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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleAnother 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....
View ArticleSteven 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...
View ArticleEPA 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...
View ArticleBrain 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...
View ArticleGritting 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...
View ArticleSo 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleNote 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...
View ArticleSunday 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...
View ArticleI 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...
View ArticleAngelina 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...
View ArticleHilary 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...
View ArticleBelgian 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...
View ArticleShort 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleWelcome 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...
View ArticleObjective 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...
View ArticleForty-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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