Morning Roundup: NYC Council Passes CPC Disclosure Bill
Would-be clinic bomber gets short sentence thanks to good grades, BYU basketball player kicked off the team for having premarital sex, prosecutors may seek death penalty against Kermit Gosnell, and NYC will be the next city that requires CPC's to disclose they don't provide abortion.
Would-be clinic bomber gets short sentence thanks to good grades, BYU basketball player kicked off the team for having premarital sex, prosecutors may seek death penalty against Kermit Gosnell, and NYC will be the next city that requires CPC’s to disclose they don’t provide abortion.
- A North Carolina man who was convicted of giving an FBI informant bomb-making instructions to use against a Planned Parenthood clinic was given a 30-month sentence. Justin Carl Moose faced up to 20 years in jail, but the judge was “struck” by his good grades in high school, and said that the plot against the clinic “seemed to be out of character for you.”
- A Brigham Young University basketball player was dismissed from the team for the rest of the year for having sex with his girlfriend. Premarital sex is a violation of the school’s honor code, and Brandon Davies “acknowledged his transgression” to school officials on Monday. (His fate at the school remains to be seen.) Davies was one of the top players on the team, and BYU was having an “awesome season,” according to Rewire’s top college basketball expert, Brady Swenson. I give BYU one point for rules being equally applied to top athletes, but minus 100 points for having a rule against premarital sex.
- Philadelphia prosecutors have given notice of aggravating circumstances in the case against Kermit Gosnell, which leaves the door open for them to seek the death penalty. Gosnell is accused of murdering a woman and seven newborns while running a filthy illegal abortion business.
- The New York City Council passed an ordinance requiring crisis pregnancy centers to disclose whether they provide abortion, emergency contraception, or pre-natal care both in advertising and in their waiting rooms and entrances. Mayor Bloomberg is expected to sign it into law.
Mar 3
- Keeping up with LGBT health: Why it matters to your patients – Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants
- Concord man sentenced in plot against clinic – WRAL.com
- SD abortion bill mandating counseling, 72 hour wait, goes to Governor Daugaard – Examiner.com
- Operation Rescue claims abuses at Texas abortion clinics – MiamiHerald.com
- ‘Abort’ law hits clinics – New York Post
- Bill says no abortion if there’s a heartbeat – Columbus Dispatch
- Love and money: Why sex and development are not strange bedfellows – The Guardian
- Late abortion: the new clash in the Choice Wars – Spiked
- Legislation threatens Planned Parenthood funds – Daily Aztec
- Students rally for family planning – Yale Daily News
- Budget repeals mandates for sexual health coverage – UW Badger Herald
- Transgender Law Center Discusses Civil Rights at Reception – San Francisco Bay Times
- The Republicans’ all-out war on women – Socialist Worker Online
- Bachmann reintroduces Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act – Pioneer Press
- Man gets 30 months in abortion bomb plot – Salisbury Post
- Georgia Plays Front-Runner on Anti-Choice Agenda – Women’s eNews
Mar 2
- Knox school board gets earful on sex ed – Knoxville News Sentinel
- Letter: Don’t cut sex education – Abilene Reporter-News
- Abortion Disclosure Bill Passes – Wall Street Journal
- Pennsylvania: Death Penalty Is Sought Against Doctor – New York Times
- Parental notification not quite that simple – Nashua Telegraph
- Crisis Pregnancy Center Exec. Director Slams New City Regulations – Patch.com
- Women’s Day to focus on maternal health – New Vision
- Medical mystery endures: Black babies at twice risk of whites for death, study … – PhysOrg.com
- What a White House Study on Women Says About Birth Rates, Salary Gaps – Forward (blog)
- Confusion over Death Penalty in West Philly Abortion Case – PW-Philadelphia Weekly (blog)
- Confusion over Death Penalty in West Philly Abortion Case – PW-Philadelphia Weekly (blog)
- NYC OKs bill mandating pregnancy-center disclosure – Wall Street Journal
- Rep. Cleaver: GOP Manufactures Black-Brown Tension for Anti-Immigrant Policies – ColorLines magazine
- House committee pumps brakes on ‘Choose Life’ license plates – The American Independent
- Prosecutors considering death penalty in abortion doctor case – CNN International
- Senators aim at abortion coverage – Omaha World-Herald
- Close monitoring of Pa. abortion clinics vowed – NECN
- Fetus called as ‘witness’ at Ohio abortion hearing – The Imperfect Parent
- Who Needs Sex Counseling on Glee? – TV Fanatic
- Can Virginia decrease abortions with tougher clinic regulations? – TBD.com (blog)
- Halloran Wades Into City Family Planning Debate – Patch.com
- Ohio to allow Fetuses to ‘Testify’ in Abortion Bill Debate – Death and Taxes
- The Future of Title X – Capital City Weekly
- Anti-abortion group alleges ‘widespread abortion abuses’ – Austin American-Statesman (blog)
- Pregnancies Don’t Wait for Emergencies to End – Inter Press Service
- Wyoming small-government conservatives revolt against GOP social agenda – The Colorado Independent
- New report will help US ‘do more with less’ for women and girls – The American Independent
- INTERVIEW: Colombian lawyer takes on abortion laws – TrustLaw
- Opioid Use in Pregnancy Linked to Birth Defects – Medscape
- Vertex drug promising in hep C patients with HIV – Reuters
- Rep. Matt Heinz: Abortion Bill Could Destroy UA’s OB/GYN Program – Tucson Weekly
- Black community badly lacking sex education – The Voice
- Abstinence education should be taught in public schools – Daily Sundial
- UIC fights for transgender coverage in CampusCare – Chicago Flame Online (subscription)
- Britain To Cut Foreign Aid For 16 Countries, Focus More On Family Planning … – Kaiser Family Foundation
- Sex-Education Battles Calm Down Locally But Heat Up Statewide – Knoxville Metro Pulse
- Women Deliver List Recognizes Top 100 Individuals Who Deliver Results for … – PR Newswire (press release)
- Religion and abortion policy: The legislator’s obligation – Washington Post
- Vicious Cycle of Maternal Mortality – Inter Press Service
- Plan to combat growing HIV epidemic in Ukraine – PhysOrg.com (press release)
- The Fact Checker: Haley Barbour’s Medicaid fantasy – Washington Post
- Abortion Issue Gains Steam in SC – Free Times
- Medical mystery endures: Black babies at twice risk of whites for death, study … – The Republic
- Walker’s budget removes insurance requirement to cover birth control – Capital Times
- S. Africa Project Improves Treatment for Poor HIV-Positive Pregnant Women – Voice of America
- 50% of men may be infected with HPV–study – TheMedGuru
- Plain Talk: Right-to-lifers are on cloud nine – Capital Times
- House considers pre-abortion sonogram bill today – Austin American-Statesman (blog)
- Video: 12 abortion clinics in Texas evade law, dump pills and patient names – Examiner.com
- Collusion Between DOJ DOMA Announcement and Proposition 8 Battle? – Dakota Voice
- Family Time: Permanent birth control options for women – Halifax-Plympton Reporter
- Maternal mortality ’caused by lack of knowledge about human rights’ – International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
- California AG asks court to let gay marriages resume – MiamiHerald.com
- Jane Corwin criticized for abortion stance – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle