When Sex Counts Making Babies and Making Law

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ISBN: 9780742551503 | 0742551504
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/15/2007

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From a decidedly left-of-center perspective, the author discusses how law and public policy grapple with the differences between genders while simultaneously struggling to maintain a commitment to equal treatment under the law. The book consists of previously published general audience articles that are both provocative and newsworthy.

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Pregnancy and Its Discontents: Ignoring the Intimate Link between Mother and Fetus
To Murder a Child by Refusing a C-section	p. 5
Drug-Dealing to Unborn Children	p. 12
The Inadvertent Murder of an Ex-Girlfriend's Fetus	p. 18
Kidnapping Unborn Children from their Murdered Mothers	p. 24
Adopting Embryos from the Frozen Orphanage	p. 28
Are "Feminists for Life" Feminists for Real?	p. 32
Sending out Partial Birth Announcements: Pro-Life Symbolism and Deception	p. 39
Pro-Life Bullies and Mentally Retarded Women	p. 45
Forcing Pregnant Women to "Know" about Fetal Pain	p. 50
The "Minor" Issue of Abortion	p. 56
Who Gets Custody When the Fertility Clinic Makes a Mistake?	p. 62
Is That Egg Donor My Mommy?	p. 67
Battles over Public Breastfeeding	p. 73
What Kind of Mother Would Drown Her Children?	p. 78
Normalizing Rape: The Presumption of Intimacy between Women and Men
A Female Serial Killer's Claims of Rape	p. 86
Are Rapists Too Good for the Death Penalty?	p. 90
Date Rape and the Presumption of Innocence	p. 97
What's Wrong with Date Rape?	p. 101
Can a Woman Say "No" If She Has Already Said "Yes"?	p. 106
The Rapist Who Got Away: The Injustice of Statutes of Limitations	p. 113
Jailbait: When "Yes" Means "No"	p. 117
When Cops Cop a Feel: National Security and Women's Privacy	p. 124
What Is Sex Discrimination?
Bartenders without Blush	p. 132
And Ain't I a Woman?	p. 137
Why Gay-Bashing Is Sex Discrimination	p. 143
Single People Seeking Babies: Can the Law Ban Them from Assisted Reproduction?	p. 149
A Woman's Right to Birth Control Coverage	p. 157
FDA Resistance to Over-the-Counter Emergency Contraception	p. 161
Do Pharmacists Have a Right to "Choose" Not to Fill Prescriptions?	p. 167
Killing a Fetus on Account of Her Sex	p. 173
When Oral Sex Results in a Pregnancy: Can Men Ever Escape Paternity Obligations?	p. 179
Should Men Have the Right to a "Financial Abortion"?	p. 186
Can a Judge Order a Deadbeat Dad to Stop Having Children?	p. 193
The Many Meanings of "Reverse Discrimination"	p. 200
Is Male Circumcision Gender-Based Violence?	p. 206
Abortion by Baseball Bat	p. 211
Conclusion	p. 217
Notes	p. 219
Index	p. 239
About the Author	p. 247
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