Tag: Abortion
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Nation & World
Surge in ‘abortion travelers’ to Mass. post-Dobbs
Women are traveling from states as far away as Texas for care, finds Brigham and Women’s study.
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Supreme Court may halt health care guarantees for inmates
Harvard experts on law and policy say originalist view used to overturn Roe could upend the 1976 Supreme Court ruling that requires a minimal standard for inmate health care.
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Abortion law, suicide rate study adds to raging debate. But are we missing point?
A Harvard epidemiologist says that research tends to be weaponized on both sides, overshadowing the mental health needs of those with unwanted pregnancies.
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How total abortion ban puts maternal health at risk
A new study finds high rates of serious complications among Salvadoran patients who were forced to carry severely malformed fetuses to term.
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Striving for impassioned, but reasoned, post-Roe conversation on abortion
Participants representing complex set of views engage at Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics discussion.
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November surprise
Most political reporters and pundits agree that the results from Tuesday’s midterm elections have been a surprise.
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‘Life of the mother’ is suddenly vulnerable
Harvard Law faculty address the legal questions that almost certainly will be up for debate in a post-Dobbs world.
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Clarence Thomas isn’t kidding
Legal scholar Mary Ziegler sees “selective” history in SCOTUS ruling overturning Roe v. Wade and signs that other landmark protections are in jeopardy.
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How a bioethicist and doctor sees abortion
Director of Medical School’s Center for Bioethics discusses ethical dimensions of abortion and how a ruling against Roe might affect providers.
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Fears arise that new federal fetal-tissue restrictions will hobble a ‘workhorse’ of research
With the Trump administration halting fetal tissue research at two prominent scientific institutions and new plans to review such research elsewhere, Harvard Medical School Dean George Daley discussed the importance of research using these tissues, which would otherwise be discarded, in creating vaccines and treatments and enhancing our understanding of human biology.
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Mothers of stillborns face prison in El Salvador
Shortly after passing a total abortion ban in 1997, El Salvador became the first Latin American nation to incarcerate women who suffered stillbirths and other obstetrical emergencies for the crime of homicide. Sociologist Jocelyn Viterna analyzes the cultural dynamics that transformed a “pro-life” movement into a political system that revoked women’s rights.
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Denial of coverage
A question-and-answer session probes the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that for-profit companies can object to the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate on religious grounds.
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Lessons in an unappealing law
Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman ran a Socratic master class to dig beneath the 1927 Supreme Court decision upholding forced sterilization of “mental defectives.”
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Phyllis Schlafly speaks out on judicial activism
The woman credited with defeating the Equal Rights Amendment was on the Radcliffe campus last week to discuss the current target in her crosshairs: judicial activism.
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Defending the Second Amendment
Like a courtroom version of “High Noon,” legal guns are squaring off this year in a confrontation over the Second Amendment. And whoever wins, the battle will touch off a longtime culture war that rivals Roe v. Wade, said National Rifle Association (NRA) President Sandra Froman in an April 5 visit to Harvard.