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MSNBC: Texas begins enforcing strict anti-abortion sonogram law

02.09.12 - "Fewer abortions? Better-informed patients? Insulted women? The impact of a controversial new Texas law that requires women to have a sonogram – and listen to a description of the fetus as well as its heartbeat – at least 24 hours before they can get an abortion is far from clear.
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Toward Freedom: Eastern Europe’s Conservative Crackdown on Reproductive Freedom

02.06.12 - "Across Eastern and Central Europe, as unemployment surges and the European Union dithers, nationalist conservative and far right parties are on the march…

Austin Chronicle: Ultrasound Reimposed by Appeals Court

01.26.12 - "Last week's 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opinion – overturning an injunction that had barred final implementation of Texas' new ultrasound-before-abortion law – may 'barely have touched on the issues' raised in a lawsuit before the district court last year…

Houston Chronicle: Group Files Appeal against Sonogram Requirement

01.25.12 - "The Center for Reproductive Rights is asking for a rehearing of its argument that a law requiring a sonogram before an abortion is unconstitutional…

IntLawGrrls: Rights-Based Approach to Sex-Selection

01.23.12 - A 28-year-old pregnant woman sat in a doctor’s office in Albania with tears streaming down her face. The doctor had just informed her that she was having a girl. While seemingly good news, for this woman it was a personal nightmare…

San Antonio Express-News: Sonogram bill ruling uses daft, scary logic

01.19.12 - "The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a ruling last week, pretty much says that women are idiots and that Texas can dragoon doctors into becoming ideological tools.
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NPR Talk of the Nation: Abortion Rights Advocates, Opponents' Tactics Evolve

01.13.12 - "In recent years abortion rights opponents have stepped up efforts to challenge Roe vs. Wade, the nearly 40-year-old Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion. Many states have adopted new laws restricting abortion rights since 2010, putting abortion rights supporters on the defensive."…

On the Issues Magazine: Redefining Chutzpah- More Bad Ideas to Burden Women

01.13.12 - What's chutzpah? Until December 2011, I would have deferred to the classic definition in Leo Rosten's The Joys of Yiddish: chutzpah is a man who kills his parents and then throws himself on the mercy of the court as a lonely orphan. But at the end of the year, Rep…

Houston Chronicle: US court hears arguments over Texas abortion law

01.05.12 - "A federal judge abused his discretion when he blocked the state of Texas from enforcing a law requiring doctors to show sonograms to patients and describe the images before an abortion, a lawyer for the state told an appeals court Wednesday.
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Jezebel: Revived Lawsuit Could Be Key To Overturning Plan B Decision

12.21.11 - "Though Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius overruled the FDA's recommendation to give everyone access to Plan B without a prescription, the battle to make the drug more widely available for women of all ages isn't over…