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Federal Court Nominee Wrote Failed Wyo. Abortion Ban
From the Casper Star-Tribune:Rock Springs lawyer Richard Honaker, whose nomination for a U.S. District Court judgeship in Wyoming was announced Monday, was the author in 1991 of a bill in…
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Mexican Supreme Court Abortion Decision — Analysis
Many thanks to our distinguished visitor, Eduardo Barraza, a Professor ofSociology of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, who chose tospend his sabbatical this year at the Faculty of Law,…
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Europe’s Human Rights Court Orders Poland to Compensate Woman Denied an Abortion
Via AP/Int'l Herald Tribune, "Human rights court upholds abortion challenge; Poland must clarify guidelines": Europe's human rights court on Tuesday upheld a challenge to Poland's restrictive abortion rules by a…
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John McCain on Abortion
The AP/Boston Herald reported yesterday: Republican presidential hopeful John McCain did some grass-roots campaigning in a grand setting Sunday, attending a house party at a mansion built for one of…
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SC Considers Requiring Women Seeking Abortions to View Ultrasound of Fetus
From AP/Boston Globe, S.C. will consider new abortion bill:Women seeking abortions in South Carolina would be required to view an ultrasound image of their fetus before the procedure under a…
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Colombian Court Ruling Legalizing Abortion Now Available in English
On May 10, 2006, the Constitutional Court of Colombia ruled that abortion is not a crime when performed to save the life or health (mental or physical) of the woman,…
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Colorado To Require Hospitals to Tell Rape Survivors About Emergency Contraception
Via the Denver Post, Rape victims must now be told options:Gov. Bill Ritter on Thursday signed a law requiring hospitals to tell rape victims about the availability of emergency contraception,…
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Mexico City Debates Abortion Measure
From The Guardian (UK): Mexico City legislators are debating a bill that would legalize abortion during the first three months of pregnancy, a measure that would be the first of…
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Jack Balkin on New Genetic Technologies and Roe v. Wade
Jack M. Balkin has posted How New Genetic Technologies Will Transform Roe v. Wade on SSRN. Here is the abstract:Roe v. Wade has three holdings: (1) that the unborn are…
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Jonathan Rauch on Abortion and Gay Marriage
In the April issue of the Atlantic Monthly, Jonathan Rauch writes, in A Separate Peace, that "[t]he way to end the culture wars is to slug them out state by…