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May 07, 2009
Blogs Comment on Souter Retirement, Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Other Topics
Public Release Date: 5-May-2009
The following summarizes women's health-related blog entries.
"Finding a Voice, Not Just a Vote, for Women's Rights on the Court," Kay Steiger, RH Reality Check:
Supreme Court Justice David Souter's announcement last week that he will retire in June marks the "first time a pro-choice president has had the opportunity to appoint a justice to the Supreme Court" since former President Clinton appointed Justice Stephen Breyer in 1994, Steiger writes.
Although Souter was appointed by former Republican President George H.W. Bush in 1990, he has "maintained a position as an ally of reproductive choice during his time on the Court," Steiger writes. According to Steiger, the "lists of prospective nominees already circulated have a lot of pro-choice women that top the list." However, Steiger adds that there is "reason to caution the appointment of sitting judges," noting that Souter was a "sitting justice when he was named to the Supreme Court" and that "[a]lthough he was appointed by a fairly conservative president, he has turned into a reliable liberal vote on the Court."
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April 23, 2009
The Invisible Woman: Availability and Culpability in Reproductive Health Jurisprudence
April 16, 2009
Los Angeles Times Examines Potential Implications of Decision on Minors’ Access to Plan B
Public Release Date: 6-April-2009
TheLos Angeles Times on Monday examined the history of the "controversy about restrictions on access" to the emergency contraceptive Plan B. Last month, a federal judge ordered FDA to lower the age limit for nonprescription sales of Plan B from 18 to 17 and to consider allowing younger girls to purchase the medication, a ruling that could create a "potentially fundamental change in how this nation approaches contraceptives for girls and young women," according to the Times.
April 08, 2009
Blogs Comment on Abstinence, Cost of Contraception, Dickey Amendment, Other Topics
Public Release Date: 17-March-2009
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries.
"Anti-Abortion or Anti-Sex?" Cindy Handler, Huffington Post blogs:
Recent news reports indicate that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's (R) 18-year-old daughter Bristol, who gave birth in December 2008 after an unintended pregnancy, does not plan to marry Levi Johnson, the teenage father of her child; however, there has been no "conservative outrage directed at this very public unwed mother who chose to bring a child into the world without the benefit of heterosexual marriage," Handler writes in a blog entry. She continues that conservatives have not spoken out about Bristol Palin "because to the base of her mother's party, it's not important whether she gets married or not."
January 16, 2009
State Attorneys General, Family Planning Groups Sue To Block HHS Provider 'Conscience' Rule
Public Release Date: 16-January-2009
Seven states, thePlanned Parenthood Federation of America and the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association on Thursday filed three separate lawsuits in the U.S. District Court in Connecticut asking the court to block HHS enforcement of its new provider "conscience" rule that greatly expands the ability of health care workers to refuse to provide services they find morally or religiously objectionable, the Washington Post reports.
The rule is set to take effect Tuesday, according to the Post. It would allow the federal government to cut off funding to state and local governments, hospitals, health plans, clinics and other entities that do not certify that they accommodate employees who refuse to provide medical information or services on moral or religious grounds.
July 16, 2008
Bush Administration Developing Rule That Could Limit Access to Birth Control
Public Release Date: 15-July-2008
The Bush administration is developing a regulation that would define abortion as "any of the various procedures -- including the prescription, dispensing and administration of any drug or the performance of any procedure or any other action -- that results in the termination of the life of a human being in utero between conception and natural birth, whether before or after implantation," the New York Times reports. The draft proposal leaked to the Times also would require all recipients of aid from HHS to certify they will not refuse to hire health care workers who object to abortion and certain types of birth control.
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May 21, 2008
Federal Appeals Court Declares Virginia Abortion Ban Unconstitutional
Public Release Date: 21-May-2008
On Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., declared a Virginia law banning so-called "partial-birth" abortion unconstitutional, the Washington Post reports. In a 2-1 decision, the panel said the law infringed on a woman's constitutional right to abortion (Barnes, Washington Post, 5/21).
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November 21, 2007
Federal Judge Issues Preliminary Injunction Against Rule That Requires Pharmacists To Dispense EC
Public Release Date: 9-November-2007
U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Leighton on Thursday issued a preliminary injunction against a Washington state Board of Pharmacy rule that requires pharmacists to dispense emergency contraception, the Spokane Spokesman-Review reports (Aleccia, Spokane Spokesman-Review, 11/9).
July 18, 2007
Editorials, Opinion Pieces Address Recent Congressional Testimony of Former Surgeon General Carmona
Public Release Date: 18-July-2007
Several newspapers recently published editorials and opinion pieces looking at former Surgeon General Richard Carmona's testimony last week at a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing. Carmona at the hearing said the Bush administration routinely blocked him from speaking out or issuing reports on human embryonic stem cell research, abstinence-only sex education, emergency contraception and other sensitive public health issues.
He also said the administration often edited his speeches for politically controversial content and encouraged him to attend internal political meetings (Kaiser Daily Women's Health Policy Report, 7/16). Summaries appear below.
June 14, 2007
Mapping Our Rights
SisterSong, Ipas, and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force have created a brilliant interactive Flash map.
Click here to see your state's reproductive policies!
