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Contraception
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Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Study Shows Free Contraception Does Not Increase Risky Behavior Among Women
live.science: Free Birth Control Has Little Effect on Women's Sexual Behavior, Study Suggests, by Cari Nierenberg:Offering free contraception to women and teenage girls does not cause them to increase their risky…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
SCOTUSblog’s Contraceptive Mandate Symposium Addresses Hobby Lobby and Corporate Religious Refusals
SCOTUSblog: Accomodations, Religious Freedom, and the Hobby Lobby Case, by Rick Garnett:Every law student learns and every lawyer knows that there is more to “doing law” than simply looking up…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
If the Arizona Anti-Gay Bill Is Unacceptable, Why Should Corporations Be Given a License to Discriminate Against Women by Refusing to Comply with the Contraceptive Coverage Rule?
If the Supreme Court Justices need a real-life example of the slippery slope they are in danger of inviting by allowing corporations to refuse, on religious grounds, to comply with…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Obamacare and Contraceptives
By John Kang
There is a quick and easy to follow online symposium at SCOTUS on Obamacare and contraceptives.
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Contraceptive Mandate Symposium
SCOTUS blog: Symposium: Congress Answered This Question: Corportations Are Covered, by Douglas Laycock:The following contribution to our contraceptive mandate symposium comes from Douglas Laycock, the Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law at…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Another Settlement in Products Liability Suit of Women’s Health
By Tracy Thomas
Merck to Pay $100 Million in NuvaRing Contraceptive Settlement. "Merck & Co said on Friday it will pay $100 million to resolve all U.S. product liability lawsuits alleging it downplayed…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
A Missing Argument in Hobby Lobby
The New York Times editorial: A Missing Argument on Contraceptives:One of the most anticipated showdowns of the Supreme Court’s current term will take place March 25, when the justices are scheduled…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
Opposing sides pat their own backs as abortion rate reaches 40-year low
Today, Nia-Malika Henderson highlights this recent study finding that the abortion rate has reached its lowest point since 1973. The reason for the decline, however, is not so clear. As Henderson explains at…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Caroline Corbin on Corporate Exemptions from the Contraceptive Coverage Rule
Caroline Mala Corbin (Univ. of Miami Law School) has posted the following articles on SSRN:Corporate Religious Liberty: Why Corporations Are Not Entitled to Religious Exemptions:One of the main questions before the Supreme…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Amicus Brief of Guttmacher Institute in Hobby Lobby Case Available Online
The Guttmacher Institute: Guttmacher Supreme Court Brief Puts Data Front and Center in Support of ACA's Contaceptive Coverage Guarantee: The U.S. Supreme Court should hold that owners of for-profit companies cannot…