Republican Legislator Knows Something About Women’s Health Because His Father...
Missouri House Majority Leader, Tim Jones (Republican) sponsored a bill that would allow medical professionals to deny working on certain reproductive procedures on religious grounds. Apparently...
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Kansas Enlists In The Republican Jihad Against Women
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback just signed a law that allows pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions that “may result in the termination of a pregnancy.” Naturally, the law fails to specify what...
View Article‘Vagina’ Is Now The Eighth Dirty Word That Cannot Be Uttered In Congress
Where is George Carlin when we need him most: After offending Majority Floor Leader Jim Stamas by using the offensively medically accurate word “vagina” in an impassioned floor speech opposing...
View ArticleJon Stewart And The Vagina Idealogues
Jon Stewart responds to the censorship of a Michigan lawmaker for having the temerity to use the word “vagina” during a debate on abortion: Write a quick comment Related posts: ‘Vagina’ Is Now The...
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New Jersey Assembly Approves Bill Relaxing Surrogacy Laws
It took 24 years, but this is a definite step in the right direction…assuming Republican Governor, Chris Christie, signs off: New Jersey’s strict surrogate parenting laws, untouched since the 1988...
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Catholic Hospital: Fetuses Are Not People If We Are Being Sued For Wrongful...
I guess the sanctity of life only applies at conception when there are no financial consequences to the self-annointed moralists trying to dictate how the rest of us should live: Lori Stodghill was...
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Texas Law Would Subsidize Companies That Deny Their Employees Contraception
They say everything is bigger in Texas, apparently that adage also applies to dumb legislation that is, by the way, unconstitutional: A bill recently introduced in the Texas state house aims to reward...
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Abortion Update: Republican Lawmaker Says Women Need Ultrasounds Because They...
Another knuckle-dragging, Republican neanderthal that wishes women were barefoot and pregnant because they lack the “mental capacity” to make decisions about their well being: Rep. Joel Johnson, one of...
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Arizona Law Would Create An Embryo Tracking Database
Continuing in their quest to take their state back to the stone age, Arizona lawmakers are proposing a bill that would create an embryo tracking database so that IVF doctors would be forced to report...
View ArticleArgument Against Abortion: Fetuses Masturbate
I’m just going to let this U.S. Congressman’s insane masturbation argument against abortion speak for itself… And the most ironic aspect? The Congressman starting his statement by saying, “This is a...
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US State Department Issues New Citizenship Policy For Children Born Abroad...
The US State Department has issued a new policy in relation to children born abroad through assisted reproductive technologies. The previous policy required that the mother must have a genetic...
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Is Egg Donation an Act of Commerce?
We wrote about an interesting tax case earlier this week which may see an egg donor having to pay tax on her donor compensation. Nichelle Perez maintains that the $20,000 she received (in 2009)...
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Why $10,000+ Egg Donor Fees Will Likely Become The New Normal
There has been a lot of buzz this week about the IRS pursuing an egg donor for not reporting as income $20,000 in compensation she received from two egg donation cycles. I suspect Judge Holmes will...
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English Woman Wins Legal Battle To Use Sperm of Deceased Husband
Beth Warren outside the High Court in London An English woman has succeeded in a landmark ruling preventing her dead husband’s sperm from being destroyed. Prior to commencing cancer treatment, Beth...
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Judge highlights importance of the law keeping pace with the different way...
The Court of Appeal in London. The Court of Appeal in London handed down a ruling last week emphasising the importance of family law keeping up to speed with contemporary family life. Lady Jusice Black...
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English Court Rules On Intended Parents Who Miss Deadline To Apply For...
President of the Family Division, Sir James Munby gave a landmark surrogacy judgment on Friday. The most senior family law judge in England and Wales has ruled that two parents who missed the 6 month...
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Reproductive Rights Are on the Ballot
There are so many reasons to vote, including reproductive rights that are on the ballot which are summarized in the article below. Make sure to vote tomorrow! There has been no Todd Akin in this...
View ArticleIrish Court Rules Pregnant Woman’s Life Support Machine Should Be Switched Off
Three High Court judges in Dublin have ruled that doctors may switch off a life support machine that has been keeping a brain dead pregnant woman alive. In what the justices described as a “tragic and...
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