Category Archives: Reproductive Rights

The South Dakota Senate has rejected this bill that would have required pharmacies to dispense contraceptives, despite pharmacists’ religious objections. Unfortunately, the legislature voted to allow South Dakota pharmacists to turn away women who are seeking birth control. More background … Continue reading →

Anti-abortion activists have filed a legal challenge against the Massachusetts law that expanded the buffer zone around abortion clinics from 18 to 35 feet. Anti-abortion activists complain of an unconstitutional restriction on their freedom of speech. Read more here. -Bridget … Continue reading →

The 8th Circuit ruled this week that the State of Missouri must provide transportation to clinics for inmates who want to have an abortion. The ruling responds to a class action brought by the ACLU on behalf of all imprisoned … Continue reading →

Unlike what’s coming out of Hollywood recently, a new Romanian film, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, really does deal with abortion. It won the Cannes Palme d’Or last year, and it now starts its run in the United … Continue reading →

Henry Hyde is dead. We have a Democratic Congress that should continue at least through the next election cycle. And, with massive discontent with the current Republican President and the party generally, we have a strong likelihood that a Democrat … Continue reading →

Here, via the National Network of Abortion Funds.

The Reproductive Rights Prof Blog has a good re-cap of the AALS Hot Topic panel on Gonzales v. Carhart. Michael Dorf also has offered his thoughts on some of the political issues raised in the panel. Here, I’d like to … Continue reading →

Henry Hyde died today.   The AP story says nothing about the millions of women he harmed since 1976 with the Hyde Amendment.   Unfortunate for poor women throughout the country, the Hyde Amendment won’t die with him. – David … Continue reading →

A Texas man appealed his conviction for killing his pregnant girlfriend and the fetus she carried.   He asserted violation of his substantive due process rights, inter alia, on the grounds that  the fetus was not viable (and therefore its … Continue reading →

From the AP: A federal judge has suspended Washington state’s requirement that pharmacists sell “morning-after” birth control pills, a victory for druggists who say their moral objections to the drug are being bulldozed by the government. The full story is … Continue reading →

Here’s the frivolous lawsuit of the week.   I wonder if the judge will award attorney’s fees.   The National Center for Men seems like a hooplehead outfit. A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit nicknamed … Continue reading →

The New York Times has a story today about Dr. Susan Wicklund’s new book, This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor.   The story’s worth reading for her insider’s perspective on the importance of telling the stories of … Continue reading →

On November 5, President Bush will present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to, among others, Henry Hyde. (Hat tip to Prawfsblawg.) The official press release proclaims that Hyde “has served America with distinction” and has been a “powerful defender of … Continue reading →

Tony Mauro has an article worth reading about the aftermath of Gonzales v. Carhart, the Supreme Court case from last Term upholding the federal ban on “partial birth” abortions.   The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals is set to hear … Continue reading →

Birth control for middle schoolers?   A decision by a Maine school board to offer prescription contraception to middle school girls (high schoolers already have that access) is roiling the political waters and bringing both dissent and support from a … Continue reading →

From the Kaiser Family Foundation’s kaisernetwork.org, this press release: Wal-Mart Stores on Thursday announced that it will begin selling eight additional generic drugs for $4 per 30-day prescription and several family-planning drugs for $9, USA Today reports (Appleby, USA Today, … Continue reading →

The Public Advocate for the City of New York issued a press release assailing the limited availability of emergency contraception in New York: The New York City Health & Hospitals Corporation (HHC) is failing to provide New York City women … Continue reading →

Story here. Press release from the Center for Reproductive Rights here.

Yesterday the New Jersey Supreme Court issued this opinion in the case of Acuna v. Turkish, in which the plaintiff alleged a breach of duty by the defendant doctor for failing to inform the plaintiff that an abortion would result … Continue reading →

From this site: Every day in America, women are forced to play the lottery when they walk into their neighborhood pharmacies and ask for Plan B emergency contraception (EC). Planned Parenthood is launching a nationwide campaign to protect women’s health … Continue reading →

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has issued a report on Teen Sexual Activity and Birth Control Use in New York City.   From the press release: More than two thirds (69%) of sexually active New … Continue reading →

From the AP: In the year since it was approved for over-the-counter sales, the morning-after pill has become a huge commercial success for its manufacturer, but its popularity and solid safety record haven’t deterred critics from seeking to overturn the … Continue reading →

In a political science class I attended as a guest yesterday, another guest brought up the possibility that abortion is no longer a major wedge issue in American politics. She thought that Rudy Giuliani’s ascendancy in the Republican party was … Continue reading →