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Entries by Jacob M. Appel from 01/2010

Embracing Teenage Sexuality: Let's Rethink the Age of Consent

| Posted 01.01.2010 | Politics
Read More: Women's Rights, Law, Children, Child Pornography, Men's Rights, Canada, Media, Sex Education, California, Teenagers, Politics, Gay Rights, Love, Bioethics, Women, Abstinence Only Education, Sex Ed, Crime, Age-of-Consent, Christian Right, Gone With the Wind, Porn, New York, Sexuality, Pornography, Religion, Homosexuality, Genarlow Wilson, Education, Human Rights, Abstinence Only, Health, Sex, Great Britain, Politics News

Our draconian consent laws are largely the product of a conservative political culture that has transformed the fight against child molestation into a full-blown war on teenage sexuality.

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Doubling Down on Baby M: New Jersey's Ongoing Resistance to Surrogacy

| Posted 01.03.2010 | Politics
Read More: Supreme Court, Women's Rights, Law, Women's Issues, Reproductive Rights, Equal Rights, Men's Rights, Motherhood, Pregnancy, Baby M, California, Liberty, Gay Rights, Surrogate Motherhood, New Jersey, Freedom, Ethics, Contraception, Bioethics, Medicine, Muller v. Oregon, Family, Abortion, Women, Gender Discrimination, Parenting, Libertarian, Sexuality, Gender, Gender Equality, Human Rights, Women's Health, Health, Sex, Michigan, Libertarianism, Politics News

That a woman consented to use her body as a surrogate was irrelevant, because there are some acts to which nobody is permitted to consent. As well-meaning as this approach might have been, its underpinnings are inescapably sexist.

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Medical Kidnapping: Rogue Obstetricians vs. Pregnant Women

| Posted 01.24.2010 | Healthy Living
Read More: Aclu, Medical Ethics, Abortion, Civil Liberties, Women's Rights, Equality, Women, Law, Jana Bures-Forsthoefel, Crime, Reproductive Rights, Civil Rights, Abortion Rights, Tallahassee, Obstetrics, Pregnancy, Feminism, Malpractice, Politics, Human Rights, Apologies, Women's Health, Freedom, Samantha Burton, Florida, Doctors, Ob/Gyn, Bioethics, Healthy Living News

The treatment of a pregnant Tallahassee mother, Samantha Burton, by her obstetrician may well rank among the most egregious abuses perpetrated against a patient by her caregiver since the triumph of the patients' rights movement.

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