Showing posts with label contraception. Show all posts
Showing posts with label contraception. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

The right to contraception is open to question again in the U.S.

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  Here's a paper in the J. of Women's health that brings us up to date on contraception law in the U.S. The Right to Contraception A...
Saturday, November 18, 2023

Will divorce become legal in the Philippines?

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  The NYT has the story: ‘Just Like Medicine’: A New Push for Divorce in a Nation Where It’s Illegal.   A campaign in the Philippines that f...
Friday, May 19, 2023

The Comstock Act returns from the dead, post Roe

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 While there's no agreement about whether life begins at conception, it appears that the Comstock Act has risen from the dead to play a ...
Monday, April 10, 2023

Comstockery and abortifacients, on the way to the Supreme Court

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 The Comstock Act of 1873 made it a Federal crime to distribute information or medicines for contraception or abortion, and more generally o...
Thursday, April 5, 2012

Contraception as a repugnant transaction (the return of...)

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Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination has done a lot to put contraception back...
Thursday, July 9, 2009

Contraception: reversal of the direction of repugnance?

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What is viewed as a repugnant transaction can change over time, and even reverse direction entirely. An example is that laws in the US have ...