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Abortion rights gain ground in Latin America
Via the Christian Science Monitor:Mexican bishops have threatened legislators, doctors, and women with excommunication. But on Tuesday, the Mexico City assembly is expected to pass a new law legalizing abortions.…
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The Importance of Language in Media Coverage of Abortion Bans
In the wake of the Supreme Court's recent decision, some commentators are faulting the media for helping to shape public opinion on abortion by accepting the politically charged terminology of…
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This Week’s U.S. Supreme Court Partial-Birth Abortion Opinion
This post has relevance to this blog because it is based on a post from a nationally prominent corporate law professor and it is about a topic so fundamental that…
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Linda Greenhouse: “Adjudging a Moral Harm to Women From Abortions”
Linda Greenhouse provided a news analysis of Gonzales v. Carhart in Friday's New York Times, in which she focused on the opinion's embracing of the disproven theory that abortion is…
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“new paternalism”
Re: Adjudging a Moral Harm to Women From Abortions, by Linda Greenhouse (4/20/07)Paternalism has been a fixture of the abortion debate since the 1980s, when states started to pass laws,…
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NY Times: New Push Likely for Restrictions Over Abortions
Kirk Johnson writes in today's New York Times:Both sides of the abortion debate expect a new push for restrictions as state lawmakers around the country digest the implications of the…
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Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry Vetoes Bill Banning Use of Public Funds for Abortions
Via Tulsa World:Gov. Brad Henry announced Wednesday he vetoed a bill that would ban the use of public money for abortions.``I do not issue this veto lightly,'' Henry said. Flanked…
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AP Wire: Pending abortion cases around the U.S.
The Associated Press offers a summary of pending abortion cases across the country, some of which may be affected by Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling.
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Linking abortion and death penalty debates
Main April 20, 2007Linking abortion and death penalty debatesThough many folks on both sides of the political isle view debates over abortion and the death penalty to be completely unrelated,…
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Gonzales v. Carhart: An Alarming Nod to “Woman-Protective” Anti-Choice Advocates
As Justice Kennedy's opinion in Gonzales v. Carhart proceeds along its disingenuous path, a passage startling even in the context of this decision intrudes. In a case supposedly addressing how…