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Student Comment: Not Really A Battle Of The Sexes: Women’S Health Agenda Advocates Global Equality In Medical Research Trials And Drug Administration, Margery R. Beltran
Student Comment: Not Really A Battle Of The Sexes: Women’S Health Agenda Advocates Global Equality In Medical Research Trials And Drug Administration, Margery R. Beltran
University of Baltimore Journal of International Law
The New Women’s Health Agenda seeks to close the discriminatory gap between men’s and women’s medical treatment around the world. Often, women’s reproductive issues are the focus of medical studies in which women are involved; however, chronic diseases are quickly becoming a high health risk for the female population around the world. This comment explores the past, present, and future of women’s global health. Throughout history, women have been prevented from participating in clinical trials for reproductive protection reasons. The problem arises after men have successfully responded to treatment because the medication is then administered to both men and women. …
The Pregnancy Penalty, Michele Goodwin
The Pregnancy Penalty, Michele Goodwin
Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine
Punishing pregnant women increasingly serves as a litmus test in political discourse, inviting more than a metaphor about state sanctioned violence targeted at women. In 2016, candidates for the United States presidency threatened to defund Planned Parenthood if elected and a leading candidate promised he would "punish" pregnant women who seek abortions. Other presidential candidates urged that even victims of rape and incest should be forced to carry their pregnancies to term, imposing yet another penalty or strike against sexually violated women and girls. Local legislatures and governors show equal contempt for and desire to penalize women in the United …
Hobby Lobby, Birth Control, And Our Ongoing Cultural Wars: Pleasure And Desire In The Crossfires, Robin West
Hobby Lobby, Birth Control, And Our Ongoing Cultural Wars: Pleasure And Desire In The Crossfires, Robin West
Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine
The article examines the political, legal and constitutional challenges related to Birth control laws in the U.S. It discusses Supreme Court jurisprudence, such as Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. and birth control drug law and treatments.
Borrowing From Dormant Commerce Clause Doctrine In Analyzing Abortion Clinic Regulations, Caitlin E. Borgmann
Borrowing From Dormant Commerce Clause Doctrine In Analyzing Abortion Clinic Regulations, Caitlin E. Borgmann
Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine
The article examines the intensity in legislative rulemaking specifically directed at dismantling women's health protections is sweeping across the U.S. Topics discussed include the U.S. anti-reproductive rights legislation; legal protections for pharmacists who refuse to dispense contraceptive medications to women; and targeted restrictions of abortion providers (TRAP laws) in Texas.