Should Pregnant Women Be Concerned With SCOTUS Review of DNA Testing?
Ten years ago the state of Virginia became the first to require anyone arrested for a serious crime to undergo a mouth swab for DNA. Suspects were swabbed regardless if they were charged and soon, 27...
View ArticleThe Simple and Insidious Way John Roberts Could Gut The Voting Rights Act
One of the lasting impressions from the Supreme Court battle over Obamacare was that Chief Justice Roberts managed to craft an opinion that politically saved face for both the administration and the...
View ArticleBullies on the Bench: The Vast Difference Between Justices Scalia, Sotomayor,...
Rest assured. Justice Antonin Scalia’s reputation as the Supreme Court’s reigning jerk, despite what Dana Milbank may imply here, is not under any real threat. In his analysis of yesterday’s oral...
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Colorado Supreme Court Punts on Fetal Rights, Rejects Catholic Health Case
Cross-posted with permission from the Colorado Independent. See our coverage of Catholic Health Initiatives’ case against fetal personhood here. Catholic Health Initiatives, an Englewood-based national...
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50 Years After the March on Washington, Still Fighting for Jobs and Freedom
On Saturday, August 24, tens of thousands of people will descend on the nation’s capital to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the actual anniversary...
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SCOTUS’ Decision on Birth Control Benefit Could Affect All Workers’ Rights
While conservatives took some hits in public opinion by attacking Sandra Fluke in a sexualized fashion—even going so far, as Rush Limbaugh did, to call her a “slut” and demand that she perform in porn...
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Legal Wrap: The Bishops Get Sued, and SCOTUS Picks a Birth Control Case
Legal Wrap is a weekly round-up of key legal reproductive rights and justice news. In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, a Michigan woman is suing the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for negligence after...
View ArticleHold On to Your Birth Control! ACLU Forecasts Big Year Ahead for Reproductive...
Don’t expect legislators opposed to reproductive rights to tread lightly in 2013 just because voters made it clear extreme approaches to health care aren’t popular, warned the American Civil Liberties...
View ArticleSupreme Court Refuses To Hear Anti-Choice Super-PAC Appeal, Group May Now...
On Monday the Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of a Virginia anti-choice organization seeking exemption from campaign finance disclosure regulations, handing anti-choice and anti-transparency...
View ArticleIn Malpractice Case, Catholic Hospital Argues Fetuses Aren’t People
Cross-posted in partnership with the Colorado Independent. For further coverage of the treatment of pregnant women in Catholic Hospitals, click here. Lori Stodghill was 31-years old, seven-months...
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