention and controversy for a host of conservative policy...

Assessing the Kagan Hearings

Posted on July 02, 2010
The New Republic: Substance, At Last!, by Jeffrey Rosen: Elena Kagan?s confirmation hearings haven?t been vapid at all. Far from turning into a ?vapid and hollow charade,? to use Elena Kagan?s now-famous condemnation of other Supreme Court confirmation hearings, her...

Federal Bill Introduced That Would Regulate Misleading Advertising Practices of "Crisis Pregnancy Centers"

Posted on July 02, 2010
Feminist Wire Newsbriefs (Ms. Magazine): CPC "Truth in Advertising" Legislation Introduced: Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) introduced a bill yesterday that would regulate the misleading advertising practices of Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs)...

Linda Greenhouse on the Voices that Shaped the Abortion Debate Pre-Roe

Posted on July 01, 2010
NPR (Fresh Air): The Rhetoric That Shaped The Abortion Debate: Before the Supreme Court struck down many state laws restricting abortion in the 1973 landmark case Roe v. Wade, the Justices read briefs from both abortion-rights supporters and opponents...

Spain's Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Law Liberalizing Abortion

Posted on July 01, 2010
AolNews: Spain's Supreme Court to Examine Abortion Law, by James Graff: Just days before Spain's new liberal abortion law was to go into effect, the country's highest court has agreed to hear a challenge to its constitutionality from the opposition...

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