by Katelyn | Sep 4, 2012 | Amicus, Reproductive Rights, Sex Equality
In a recent television interview, Rep. Todd Akin, a member of the House Committee on Science, the Republican candidate for Senate from Missouri, said that rape does not result in pregnancy because “if it’s a legitimate rape the female body has ways to try to shut that...
by branden | Aug 9, 2012 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Freedom of Expression, Labor and Employment, Reproductive Rights, Sex Equality
Hercules Industries, a Denver company that provides heating and air conditioning equipment recently won a preliminary injunction against the imposition of the preventive care requirement adopted pursuant to the Affordable Care Act. Predictably, conservatives lauded...
by Katelyn | Mar 14, 2012 | Amicus, Reproductive Rights
Among other recent attempts, some successful and some not, to restrict or make more difficult access to abortion, the Virginia state Legislature passed a bill in the first half of February that forces women seeking abortions to undergo a trans-vaginal ultrasound...
by Katelyn | Mar 1, 2012 | Amicus, Reproductive Rights
There’s been a lot of talk recently about contraception. Mostly it has been about the fact that under the Obama healthcare reform, religious employers are required to provide their employees with health insurance that will provide contraception directly to the...
by hlsmultitest | Feb 20, 2012 | Amicus, Reproductive Rights
HarvardCRCL.org is proud to post submissions from our newly selected General Board members. The following post from one of those new members discusses the Fifth Circuit’s recent decision upholding a Texas requirement to show a woman a sonogram before she can...
by Katelyn | Feb 19, 2012 | Amicus, Reproductive Rights
On January 31, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation decided that it would stop giving funds to Planned Parenthood to perform breast cancer exams. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, through its affiliated service providers, performed almost 750,000...
