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New Books Rebut Conservative Christian Views of the Bible on Sex

Posted on February 09, 2011
Newsweek Magazine: What the Bible Really Says About Sex, by Lisa Miller: New scholarship on the Good Book?s naughty bits and how it deals with adultery, divorce, and same-sex love. The poem describes two young lovers aching with desire. The...

FDA Approves Drug to Reduce Risk of Preterm Delivery

Posted on February 09, 2011
Chicago Tribune: FDA approves drug to reduce risk of premature births, by Andrew Zajac & Thomas H. Maugh II: The drug, a synthetic form of the hormone progesterone, is being marketed under the name Makena. The manufacturer will be required...

Partisan Constitutional Rulings and the Fate of the Health Care Law

Posted on February 09, 2011
NY Times: Doing the Judicial Math on Health Care, by Adam Liptak: WASHINGTON ? Put away your copy of the Constitution. Take out your calculator. It?s time for some judicial arithmetic. There have been four rulings on the constitutionality of...

"Texting While Birthing"

Posted on February 09, 2011
New York Magazine: Texting While Birthing, by Tina Cassidy: The biological case for live updates from the delivery room. Not long ago, a Boston anesthesiologist witnessed a childbirth milestone. In the operating room, a mother, awake while undergoing a C-section,...

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House Republicans Promote Abortion Restrictions as Fiscal Restraint Measures

Posted on February 09, 2011
NY Times: Under Banner of Fiscal Restraint, Republicans Plan New Abortion Bills, by Jennifer Steinhauer: WASHINGTON ? All but invisible during the midterm elections, the abortion debate has returned to Congress. Invoking the mantra of fiscal restraint that has dominated...

Clinical Trial Shows Success of Fetal Surgery for Non-Life-Threatening Conditions

Posted on February 09, 2011
NY Times: Success of Spina Bifida Study Opens Fetal Surgery Door, by Pam Belluck: For years, surgeons have been trying to find ways of operating on babies in the womb, reasoning that medical abnormalities might be more easily fixed while...

Mary Anne Franks on Georgia Bill Proposing to Replace "Victim" with "Accuser" for Certain Crimes Including Rape

Posted on February 08, 2011
Concurring Opinions Blog: Victims to the left of me, accusers to the right: Does Bobby Franklin know something we don't about rape?, by Mary Anne Franks: Georgia state representative Bobby Franklin (R-Marietta) has recently proposed a bill that would require...

House Judiciary Committee Holds Hearing on GOP Abortion Bill

Posted on February 08, 2011
CBS: Abortion Funding Showdown Escalates, by Stephanie Condon: As anti-abortion rights activists and lawmakers escalate their attacks on groups like Planned Parenthood, Democrats and pro-abortion rights groups are digging in their heels with new messaging and grassroots mobilization...

Edward Fallone on Funding Stem Cell Research

Posted on February 08, 2011
Edward Fallone (Marquette University Law School) has posted Funding Stem Cell Research: The Convergence of Science, Religion & Politics in the Formation of Public Health Policy on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The controversy over the funding of stem cell...

Anti-Choice Group Holds Event Near Site of Dr. Tiller's Murder

Posted on February 07, 2011
Mother Jones: Anti-Abortion Group to Host Event Near Site of Tiller's Murder, by Kate Sheppard: An anti-abortion rights group leading the effort to prevent Dr. Mila Means from offering abortion services at her Wichita office are planning an event at....

Progressive Groups Defend Planned Parenthood in Face of Mounting Attacks

Posted on February 07, 2011
The Nation: Piling on Against Planned Parenthood, by Sharon Lerner: The next videogate episode is out! This one features Planned Parenthood worker Amy Woodruff advising a man posing as a sex trafficker on how to get health care for girls...

Center for Reproductive Rights on Upcoming House Hearings on Anti-Choice Bills

Posted on February 07, 2011
Center for Reproductive Rights press release: CRR Statement on This Week?s House Hearings on Anti-Choice Bills New York?This week, the House of Representatives will hold hearings on the recently introduced bills banning abortion coverage for millions of women...

Gail Collins on the "Siege of Planned Parenthood"

Posted on February 07, 2011
NY Times op-ed column: The Siege of Planned Parenthood, by Gail Collins: As if we didn?t have enough wars, the House of Representatives has declared one against Planned Parenthood. Maybe it?s all part of a grand theme. Last month, they...

Justice Ginsburg Doesn't See Health Care Law Being Fast-Tracked to Supreme Court

Posted on February 07, 2011
The Wall Street Journal - Law Blog: Health Care Directly to Scotus? Not in Justice Ginsburg's Mind, by Ashby Jones: That effort to fast-track the constitutional challenge to the health care law straight to the U.S. Supreme Court? Uh, yeah,...

CDC Report Shows African Americans Disproportionately Bear Burden of HIV

Posted on February 07, 2011
USA Today/HealthDay: Burden of HIV highest for blacks, CDC reports, by Steven Reinberg: Although blacks make up only 13.6% of the U.S. population, they account for 50.3% of all diagnosed cases of HIV, federal health officials reported. The rate of...

NJ Gov. Christie Vetoes Bill to Expand Family Planning Services

Posted on February 07, 2011
nj.com: Christie vetoes bill to expand Medicaid to more women seeking family-planning services, by Susan K. Livio: Gov. Chris Christie today vetoed a bill that would have expanded the Medicaid program to more women seeking family planning services, saying it...

Groups Disagree on How to Address New York City's Abortion Rate

Posted on February 06, 2011
The New York Times: City's High Abortion Rate Defies Easy Explanation, by Anemona Hartocollis: At a time when evidence suggests that people in New York City are smoking less, eating better and biking more, one health statistic that has not...

The "Archaic Attitudes" of the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act"

Posted on February 06, 2011
Boston Globe (op-ed column): Archaic attitudes in abortion bill, by Renee Loth: UNDER PRESSURE from appalled voters, House Republicans have removed the most galling provisions from their ?No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act?? ? the ones that would have changed...

Federal Court Rules Baltimore Regulation of "Crisis Pregnancy Centers" Violates 1st Amendment

Posted on February 06, 2011
Ms. Magazine: Oh, Baltimore!, by Dahlia Grossman-Heinze: On January 31, U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis ruled that an ordinance regulating crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) in Baltimore violates the constitutional right to free speech. In his decision, Garbis wrote [PDF]:...

Georgia Bill Would Ban Abortion After 20 Weeks

Posted on February 06, 2011
macon.com: Bill: Ban abortions in state after 20 weeks, by Maggie Lee: A bill filed in the Georgia Legislature would ban all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, a proposal sponsors call the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. Twenty weeks...

New Questions Are Raised About Shaken-Baby Syndrome

Posted on February 04, 2011
NY Times: Shaken-Baby Syndrome Faces New Questions in Court, by Emily Bazelon: At 4 months, Noah Whitmer was an easy baby. Super tranquilo, remembers Trudy Eliana Mu�oz Rueda, who took care of Noah at her home day care center in...

Women in Long-Term Relationships Report More Supportive Partners in their Decisions on Abortion

Posted on February 04, 2011
Guttmacher News Release: MOST WOMEN OBTAINING ABORTIONS REPORT THEIR PARTNERS KNOW OF AND SUPPORT THEIR DECISION: Women in Long-Term Relationships More Likely to Have Supportive Partners; Those Who Have Experienced Intimate Partner Violence Least Likely The overwhelming majority of women...

Obama Administration Considers Requiring Insurers to Offer Free Contraceptives

Posted on February 03, 2011
NY Times: Officials Consider Requiring Insurers to Offer Free Contraceptives, by Robert Pear: WASHINGTON ? The Obama administration is examining whether the new health care law can be used to require insurance plans to offer contraceptives and other family planning...

House Republicans Drop "Forcible Rape" from Proposed Abortion Funding Ban

Posted on February 03, 2011
NBC News - FirstRead: House GOPer re-writes abortion language in bill, by Shawna Thomas: In the last two weeks, there's been a slowly bubbling uproar over H.R. 3, legislation to prohibit taxpayer funding of abortions, introduced by Rep. Chris Smith...

The Daily Show on "Forcible Rape" in Rep. Chris Smith's Proposed Abortion Funding Ban

Posted on February 03, 2011
Daily Show: Schaal - Rape Victim Abortion Funding: Kristen Schaal doesn't think hard-earned tax dollars should go to women who have only been rape-ished. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Rape Victim Abortion Funding...

Attention Turns to Justice Kennedy After District Court Vote on Health Care

Posted on February 02, 2011
Newsweek Magazine: Health-Care Ruling: All Eyes on Justice Kennedy, by Tim Sloan: With a Florida judge?s ruling against the administration Monday, Obama?s health-care plan seems destined for a Supreme Court showdown, where Justice Anthony Kennedy will be the swing vote...

Federal Officials Announce Drop in U.S. Teen Birth Rate

Posted on February 02, 2011
The Washington Post - The Checkup Blog: Teen birth rate hits historic low, by Rob Stein: The long decline in teen births, which had stalled for two years, seems to be back on track, federal health officials announced Wednesday. The...

NY Times Editorials Discuss "The Two Abortion Wars"

Posted on February 01, 2011
The New York Times editorial: The Two Abortion Wars: A Highly Intrusive Federal Bill: House Republicans are preparing to push through restrictions on federal financing of abortions far more extreme than previously proposed at the federal level. Lawmakers who otherwise...

House Republicans' Bill to Ban Federal Funding for Abortion Redefines "Rape"

Posted on February 01, 2011
Mother Jones: The House GOP's Plan to Redefine Rape, by Nick Baumann: Rape is only really rape if it involves force. So says the new House Republican majority as it now moves to change abortion law. For years, federal laws...

Federal Judge Declares Pregnancy Center Disclosure Requirement Unconstitutional

Posted on February 01, 2011
The Baltimore Sun: Judge rules pregnancy center ordinance unconstitutional, by Mary Gail Hare: A federal judge has struck down the city ordinance requiring faith-based pregnancy counseling centers to tell clients upfront that they won't help them get an abortion...

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