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Contraception
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Mass Torts Law Blog
NuvaRing® Claims Become the Subject of Multi-District Litigation and Mass Tort Treatment
NuvaRing® is purported to be a once-a-month, combined contraceptive vaginal ring that provides month-long birth control by emitting a continuous dose of estrogen and progestin for 21 days. NuvaRing® is…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Judge Rules FDA Must Make Emergency Contraception Available to 17-Year-Olds
NY Times: Plan B Must Be Made Available to 17-Year-Olds, by Natasha Singer: A federal judge on Monday ordered the Food and Drug Administration to make the Plan B morning-after…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Senate Restores Affordable Contraception For Community Health Centers and College Clinics
RH Reality Check: And the Beat Goes On: Senate Passes Omnibus, Including Affordable Birth Control Act, by Jodi Jacobson:The Senate tonight passed the $410 billion omnibus appropriations bill,originally passed by…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Beth Burkstrand-Reid on Women’s Health and Reproductive Rights
Beth A. Burkstrand-Reid (University of Illinois College of Law) has posted: The Invisible Women: Availability and Culpability in Reproductive Health Jurisprudence on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Women’s health is…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Teens and Risky Sexual Behavior: Myth vs. Reality
New York Times: The Myth of Rampant Teenage Promiscuity, by Tara Parker-Pope: Parents have worried for generations about changing moral values and risky behavior among young people, and the latest…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
NY Times Editorial on Last-Minute HHS Religious Refusal Reg
NY Times Editorial: A Parting Shot at Women's Rights:Undermining women’s reproductive rights and access to health carehas been a pervasive theme of the outgoing administration. On his firstfull day in…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Anti-Choice Advocates Take Aim at Planned Parenthood’s Government Funding
Wall St. Journal: Abortion Foes Open a New Front, by Stephanie Simon:Abortion opponents are pressing state and local governments to stop sending taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood, arguing that the…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Planned Parenthood Offers Gift Certificates; Anti-Choice Groups Object
From the Planned Parenthood of Indiana website:Looking for an unusual, yetpractical gift this holiday season? Planned Parenthood of Indiana(PPIN) is now offering gift certificates for services or therecipient’s choice of…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
South Dakota and Colorado Anti-Choice Ballot Initiatives Defeated
L.A. Times: Ballot initiatives to curtail abortions defeated, by Nicholas Riccardi:The most prominent initiative was a measure put on the ballot in SouthDakota to outlaw most abortions in hope of…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Billionaire Offers $25 Mil. Prize for Development of Pet Contraception
Wall St. Journal: Billionaire Pledges $50 Million for Pet Contraception, by Robert Frank:Philanthropists for years have used the “prize model” to spark societal innovations–from space (the X Prize) to the…