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Contraception
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Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Promise of Post-Fertilization Contraceptive Methods Is Limited By Politics
LiveScience: Politics Is Main Hurdle to 'After Sex' Birth Control, Experts Say, by Bahar Gholipour:Political opposition is the main hurdle to developing birth control methods that could be more suitable than…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
LA Times Editorial on Corporations’ Refusal To Comply with Contraception Mandate
The Los Angeles Times (editorial): Contraception coverage: A hobby shop is not a church:The Supreme Court should overturn an appeals court decision holding that business owners can refuse on religious grounds…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Bhattacharya on Female Empowerment and Health
By John Kang
Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharya, Loyola Univ. of Chicago, "Engaging Religion to Promote Female Empowerment and Health: Case Studies in Hinduism and Islam," 8 Women’s Policy Journal of Harvard 23 (2010). Available here. …
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Pope Francis Criticizes Catholic Church for Being “Obsessed” with Abortion and Contraception
The New York Times: Pope, Criticizing Narrow Focus, Calls for Church as ‘Home for All’, by Laurie Goodstein:Six months into his papacy, Pope Francis sent shock waves through the Roman Catholic…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Federal Appeals Court Rules Against Manufacturing Company in Challenge to Contraception Mandate
Here is another decision in a developing circuit split, with the Third Circuit (now joined by the Sixth) ruling against secular employers challenging the mandate, and the Tenth Circuit ruling in favor of…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
District Judge: For Profit Nursing Home Chains Have Free Exercise of Religion Rights
Relying on the Tenth Circuit's decision in Hobby Lobby v. Sebelius, Senior Judge Wiley Daniel enjoined the enforcement of the ACA's preventative health mandate regarding certain contraceptive methods for employees…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Safety Trials in Australia Test New Contraceptive for Women
The Age (Australia): Experts hope new contraceptive will cut abortion rates, by Natasha Wallace:A radical female contraception that simultaneously paralyses sperm and protects from sexually transmitted diseases aims to stem abortion…
Employment Discrimination Report
“I Don’t Know That You Need To Be A Christian To Make A Good Subway Sandwich”
The issue of whether a secular, for-profit corporation has religious rights under the First Amendment has come up with some frequency recently. We wrote in July that “Since the passage…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Book Review of “Sweetening the Pill: Or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control”
MotherBoard: Should We All Stop Taking Birth Control?, by Kelly Bourdet:What is our obsession with the “natural” state of humanity? As if that is a thing, a truer state—a toolless, techless,…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Editorial on Contraception Mandate and Religious Objections by Secular Businesses
USA Today editorial: Contraception mandate applies to business: Our view:If you choose to run a secular moneymaker, you can't claim exemptions unavailable to other businesses.Controversy over ObamaCare isn't news, but any…