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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Jamie R. Abrams on “A Reflective Case Study of Leadership Models in the Fight for Abortion Access”
By Jamie Abrams
Check out my latest article published in Volume 16 of ConLawNow of the Akron Law Review. The article is titled A Reflective Case Study of Leadership Models in the Fight…
Consumer Financial Services Law Monitor
U.S. Supreme Court Holds Medicaid’s Any-Qualified-Provider Provision Does Not Confer Enforceable Rights
By Virginia Bell Flynn, Chad R. Fuller, Jessamyn Vedro
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, ruled that the Medicaid Act's any-qualified-provider provision does not confer individual rights enforceable under 42 U.S.C. §1983. This decision reverses the…
New York Court Watcher
Once More Time: The Supreme Court Again Says Reconsider NY’s Abortion Mandate!
Yes, once again, the New York courts suffered an embarrassing unanimous, summary overruling of their decisions which persistently upheld the imposition of the state's abortion coverage mandate upon religious objecting…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Dr. Shelley Sella’s New Book on Third-Trimester Abortion Care
By Jamie Abrams
Dr. Shelley Sella, MD has published Beyond Limits: Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care with the Penguin Random House Press. The book is a powerful read packed with insights about abortion decision-making. The…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Dr. Shelley Sella’s New Book on Third-Trimester Abortion Care
By Jamie Abrams
Dr. Shelley Sella, MD has published Beyond Limits: Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care with the Penguin Random House Press. The book is a powerful read packed with insights about abortion decision-making. The…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
New Book, Pushback: The 2500 Year Fight to Thwart Women by Restricting Abortion
By Tracy Thomas
Mary Fissell, Pushback: The 2,500-Year Fight to Thwart Women by Restricting Abortion (Hatchette 2025)Attitudes about abortion cycle between long periods of widespread tolerance, to repression, and back again. What accounts…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Judicial Bypass for Minors Seeking Abortion Care in Florida
By Jamie Abrams
A Florida District Court has gutted the rights of youth to seek abortion care. The full opinion is here. Here is the context of the case: Appellant (“Minor”), an unemancipated 17-year-old…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Legal Regulation of Medication Abortion
By Tracy Thomas
Two articles about the legal regulation of medication abortion.Nathan Cortez & Joanna L. Grossman, Who Regulates Abortion Now?, 110 Iowa L. Rev. 1579 (2025) Contrary to both conventional wisdom and recent…
Legal Theory Blog
Craddock on Personhood after Dobbs
Joshua J. Craddock (Harvard University, Law School, Students ; James Wilson Institute for Natural Rights and the American Founding) has posted Personhood After Dobbs (74 Cath. U. L. Rev. 536…
Religion Clause
HHS Rescinds Prior Administration’s Interpretation of Emergency Room Abortion Practices Under EMTALA
In January 2025, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction issued by a Texas federal district court barring enforcement of a 2022 Guidance Document and related Letter on…