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Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
D.C. Circuit Rejects Challenge to Accommodation under Affordable Care Act
In an Associated Press story, the Tulsa World reports that the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has rejected a challenge by religious groups, including…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
DC Circuit Draws Line in the Sand Limiting Hobby Lobby’s Reach
By Tracy Thomas
NPR, Court Rejects Challenge to Obamacare Rules on ContraceptivesThe decision is the first since the U.S. Supreme Court last June ruled that some for-profit companies may, like religious nonprofits, opt…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
“Warning: Contraceptive Drugs May Cause Political Headaches”
The title of this post comes from this paper by Professor R. Alta Charo, the abstract of which states: The Obama Administration's contraceptive mandate implicates issues of complicity that run…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Embryonic Personhood Movement Hasn’t Gone Away
ThinkProgress: North Dakota Is Quietly Preparing To Enact The Most Radical Abortion Measure In The Country, by Tara Culp-Ressler:In less than two weeks, North Dakota voters will head to the…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Comments on ACA Contraception Accommodation Submitted by Public Rights/Private Conscience Project on Behalf of Legal Scholars
Public Rights/Private Conscience Project (Columbia Law School): PRPCP Leads 60+ Law Professors In Submitting Comments On ACA Contraception Accommodation, by Kara Loewentheil:Back in August the Obama Administration responded to the…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Jonathan Eig, Author of ‘The Birth of the Pill,’ Interviewed in The New Republic
The New Republic: It's Astounding That We're Still Debating the Pill After 50 Years, by Rebecca Leber:It wasn't easy to create a birth control pill in an era where contraception,…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Book Review: The Birth of the Pill
By Tracy Thomas
New Republic, How the Pill Overcame Impossible Odds and Found a Place in Million of Women's Purses. Purses?? Well... whatever. In The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
California Catholic Conference claims forced compliance with state’s contraception mandate violates civil rights of Catholic institutions
...reports the Catholic News Agency.
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
NYT Editorial on Democrats’ Increasing Willingness to Challenge Conservative Positions on Abortion
The New York Times editorial: The Tide of the Culture War Shifts:Not long ago, it would have been unusual for a Democratic senatorial candidate in Iowa to run a powerful…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Eighth Circuit Hears Arguments in Missouri State Legislator’s Challenge to Contraception Rule
St. Louis Public Radio: Legislator Tells Federal Appeals Court Why He Objects To Birth-Control Coverage, by Jo Mannies:The lawyer for state Rep. Paul Wieland, R-Imperial, predicts that his suit against…