bodily integrity
Polish Bill Banning All Abortions is Approved in its First Round
July 11, 2011 - 9:45am
July 7, 2011. (Romereports.com) A proposal that would ban all abortions in Poland has been sent by Parliament to committee for consideration. Under current law, abortion is legal if there are serious fetal anomalies or in cases of endangerment to the life or health of the mother. In reality, legal abortion even under these circumstances is inaccessible. There is, however, a huge black market in abortion in Poland and the medical establishment earns nearly $100 million annually off the books providing unsafe abortion.
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Roe v. Wade is Not One Size Fits All: More Reflections on Burton v. Florida
reader diary by Courtroom Mama
August 13, 2010 - 5:04pm (Print)
The opinion in Burton v. Florida, in which an appeals court reversed an order forcing a pregnant woman to go on bed rest and undergo cesarean surgery, raises a question about our courts: what is it about pregnancy that they just don't understand?
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Supreme Court Rules Strip Search of Female High School Student Illegal
June 25, 2009 - 11:50am (Print)
File this under "Phew": the Supreme Court ruled today that the strip search of an Arizona high school student was unconstitutional.
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