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Abortion

A Voice Purified by Suffering

Canada’s Linda Gibbons has spent ten of the past seventeen years in prison for picketing an abortion clinic against a court injunction. Now out for a time, she has given a short talk at a Canadian pro-lfe gathering. I believe that we should listen well to anyone whose full virtue has opened her up to […]

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Call for Papers – Rethinking Feminism & the Law

Women’s Studies Center (Sponsored by UGC), ILS Law College, Pune in partnership with the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales and the Faculty of Law, University of Technology, Sydney is pleased to announce the inaugural International Conference on Feminism and the Law: Revisiting the Past, Rethinking the Present & Thinking the Way Forward […]

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Abortion Contraception Legislation

Abortion Restrictions and Use of the Pill

New article from Cornell and Colorado State indicates that women living in states with more restrictive abortion laws are more likely to use oral contraceptives to avoid pregnancy.

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Abortion Funding and the Right to Resist Bodily Invasion

In an article that can be found on SSRN, Robin West, a prominent feminist law professor, evaluates Eileen McDonagh theory that the state funding of abortion facilitiates a woman’s right right to resist the non-consensual invasion, appropriation, and use of her physical body by an unwelcome fetus. West praises McDonagh’s theory as making the personhood […]

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Feticide Legislation

Tennessee passes unborn victims of violence act

Here is a story discussing the passage of another state Unborn Victims of Violence Act.  http://www.lifenews.com/2011/07/05/tennessee-now-recognizes-unborn-children-as-victims-of-crimes/   These state laws and the federal law have the potential to undermine Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.  National Right to Life’s  website contains extensive information about the issue. http://www.nrlc.org/Unborn_Victims/index.html  Richard M.

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Conferences International

Registration now open for V Pro-Life World Congress

The Organizing Committee for the V Prolife World Congress has announced the opening of registration for this important event, to be held in San José, Costa Rica from October 28 to 30, 2011. Past Congresses were held in Madrid (2003), Lima (2005), Mexico (2007), and Saragossa (2009). The activity will be held at the Universidad […]

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SSRN Access to Scholarly Papers

A valuable (and free!) interdisciplinary resource for academic research is the Social Science Research Network. It contains almost 350,000 abstracts and 280,000 manuscripts of scholarly articles in the areas of health, legal, political, philosophy, and rhetoric. I use it often to find the newest articles on a subject. An example of what you might find […]

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Feminism Opinion polls Sex-selection abortion

American Preference for Boys

A new Gallup poll asked a random sample of 1,020 American adults whether they’d prefer to have a girl or a boy if they could only chose one. Forty percent said they prefer a boy, 28 percent said they would want a girl, and the rest didn’t mind either way or weren’t sure.  This survey is […]

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Feminism International Sex-selection abortion

World-wide impact of sex-selective abortion

Ross Douthat has a good review of a new book on the genesis and impact of sex-selective abortion in the NYT today.  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/opinion/27douthat.html?ref=todayspaper

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Fetal pain Late-term abortion Legislation

NYT on Unborn Child Pain Protection Acts

The NYT ran a front page article today on the passage of laws limiting abortion in recognition that an unborn child feels pain at 20 weeks. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/us/27abortion.html While the article is better than most NYT pieces on abortion as far as trying to be even handed (I know this is faint praise), the reporter omits […]