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How Will Abortion Coverage Fare in the Reconciliation Process?

Posted on March 03, 2010
RH Reality Check: Nelson Restrictions Most Likely Outcome of Reconciliation Process, by Jodi Jacobson: President Obama is expected to unveil his final health care package in a news conference later today.... Nonetheless, the broader lines of the final health care...

Utah Bill Would Charge Women With Homicide for Seeking Illegal Abortions

Posted on March 02, 2010
NY Times: Utah Bill Would Criminalize Illegal Abortions, by Kirk Johnson: The origins of Utah State House Bill 12 lie in an act of dark and desperate violence. Last May in a small town in eastern Utah, a 17-year-old girl,...

DNA Testing Limits the Anonymity of Sperm Donors

Posted on March 02, 2010
Double X (Slate Magazine): Are Sperm Donors Really Anonymous Anymore?, by Rachel Lehmann-Haupt: DNA testing makes them easy to trace. When Donor 3066 signed up with the California Cryobank, he offered some basic information about himself on a piece of...

Anti-Choice Groups Court African-American Supporters by Invoking Conspiracy Theory

Posted on March 02, 2010
NY Times: To Court Blacks, Foes of Abortion Make a Racial Case, by Shaila Dewan: For years the largely white staff of Georgia Right to Life, the state?s largest anti-abortion group, tried to tackle the disproportionately high number of black...

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President Obama Indicates Democrats Will Move Forward with Health Care Reform

Posted on March 02, 2010
Wash. Post: At health-care summit, Obama tells Republicans he's eager to move ahead, by Shailagh Murray and Anne E. Kornblut: President Obama declared Thursday that the time for debate over health-care reform has come to an end, closing an unusual...

Andrew Koppelman on the Thirteenth Amendment and Abortion

Posted on March 02, 2010
Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern University School of Law) has posted Forced Labor, Revisited: The Thirteenth Amendment and Abortion on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Many recent works on the Thirteenth Amendment break new ground, deploying the amendment in new and creative...

Minnesota Abortion Provider Helps Meet South Dakota Women's Needs

Posted on February 26, 2010
Wash. Post: Minnesota abortion provider helps meet need in South Dakota, by Peter Slevin: SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Carol Ball's day begins in the dark, in another state. By the time she arrives at work, crosses a snowy parking lot...

More on Nebraska "Fetal Pain" Abortion Ban Hearing

Posted on February 26, 2010
At the hearing yesterday, the proponents of Nebraska's bill to ban abortions starting at 20 weeks of pregnancy were asked about the lack of a mental health exception. In response to questions about a woman who is suicidal, they suggested...

David Cohen on Sex Segregation

Posted on February 26, 2010
David S. Cohen (Drexel University - Earle Mack School of Law) has posted Keeping Men Men and Women Down: Sex Segregation, Anti-Essentialism, and Masculinity on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Current-day sex segregation is one of the central ways that...

Nebraska Holds Hearing on "Fetal Pain" Measure Banning Later Pre-Viability Abortions

Posted on February 25, 2010
I testified today in opposition to Nebraska LB 1103, which would ban abortions starting at 20 weeks after fertilization, and which contains only a very narrow health exception. The ban is unconstitutional because, as the sponsor readily admits, it prohibits...

Stupak Amendment's Return to Health Care Debate is Featured on Rachel Maddow

Posted on February 25, 2010
Rachel Maddow summed up Stupak's return to the spotlight: "Abortion rights ONLY for women rich enough to pay for it out of pocket." Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Woman Live-Tweets Her Abortion

Posted on February 25, 2010
ABC News: Angie Jackson Live-Tweets Her Abortion on Twitter, by Emily Friedman: Angie Jackson says nothing is off-limits on Twitter, not even the details of her abortion. The 27-year-old has turned to the micro blogging site, and to her blog...

Jury Selection Begins in Trial for Murder of Anti-Abortion-Rights Activist

Posted on February 24, 2010
WWMT.com: Jury selection begins for man accused of killing anti-abortion activist: Jury selection is underway in Shiawassee County for the man accused of shooting and killing an anti-abortion activist. Police say Harlan Drake shot and killed James Pouillon while he...

Abortion a Persistent Issue in Health Care Debate

Posted on February 24, 2010
Wall St. Journal: Perennial Feud Remains on Abortion, by Laura Meckler: Many obstacles need to be cleared if the Democrats are to pass their health-care legislation, but one of the toughest will be the persistent issue of abortion. Abortion was...

Two Studies Address Pregnancy-Related Depression

Posted on February 24, 2010
NY Times: Pregnancy, Depression and Acupuncture, by Lisa Belkin: Two studies released in the past few days address the the prevalence and treatment of depression during and after pregnancy. The first, published online by the journal Pediatrics, finds that a...

Woman Bears Two Children Following Ovarian Transplant

Posted on February 24, 2010
Reuters: Woman has 2 babies in first for ovarian transplant: LONDON (Reuters) - A woman has given birth to two children after her fertility was restored using transplants of ovarian tissue, the first time the complex treatment has produced two...

Does MTV's "16 and Pregnant" Prevent Teen Pregnancy or Just Exploit Teen Mothers?

Posted on February 23, 2010
Slate Magazine (Double X): Does MTV's 16 and Pregnant Keep Girls From Getting Pregnant?, by Jessica Grose: Or does it just exploit the teen moms on the show? Jenelle, the young subject of the latest episode of the MTV reality...

David Hulme on Reproductive Health and the UN's Millennium Development Goals

Posted on February 23, 2010
David Hulme (University of Manchester) has posted Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals: Politics, Ethics, Evidence and an ?Unholy Alliance? on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper provides a chronological account of the evolution of the concept and...

Jeannie Suk on the Legal Discourse of Abortion Trauma

Posted on February 23, 2010
Jeannie Suk (Harvard Law School) has posted The Trajectory of Trauma: Bodies and Minds of Abortion Discourse on SSRN. Here is the abstract: What is the legal import of emotional pain following a traumatic event? The idea of women traumatized...

Law, Gender & Citizenship Symposium on March 5, 2010

Posted on February 23, 2010
Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society Symposium announces: Law, Gender & Citizenship: Contemporary Issues for American Indians and American Immigrants March 5, 2010 Pyle Center ? 702 Langdon Street ? University of Wisconsin-Madison Click here for the symposium agenda.

Virginia Delegate Marshall Apologizes for Abortion Comment

Posted on February 23, 2010
Wash. Post: Del. Marshall says abortion remark misconstrued, apologizes, by Fredrick Kunkle: Virginia Del. Robert G. Marshall apologized Monday to people with disabilities for remarks suggesting that women who have abortions risk having later children with birth defects as a...

Bristol Palin to Play Teenage Mother on TV Series

Posted on February 23, 2010
Z on TV (Baltimore Sun): 'Family' values: Bristol Palin to 'play' teen mom on TV, by David Zurawik: I have long complained about films like "Juno" and TV series like "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" sending a message...

Lady Gaga Promotes Designer Condoms

Posted on February 23, 2010
Salon.com: Gaga for designer condoms, by Tracy Clark-Flory: The quirky pop star endorses a line of fashionable prophylactics My excitement over Lady Gaga and Cyndi Lauper promoting HIV/AIDS awareness has barely subsided and now there comes news that the "Pokerface"...

The Cost of Teen Pregnancy

Posted on February 19, 2010
MSNBC.com: A baby changes everything: The true cost of teen pregnancy?s uptick, by Kari Huus: Nate Howell has approximately 76 days to adjust to his new reality. That is when he is due to become a parent with his girlfriend,...

Why Women Blame Sexual Assault Survivors

Posted on February 19, 2010
Salon.com: Why women blame rape victims, by Tracy Clark-Flory: A new survey showing female finger-pointing over sexual assaults should come as no surprise When it comes to rape, women may not be a girl's best friend. That's according to a...

Guttmacher Institute Discusses the Health Disparities Between Black and White Americans

Posted on February 19, 2010
Guttmacher Institute news release: Black History Month: Addressing Health Disparities: As the United States celebrates Black History Month, one enduring challenge we face as a nation is the persistent health disparities between black and white Americans...

Oklahoma Court Strikes Down Intrusive Abortion Law

Posted on February 19, 2010
Center for Reproductive Rights Press Release: Court Strikes Down Intrusive OK Abortion Law, Declares Unconstitutional: New York, NY ? Today, an Oklahoma County District Court declared unconstitutional a state law that would have imposed a host of restrictions related to...

ACLU Sues USAID to Obtain Information About Religion in Overseas Abstinence-Only Programs

Posted on February 19, 2010
ACLU Press Release: ACLU Sues To Obtain Information About Taxpayer-Funded Religion In Abstinence-Only Programs NEW YORK ? The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit against the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to obtain public documents detailing...

Government Undertakes Long-Term Study of Pregnant Women and Children

Posted on February 16, 2010
NY Times: Wanted: Volunteers: All Pregnant, by Pam Belluck: . . .Authorized by Congress in 2000, the National Children's Study began last January, its projected cost swelling to about $6.7 billion. With several hundred participants so far, it aims to...

NAPW Conference on Drugs, Pregnancy and Parenting

Posted on February 16, 2010
Via National Advocates for Pregnant Women: National Advocates for Pregnant Women and New York University present: Drugs, Pregnancy and Parenting: What the Experts Have to Say Part II People working in the fields of criminal law, family law and child....

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