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Contraception
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Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Investigation Documents Deceptive Tactics of State-Funded “Crisis Pregnancy Centers”
The Huffington Post: State-Funded Crisis Pregnancy Centers Talk Women Out Of Birth Control, Condoms: Report, by Laura Bassett:When a woman walked into a state-funded "crisis pregnancy center" in Manassas, Va.,…
Health Industry Washington Watch
Obama Administration Finalizes Revised ACA Contraceptive Coverage Requirements
HHS, together with the Departments of Treasury and Labor, published a final rule on July 2, 2013 that modifies the Administration’s policy on the extent to which group health plans…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Federal Appeals Court Rules Against Wood Cabinet Company in Challenge to Contraception Mandate
ACLU press release: Third Circuit Rules Against Wood Cabinet Company's Challenge to Contraception Coverage Rule:CHICAGO – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit today ruled against a Pennsylvania company…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Federal Court Awards Hobby Lobby a Temporary Reprieve from Contraception Mandate
Reuters: Hobby Lobby wins a stay against birth control mandate, by Jonathan Stempel:A federal judge has temporarily exempted Hobby Lobby Stores Inc from a requirement in the 2010 healthcare law that…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh Sues Obama Administration Over FOIA Request on Contraception Insurance Mandate
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh files suit over FOIA request, by Amy McConnell Schaarsmith:Federal health officials broke federal laws by stonewalling legal attempts to learn how they created new rules requiring…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Final Health Care Rule Retains Contraceptive Insurance Mandate, Despite Religiously Based Objections
The New York Times: Contraceptives Stay Covered in Health Law, by Robert Pear:Despite strong resistance from religious organizations, the Obama administration said Friday that it was moving ahead with a rule…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Tenth Circuit Recognizes For-Profit Corporations as Having Religious Freedom and Free Exercise Rights
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
In the contentious and closely-watched case of Hobby Lobby, Inc. v. Sebelius, the Tenth Circuit has rendered its opinion concluding that a for-profit corporation has free exercise of religion rights…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Tenth Circuit Issues Ruling in Hobby Lobby’s Challenge to Contraception Insurance Mandate
ACLU press release: Tenth Circuit Rules on Craft Store's Challenge to Contraception Coverage Rule:CHICAGO – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit today issued a fractured decision in a…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Video Shows “Crisis Pregnancy Center” Staffer Giving Medically Inaccurate, Harmful Information
Salon: Caught on tape: Antiabortion center resorts to scary, dangerous lies, by Irin Carmon:In a secretly recorded video (embedded at the bottom of this story), a young woman named Kate, 19,…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Caroline Corbin and Steven Smith Debate Contraception Mandate and Religious Freedom
Caroline Mala Corbin (University of Miami) and Steven Douglas Smith (University of San Diego) have posted Debate: The Contraception Mandate and Religious Freedom on SSRN. Here is the abstract:In this online…