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Abortion-Rights Supporters Should "Make Their Voices Heard": But What Should They Say?

Posted on March 16, 2010
The Human Condition (Newsweek Magazine): NYT Urges Abortion-Rights Supporters to 'Make Their Voices Heard.' The Real Question: What Should They Be Saying?, by Sarah Kliff: ?Americans who support women?s reproductive rights need to make their voices heard,? The New York...

New York Times Editorial on Health Care and Abortion

Posted on March 16, 2010
NY Times Editorial: More Than Onerous: After a year of national debate, a handful of House Democrats who oppose abortion may be the ones to decide whether health care reform goes forward or not. We strongly support a woman?s right...

Op-Ed: Divorce and Teen Pregnancy More Prevalent In Conservative States Than Liberal States

Posted on March 16, 2010
Christian Science Monitor Op-Ed: High divorce rates and teen pregnancy are worse in conservative states than liberal states, by Naomi Cahn & June Carbone: Ask most people about the differences between families who live in ?red? (conservative) states and ?blue?...

Developments in Contraception Research

Posted on March 16, 2010
Slate Magazine: The Contraception Pioneers, by Jennifer Austin: It's time to give these researchers their due. It doesn't take a scientist to figure out that unprotected sex leads to babies. It does, however, take one to figure out how hormones...

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Universal Health Care Would Lead to Lower Abortion Rates

Posted on March 13, 2010
Wash. Post: Universal health care tends to cut the abortion rate, by T.R. Reid: Countless arguments have been advanced for and against the pending bills to increase health-care coverage. Both sides have valid concerns, which makes the battle tight. But...

Amnesty International Decries Doubling of Maternal Deaths in U.S.

Posted on March 13, 2010
CNN: Doubling of maternal deaths in U.S. 'scandalous,' rights group says, by Stephanie Smith: Deaths from pregnancy and childbirth in the United States have doubled in the past 20 years, a development that a human rights group called "scandalous and....

Study Suggests Birth Control Pill Lowers Risk of Death

Posted on March 13, 2010
Time: Can the birth control pill help you live longer?, by Tiffany O'Callaghan: Women who have taken the pill may live longer because they face less risk of heart disease and cancer, according to new study led by Dr. Philip...

Anti-Abortion Religious Leaders Express Satisfaction with Abortion Language in Senate Health Care Bill

Posted on March 13, 2010
Wash. Post: Antiabortion religious leaders urge lawmakers to pass Senate health bill: With the House moving toward a final health-care vote, the White House circulated Friday night a letter from Catholic and evangelical leaders that refutes claims that the Senate...

"Abortion Tweeter" Recounts Bizarre Religious Upbringing

Posted on March 13, 2010
Double X (Slate Magazine): The Bizarre Religious Roots of the Abortion Tweeter, by Kathryn Joyce: From home birth to home abortion.Angie Jackson, the Florida mother now known as the abortion tweeter, isn't the first woman to try to demystify abortion...

Mobile "Clinics" Try to Dissuade Women from Choosing Abortion

Posted on March 12, 2010
LA Times: A drive to fight abortion, by Kate Linthicum: Pastor Dave Wilkinson of Simi Valley runs weekly mobile clinics in Watts and elsewhere, offering free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, prayers and counseling. Last year Dave Wilkinson asked God for guidance...

Blogosphere in Uproar Over Breast-Milk Cheese

Posted on March 12, 2010
The Check-Up (Wash. Post): What's the big deal about breast-milk cheese?, by Jennifer LaRue Huget: Much as I love a pun, I plan to distinguish myself from the other bloggers who have written in the past few days about the...

D.C. Gives Away Free Female Condoms to Help Fight HIV/AIDS

Posted on March 10, 2010
Wash. Post: D.C. to be first U.S. city to give away free female condoms to fight HIV/AIDS, by Darryl Fears: The District will become the first city in the United States to distribute female condoms free, part of a project...

State Legislatures Churning Out Proposals to Punish or Burden Pregnant Women

Posted on March 10, 2010
Huffington Post: Caution: Pregnancy May Be Hazardous to Your Liberty, by Lynn M. Paltrow & Farah Diaz-Tello: While our country stands at a deadlock over legislation to ensure that millions of uninsured people have health care coverage, we can at...

New York City Subway System Flooded with New Anti-Abortion Ads

Posted on March 10, 2010
Metro (NY): Don't look now: You may not like the ads you see: Starting this week, the New York City subway system will be flooded with a massive ad campaign that addresses a touchy subject: abortion. The 2,000 ads, which...

New York Times Editorial on New Attacks on Reproductive Freedom

Posted on March 10, 2010
NY Times Editorial: Laws, Lies, and the Abortion Debate: It has been three years since the Supreme Court?s conservative majority abruptly departed from precedent to uphold a federal ban on a particular method of abortion. Emboldened, foes of reproductive freedom...

Sexual Assaults on Female Soldiers Are on the Rise

Posted on March 10, 2010
Time Magazine: Sexual Assaults on Female Soldiers: Don't Ask, Don't Tell, by Nancy Gibbs: What does it tell us that female soldiers deployed overseas stop drinking water after 7 p.m. to reduce the odds of being raped if they have...

Utah Bill Becomes Law: A Woman Who Arranges an Illegal Abortion May Be Charged With Homicide

Posted on March 10, 2010
Salt Lake City Tribune: Guv signs revised abortion bill, by Robert Gehrke: Gov. Gary Herbert signed into law Monday a bill that would allow a woman who arranges an illegal abortion to be charged with criminal homicide. The new law...

March 10 Is National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers

Posted on March 10, 2010
Via the National Abortion Federation: March 10 was set aside in 1996 as the National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers to commemorate the 1993 assassination of Dr. David Gunn, the first provider murdered by an anti-abortion extremist. This month,...

Appignani Bioethics Center/UN Commission on the Status of Women: Panel on Reproductive and Sexual Rights

Posted on March 09, 2010
Appignani Bioethics Center Under the auspices of The UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 54th Session Invites you to attend a panel discussion on Women's reproductive and sexual rights crises: An update Date Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 6:00...

DC Enacts Marriage Equality for Same-Sex Couples

Posted on March 09, 2010
NY Times: Gay Marriage Is Legal in U.S. Capital (Mar. 3), by Ian Urbina: WASHINGTON ? It was cold and drizzling outside the City Courthouse just after 6 a.m. on Wednesday, but no one seemed to mind among the same-sex...

Recent Scholarship on International Issues in Abortion and Other Reproductive Health Services

Posted on March 09, 2010
Suzanne Belton, et al.. have posted Attitudes Towards the Legal Context of Unsafe Abortion in Timor-Leste on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The new Penal Code in 2009 was an opportunity for Timor-Leste to allow some legal grounds for abortion,...

Darren Rosenblum on CEDAW's Misguided Focus on "Women"

Posted on March 09, 2010
Darren Rosenblum (Pace Law School) has posted Unsex Cedaw: What's Wrong with Women's Rights on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article argues that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (?CEDAW? or the ?Convention?)...

Vaginal Births More Common at Navajo Nation Hospital in Arizona

Posted on March 09, 2010
NY Times: Lessons at Indian Hospital About Births, by Denise Grady: TUBA CITY, Ariz. ? After less than two hours in the maternity ward, with her boyfriend, his mother and a nurse-midwife by her side, Jacquelynn Torivio gave birth to...

Thousands Protest Spain's New Law Easing Restrictions on Abortion

Posted on March 09, 2010
NY Times (Reuters): Madrid Anti-Abortion Protest Draws Thousands: MADRID (Reuters) - Thousands of anti-abortion demonstrators thronged central Madrid on Sunday to protest against changes to Spanish law which will make it easier for women to seek a termination...

Call for Applications: Global Reproductive Health and Rights Advocacy Training

Posted on March 09, 2010
A Healthy Future for Women and Girls Globally: Action Summit on Comprehensive Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights CENTER FOR HEALTH AND GENDER EQUITY (CHANGE) May 2-4, 2010 -- Washington, D.C. Deadline to apply: Sunday, March 28, 2010 The Center...

Why Stupak is Wrong on Abortion Coverage in the Senate Bill

Posted on March 05, 2010
Slate Magazine: Why Stupak Is Wrong, by Timothy Noah:The Senate bill doesn't fund abortions. Here's why he thinks it does. A central puzzle of the health reform debate is why Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., keeps saying that the Senate-passed bill...

Susan Stabile on a Catholic Realist Approach to Abortion

Posted on March 05, 2010
Susan J. Stabile (University of St. Thomas - School of Law) has posted An Effort to Articulate a Catholic Realist Approach to Abortion on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In an effort to try to move the abortion debate forward...

Spain Relaxes Restrictions on Abortion

Posted on March 05, 2010
Guttmacher Institute news release: Spain Expands Legal Access to Abortion: On February 24, the Spanish senate approved a new law on sexual and reproductive health, which relaxes restrictions on women?s access to abortion. The law allows abortion under any circumstances...

Tweeting Abortion: A High-Tech Twist on Long-standing, Uphill Battle to Destigmatize Abortion

Posted on March 05, 2010
Newsweek Magazine: From Town Halls to Twitter: The Long, Rocky Road To Destigmatizing Abortion, by Sarah Kliff: A Florida woman tweeting her abortion is trying to take the shame out of the procedure. It's a high-tech twist on an evolving...

Utah Bill Will Be Revised: "Reckless Acts" Causing Miscarriage No Longer Murder

Posted on March 05, 2010
NY Times: Utah Anti-Abortion Bill Citing ?Reckless Act? Is Withdrawn, by Kirk Johnson: A sweeping anti-abortion statute in Utah that would have allowed up to life in prison for a woman whose fetus died from her intentional or reckless behavior...

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