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Jury Reaches Verdict in Trial for Murder of Dr. Tiller

Posted on January 29, 2010
The Associated Press is reporting that the jury has reached a verdict in the trial of Scott Roeder. See the story here. Other articles on the trial (not yet reporting on the verdict): NY Times: Doctor?s Killer Puts Abortion on...

Relief Efforts in Haiti and Women's Reproductive Health

Posted on January 29, 2010
Guttmacher Institute news release: Haiti Relief Efforts Cannot Afford to Overlook Reproductive Health Needs: Following the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, relief agencies, multilateral institutions and governments are increasingly shifting their focus from emergency response to longer...

Center for Reproductive Rights Urges CBS to Its Reconsider Super Bowl Ad

Posted on January 28, 2010
The Huffington Post: Center for Reproductive Rights' Letter to CBS: Tebow Story Raises Serious Accuracy Questions, by Nancy Northup: We are writing to request that CBS reconsider its decision to air an advertisement by the anti-choice group Focus on the...

Bridget Crawford on Surrogacy and Taxation

Posted on January 28, 2010
Bridget J. Crawford (Pace University School of Law) has posted Taxation, Pregnancy and Privacy on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article frames a discussion of surrogacy within the context of existing income tax laws. A surrogate receives money for...

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Judge Rules out Manslaughter for Dr. Tiller's Murderer

Posted on January 28, 2010
Salon.com: Shooting Tiller was murder, by Tracy Clark-Flory: ...and not voluntary manslaughter, a judge rules You can breathe a sigh of relief, because after all that worry, it turns out Scott Roeder will not be given a chance at a...

Bristol Palin as the Spokeswoman for Abstinence

Posted on January 27, 2010
Double X (Slate Magazine): Is Bristol Palin a Good Spokeswoman for Abstinence?, by Jessica Grose: She could be worse. Last February, Bristol Palin told Fox News? Greta Van Susteren that abstinence was ?not realistic at all? for teens. [2] Then...

National Abortion Federation and ACLU Ask Court To Preclude Voluntary Manslaughter Charge In Trial Of Dr. Tiller?s Murderer

Posted on January 27, 2010
NAF/ACLU Press Release: WICHITA, KS ? The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) today filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of the National Abortion Federation, the ACLU, and the ACLU of Kansas in the trial of Scott Roeder, the alleged murderer...

Researcher Publishes Study on Coerced Reproduction

Posted on January 26, 2010
Newsweek: Coerced Reproduction, by Sarah Kliff: Experts are studying a phenomenon that brings a whole new meaning to the term 'unwanted pregnancy.' About a decade ago, Elizabeth Miller remembers seeing a certain teenage girl at a hospital clinic for adolescents...

Some Pro-Choice Advocates See Threat to Roe in Citizens United Decision

Posted on January 26, 2010
Politico: Activists see threat to Roe precedent, by Josh Gerstein: The Supreme Court?s ruling Thursday undercutting a ban on corporate political spending that had been in place for more than a century has left abortion-rights supporters jittery that the justices...

Common Household Chemicals May Reduce Women's Fertility

Posted on January 26, 2010
Wash. Post: Household chemicals linked to reduced fertility, by Shari Roan: Flame-retardant chemicals found in many household consumer products may reduce fertility in women, researchers reported today. Their study joins several other papers published in the last two years suggesting...

Anti-Abortion Super Bowl Ad Stirs Controversy

Posted on January 26, 2010
Media Decoder (NY Times): Both Sides Making an Issue of Issue Ad on Super Bowl, by Stuart Elliott: CBS is feeling more heat ? from both sides ? on its decision to accept a commercial from the evangelical organization Focus...

U.S. Teen Pregnancy Rate Rises for First Time in Over a Decade

Posted on January 26, 2010
Wash. Post: Rise in teenage pregnancy rate spurs new debate on arresting it, by Rob Stein: The pregnancy rate among teenage girls in the United States has jumped for the first time in more than a decade, raising alarm that...

KY Senate Passes Bill Requiring Ultrasound Before Abortion

Posted on January 26, 2010
Courier-Journal.com: Senate passes ultrasound abortion bill, by Joseph Gerth: FRANKFORT, Ky. ? The Senate passed legislation Monday that would require doctors to show a woman an ultrasound image of her fetus and explain how it is developing before performing an...

Name Change an Important Component of Transgender Rights

Posted on January 26, 2010
The New York Times: For Transgender People, Name is a Message by, William Glaberson In many courts around the country, what were once risky or shocking name-change requests are becoming more routine as the sting of gender taboo has lost...

Researchers Puzzled by Trend of Lower Birth Weights in U.S.

Posted on January 26, 2010
Wall St. Journal: Birth Weights Fell From 1990 to 2005, by Shirley S. Wang:Researchers Can't Explain the Two-Ounce Decline in U.S., Worry the Trend Could Lead to Increase in Health Problems Mothers are giving birth to lighter babies in the...

Quake in Haiti is Speeding Up Adoption Process

Posted on January 26, 2010
Time Magazine: Haiti's Orphaned Kids: How the Quake Is Speeding Adoptions, by Siobhan Morrissey: Dressed in an orange floral pinafore with her hair neatly pulled back into cornrows, 7-year-old Marie Guerline Clerge Bryditzki could serve as the poster child for...

Courtney Joslin on the American Family

Posted on January 25, 2010
Courtney G. Joslin (UC Davis School of Law) has published The Evolution of the American Family on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This short piece examines the changing meaning of marriage and the family in the U.S. Among other developments,...

Melissa Jacoby on Consumer Lenders and Assisted Reproduction

Posted on January 25, 2010
Melissa B. Jacoby (UNC School of Law) has posted The Debt Financing of Parenthood on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In this contribution to the symposium Show Me the Money: Making Markets in Forbidden Exchange, I explore an under-appreciated participant...

Word "Abortion" is Avoided During Prosecutor's Opening Statement in Trial for Murder of Dr. Tiller

Posted on January 24, 2010
NY Times: In Abortion Murder Trial, No Motive Mentioned, by Monica Davey: WICHITA ? Jurors in the trial of an abortion opponent accused of murdering Dr. George R. Tiller, one of the nation?s only late-term abortion providers, never heard the...

Thousands March in Annual "March for Life" Abortion Protest

Posted on January 24, 2010
Wash. Post: Thousands march in D.C. demonstration against abortion, by William Wan: Chanting, yelling and singing their way down Constitution Avenue, tens of thousands of abortion opponents marched through the cold Friday in the annual March for Life , marking...

Pondering Why Pregnant Woman's Bodies Are Treated As Public Property

Posted on January 23, 2010
Newsweek Magazine: Until We Have Better Science, Please Shut Up About My Pregnancy Pinot Grigio, by Mary Carmichael: When I decided to have my first child, my friends who were already parents warned me that I?d soon have someone constantly...

National Advocates for Pregnant Women: Writing Competition

Posted on January 23, 2010
NAPW Law Student Writing Competition 2010: NAPW is a non-profit organization dedicated to securing the human and civil rights, health and welfare of pregnant and parenting women, and furthering the interests of their families. This year's writing contest is ?Birthing...

Co-Founder of NARAL Passes Away at 102

Posted on January 22, 2010
The Huffington Post: Ruth Proskauer Smith, 1908-2010, by Kelli Conlin: Ruth Proskauer Smith, a founding hero of the reproductive rights movement, died last night at 102 years of age. As we celebrate today the anniversary of Roe v. Wade -...

Blogging for Choice in Honor of Dr. Tiller

Posted on January 22, 2010
In honor of the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, I am once again blogging for choice. This year, the theme of Blogging for Choice is "Trust Women." This slogan is one that Dr. George Tiller, murdered last year while...

Interview with Author of "Dispatches from the Abortion Wars"

Posted on January 22, 2010
Salon.com: Can we ever win the abortion wars?, by Lynn Harris: The fanatical fringe has hijacked medicine and wrought terror. But there is hope, says the author of a new book As jury selection continues in the Wichita, KS trial...

Reflecting on Black Women's Abortion Experience on the Anniversary of Roe

Posted on January 22, 2010
the Root: Blacks and Roe v. Wade, by Latoya Peterson (Racialicious): African-American women get a disproportionate number of abortions. Yet when it comes to the debate on abortion rights, we keep our lips zipped. Here?s why, on the anniversary of...

Critics Question Vetting of Organizations Receiving VA "Choose Life" License Plate Fee

Posted on January 20, 2010
Wash. Post: Questions raised about anti-abortion groups getting Va. license plate fee, by Derek Kravitz: When a Virginia driver purchases a specialty "Choose Life" anti-abortion license plate, $15 of the $25 processing fee goes to Heartbeat International, a Christian group...

Newsweek Examines Continuing Legal Battles over Fetal Rights

Posted on January 20, 2010
Newsweek: The Prenatal Problem - recent court cases revisit questions about a fetus' rights - and the rights of a pregnant woman, by Sarah Kliff: ...[W]hat rights, if any, does a fetus have? The answer is a complicated one that...

Newly Released Video Clips Show Dr. Tiller Discussing Abortion and His Career

Posted on January 20, 2010
Salon.com: Dr. Tiller: The lost tapes, by Tracy Clark-Flory: Just days before Roe v. Wade's 37th anniversary, and as anti-choice activists flock to Wichita, Kan, for Dr. George Tiller's murder trial, Physicians for Reproductive Choice has released two "never-before-seen" video...

New TX Law Requires Health Care Providers to Test Pregnant Women for HIV

Posted on January 19, 2010
Statesman.com: New HIV-testing law focuses on pregnant women, by Mary Ann Roser: A gap in the way Texas cared for pregnant women sometimes cost some of the state's most innocent residents - newborn babies - their lives. To remedy that,...

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