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Kansas House Fails to Override Veto of Abortion Restriction

Posted on May 02, 2010
Kansas City Star: Kansas House vote to override abortion veto fails, by David Klepper: The Kansas House on Friday failed to revive a bill requiring doctors to give more information about the medical reasons for late-term abortions. The bill was...

Call for Student Submissions: Feminist Jurisprudence Essay Contest

Posted on May 02, 2010
American University, Washington College of Law: Alice Paul Feminist Jurisprudence Essay Contest: Washington College of Law has a long tradition of supporting feminist legal scholarship. To honor this tradition, our Feminist Jurisprudence Essay Contest has been named in honor of...

Rachel Maddow on Oklahoma's New Abortion Restrictions

Posted on May 01, 2010
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Florida Legislature Sends Pre-Abortion Ultrasound Bill to Governor

Posted on May 01, 2010
Ocala.com: Abortion bill now heads to Crist, by Ron Word: TALLAHASSEE - The House, after hours of contentious and angry debate, approved a bill 76-44 on Friday to require women to have an ultrasound before getting a first-trimester abortion. The...

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Multiple States Have Rushed to Restrict Access to Abortion

Posted on May 01, 2010
NY Times (Op-Ed): Abortion's New Battle Lines, by Charles M. Blow: While we?ve been distracted by Tea Party antics, the government?s efforts to sack Goldman Sachs and the tawdry drama of John Edwards and his baby?s mama, a rash of...

The Rise of the Abortion Doula

Posted on April 30, 2010
Slate Magazine: What's an Abortion Doula?, by Marisa Meltzer: They're strangers who will hold your hand while you go under the knife. A recent Bust magazine article on the pregnancy assistants known as doulas contained this description of their duties:...

Public Wants Supreme Court Nominee to Have Judicial Experience

Posted on April 30, 2010
Wash. Post: Poll affirms a vote for judicial know-how, by Robert Barnes & Jennifer Agiesta: Some Senate Democrats and legal activists are advising President Obama to look beyond the "judicial monastery" to find a replacement for retiring Justice John Paul...

Canada's Supposed Abortion War

Posted on April 30, 2010
National Post: Chris Selley: A contrived little abortion war: I?m intrigued by the idea, as championed by Stephen Harper this week, that abortion ?divides? Canadians. It does, certainly, on an emotional level. But considering how vicious and clamorous the pro-life...

New Oklahoma Pre-Abortion Ultrasound Law Alarmingly Invasive

Posted on April 30, 2010
Alternet: New Oklahoma Law: Women Seeking Abortions Must Have Ultrasounds Against Their Will, by Dana Stone: The Oklahoma State Legislature is playing doctor again. Last year they dictated how specialists at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center may care...

Two Men Convicted of Blocking Access to NYC Abortion Clinic

Posted on April 29, 2010
NY Times: Two Convicted of Denying Access to Abortion Clinic, by Colin Moynihan: For the first time in New York City, federal prosecutors have used the Freedom of Access to Clinics Entrances Act to secure a conviction in a case...

Oklahoma One of Most Restrictive States on Abortion

Posted on April 29, 2010
Salon.com: Oklahoma, where women's rights are swept away, by Tracy Clark-Flory: Two new antiabortion bills are enacted, and more are on the way On Tuesday, Oklahoma's Legislature passed two abortion laws previously vetoed by the governor for being unconstitutional...

Oklahoma Pre-Abortion Ultrasound Requirement Challenged

Posted on April 27, 2010
Center for Reproductive Rights press release: Center for Reproductive Rights Files Lawsuit against Oklahoma?s Ultrasound Requirement: New York?Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a challenge against Oklahoma legislation which prohibits a woman from getting an abortion unless she first...

An Interview with Child Health Director, Dr. Alan Guttmacher

Posted on April 27, 2010
NY Times: Child Health Director Has Background in Genetics, by Claudia Dreifus:Dr. Alan Guttmacher, a Harvard-trained geneticist and pediatrician, is the new acting director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the federal agency that finances research...

The Call for A "Mom" on the Supreme Court

Posted on April 27, 2010
Salon.com: The absurd call for a "mom on the Supreme Court", by Kate Harding: Appointing another mother to the Supreme Court won't change the fact that "having it all" is hard as hell Just the title and teaser for Peter...

A Closer Look at the Ninth Circuit and its "Liberal" Reputation

Posted on April 26, 2010
NY Times: ?Liberal? Reputation Precedes Ninth Circuit Court, by John Schwartz: When President Obama earlier this year nominated Goodwin Liu, a liberal Berkeley law professor, to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, conservatives did not just...

Young Reproductive Justice Activists Respond to Accusations of Complacency

Posted on April 26, 2010
Newsweek: Remember Roe? Young Activists Say They Never Forgot!, by Kate Dailey: Sarah Kliff's article describing the graying of the abortion-rights movement has started a really smart, useful online discussion about the status of that movement. The piece, which published...

Early Marriage and Childbirth in India

Posted on April 25, 2010
Amanpour (CNN): India: The Pressure to Have Children, by Sara Sidner: Nineteen-year-old Kalawati Kumari stares at her 11-month-old baby boy filled with both love and regret. She wishes her life could be different. ?I did not want to have children...

Two Op-Eds on Nebraska's New Abortion Laws

Posted on April 25, 2010
LA Times (op-ed): Nebraska legislation aimed at undoing Roe vs. Wade, by Caitlin Borgmann: Nebraska's Abortion Pain Prevention Act, signed into law last week, appears to have a quite reasonable aim: to prevent fetuses from feeling pain during abortions...

Quest for "Female Viagra" Continues

Posted on April 25, 2010
Salon.com: The quest for the perfect female orgasm, by Tracy Clark-Flory: Is a "lady Viagra" on the horizon? And if so, would that be a good thing? Last week, the media was worked into a breathless frenzy over the potential...

Nike's Sponsorship of Ben Roethlisberger Sends Bad Message to Women

Posted on April 25, 2010
NY Times (Op-Ed): Nike's Women Problem, by Timothy Egan: Is there anything creepier than a big, beer-breathed celebrity athlete exposing himself in a night club and hitting on underage girls, all the while protected by an entourage of off-duty cops?....

More Reflection on the Pill at 50

Posted on April 25, 2010
Huffington Post: The Pill Turns 50: Taking Stock, by Dr. Christiane Northup: This year marks the 50th anniversary of the birth control pill, a development that ushered in the sexual revolution of the 1960s and gave women unprecedented freedom to...

Female Condom Empowers Women to Protect Themselves

Posted on April 25, 2010
USA Today (Op-Ed): Female Condom empowers women to save themselves, by Yolanda Young: In 1993, the Food and Drug Administration gave its stamp of approval to a then-novel item: the female condom. At the time, AIDS awareness was growing. NBA...

Virginia Legislature Restricts Medicaid Funding for Abortion

Posted on April 25, 2010
Wash. Post: Virginia legislature restricts abortion funding, by Rosalind S. Helderman & Anita Kumar: RICHMOND -- The Virginia General Assembly on Wednesday accepted proposals from Gov. Robert F. McDonnell to restrict state funding for abortions, expand spending on economic development...

Reflections on "The Paradox of the Pill," on Its 50th Anniversary

Posted on April 22, 2010
Time Magazine: Love, Sex, Freedom and the Paradox of the Pill, by Nancy Gibbs: There's no such thing as the Car or the Shoe or the Laundry Soap. But everyone knows the Pill, whose FDA approval 50 years ago rearranged...

Obama Says Abortion Rights Important But Disavows Litmus Test for Supreme Court Nominee

Posted on April 22, 2010
Wash. Post: Obama Abortion rights 'very important' but no litmus test for court nominee, by Anne Kornblut, Perry Bacon Jr. & Debbi Wilgoren: President Obama said Wednesday that he considers it "very important" that women be allowed to make decisions....

The Tactics Behind Announcing the Supreme Court Nominee

Posted on April 20, 2010
Newsweek Magazine: Expect Supreme Court Nominee to Be Announced Between May 1 and 15, by Daniel Klaidman: Here's something people keep asking about the Supreme Court vacancy: since the Obama White House knew for many months that there was a...

Newer Supreme Court Appointees Less Likely to Surprise

Posted on April 20, 2010
NY Times: Why Newer Appointees Offer Fewer Surprises, by Adam Liptak: WASHINGTON ? The last two justices to leave the Supreme Court, David H. Souter and Sandra Day O?Connor, were nominated by Republican presidents and then drifted left. So did...

CLE Program on Drugs, Pregnancy and Parenting: April 29th at NYU School of Law

Posted on April 20, 2010
Presented by: National Advocates for Pregnant Women with New York University's School of Law & The NYU Silver School of Social Work When: Thursday, April 29, 2010 (half day program 12p-5p) Where: NYU School of Law, 40 Washington Square South,...

Sex Work, HIV/AIDS, and Sexual Rights in Nigeria

Posted on April 20, 2010
Ebenezer Tope Durojaye (University of the Free State, South Africa) et al. have posted Sex Work, HIV/Aids and Sexual Rights in Africa: The Nigerian Experience on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article examines the meaning of sex work and...

If Nominated, Diane Wood Will Face Scrutiny on Abortion Rulings

Posted on April 20, 2010
Wash. Post: Abortion rulings could bring scrutiny of possible Supreme Court pick Wood, by Peter Slevin: CHICAGO -- If President Obama nominates U.S. Circuit Judge Diane P. Wood to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, social conservatives say...

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