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...discourse about women’s psychological trauma first entered the legal conversation concerning abortion with the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, in which pro-choice proponents argued that abortions could prevent the distress caused by an unwanted childbirth, according...

Author: By Jackson F. Cashion and Eric T. Justin, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Humanities Center Fellow Addresses Abortion Discourse | 4/15/2010 | See Source »

...after Gonzales v. Carhart in 2007, psychological trauma has appeared in common legal decisions as an argument against abortion, Suk said...

Author: By Jackson F. Cashion and Eric T. Justin, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Humanities Center Fellow Addresses Abortion Discourse | 4/15/2010 | See Source »

While the rest of the world moves towards gender equality, Harvard’s eight all-male final clubs have stubbornly remained on the wrong side of history. Two decades ago, the last of Princeton’s eating clubs discontinued its practice of gender discrimination after a protracted legal battle that included two failed appeals to the Supreme Court. The next year, Skull and Bones, Yale’s famous secret society, voted to accept women following a contentious public fight that pitted renowned grads like John F. Kerry and William F. Buckley, Jr. against one another. But somehow...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Long Overdue | 4/15/2010 | See Source »

...recess appointment, which some liberals urged, was out of the question, according to the White House official. Such an appointment sidestepping an up-or-down floor vote would have made Johnsen's goal to depoliticize the Office of Legal Counsel impossible "and would have led to partisan debates over its legal opinions regardless of their quality," the official says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Obama Backed Down on an Embattled Nominee | 4/14/2010 | See Source »

Some liberals who hoped Johnsen would be Obama's tonic to the office under Bush are bitterly disappointed by her withdrawal, and some accuse the White House of not backing their own candidate. But Lee Casey, a Washington attorney who was an attorney adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel in 1992 and 1993, says her nomination may have been abandoned because of a bigger confirmation fight that is now taking shape: the one for Justice Stevens' seat. "My guess is that it became a question of where do we want to spend the political capital," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Obama Backed Down on an Embattled Nominee | 4/14/2010 | See Source »

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