Gender & Sexuality Law Blog

Khiara Bridges is the Center for Reproductive Rights/Columbia Law School fellow at Columbia Law School who has just completed her PhD in Columbia’s Anthropology Department studying the intersection of race, poverty, and gender through the experience of women in an obstetrics clinic in a New York City public hospital.  She blogged earlier on the racial [...]

Nazneen Mehta is a second-year law student at Columbia Law School and is writing a Note on the international market in surrogacy services – particularly between relatively affluent “intended parents” in the US and poor female surrogates in India. Her Note will examine the ways in which this market might better be regulated by [...]

Khiara Bridges is the Center for Reproductive Rights/Columbia Law School fellow at Columbia Law School who has just completed her PhD in Columbia’s Anthropology Department studying the intersection of race, poverty, and gender through the experience of women in an obstetrics clinic in a New York City public hospital.  She offers the following further reflections [...]

We miss our wonderful colleague Carol Sanger, the Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, who is on leave this year, but she is making good use of her leave.  She has just completed a new article on the use and abuse of ultrasound technology in steering women to chose not to [...]

Noa Ben-Asher, an Associate at Columbia Law School who works on issues of surrogacy and ideals of the family, reflects on the cover story in the New York Times Magazine, Her Body, My Baby, last Sunday:
Her Body, My Baby, the story of a married couple who hires a gestational surrogate to carry their genetic child [...]

Did you ever stop to think that, despite all the international variations in policy and laws on reproductive rights, the experience of pregnancy and childbirth is truly universal?  We all have been part of the reproductive process, whether going through it or being the product of it. Nancy Northup very eloquently made this point in [...]

On Monday, the Supreme Court denied cert. in a case in which a sperm donor sought to have a Kansas court declare him the legal father of the children born to a woman who had been inseminated with his sperm by and through a licensed physician. Under Kansas law:
The donor of semen provided to [...]

Where to start in metabolizing the “Sarah Palin” disaster? While I found the form of her performance at the RNC devastatingly effective, the content was offensive, full of lies, and both homophobic and racist. While children of politicians are always used, to some degree, as props – the manipulation of the Palin children [...]