Both during and after the City Bar Association panel I participated in a few weeks ago on the future of same sex marriage, I’ve gotten some push back for suggesting that we consider and evaluate the merits and risks of various constitutional arguments that have been made in the cases challenging the exclusion of same [...]
Posted in: Discrimination, Marriage, Pregnancy, Queer Theory, Reproductive Rights, Sexual Orientation Discrimination, Uncategorized, Women and Poverty | Comment (1)
Khiara Bridges, the Center for Reproductive Rights – Columbia Law School Fellow, presented her paper for our last colloquium of the semester entitled “Capturing the Judiciary: Carhart and the Undue Burden Standard.” Bridges explains the problematic assumptions and questionable logic behind the “undue burden” standard as promulgated by the U.S. Supreme Court in Carhart. While [...]
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The National ACLU and its New York affiliate announced this week a change in policy by the New York State National Guard that it will no longer administer mandatory pregnancy tests to female Guard members and will not automatically dismiss female members of the New York Guard when they become pregnant, rather they will be [...]
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