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The intersection of disease transmission and criminal law

CNN carried the story of Nick Rhoades, a HIV-positive young man who is serving time for not disclosing his HIV status to a partner. Amongst all of the opposition to criminally charging people who...

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What choices are we really giving women?

When Shauna Prewitt was raped in college, she chose to give birth to the baby conceived during that rape.  Then, she found out that many rapists can legally obtain visitation with the children produced...

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Another day, another lawsuit over ObamaCare

Hobby Lobby stores, a Christian-oriented business, filed for an injunction against the enforcement of ObamaCare’s mandate that employer-sponsored health insurance must cover the morning-after pill....

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Steven Rattner sez: death panels are da bomb!

Remember when Sarah Palin was excoriated for saying that “And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one...

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EPA sued for unethical and illegal human experimentation

Steve Milloy filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency for exposing people (particularly senior citizens, sick people, and the poor) to air pollution in an attempt to study its...

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Brain Dead in Denmark

When 19-year-old Carina Melchior was diagnosed as being brain-dead after a car accident, her parents agreed to donate her organs.  Her respirator was shut off; yet, she continued to breathe. She is now...

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Gritting my teeth over the asinine Lena Durham

In case you missed it, Lena Durham has an Obama ad that compares voting to losing one’s virginity.  As an accomplished woman, I find it infuriating to be told to vote with my ‘lady parts’, as opposed...

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So we have standards because….?

David Scott, a part-time officer in the Barnstead Police Department of New Hampshire, is suing the New Hampshire Police Standards & Training Council for sex discrimination.   (Story here.)  The...

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A Smorgasbord of Health Care News

Okay, I’ve been busy and neglecting things at The Fog of Law.  Here’s what I’ve been reading but haven’t had time to blog about: From The Pioneer Institute: A New Agenda for Cost Control in...

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Note to the geniuses on Beacon Hill

Okay, fine, several notes to those geniuses. First, obesity is a problem with children in teens, but so are anorexia and bulimia.  (It is a problem for young men, too.)  While a letter home to parents...

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Sunday Public Service Announcement

Okay, it’s not quite a PSA; it’s more of a PSA and a discussion about our blood supply and the mis-use of statistics. One of the things going around Facebook is a picture of one of those bags that...

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I should probably have deep bioethical thoughts about this…

…but I really can’t say anything that isn’t blindingly obvious. A man, nom de plume Albert Garland, wanted to have another child with his wife.  They went through fertility treatments, did IVF, and she...

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Angelina Jolie’s Breasts

Okay, I totally wrote that title just for the search engine traffic. Well, not really – Angelina wrote an op-ed in the New York Times about having a preventative double mastectomy.  Her mother passed...

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Hilary Jane Margeret White’s epic “choice” rant

It’s not a rant, per se, but Miss White discusses everything from the problems with schools turning into the arbiters of healthy eating to gun control and sexuality. It’s also not a blog post about...

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Belgian Parliament: kids can consent to euthanasia

The Belgian Parliament will soon vote on a bill that would enable children to consent to euthanasia, so long as their doctors think that their consent is mature and that their condition is dire, and...

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Short Answer: No

As many Fog of Law readers know, I’ve been a vegetarian for fifteen years and have the best cat ever.  Furballs are friends, not food.   But the proposal by Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe to give...

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A better solution

The Red Cross announced that its blood supply are at dangerously low levels – down about 10% from last June, and last June was the lowest level in fifteen years.  There are calls to open up blood...

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Welcome to Breast Cancer Awareness Month

For those who are living in a cave: October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  It is also the “Month of Absurd Slacktivism Memes,” such as this one: Leaving aside the grammatical issue (I presume that...

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Objective and Subjective Reality

The Other McCain writes about the intra-progressive battle between “radfems” (radical feminists) and the transgender/transsexual rights community. (Here.) In the post, he mentions the concept of the...

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Forty-One Years in the Desert

Yesterday marked the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the decision that forbade states from restricting abortion during the first trimester, and, with its companion case Doe v. Bolton, made it...

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