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In Countries Where Abortion Is Illegal, Desperate Women Turn to Internet

Posted on July 11, 2008
The Press Association: Fear Over Abortion Pills Website: Women living in countries where abortion is restricted - including Northern Ireland - are using the internet to buy medication enabling them to perform an abortion at home, it emerged. A medical...

Obama and the "Abortion Minefield"

Posted on July 11, 2008
Politico: Obama walks the abortion minefield, by Carrie Budoff Brown: For the past week, some activists in the abortion rights community have been trying to figure out why Barack Obama, a Democrat praised for his strong defense of reproductive rights,...

Penelope Andrews on Recognition of Polygamous Marriages in South Africa

Posted on July 11, 2008
Penelope Andrews (CUNY/Valparaiso) has posted 'Big Love?' The Recognition of Customary Marriages in South Africa on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Comment contextualizes the issue of polygamous marriages within the South African constitutional paradigm, one committed unequivocally to the...

World Bank Urges Improved Access to Contraception

Posted on July 10, 2008
Reuters: World Bank urges more focus on contraception: More emphasis is needed on family planning issues in poor countries, the World Bank said on Thursday, citing new data that it said showed 51 million unplanned pregnancies occur because women lack...

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Obama's Pro-Choice Stance Complicates His Efforts to Appeal to Evangicals

Posted on July 10, 2008
CBS News: Obama's Call For Unity Faces Abortion Test, by Brian Montopoli: ...Obama has made a point of reaching out to evangelicals during his presidential campaign, a group that Democrats have largely ceded to Republicans in recent years. He has...

Planned Parenthood Action Fund Endorses Obama

Posted on July 08, 2008
On the heels of Barack Obama's recent equivocations on abortion and sexuality education (here and here), Planned Parenthood Action Fund yesterday endorsed Obama, only the second time the organization has endorsed a presidential candidate. From the PPAF website: The Planned...

Women's E-News Examines Media Coverage of Teen "Pregnancy Pact"

Posted on July 08, 2008
Women's E-News, Pregnancy Pact Frenzy Missed Real Teen' Story, by Shelia Gibbons: The explosion of media interest in June in the so-called "pregnancy pact" of 17 students at Gloucester High School has left many wondering what society in general, and....

Sales Drop for Cervical Cancer Vaccine Gardasil

Posted on July 08, 2008
The Wall Street Journal: Merck Buffeted by Analyst Report, by Avery Johnson: Merck & Co.'s shares dropped 4.8% after an analyst report questioned whether sales of the cervical-cancer vaccine Gardasil have met Wall Street estimates for the second quarter...

Study Shows Men's Age Affects Success of Pregnancy

Posted on July 07, 2008
Medical News Today: Man's Age Affects Pregnancy Success And Miscarriage Rate In Couples With Fertility Problems, by Catharine Paddock: Researchers in France studying over 12,000 couples with fertility problems found that when the man was over 35 pregnancy rates fell...

Obama Clarifies Remarks on "Mental Distress" and Abortion

Posted on July 06, 2008
Following recent controversial remarks in Relevant Magazine (see previous post) that seemed to dismiss the need for a mental health exception for abortion, Senator Obama clarified those comments for reporters. Frank James of The Swamp has posted the transcript...

Obama Objects to a Mental Health Exception for Late Abortions

Posted on July 05, 2008
Relevant Magazine has published A Q&A with Barack Obama on its website. The magazine invited readers to submit questions. According to the magazine, "Most of the questions submitted centered on Obama?s personal faith and abortion.... He aimed to clarify his...

Researchers Closer to Predicting Pregnancy from IVF

Posted on July 04, 2008
San Jose Mercury News: Predicting pregnancy odds, by Vianna Davila: Stanford University researchers said they are one step closer to accurately predicting if in vitro fertilization will result in pregnancy, according to a study released Tuesday. The study, published in...

Women Cite Bad Economy as Reason for Abortions

Posted on July 04, 2008
ABC News: Women Say Economy Factors in Abortions: Many women who got abortions last year say the worsening economy was one of the reasons for their decision. There were 13,843 abortions performed in Minnesota in 2007. Of the women who...

Emily Bazelon on South Dakota's So-Called "Informed Consent" Law

Posted on July 03, 2008
Slate: Telling Doctors What To Think, by Emily Bazelon: In 2005, South Dakota passed an unprecedented abortion law. The statute purports to be about ensuring that patients give informed consent. Planned Parenthood characterizes it differently: as an intrusion on the...

Grand Jury Refuses to Indict Beleaguered Abortion Provider

Posted on July 03, 2008
ABC News: Grand Jury: Late Term Abortion Not A Crime: A Kansas grand jury declined Wednesday to indict one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers, saying it did not find enough evidence to indict him on any crime related...

Ninth Circuit: Activists May Display Photos of Aborted Fetuses Near Middle School

Posted on July 03, 2008
LA Times: Federal court upholds abortion foes' 1st Amendment rights, by Victoria Kim: The 1st Amendment rights of two anti-abortion activists were violated when they were ordered to stop circling a Rancho Palos Verdes middle school in a truck displaying...

Bishop Apologizes for Catholic Charities' Role in Helping Teen Obtain Abortion

Posted on July 03, 2008
Do people really think it's OK when a teenager, already the mother of one child, is forced to bear another child because she is stuck in foster care with a Catholic agency? The girl in this story got the abortion,...

The Uncertain Future of Facial Challenges in the Roberts Court

Posted on July 02, 2008
ABA Journal: Supreme Court Report: About Face, by David G. Savage: The U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has been sending a message to lawyers who want to challenge state laws as unconstitutional. It goes like...

Canada: Abortion Rights Pioneer Morgentaler Named Member of Order of Canada

Posted on July 02, 2008
The Vancouver Sun: Honour for Morgentaler outrages abortion foes, by Cassandra Drudi: Dr. Henry Morgentaler was named a member of the Order of Canada on Tuesday, an appointment that threw fuel on the bitter abortion debate and was slammed by...

Abortion Becomes Less Taboo in the Middle East

Posted on July 02, 2008
L.A. Times: Number of Abortions Rising in Middle East, experts say, by Borzou Daragahi: BEIRUT -- Unmarried and pregnant, Ranya gathered up her courage and confided to a friend that she was considering a drastic step: an illegal abortion. She...

How Not to Get Teens to Take Pregnancy Seriously

Posted on July 01, 2008
ABC Family seems to have come up with a very lame response to recent concerns about teenage pregnancy. And, as in every American movie of late to confront unintended pregnancy, abortion continues to be the big shameful "a-word" that must...

Yemen: Young Girls Defy Child Marriage

Posted on June 30, 2008
NY Times: Tiny Voices Defy Child Marriage in Yemen, by Robert F. Worth: One morning last month, Arwa Abdu Muhammad Ali walked out of her husband?s house here and ran to a local hospital, where she complained that he had...

Rev. Jim Wallis Denies Urging New Democratic "Abortion Reduction" Plank

Posted on June 30, 2008
Newsweek: Reducing Abortions, by Sarah Kliff: Jim Wallis devoted a significant chunk of his latest book, "The Great Awakening," to outlining his views on abortion. The evangelical leader wrote in favor of "protecting unborn life in every possible way, but...

NY Times Magazine Examines Declining Population in Europe

Posted on June 29, 2008
NY Times Magazine cover story: No Babies?, by Russell Shorto: ...In the 1990s, European demographers began noticing a downward trend in population across the Continent and behind it a sharply falling birthrate. Non-number-crunchers largely ignored the information until a 2002...

Eighth Circuit to Pregnant Women: You're Not Carrying a Dolphin!

Posted on June 28, 2008
The Eighth Circuit has issued its long-awaited en banc decision in Planned Parenthood v. Rounds, lifting a preliminary injunction against a South Dakota so-called "informed consent law." The law requires doctors to give women seeking abortions a written statement that...

Family Research Council Ad Attacks Obama on Abortion

Posted on June 27, 2008
The Caucus (NY Times): New Ad Hits Obama on Abortion, by Michael Falcone: The lobbying arm of the Family Research Council, the conservative Christian organization, is going on the air in several cities on Friday with a television ad featuring...

Romania: 11-Year-Old Incest Victim Permitted Abortion

Posted on June 27, 2008
BBC News: Romanian girl permitted abortion: An 11-year-old Romanian girl who is 21 weeks pregnant after being raped by an uncle will be able to have an abortion, even though it is forbidden by law. A government committee said the...

Alabania: Fading Custom of "Sworn Virgins" Allowed Women to Live as Men

Posted on June 26, 2008
NY Times: Albanian Custom Fades: Woman as Family Man, by Dan Bilefsky: KRUJE, Albania ? Pashe Keqi recalled the day nearly 60 years ago when she decided to become a man. She chopped off her long black curls, traded in...

James Dobson Attacks Obama on Religious Views, Abortion

Posted on June 26, 2008
NY Times: Evangelical Leader Attacks Obama on Religious Views, by Larry Rohter: Just days after Senator Barack Obama met quietly with religious leaders, including the son of the Rev. Billy Graham, another of the evangelical movement?s most prominent names, James...

Montana: Proposed Const'l Amendment to Define Embryos As Persons Fails to Qualify for Ballot

Posted on June 26, 2008
Missoulian: Abortion ban fails to qualify for ballot, opponents say, by Jennifer McKee: Opponents of an proposed constitutional amendment to ban abortion by defining a fertilized human egg as a ?person? announced Tuesday the measure has failed to gain enough...

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