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Male Reproductive Control of Women May Lead to Unwanted Births and Abortion

Posted on April 09, 2010
Guttmacher Institute news release: Partners' Control of Women's Reproductive Options May Lead to Abortions and Unwanted Births: Male reproductive control?which takes place when a woman?s partner imposes his reproductive intentions on her through intimidation, threats or actual violence?occurs among women...

Justice Stevens Announces Retirement

Posted on April 09, 2010
Wash. Post/Reuters: Justice Stevens to resign, Obama to reshape court: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Liberal Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens announced on Friday that he will resign, giving President Barack Obama his second chance to reshape the nation's highest court...

Stupak Plans to Retire

Posted on April 09, 2010
NY Times: Under Fire for Abortion Deal, Stupak to Retire, by Jeff Zeleny and David M. Herszenhorn: Representative Bart Stupak of Michigan, who played a central role with fellow anti-abortion Democrats in negotiating a compromise in the final hours of...

Justice Stevens Contemplates Leaving the Bench

Posted on April 07, 2010
NY Times: At 89, Stevens Contemplates Law, and How to Leave It, by Adam Liptak: WASHINGTON ? ?There are still pros and cons to be considered,? Justice John Paul Stevens said in his Supreme Court chambers on Friday afternoon, reflecting...

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San Francisco Endorses New Policy for the Treatment of HIV

Posted on April 07, 2010
NY Times: City Endorses New Policy for Treatment of H.I.V., by Sabin Russell: In a major shift of H.I.V. treatment policy, San Francisco public health doctors have begun to advise patients to start taking antiviral medicines as soon as they...

Op-Ed on Oklahoma Supreme Court Decision Rejecting Reproductive Health Care Restriction

Posted on April 07, 2010
Jurist: Oklahoma Supreme Court rightly rejected law undermining reproductive rights, by Stephanie Toti (Staff Attorney, US Legal Program, Center for Reproductive Rights): The Oklahoma Supreme Court recently struck down an omnibus statute, S.B. 1878, that imposed a host of contradictory...

What Scott Roeder's Life Sentence Means

Posted on April 07, 2010
Salon.com: Scott Roeder's life sentence: What it means, by Lynn Harris: Slain abortion doctor George Tiller's closest colleague talks about the justice served -- and the challenges ahead Scott Roeder, 52, has been sentenced to spend the rest of his...

Abortion Is a Litmus Test for Republicans But Not Democrats

Posted on April 07, 2010
Newsweek Magazine: New Majority, by Sarah Kliff: If Congress is mostly Democrats, why is there an anti-abortion-rights majority in the House? Because Republicans treat abortion as a litmus test, while Democrats don't. A strong Democratic majority in Congress does not...

Jody Madeira on the Legal Constructions of Women in the Infertility and Abortion Contexts

Posted on April 07, 2010
Jody Lynee Madeira (Indiana University Maurer School of Law-Bloomington) has posted Common Misconceptions: Reconciling Legal Constructions of Women in the Infertility and Abortion Contexts on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In legal scholarship, there is great disparity between constructions of...

Reassessing the "Mommy Track"

Posted on April 07, 2010
Slate Magazine: The Mommy Track Turns 21, by Angie Kim: Why it no longer deserves a bad rap from feminists. The "mommy track" turned 21 this month. Should we celebrate or rue its coming of age? The term stems from...

Embryonic Personhood Will be on November 2011 Ballot in Mississippi

Posted on April 07, 2010
Clarionledger.com: Mississippi voters to decide when life begins: Abortion foes have secured enough signatures on a petition to get an initiative on the 2011 ballot to define life as beginning at the point of conception Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann...

Top Picks to Replace Justice Stevens on Supreme Court

Posted on April 06, 2010
Huffington Post: John Paul Stevens Retiring?: Top Picks To Be The Next Supreme Court Justice, by Shriram Harid: In an interviewin early March, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens said he would make up his mind in about a month's...

Roeder Sentenced to Life in Prison

Posted on April 06, 2010
NY Times (Reuters): Killer of Abortion Doctor Given Life in Prison: KANSAS CITY (Reuters) - An anti-abortion activist who murdered one of America's few late-term abortion providers was sentenced Thursday to life in prison in a case that galvanized both...

Illinois Court Dismisses Challenge to State's Parental Notice of Abortion Act

Posted on April 06, 2010
ACLU Blog of Rights: Illinois Teens: Can't Win for Losing, by Alexa Kolbi-Molinas: On Monday, a Cook County Circuit Court judge dismissed the ACLU's challenge to the Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act; a law that prevents teens from having...

Margaret Brinig on Religion, Race, and Motherhood

Posted on April 06, 2010
Margaret F. Brinig (Notre Dame Law School) has posted Religion, Race and Motherhood on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Some mothers seem to rely on formal legal relationships to help their children to thrive despite socioeconomic difficulties. Some, and particularly...

Roeder to be Sentenced on Thursday for the Murder of Doctor Tiller

Posted on April 01, 2010
NPR: Killer of Abortion Provider To Be Sentenced, by Kathy Lohr: Scott Roeder, who was convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting of a Kansas abortion provider, will be sentenced Thursday in Wichita. Last May, Roeder gunned down George Tiller,....

Secretary Clinton Advocates For Contraception and Abortion Access at G8 Meeting

Posted on April 01, 2010
The Gazette: U.S. challenges Harper on abortion, by Juliet O'Neil: Britain as well; Safe abortions are key, Clinton says as G8 ministers meet U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared at odds yesterday with Prime Minister Stephen Harper's G8 initiative...

Carole Joffe on Abortion and Health Care Reform, and on Violence in the Abortion Debate

Posted on April 01, 2010
The Nation: Q and A with Carole Joffe, by Katha Pollitt: ...Q: What do you see as the effect of health care reform on women's reproductive lives and choices? A: I call it the good, the bad, and the ugly....

Federal Court Refuses to Dismiss Case Challenging Government Funding of Organizations That Deny Reproductive Health Care to Trafficking Victims

Posted on April 01, 2010
ACLU Press Release: A Victorious Step Toward Ensuring Reproductive Health Care for Trafficking Victims: BOSTON ? A federal court judge ruled Monday that the American Civil Liberties Union?s lawsuit challenging the government?s use of taxpayer dollars to impose religious doctrine...

Courtney Joslin on the Legal Regulation of Pregnancy and Childbirth

Posted on March 31, 2010
Courtney G. Joslin (University of California, Davis - School of Law) has posted Legal Regulation of Pregnancy and Childbirth on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This piece, a short entry in The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion, examines the legal regulation...

Researchers Blame Facebook for Rise in Syphilis in UK

Posted on March 31, 2010
The Huffington Post: Facebook Blamed For Rise In Syphilis, by Bianca Bosker: According to a report published in a slew of publications--including the Telegraph, Sun, and Daily Mail--British health experts have linked Facebook to a rise in syphilis, a sexually...

Embryonic and Fetal Personhood Amendment to be on Colorado Ballot in November

Posted on March 31, 2010
The Cypress Times: Personhood Certified to be on Colorado Ballot: DENVER - The Colorado Personhood Amendment?s signatures have been certified, and the Personhood Amendment will be on the Colorado ballot in November. Personhood Colorado has sponsored a ballot initiative to...

David Cohen on the Persistence of Sex Segregation in the U.S.

Posted on March 31, 2010
David S. Cohen (Drexel University - Earle Mack School of Law) has posted The Stubborn Persistence of Sex Segregation on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Almost fifty years ago, Congress began protecting against sex discrimination in federal statutory law. Almost...

Guttmacher Institute Analyzes Health Care Legislation's Implications for Reproductive Health

Posted on March 31, 2010
Guttmacher Institute news release: The New Health Care Reform Legislation: Pros and Cons for Reproductive Health: For the nation?s consumers and providers of reproductive health care, and for advocates of reproductive health and rights, the health care reform legislation just...

SAT Scores and Other Desired Traits Determine Price of a Woman's Eggs

Posted on March 30, 2010
Slate Magazine: The Egg Market, by William Saletan: What determines the price of a woman's eggs? SAT scores. . . . A market in lucrative traits is developing. Wealthy people are buying smarter babies. Even if your kids get the...

Health Bill Restores Millions in Funding for Abstinence-Only Programs

Posted on March 30, 2010
Wash. Post: Health bill restores $250 million in abstinence-education funds, by Rob Stein: A little-noticed provision of the health legislation has rescued federal support for a controversial form of sex education: teaching youths to remain virgins until marriage...

Victims of North Carolina's Forced Sterilization Program Seek Compensation

Posted on March 30, 2010
IndyWeek.com: N.C. Eugenics Survivors Seek Justice, by Lara Torgeson: ...In 1968, at just 14 years old, Elaine became one of the thousands of victims of North Carolina's forced sterilization program. Quietly and efficiently operating from 1929 until 1974, the program's...

Election-Year Confrontation Over Future of Supreme Court Appears Likely Should Justice Stevens Retire

Posted on March 29, 2010
NY Times: In Possible Retirement, the Likelihood of an Election-Year Confrontation, by Peter Baker: WASHINGTON ? No announcement has been made, but the widely anticipated retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens in coming weeks has the White House, Senate and...

NPR Changes Terms Used to Describe People and Groups in Abortion Debate

Posted on March 29, 2010
NPR: NPR Changes Abortion Language: Last week, I wrote a post about how NPR identifies people who support or oppose abortion. It engendered a lively debate inside and outside NPR. Today, some top editors got together to review the 2005...

Health Care Law Divides Republican and Democratic Anti-Abortion Allies in Congress

Posted on March 29, 2010
NPR: Health Law Divides Anti-Abortion Allies in Congress, by Julie Rovner: One of Washington's most enduring partnerships appears headed for a nasty breakup. Republicans and Democrats who oppose abortion have found themselves on opposite sides of a major issue ?...

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