Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Features news, information, scholarship and resources mainly for law school professors who teach and write about reproductive rights.
Author: Caitlin E. Borgmann, an assistant professor at CUNY School of Law, edits Reproductive Rights Prof Blog, which is part of the Law Professor Blogs Network.
Blawg Related Categories: Civil Rights • City University of New York • Law Professor
Recent Posts from Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
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Voters in 3 States Will Face Anti-Abortion Ballot Initiatives This Nov.
NYT Editorial: Abortion Rights on the Ballot, Again: Once again this year, opponents of women’s reproductive rights have managed to get initiatives aimed at ending or limiting abortion rights on ballots — in South Dakota,…
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Lawsuit Challenges Oklahoma Ultrasound Mandate
U.S. News & World Report/HealthDay: New Ultrasound Mandate Law Challenged in Oklahoma Abortion Case: An Oklahoma law forbidding a woman from having an abortion until she has an ultrasound and has a physician give her…
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CT Supreme Court Invalidates Opposite Sex Marriage Requirement
Via How Appealing: "High Court Grants Gay Marriage Rights": The Hartford Courant provides a news update that begins, "Same-sex couples won the right to marry in Connecticut in an historic ruling by the Supreme Court…
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Bush, McCain, Palin: Anti-Abortion But Hardly Pro-Life
NY Times Op-Ed Column: Can This Be Pro-Life?, by Nicholas Kristof: The Bush administration this month is quietly cutting off birth control supplies to some of the world’s poorest women in Africa. Thus the paradox…
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Wall St. Journal Examines McCain and Obama's Approaches to the Court and the Constitution
Wall St. Journal: Barack Obama: The Present Is Prologue, by Jess Bravin: ...On legal matters, including Supreme Court appointments, an Obama administration would likely be shaped by its leader's strong convictions on constitutional law. As…
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Yale Law School Conference on Sexual and Reproductive Rights
Today through Sunday, Yale Law School hosts a conference on "The Future of Sexual and Reproductive Rights.": Constitutional law and politics have changed greatly since the last outpouring of legal scholarship on questions of reproductive…
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Erwin Chemerinsky on How the Election Might Affect the Supreme Court on Abortion & Other Issues
LA Times Op-Ed: The Candidates and the Supreme Court, by Erwin Chemerinsky: Why are the two major presidential candidates virtually ignoring the importance of this election in determining the composition of the Supreme Court and…
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European Court of Human Rights to Rule on Ireland's Abortion Laws
Wall St. Journal: When Justices Prefer Not to Judge: Court May Pass on Abortion Again, by Paula Park: A European court may decide whether a woman has a basic right to abortion to preserve her…
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Supreme Court Declines to Review Decision Protecting Incarcerated Women's Right to Abortion
RH Reality Check: Supreme Court Will Not Hear Case Limiting Abortion Rights, by Amy Roth: The Supreme Court opened its new term with some good news for women: it rejected an appeal from the state…
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McCain "Palling Around" With Anti-Choice Activists?
Recent news stories document McCain's links to a number of different anti-choice activists. Right Wing Watch: McCain Campaign Palling Around With Schenck: Since Sarah Palin decided to go after Barack Obama for his essentially non-existent…