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New Ads Target Obama on Abortion

Posted on September 16, 2008
NY Times: Interest Groups Step Up Efforts in a Tight Race, by Jim Rutenberg & Michael Luo: WASHINGTON ? After largely staying on the sidelines, the types of independent groups that so affected the 2004 presidential campaign are flooding back...

Call for Submissions: Rutgers Women's Rights Law Reporter

Posted on September 16, 2008
Rutgers School of Law - Newark: Women's Rights Law Reporter: Call for Papers on Gender Law and Family Law : The Women's Rights Law Reporter is a quarterly journal of legal scholarship and feminist criticism published by students at the...

Cass Sunstein on the Election and the Fate of Roe v. Wade

Posted on September 15, 2008
Boston Globe op-ed: The fate of Roe v. Wade and choice, by Cass Sunstein: THE RIGHT to reproductive freedom has played an occasional role in many presidential campaigns, but its fate is likely to turn on the 2008 election. Republican...

GOP Confusion and Dissent Over Stem Cell Research

Posted on September 15, 2008
Boston Globe: GOP wants to close stem cell lab doors, by Jonathan D. Moreno and Rick Weiss: STEM CELL research was one issue that many observers thought would fly under the radar in this year's presidential election. Both candidates have...

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Browne C. Lewis on Afterdeath Children

Posted on September 14, 2008
Browne C. Lewis (Cleveland State University - Cleveland-Marshall College of Law) has posted Dead Men Reproducing: Responding to the Existence of Afterdeath Children on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Medical advances currently available permit dead men to reproduce...

Abortion Provider's Receipt of Order of Canada Medal Continues to Ignite Controversy

Posted on September 13, 2008
Bloomberg: Montreal Archbishop Returns Medal After Abortion Doctor Honored, by Doug Alexander: Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Montreal, is returning his Order of Canada medal because the award was also bestowed on abortion doctor Henry Morgentaler this...

McCain Faces Tough Questions on Abortion on "The View"

Posted on September 13, 2008
Reuters: McCain faces tough questions on abortion on U.S. TV, by Jason Szep: Republican presidential candidate John McCain courted female voters on Friday with appearances on TV shows popular with women, but prompted boos from a studio audience while stressing...

McCain Ad Supports Stem Cell Research But Palin Opposes It

Posted on September 13, 2008
The Trail (Wash. Post): McCain Radio Spot Trumpets Stem Cell Policy Palin Opposed, by Robert Barnes: Republican presidential candidate John McCain's campaign today released a radio ad that four times trumpeted his support for stem cell research but never mentioned...

ACS Releases Issue Brief on Sex Stereotypes in Abstinence-Only Education Programs

Posted on September 12, 2008
The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy has released Lesson One: Your Gender is Your Destiny ? The Constitutionality of Teaching Sex Stereotypes in Abstinence-Only Programs, by Bonnie Scott Jones and Michelle Movahed. Here is the summary: In this...

Presidential Race Addresses Stem Cell Research

Posted on September 10, 2008
NY Times: Back and Forth on Stem-Cell Research Energizes Race, by Larry Rohter: First abortion, now embryonic stem-cell research. An issue that energizes social conservatives has once again been thrust into the presidential campaign, after Senator Joseph R...

Sarah Palin's 9 Most Disturbing Beliefs

Posted on September 09, 2008
Via Alternet: Let's forget for a moment that Sarah Palin likes to kill moose, has lots of children and was once voted the second-prettiest lady in Alaska; that's all part of the gusher of sensationalist, but not particularly substantive, news...

Other Teen Mothers Lack Support Bristol Palin Has

Posted on September 09, 2008
Minneapolis Star-Tribune: The Other Young Mothers, by Gail Rosenblum: Dominique Hines has been following media coverage of 17-year-old Bristol Palin's pregnancy with great interest. Dominique, 16, is the single mother of a 3-month-old son, Da'Marion. She's also a high school...

Women's Health Advocates Reflect on Gardasil

Posted on September 08, 2008
RH Reality Check: There's More To HPV Prevention than Gardasil, by Emily Alexander: In the two years since Gardasil became the first HPV vaccine to obtain FDA approval, reproductive and sexual health advocates have faced steady challenges in determining how...

Sarah Weddington Writing Prize -- Call for Submissions

Posted on September 05, 2008
Via Law Students for Reproductive Justice: LSRJ is accepting submissions for its 4th annual Writing Prize. The theme this year is ?Seeking Reproductive Justice in All Places for All People.? Law Students for Reproductive Justice is looking for fresh student...

Jon Stewart Skewers Newt Gingrich Over Palin's Hypocrisy on Abortion

Posted on September 05, 2008
On September 3, Jon Stewart interviewed Newt Gingrich on the The Daily Show. He asked Gingrich whether it wasn't hypocritical for Sarah Palin to emphasize that her daughter, Bristol, had made her own decision to carry the pregnancy to term....

Teen Mothers Find Life Opportunities Limited

Posted on September 04, 2008
In the wake of Sarah Palin's revelation that her teenage daughter is pregnant and plans to marry and have the baby, June Carbone (UMKC Law School) and Naomi Cahn (GWU Law School) deliver this important message about the consequences of...

Palin Gets Mixed Reception Among Women

Posted on September 04, 2008
Women's E-News: Palin Mixes It Up for Women at GOP Convention, by Allison Stevens & Alison Bowen: ST. PAUL, Minn. (WOMENSENEWS)--Women in various places in and around the Republican National Convention here expressed wildly divergent reactions to vice presidential nominee...

Republicans Face Abortion Issue at RNC

Posted on September 02, 2008
MarketWatch (WSJ): Palin's Daughter's Pregnancy Puts Abortion in Spotlight: Family-values voters have a lot to digest as the Republican national convention gets under way. Sen. John McCain?s newly chosen running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, said Monday that her 17-year-old...

Brian Lehrer on Gov. Palin's Opposition to Comprehensive Sex Ed

Posted on September 02, 2008
Sarah Palin has publicly stated her opposition to comprehensive sex ed, supporting instead the abstinence-only approach, which studies have proven ineffective. On the Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC) today, Lehrer (broadcasting from the Republican Convention) raised the issue of Palin's approach...

N.Y. Times Magazine Examines Cancer Treatment During Pregnancy

Posted on September 02, 2008
N.Y. Times: With Child, With Cancer, by Pamela Paul: ...The question of how to handle cancer during pregnancy has long troubled the medical profession. In 1880, Samuel Gross, a pioneering American surgeon and the subject of the celebrated Thomas Eakins...

Mexican Supreme Court Upholds Legal Abortion in Mexico City

Posted on September 02, 2008
L.A. Times: Mexican Supreme Court upholds legalized abortion law, by Ken Ellingwood: In a lopsided ruling, Mexico's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a year-old law in Mexico City legalizing abortions during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. The court rejected...

Sarah Palin Announces Her 17-Year-Old Daughter Is Pregnant

Posted on September 01, 2008
L.A. Times: Sarah Palin announces 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, by Maeve Reston & Noam Levey: As the Republican National Convention prepared to open, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, John McCain's choice as his vice presidential running mate, announced that her 17-year-old...

McCain Picks Anti-Choice AK Gov. Sarah Palin

Posted on August 29, 2008
Bloomberg.com: Palin Pick Could Be `Home Run' or `Bust' for McCain in Campaign, by Heidi Przybyla: John McCain's selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate is designed to attract disaffected supporters of Hillary Clinton and soothe social...

Federal District Court Upholds Mass. Clinic Buffer Zone Law

Posted on August 28, 2008
JURIST: District court upholds Massachusetts law mandating abortion protester 'buffer zone', by Joe Shaulis: District Judge Joseph Tauro [official profile] held [PDF text] Friday that a Massachusetts statute [text] establishing a 35-foot buffer zone outside facilities which perform abortions [JURIST...

Mexico's Supreme Court Likely to Uphold Legalized Abortion in Mexico City

Posted on August 28, 2008
NY Times: Mexico Court Is Set to Uphold Legalized Abortion in Capital, by Elisabeth Malkin: MEXICO CITY ? A majority of Supreme Court justices have said Mexico City?s law legalizing abortion does not violate the Constitution, making it likely that...

Sen. Casey Says Obama Can Unify Democrats on Abortion

Posted on August 28, 2008
New York Times: Casey, an Abortion Opponent, Praises Obama, by John M. Broder: Sixteen years after his father was denied a speaking part at a Democratic convention because his anti-abortion views led him to oppose Bill Clinton?s candidacy, Senator Bob...

Planned Parenthood's Cecile Richards Addresses Democratic National Convention

Posted on August 28, 2008
Austin American-Statesman: Twenty years after her mother's star turn, Cecile Richards speaks to Democrats, by W. Gardner Selby: DENVER ? Twenty years after her mother wowed the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, Cecile Richards took a lighter star turn Tuesday...

Mexico City Struggles to Make Newly Legalized Abortions Available

Posted on August 25, 2008
NY Times: Mexico City Struggles With Law on Abortion, by Elisabeth Malkin & Nacha Cattan: When Mexico City?s government made abortion legal last year, it also set out to make it available to any woman who asked for one. That...

Call for Book Reviews: Women and the Law

Posted on August 25, 2008
Pace Law Review: Proposals Due September 25, 2008 The editors of Pace Law Review invite proposals from scholars, researchers, practitioners and professionals for contributions to a special book review issue to be published in Winter 2008. We seek proposals for...

Obama Wrote 1990 Harvard Law Review Case Comment on Fetal-Maternal Tort Actions

Posted on August 22, 2008
Via Politico: [A]n unsigned ? and previously unattributed ? 1990 article unearthed by Politico offers a glimpse at Obama's views on abortion policy and the law during his student days.... The six-page summary, tucked into the third volume of the...

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