Topic
Contraception
906 published works
Drug Injury Watch
Side Effects of Birth Control: Brain Tumors Related to Depo-Provera Contraceptive Injections
By Tom Lamb
Intracranial Meningioma Risks Are Increased When Depo-Provera Was Used for More Than One Year (Posted by Tom Lamb at Drug Injury Watch) A medical journal article published in March 2024 reported…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
What Project 2025 Proposes for Women
By Tracy Thomas
Newsweek, What Projects 2025 Means for WomenThe 900-page-long document, produced by conservative think-tank The Heritage Foundation, has been designed as a roadmap for an incoming conservative president, with a wide range…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Texas Sues Biden Administration Over Teenage Access to Birth Control
By Tracy Thomas
Texas Sues Biden Administration Over Teenage Access to Birth Control, Wash PostTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is suing the Biden administration over a policy that allows adolescents to access…
Family Law Prof Blog
5th Circuit upholds Texas law requiring minors to obtain parental consent for contraception
By Family Law
From The Texas Tribune:The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Texas law requiring parental consent to obtain contraception for minors.The decision from a three-judge panel of the federal appeals…
Religion Clause
5th Circuit: Texas Statute Giving Parents Right to Consent to Teens’ Contraceptives Is Consistent with Title X
In Deanda v. Becerra, (5th Cir., March 12, 2024), the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals held that a Texas statute giving parents the right to consent to their teenagers' receiving…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Texas Law Requiring Parental Notice and Consent for Contraception Not Preempted by Title X
The Fifth Circuit ruled today that Title X does not preempt a Texas law that requires parental notice and consent when a child tries to access contraceptives.The ruling leaves the…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
ACA-Required Coverage of Contraceptive Care Remains Agency Focus
By By: Kristine M. Bingman, Matthew Hoffman
Quick Hits Despite repeated clarification regarding what the U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury consider to be reasonable medical management techniques, the departments continue to…
Compensation & Benefits Blog
Agencies Update Guidance on Group Health Plan Contraceptive Coverage Requirements
By Jennifer Rigterink, Alexis Rosett
The Departments of Labor, Treasury, and Health and Human Services (the “Departments”) recently issued guidance for group health plans outlining a “therapeutic equivalence” medical management technique for required preventive services…
Religion Clause
Nurse Sues Clinic for Refusing to Accommodate Her Objection to Prescribing Contraceptives
A religious discrimination lawsuit was filed last week in a Florida federal district court by a nurse-practitioner who was fired from her position at a Florida CVS MinuteClinic. The complaint…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Reproductive Freedom Wins in Ohio, but That’s Not the End of the Story
By Tracy Thomas
Ohio's Reproductive Freedom Amendment enshrining in the state constitution the protection of an individual's choice of abortion and contraception won at the polls yesterday 56% to 43%. See Ohio Votes…