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Appropriate Conduct: The Constitutionality Of The Missouri Legislature's Appropriations For The State Family Planning Program, Jessica L. Conlon Apr 2007

Appropriate Conduct: The Constitutionality Of The Missouri Legislature's Appropriations For The State Family Planning Program, Jessica L. Conlon

Missouri Law Review

Each year, approximately 7.4 million American women obtain contraceptive and reproductive health care from government-funded family planning programs. According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, these programs, which primarily serve women who are "young, unmarried, less-educated or poor," help 1.3 million women avoid unintended pregnancies in an efficient use of taxpayer dollars. Despite the substantial benefits of family planning programs, they are not without their critics. Abortion opponents often challenge publicly-funded family planning programs because some organizations that provide family planning services also provide abortions. Their concern is that, by funding family planning services in those organizations that also provide abortions, …


The Lethal Injection Quandary: How Medicine Has Dismantled The Death Penalty, Deborah W. Denno Jan 2007

The Lethal Injection Quandary: How Medicine Has Dismantled The Death Penalty, Deborah W. Denno

Fordham Law Review

On February 20, 2006, Michael Morales was hours away from execution in California when two anesthesiologists declined to participate in his lethal injection procedure, thereby halting all state executions. The events brought to the surface the long-running schism between law and medicine, raising the question of whether any beneficial connection between the professions ever existed in the execution context. History shows it seldom did. Decades of botched executions prove it. This Article examines how states ended up with such constitutionally vulnerable lethal injection procedures, suggesting that physician participation in executions, though looked upon with disdain, is more prevalent--and perhaps more …


Is Compulsory Court-Annexed Medical Malpractice Arbitration Constitutional? How The Debate Reflects A Trend Towards Compulsion In Alternative Dispute Resolution, Matthew Parrott Jan 2007

Is Compulsory Court-Annexed Medical Malpractice Arbitration Constitutional? How The Debate Reflects A Trend Towards Compulsion In Alternative Dispute Resolution, Matthew Parrott

Fordham Law Review

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