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"Pro-Life Majority" Disappears in New Gallup Poll

Posted on August 14, 2009
Time Magazine: About That Pro-Life Majority . . ., by Amy Sullivan: You may remember that back in May, Gallup released a poll showing that for the first time, a majority of Americans in their survey described themselves as "pro-life"...

TwitterBirth: Micro-Blogging Childbirth

Posted on August 14, 2009
Broadsheet (Salon.com): The miracle of birth in 140 characters or less, by Lynn Harris: A woman Twitters her way through the delivery room: #toomuchinformation? Back in the old days (2005), we raised our brows over the trendlet of inviting people,...

Student Scholarship: Racial Classification in Assisted Reproduction

Posted on August 13, 2009
Dov Fox (Yale 2010) has posted Racial Classification in Assisted Reproduction on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Note considers the moral status of practices that facilitate parental selection of sperm donors according to race. Arguments about intentions and consequences...

Myth and Fact in the Debate About Abortion and Health Care Reform

Posted on August 12, 2009
NPR: Abortion In The Health Care Bills: What's True? Melissa Block speaks with Robert Farley, staff writer for Politifact.com, about what is being said regarding abortion in the health care bills before Congress, and whether the claims are true or...

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Judge Rules on Challenge to ND Ultrasound Law

Posted on August 12, 2009
KFYR TV (Bismarck, ND): Judge Rules on ND Abortion Dispute: A judge says North Dakota`s only abortion clinic does not have to provide audio of a fetal heartbeat for women who want to end their pregnancies. Judge Douglas Herman ruled...

New Revelations on What Takes Place in a Baby's Head

Posted on August 12, 2009
Slate Magazine: What's Inside a Big Baby Head?, by Paul Bloom: New research brings surprising revelations What's going on inside a baby's bulbous head? We ask the same question about our pets, but the frustrating thing about babies is that...

Clinton Unveils Plan to Fight Sexual Violence in Congo

Posted on August 11, 2009
NY Times: Clinton Describes Plan to Fight Sexual Violence in Congo, by JEFFREY GETTLEMAN and SHARON OTTERMAN: GOMA, Congo ? Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton unveiled a $17 million plan on Tuesday to fight the widespread sexual violence in...

VA Dem. Gubernatorial Candidate to Attack Opponent's Anti-Choice Views

Posted on August 10, 2009
Wash. Post: Deeds to Wage Risky Attack On Opponent's Abortion Views, by Rosalind S. Helderman & Sandhya Somashekhar: Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate R. Creigh Deeds will launch a campaign this week to portray his opponent's longtime efforts to restrict abortion...

"Abortion Neutral" Health Care Reform?

Posted on August 10, 2009
Huffington Post: Abortion and Health Care Reform: A Common Ground Solution?, by Chris Korzen: Before leaving for August recess, the House Energy and Commerce Committee adopted an amendment to proposed health care reform legislation that raises hopes of a detente...

Some Highly Developed Countries See Rise in Fertility

Posted on August 10, 2009
Wash. Post: In Reversal, Highly Developed Nations See Rise in Fertility, by Rob Stein: For decades, the rate at which women were having babies in many of the world's most highly developed countries slowly declined. While the trend cheered some...

Jim Hawkins on Fertility Clinic Doctors as Bankers

Posted on August 10, 2009
Jim Hawkins (University of Houston Law Center) has posted Doctors as Bankers: Evidence from Fertility Markets on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In a variety of medical contexts, doctors play a prominent role as bankers, lending directly to patients or...

Society's Blase Attitude Toward Violence Against Women

Posted on August 09, 2009
NY Times: Women at Risk, by Bob Herbert: ?I actually look good. I dress good, am clean-shaven, bathe, touch of cologne ? yet 30 million women rejected me,? wrote George Sodini in a blog that he kept while preparing for...

Aging Mothers

Posted on August 09, 2009
Slate Magazine (7/30): Fertile Old Ladies, by William Saletan: Is it OK to impregnate a 60-year-old woman? Until recently, this wasn't an issue. Nature exhausted your egg supply, and that was it. But technology has surmounted that problem. Now you...

Health Insurance and So-Called Maternity Coverage

Posted on August 09, 2009
Double X: Health Insurance Woes: My $22,000 Bill for Having a Baby, by Sara Wildman: Our six-month-old daughter cost over $22,000. You?d think, with a number like that, we must have used fertility treatments?but she was conceived naturally. You?d think...

Recession May Have Caused U.S. Birth Rate to Fall, Some Experts Say

Posted on August 09, 2009
NY Times: Birth Rate Is Said to Fall as a Result of Recession, by Sam Roberts: For the first time since the decade began, Americans are having fewer babies, and some experts are blaming the economy. ?It?s the recession,? said...

Justice Sotomayor Sworn In

Posted on August 09, 2009
NY Times: Sotomayor Sworn In as Supreme Court Justice, by Charlie Savage: WASHINGTON ? Justice Sonia Sotomayor took the judicial oath on Saturday, becoming the first Hispanic and third woman to serve on the Supreme Court in United States history....

A Call on Nicaragua to Reverse its Abortion Ban

Posted on August 09, 2009
BBC (7/28): Call to reverse Nicaragua's abortion ban, by Mike Wooldridge: Amnesty International has called on Nicaragua to repeal a law introduced last year criminalising abortion in all circumstances. After a fact-finding mission, Amnesty says in that the total ban...

U.S. District Court Rules in Favor of Clinic Safety

Posted on August 06, 2009
LA Times: Federal Judge Upholds 'Bubble Ordinance' for Abortion Protesters, by Robin Abcarian: A clash in Oakland between freedom of speech and unfettered access to abortion clinics was resolved Tuesday when a federal judge ruled that a 2008 city ordinance...

Senate Begins Debate on Sotomayor Confirmation

Posted on August 06, 2009
Daily Women's Health Policy Report: Full Senate To Begin Debate on Sotomayor Tuesday: The full Senate on Tuesday is set to begin debate on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, who is widely expected to be confirmed by the end of...

President Obama Approves New Guidelines on Stem Cell Research

Posted on August 06, 2009
NY Times/Reuters (7/30): Obama Enacts New U.S. Stem Cell Research Rules: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama directed federal agencies on Thursday to enact new rules governing federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells. The rules, issued earlier...

"Forgettable Contraception" Can Help Overcome Human Fallibility

Posted on August 06, 2009
Contraception: Forgettable Contraception, by David Grimes: The term ?forgettable contraception? has received less attention in family planning than has ?long-acting reversible contraception.? Defined here as a method requiring attention no more often than every 3 years, forgettable contraception includes sterilization...

Senate Confirms Sotomayor: 68-31

Posted on August 06, 2009
NY Times: Sotomayor Confirmed by Senate, 68-31, by Charlie Savage: WASHINGTON ? Voting largely along party lines, the Senate on Thursday confirmed Judge Sonia Sotomayor as the 111th justice of the Supreme Court. She will be the first Hispanic and...

ACLU Asks FL Court to Protect Pregnant Women's Right to Refuse Medical Care

Posted on August 05, 2009
ACLU press release (8/3): ACLU Asks Florida Court to Protect the Rights of Pregnant Women to Refuse Medical Care The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Florida today filed a friend-of-the-court brief opposing the state's decision to force...

Facts Distorted in Debate on Impact of Abortion Coverage

Posted on August 05, 2009
RH Reality Check: Politics Distorts Facts on Impact of Abortion Coverage, by Susan Cohen (Guttmacher Institute): A team of researchers from Guttmacher, Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Ibis Reproductive Health found...

NOW Outraged at House Vote on Abortion Coverage

Posted on August 05, 2009
National Organization for Women: NOW Outraged at House Vote on Abortion Coverage -- Women's Rights Traded Away: NOW is outraged to learn that the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed an amendment excluding abortion services from the "essential" health benefits...

Senate Committee Votes to End Funding for Abstinence-Only Programs

Posted on August 05, 2009
ACLU press release (7/30): Senate Committee Votes To End Funding For Failed Abstinence-Only Programs: Bill Puts Teens' Health Above Politics And Ideology, Says ACLU WASHINGTON ? The Senate Appropriations Committee today voted to end funding for failed abstinence-only-until-marriage programs and...

High Rates of Maternal Mortality Persist in India

Posted on July 31, 2009
Guttmacher Institute news release: Maternal Mortality Remains High in India, Despite Slow Decline: Although maternal mortality in India is declining, it remains unacceptably high, according to the report Barriers to Safe Motherhood in India, released today by the New York?based...

Pregnant Women Will Be Among First To Receive Flu Vaccine

Posted on July 31, 2009
Wash. Post: Flu Vaccine Panel Creates Priority List, by David Brown: A complicated list of who should get pandemic flu vaccine in the fall is now set. When the vaccine starts arriving in September, first in line will be pregnant...

Man Charged Doctor Tiller's Murder Pleads Not Guilty

Posted on July 31, 2009
Daily Women's Health Policy Report: Man Charged With Murder of Abortion Provider Tiller Pleads Not Guilty: Scott Roeder, the man charged with the May 31 shooting death of abortion provider George Tiller, pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and aggravated...

Clifford J. Rosky on Parenthood and Homophobic and Heterosexist Stereotypes

Posted on July 28, 2009
Clifford J. Rosky (University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law) has posted Like Father, Like Son: Homosexuality, Parenthood and the Gender of Homophobia on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article argues that gender influences the expression of homophobic...

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