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Family Law Prof Blog
Judge strikes down Georgia ban on abortions, allowing them to resume beyond 6 weeks into pregnancy
By Family Law
From AP News:A Georgia judge on Monday struck down the state’s abortion law, which took effect in 2022 and effectively prohibited abortions beyond about six weeks of pregnancy.Fulton County Superior…
Religion Clause
Organization Did Not Show That Its Anti-Abortion Views Are Religious Beliefs
In Oregon Right to Life v. Stolfi, (D OR, Sept. 30, 2024), an Oregon federal district court refused to issue a preliminary injunction against Oregon's requiring Oregon Right to Life to…
Religion Clause
Georgia’s 6-Week Abortion Ban Declared Unconstitutional
In Sistersong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective v. State of Georgia, (GA Super. Ct., Sept. 30, 2024), a Georgia state trial court held unconstitutional under the state constitution Georgia's ban…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
CFP Symposium, Women’s Leadership in Law and Politics
By Tracy Thomas
Call for ProposalsWomen’s Leadership in Law and PoliticsScholars Virtual SymposiumSponsored by The Center for Constitutional Law & The Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of AkronFriday, February 21,…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Impact of Dobbs on Employment Law and Women Workers
By Tracy Thomas
Laura T. Kessler, Reproductive Justice at Work: Employment Law After Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 109 Cornell L. Rev. (2024) In June 2022, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization,…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
ND Federal District Court Holds Catholic Employers Do Not Have to Follow EEOC Rule to Accommodate Workers for IVF or Abortion
By Tracy Thomas
Judge Rules Catholic Employers Can Now Deny Workers Time Off For Abortion or IVF More than 8,000 Catholic employers across the country will not be required to provide accommodations for workers…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
IVF After Dobbs, and Statutory Distinctions of Pregnancy Versus External Embryos
By Tracy Thomas
Kerry Lynn Macintosh, Dobbs, Abortion Laws, and in Vitro Fertilization, 26 J. Health Care Law & Policy (2023) Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization held that there is no constitutional right…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Eighth Circuit First to Consider EEOC Rule Including Abortion-Related Worker Accommodations
By Tracy Thomas
Bloomberg, First Appeals Court to Mull EEOC Abortion Accommodation Rule17 states to argue on appeal for injunction on pregnancy ruleUS Supreme Court’s Loper Bright decision likely to be raisedThe EEOC’s inclusion of…
Simple Justice
The Only Thing Worse Than The Filibuster
It’s totally understandable that Kamala Harris wants to run for president on the issue of abortion. It’s just as understandable that Harris is proposing a national law protecting the right…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Report on “Deepening the Divide: Abortion Bans Further Harm Immigrant Communities”
By Jamie Abrams
A new fact sheet has been published on the harms of abortion bans to immigrant communities. This report was authored by Lucie Arvallo, Hannah Liu, Suma Setty, Priya Pandey, Salen Andrews,…