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Religion Clause
Missouri AG Issues Opinion on Which Abortion Restrictions Remain Enforceable After Reproductive Freedom Amendment
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has issued Opinion Letter No. 22-2024, (Nov. 22, 2024) outlining the extent to which the state's restrictive abortion laws are still enforceable after voter adoption…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
New UN Guidance Calling for Restraints on Conscientious Objection to Abortion Care
November 26, 2024: Cynthia Soohoo and Jaime M. Gher discuss UN Guidelines on conscientious objection in a new blog on Just Security. The UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Girls…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
New Book on the History of Abortion Pills
By Jamie Abrams
Carrie N. Baker has a new book forthcoming in December 2024 on the history of abortion pills in the United States. The book summary is here. It is available open-source…
The Faculty Lounge
CFP: Touro Institute for Health Law, Bioethics, and Policy’s First Annual Symposium
This just in: The first annual symposium of Touro Law Center's Institute for Health Law, Bioethics, and Policy will focus on the topic of Reproductive Health Policy. This symposium will…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
New Laws in New York May Raise Employers’ Costs, Starting January 1, 2025
By Publisher, Matthew P. Gizzo
Quick Hits Abortion rights will be enshrined in the New York Constitution. Employers will be required to provide paid prenatal personal leave for pregnant employees to receive healthcare services. The…
Elder Law Prof Blog
uOttawa Report: Dynamic Programming on “Governing Reproduction” at Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics
One of the perks of a Fulbright Fellowship is the opportunity to attend conferences that introduce you to new topics, outside of your traditional research areas, and which stimulate new…
Religion Clause
Suit Challenges Illinois Requirements for Insurance Policies to Cover Abortions
Suit was filed yesterday in an Illinois federal district court challenging on both constitutional and federal statutory grounds Illinois statutes that requires health-insurance policies to cover elective abortions on the…
Religion Clause
State Trial Court Strikes Down Wyoming Abortion Bans
In Johnson v. State of Wyoming, (WY Dist. Ct., Nov. 18, 2024), a Wyoming state trial court held that two Wyoming statutes barring abortions violate the Wyoming Constitution. One of the…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Everett and Taylor on “Abortion and Women’s Future Socioeconomic Attainment”
By Jamie Abrams
Bethany Everett and Catherine Taylor have published Abortion and Women’s Future Socioeconomic Attainment in the American Sociological Review. Its key conclusions are excerpted below. Using two different approaches, one that focuses on…
Religion Clause
Suit Challenges Kentucky Abortion Bans
A class action lawsuit was filed last week in a Kentucky state trial court challenging the constitutionality under the Kentucky state constitution of two separate abortion bans found in Kentucky…