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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Lynn Paltrow, Executive Director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, is a genius. In her latest article for the New York Univeristy Review of Law & Social Change, she talks about missed opportunities of pro-choice litigators. A few snippets below: On the limitations of only litigating [...]

A friend of mine, and fellow blogger here, gave me some words of wisdom a short while back regarding this whole egg donation business. She said “The coordinators are always enthusiastic about placing people. I was more realistic about how long I thought my placement would take, since I’m very short. Honestly, the process took [...]

Peter Wood, of the National Association of Scholars, posted a long article (they’re the best kind) at Innovations, a Chronicles of Higher Education blog, about the mob in Wisconsin that shut down Roger Clegg at a DoubleTree hotel in Wisconsin. Clegg’s organization, the Center for Equal Opportunity, released “controversial” studies that reveal how much race [...]

In San Diego, each member of city council is allocated ,000 each year to use to support events in his or her district.  Sign On San Diego on Tuesday reported that again this year, Council President Tony Young is allocating a portion of his funds to support a gospel music festival known as Praise Fest. [...]

The ongoing shortage of abortion providers is blamed on many culprits: the stigma attached to abortion provision, the hostile and sometimes dangerous practice environment, and even a perceived lack of interest in abortion provision. One of the less known problems, however, is the lack of training opportunities. If medical students and residents don’t have the [...]

In 2010, the midterm elections sent a deluge of freshman politicians deemed part of the “tea party,” who immediately targeted Planned Parenthood funding under the pretense that somehow the health care organization was the main contributing factor to the United States debt. Yes, the tax debate happened and more pretend-issues were hotly debated on cable [...]

Not long after the launch of the first Hungarian whistleblower website police started an investigation against its editor-in-chief. Reason: “keeping the confidentiality of informants is perjury, or even aiding or abetting in the blackmailing.” Atlatszo.hu is a watchdog NGO and online magazine for investigative journalism started in July 2011 by Tamás Bodoky and other pro-transparency [...]

In Pakistan, the Lahore High Court is hearing a lawsuit seeking a permanent ban in the country on access to the social netwrking site Facebook because it has hosted a page titled “2nd Annual Draw Muhammad Day-May 20, 2011.” According to Pakistan Today, yesterday, the court issued a temporary order while the case is pending, [...]

In United States v. Rubashkin, (8th Cir., Sept. 16, 2011), the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a motion for a new trial and a challenge to the length of the sentence imposed on Sholom Rubashkin, the Orthodox Jewish former vice president of the kosher meat processing firm, Agriprocesors, in Postville, Iowa. Rubashkin was convicted [...]

If schools factor race into admissions and financial aid decisions, why not factor race into grading? Although Mark J. Perry, a professor of economics at the University of Michigan at Flint and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, presents the idea tongue-in-cheek, it’s a valid question. Consider the following: “Before Proposal 2, the [...]