Volume 44 of the Health Affairs Journal has published an article on "Obstetric Care Access Declined in Rural and Urban Hospitals Across US States, 2010-22." The study was authored by Katy Backes Kozhimannil, Julia D. Interrante, Caitlin Carroll,
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If/When/How Publishes Research Brief on Pregnancy Exclusion Laws
By Jamie Abrams
If/When/How has published a research brief on "Pregnancy Exclusion Laws Deny Pregnant People End-of-Life Decision-Making." The brief concludes: Pregnant people’s decisions should always be respected — from their ability to have an abortion, create a birth plan that is…
New Book, Equality’s Guardians
By Tracy Thomas
Niels Petersen, Equality's Guardians (Oxford University Press Oct. 2025)Equality's Guardians offers an unparalleled comparative analysis of constitutional equality case law from apex courts across 18 jurisdictions worldwide, including key international human rights treaties. This groundbreaking book aims to map various courts'…
Commentary on Julie Suk’s Book “After Misogyny” and a Conceptual Way Forward
By Tracy Thomas
Paula A. Monopoli, Pushing Boundaries, 59 New England Law Review 25 (2025)This essay was originally published in Balkinization as part of an online symposium and it is reprinted with permission. The essay engages with Julie Suk's book, After Misogyny: How…
Policing Gender: The Interest Convergence of Women’s and Transgender Rights
By Tracy Thomas
Michael R. Ulrich, Policing Gender: The Interest Convergence of Women's and Transgender Rights, Journal of Gender, Race & Justice, Vol. 28 (forthcoming). This Essay first observes in Part I how the increasing rhetoric around gender roles and the gender binary…
Ohio Case Asking Who Can Dispense Abortion Drugs Likely Headed to State Supreme Court
By Tracy Thomas
Jo Ingles, Case Asking Who Can Dispense Abortion-Inducing Drugs Likely Headed to Ohio Supreme Court, Statehouse News BureauA Hamilton County Court judge has blocked state restrictions on nurse practitioners and other advanced practice clinicians from prescribing or providing drugs…
The Lawless Workplace and Commentary on the Book, Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy
By Tracy Thomas
Matthew T. Bodie, The Lawless Workplace, 43 Law and Inequality 99 (2025)In their remarkable book "Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy," Naomi Cahn, June Carbone, and Nancy Levit tell the stories of individual…
Minor v. Happersett and the Repudiation of Universal Suffrage
By Tracy Thomas
Ellen D. Katz, Minor v. Happersett and the Repudiation of Universal Suffrage Minor v. Happersett rejected a constitutional challenge to a Missouri law that excluded women from the electorate. Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment forty-five years later is often said…
Raphael Perrin published “The medical construction of gestational age and its effects on abortion access”
By Jamie Abrams
Raphael Perrin published "The medical construction of gestational age and its effects on abortion access" in Volume 382 of Social Science & Medicine (2025). The abstract is excerpted here. This article examines how medical practices construct gestational age and…
Amy Adamczyk Published “Fetal Positions: Understanding Cross-National Public Opinion about Abortion”
By Jamie Abrams
Amy Adamczyk has published Fetal Positions: Understanding Cross-National Public Opinion about Abortion with the Oxford University Press. A summary of the book is excerpted here: In many countries, abortion is a contentious public opinion issue. In nations like the United States,…