Showing posts with label same sex marriage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label same sex marriage. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Same sex unions take a limited step forward in Hong Kong

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 The Washington Post has the story: Hong Kong court hands rare victory to advocates of same-sex unions , By Lily Kuo and Vic Chiang Septembe...
Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Repugnance watch: same sex weddings in Nigeria are illegal even for guests

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  The NYT has the story: Nigeria Arrests Dozens Over Same-Sex Wedding . A 2014 law makes such unions illegal in the country. Anyone found gu...
Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Surrogacy under siege in Italy

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 Opposition to surrogacy in Italy has taken aim at the babies of same sex couples. The NYT has the story: Surrogacy Emerges as the Wedge Iss...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Biden Signs Bill to Protect Same-Sex Marriage Rights

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 With little delay after the Senate passage of the bill , the House followed, and now President Biden has signed into law a bill protecting ...
Thursday, December 1, 2022

Same sex marriage rights reaffirmed by the Senate

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After a Supreme Court ruling in 2015, it seemed secure that the right to same sex marriage was the law of the land. However the recent Supre...
Friday, October 7, 2022

This Supreme Court term has many cases on repugnant transactions and controversial markets

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 The newly conservative-dominated Supreme Court is ready for its second term, and has a docket full of what readers of this blog know I thin...
Thursday, October 6, 2022

Gay couples, surrogacy, IVF and health insurance

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  The Guardian has a story about the obstacles consulting a married gay couple in New York. They have an ongoing lawsuit regarding discrimin...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Singapore to repeal law against sex between men.

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  The Guardian has the story: Singapore to repeal law that criminalises sex between men. Scrapping of colonial-era section 377A law hailed a...
Thursday, June 30, 2022

Same sex marriage in Colorado: then and now

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In 1975, as the county clerk of Boulder County, Cela Rorex issued several marriage licenses to same sex couples, before the State Attorney G...
Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Japanese court upholds ban on same sex marriage

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 The Japan Times has the story: In LGBTQ rights setback, Japan court says barring same-sex marriage not unconstitutional     June 20, 2022 &...
Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Same sex marriage now legal in Switzerland, by popular referendum

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  The BBC has the story (it happened last month, but I wasn't paying attention): Switzerland same-sex marriage: Two-thirds of voters bac...
Monday, July 19, 2021

Surrogacy in Israel: now available to same sex couples (and single fathers)

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 Here's the story from the Washington Post: Israel’s high court opens the way for same-sex couples to have children via surrogacy   By C...
Sunday, July 4, 2021

Trans as a gender identity

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 New freedoms continue to be recognized. It is not so long ago that sexual orientation and then same sex marriage were at the forefront of t...
Friday, June 25, 2021

Blood donation, risk groups, and blood tests

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  Before blood tests were developed for hepatitis virus and later for HIV, it made sense to screen potential blood donors by whether they we...
Monday, April 19, 2021

Controversial Markets: Public lecture at the Zurich Center for Market Design (video)

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  A video of my April 13 lecture on Controversial Markets is now available at the Zurich Center for Market Design.  (The talk proper is abou...
Sunday, March 21, 2021

Same sex marriage in Japan takes a step forward

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In The U.S., court decisions paved the way for same sex marriage.  Now there's a court decision in Japan. The NY Times has the story: La...
Sunday, February 28, 2021

What Motivates Paternalism? By Ambuehl, ,Bernheim and Ockenfels in the AER

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  I have long been interested in repugnant transactions , which some people would like to engage in and others, not themselves involved in t...
Saturday, November 7, 2020

Bernard Cohen (1934-2020), who convinced the Supreme Court that bans on inter-racial marriage were unconstitutional

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  Flags flew at half staff in Virginia last month, marking the death of Bernard Cohen, and also marking how much has changed in Virginia and...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Surrogacy and citizenship in the U.S.

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 Some rules seem clear: anyone born in the U.S. is an American citizen, as is any child of an American parent.  But in these partisan times,...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Polyamorous domestic partnerships recognized in Somerville, MA

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Do people in plural relationships have a different sexual orientation than others (and should maybe be protected by laws prohibiting discri...