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Obama to Sign Executive Order: No Media Allowed

Posted on March 25, 2010
The Washington Times: No media at Obama abortion-order signing, by Timothy Noah: A day after a lavish bill signing White House ceremony on health care reform, President Obama will sign an executive order barring the law from allowing federally funded...

China's First Female Astronauts Limited to Married Mothers

Posted on March 25, 2010
Time Magazine: China's Female Astronauts: Must Be a Married Mom, by Hillary Brenhouse: The men chosen to lead China into outer space are often referred to locally as "superhuman beings" ? and not just because they train to cross the...

March 24 is Back Up Your Birth Control Day

Posted on March 24, 2010
Center for Reproductive Rights: The FDA and Emergency Contraception: One Year After the Decision: On March 23, 2009, the Center scored a major victory when a federal court ruled that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had put politics before...

Why Stupak Held Out for "Meaningless" Executive Order on Abortion

Posted on March 23, 2010
Slate Magazine: The Stupak Mystery, by Timothy Noah: Why did he hold out for a meaningless executive order? A lot of people are scratching their heads about the executive order Rep. Bart Stupak extracted from President Obama as a condition...

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Virginia Clinic Sparks Controversy by Offering Free IVF and Eggs at London Seminar

Posted on March 23, 2010
Wash. Post: London seminar offering free IVF from Virginia clinic sparks controversy, by Rob Stein: A Virginia infertility clinic sparked an international ethical controversy Wednesday by sponsoring a seminar in London that gave away an attempt to get pregnant using...

Jim Hawkins on Financing Fertility Treatments

Posted on March 23, 2010
Jim Hawkins (University of Houston Law Center) has posted Financing Fertility on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Fertility clinics and financing companies often offer refund programs in which patients pay a premium up front for fertility treatments. If the treatment...

U.S. C-Section Rate Reaches All-Time High

Posted on March 23, 2010
NY Times: Cesarean Births Are at an All Time High in U.S, by Denise Grady: The Cesarean section rate in the United States reached 32 percent in 2007, the country?s highest rate ever, health officials are reporting.... The increases have...

NOW: Health Care Overhaul Disadvantages Women

Posted on March 23, 2010
National Organization for Women, Statement by NOW President Terry O'Neill: Health Care Reform Victory Comes with Tragic Setback for Women's Rights: As a longtime proponent of health care reform, I truly wish that the National Organization for Women could join...

What the Health Care Overhaul Means to You

Posted on March 23, 2010
The Washington Post offers an interactive on-line tool to help answer: What Does the Health Care Bill Mean to Me? The health-care overhaul will change the way millions of Americans get health insurance and require nearly everyone to have health...

Stupak Calls on Neugebauer To Apologize for "Baby Killer" Remark

Posted on March 23, 2010
CBS News: Stupak: Randy Neugebauer Should Apologize on House Floor for "Baby Killer" Remark, by Michelle Levi: Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) called on Texas Republican Rep. Randy Neugebauer to apologize on the House floor for calling out "baby killer" during...

What Happens Now That Health Care Bill Has Become Law?

Posted on March 23, 2010
NY Times: After Obama Signs the Bill, What Next?, by David M. Herszenhorn:Most of the major provisions in the health care legislation do not take effect for months, if not years. Even some popular changes that Democrats are touting as...

Nebraska Anti-Abortion Legislators More Focused on Denying Services to "Illegal Immigrants" than on Promoting Fetal Health

Posted on March 22, 2010
LA Times: In Nebraska, issues of immigration and abortion collide, by DeeDee Correll: Nebraska long has regarded itself as a staunchly antiabortion state. But for months, the state has wrestled with an issue that pits its signature conviction against another...

Catholic Nuns Win in Catholic Church's Division Over Health Care Reform

Posted on March 22, 2010
Salon: Catholic healthcare scoreboard: Nuns and laity 2, bishops 0, by Mary Ann Sorrentino: Bishops have fought healthcare reform. Nuns have backed it. Once again, it's the women who are showing the way. The healthcare reform debate in Congress has...

Catholics for Choice Says Democrats Sold Out Women's Rights To Pass Health Care Bill

Posted on March 22, 2010
Catholics for Choice press release: Healthcare Reform: One Step Forward for America; One Step Back for Women's Rights: . . . Ever since the election, the Democratic Party has said that it would rely on evidence-based policies to reduce the...

Deal on Abortion Helps House Clinch Victory on Health Care Bill

Posted on March 22, 2010
NY Times: House Approves Health Overhaul, Sending Landmark Bill to Obama, by Robert Pear & David M. Herszenhorn: WASHINGTON ? Congress gave final approval on Sunday to legislation that would provide medical coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans...

NAF: Abortion Funding Status Quo Harms Millions of Low-Income Women

Posted on March 22, 2010
National Abortion Federation press release: NAF Calls for Redefinition of What Being Pro-Choice Means: Status Quo Harms Millions of Low-Income Women: Statement of Vicki Saporta, President and CEO of the National Abortion Federation (NAF):Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed historic...

Guttmacher Institute Analyzes Obama Administration's New Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative

Posted on March 22, 2010
Guttmacher Institute news release: New White House Initiative Overhauls U.S. Teen Pregnancy Prevention Efforts: Requires Programs to Be Effective, Age-Appropriate and Medically Accurate, But Key Details Remain Unresolved The $114.5 million teen pregnancy prevention initiative signed into law by President...

President Obama Will Sign Health Care Bill on Tuesday

Posted on March 22, 2010
Wash. Post: Obama to sign health-care bill into law Tuesday, by Shailagh Murray, Lori Montgomery & Scott Wilson: President Obama will sign landmark health-care legislation into law Tuesday at the White House without waiting for the Senate to deal with...

Subtle Ads for Cervical Cancer Drugs Raise Concern

Posted on March 19, 2010
Newsweek Magazine: Message in a Bottle, by Barbara Kantrowitz and Pat Wingert: The subtle ads for drug giant Glaxo's new cervical-cancer drugs have people talking. Have you seen this ad? A young woman follows a mysterious stream of glitter up...

Richard Storrow on Medical Ethics and the Policing of Parenthood

Posted on March 19, 2010
Richard F. Storrow (CUNY School of Law) has posted Medical Conscience and the Policing of Parenthood on SSRN. Here is the abstract: As state and local anti-discrimination provisions become more and more comprehensive, physicians who refuse to treat patients for...

New Study Shows that Giving Women Advance Supply of Emergency Contraception Alone Does Not Prevent Pregnancy

Posted on March 19, 2010
Salon.com: Morning-after pill only works if you take it, by Tracy Clark-Flory: A study finds that an advanced supply of emergency contraception alone doesn't do much good to prevent pregnancy When it comes to pregnancy prevention, there are certain solutions...

Will Canada Exclude Family Planning from Maternal Health Initiative for Developing Countries?

Posted on March 19, 2010
Huffington Post: Whoa Canada, by Suzanne Ehlers: Canada did its best this week to act like George W. Bush. The government excluded family planning from a new maternal health initiative for developing countries it planned to launch at the G8...

State Experiences with Abortion Riders Show Potential Impact of Stupak Amendment

Posted on March 18, 2010
Wash. Post: Insurers report on use of abortion riders, by Peter Slevin: CHICAGO -- In North Dakota, where insurers can cover abortions if customers pay a separate premium, the state's largest provider says it sells no abortion policies because no...

The Environmental Impact of Menstruation

Posted on March 18, 2010
Slate Magazine: Greening the Crimson Tide, by Nina Shen Rastogi: What's the environmental impact of my period? According to the new book Flow: The Cultural History of Menstruation, the average woman throws away 250 to 300 pounds of "pads, plugs,...

"Pregnant" Male Fish Abort Embryos Conceived by Unattractive Mates

Posted on March 18, 2010
National Geographic: "Pregnant" Fish Fathers Abort Babies of Unsexy Females, by Helen Scales: When it comes to mating, pipefish males are always waiting for something better?and bigger?to come along, a new study shows. That's because "pregnant" pipefish fathers will kill...

Colorado Activists Say They've Gathered Enough Signatures to Place Ballot Initiative to Ban Abortion on Fall Ballot

Posted on March 18, 2010
TheDenverChannel.com: Abortion Foes Say They've Cleared Petition Bar: Abortion opponents in Colorado say they have enough signatures to restore a ballot question on banning abortion. Personhood USA says it has met the number of signatures due Thursday...

Catholics Groups Divided Over Health Care Bill

Posted on March 18, 2010
Wash. Post: Dissent among Catholics seen as nuns' groups back health bill, by Michelle Boorstein: Recent public statements in favor of the health-care bill by the head of a major Catholic health organization and a group of nuns have given...

The Supreme Court After Justice Stevens

Posted on March 17, 2010
The New Yorker: After Stevens, by Jeffrey Toobin: What will the Supreme Court be like without its liberal leader? Supreme Court Justices are remembered for their opinions, but they are revealed by their questions. For many years, Sandra Day O?Connor....

Kucinich Announces He Will Vote "Yes" on Health-Care Bill

Posted on March 17, 2010
Wash. Post: Kucinich drops opposition to health-care bill, by Garance Franke-Ruta: Saying "I take this vote with the utmost seriousness," Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) announced Wednesday morning that he will vote for the health-care bill now before the House, despite...

Op-Ed: Republicans Need to Refocus on Opposition to Abortion Rights

Posted on March 16, 2010
Wash. Post Op-Ed: If Republicans keep ignoring abortion, they'll lose in the midterm elections, by Marjorie Dannenfelser: The health-care debate has come down to a fight over abortion. And the face of that fight is Bart Stupak, a nine-term congressman...

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