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Posted on January 14, 2008Dov Fox (Yale Law School) has posted Retracing Liberalism and Remaking Nature: Designer Children, Research Embryos, and Featherless Chickens on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Liberal theory seeks to achieve the moral and practical goods of toleration, civil peace, and...
Misinformed consent bill in Indiana
Posted on January 11, 2008We're going to see a whole lot of this in 2008, thanks to Justice Kennedy's off-topic musings in Gonzales v. Carhart. Indianapolis Star: Abortion advice bill reintroduced in Senate, by Bill Ruthhart: Life begins at conception, and a fetus could...
Embryonic stem cells created without destroying embryos
Posted on January 11, 2008Los Angeles Times: Stem cells created without destroying embryos, by Karen Kaplan: Scientists reported Thursday that for the first time they have made human embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos, a development that the government's top stem cell official said...
Charles Kindregan on Assisted Reproductive Technology
Posted on January 11, 2008Charles P. Kindregan (Suffolk University Law School) has posted Thinking About the Law of Assisted Reproductive Technology, Wisconsin Journal of Family Law, Vol. 27, p. 123, 2007, on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article surveys some of the difficult...
Argentine Governor Vetoes Abortion Regulation
Posted on January 10, 2008Thanks to Dr. Martin Hevia (Escuela de Derecho, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina) for the following post: As one of his first measures, the recently elected current governor of the Province of La Pampa in Argentina, Oscar Mario Jorge, vetoed....
Right to Life of Michigan vows to push for another state ban that mirrors the federal law
Posted on January 09, 2008Detroit Free Press: Abortion foes won't yield to legal setback, by Chris Christoff: Michigan's leading anti-abortion group said it would not give up on trying to pass another ban on so-called partial-birth abortion, despite the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal Monday...
More on the Spanish Abortion Clinics Strike
Posted on January 09, 2008I wonder how this tactic will play out. The New York Times reports that clinics will still perform emergency procedures, but given that abortion is safer the earlier it is done, even women with healthy pregnancies will face some increased...
Presidential candidates on reproductive rights
Posted on January 08, 2008As the primary season heats up, those looking for the candidates' positions on abortion can find a summary (by the New York Times) here. For all of this blog's posts on the 2008 campaign, including past media coverage, click here....
Embryo Adoption?
Posted on January 08, 2008Julie Shapiro writes, on the Feminist Law Professors blog: I was at the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) conference last week and there, amid all legal publishing companies and on-line search services in the Exhibitor?s Hall, was a table...
Australia's Version of the Global Gag Rule
Posted on January 08, 2008The Age.com (Australia): Liberal revives abortion aid push, by Tony Wright: THE Rudd Government is considering a controversial report that recommends allowing Australian overseas aid money to be spent on abortion advice for women in developing countries...
Spanish Abortion Clinics Strike to Protest Raids, Arrests
Posted on January 08, 2008The Associated Press reports: MADRID, Spain ? Private clinics that conduct more than 90 percent of the abortions in Spain began a five-day strike Tuesday to protest a crackdown on centers accused of carrying out illegal operations. The strike, backed...
More blog posts on AALS Hot Topic Panel on Gonzales v. Carhart
Posted on January 07, 2008David Cohen has posted commentary on the panel at Feminist Law Professors, focusing on which women are most affected by abortion bans on post-first-trimester procedures. Michael Dorf (one of the speakers) also comments, at Dorf on Law, on a disagreement...
U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Review Legal Questions Raised in a Challenge to Michigan?s Abortion Ban
Posted on January 07, 2008Press release from the ACLU: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 7, 2008 Contacts: Kary Moss, ACLU of Michigan 313-578-6813; Rachel Hart, ACLU, (212) 549-2638; Dionne Scott, CRR, (917) 637-3649; Sarah Scranton, PPAM, (517) 482-1080 ext.1 WASHINGTON - The U...
AALS "Hot Topic" Panel on "Reproductive Justice After Carhart"
Posted on January 07, 2008I thought I would say a bit about this informative and insightful panel, a "hot topic" panel at this year's AALS meeting in New York, for those who were unable to attend. While it is of course not possible to...
China woman in legal first over abortion case
Posted on January 06, 2008Via the Telegraph.co.UK: A Chinese woman who was forced to have an abortion despite being nine months pregnant is suing the authorities for their actions. Jin Yani's waters had already broken when China's abortion police came for her. They took...
AIDS Patients Face Downside of Living Longer
Posted on January 06, 2008In Sunday's New York Times: CHICAGO ? John Holloway received a diagnosis of AIDS nearly two decades ago, when the disease was a speedy death sentence and treatment a distant dream. Yet at 59 he is alive, thanks to a...
Survey: Many South Dakota lawmakers support another vote on abortion ban
Posted on January 05, 2008According to the Rapid City Journal/AP: PIERRE -- About half the members of the South Dakota Legislature support a plan to hold a statewide vote on a proposed abortion ban that includes exceptions for rape, incest or threats to a...
The Quinceanera Mass: a "weapon against teen pregnancy?"
Posted on January 05, 2008Via the Associated Press: ...An elaborate coming-of-age ritual for Hispanic girls on their 15th birthday, the Quinceanera has long been divisive in the U.S. Catholic Church, where it's viewed as either an exercise in excess or a great opportunity to....
Anti-Abortion Bill Imperils Italy?s Governing Coalition
Posted on January 05, 2008The New York Times reports: ROME (Bloomberg News) ? The Vatican is backing an Italian opposition proposal to make it harder to end pregnancies, threatening to open new divisions in Prime Minister Romano Prodi?s coalition. The proposal by Sandro Bondi,...
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