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Health Law Prof Blog
Crisis of Conscience in Post-Roe America
Elizabeth Sepper (University of Texas at Austin), Crisis of Conscience in Post-Roe America, 25 J. of Contemp. Legal Issues (2024):This keynote lecture was presented in November 2022 at the UC…
Religion Clause
Utah Supreme Court Upholds Preliminary Injunction Against Law Banning Most Abortions
In Planned Parenthood Association of Utah v. State of Utah, (UT Sup. Ct., Aug. 1, 2024), the Utah Supreme Court, in a 4-1 decision, affirmed a trial court's entry of a…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Utah’s Majority-Women Supreme Court Upholds Injunction of Strict Abortion Ban and Includes Women’s Legal Scholarship of History in its Analysis
By Tracy Thomas
The majority-female Utah Supreme Court upheld an injunction preliminarily enjoining an abortion ban by a vote of 4-1. The case is Planned Parenthood of Utah v. State, ___P.3d___, 2024 WL…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
New Book Traces Legal Developments of Abortion and Their Status as a Winning Issue at the Ballott
By Tracy Thomas
Jessica Valenti, Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to WinValenti (Sex Objects) draws on her post-Roe-era newsletter Abortion, Every Day—where she has been “tracking every ban, court…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
What Project 2025 Proposes for Women
By Tracy Thomas
Newsweek, What Projects 2025 Means for WomenThe 900-page-long document, produced by conservative think-tank The Heritage Foundation, has been designed as a roadmap for an incoming conservative president, with a wide range…
Last Month at the Supreme Court
Last Month at the Supreme Court | 2023 Term Conclusion
By Chantel Febus, James Azadian, Monika Harris, Christopher Sakauye, Puja R. Valera, A. Joseph Duffy IV, Ryan VanOver, Dykema
Our final edition of Last Month at the Supreme Court for the 2023 Term captures the outcomes of several critical cases in which the Justices tackle modern issues like the…
Last Month at the Supreme Court
Decision Alert: Supreme Court Does Not Resolve Whether Federal Law Preempts Certain State Abortion Restrictions, Remands for Further Consideration
By Chantel Febus, James Azadian, Christopher Sakauye, Monika Harris, Puja R. Valera, A. Joseph Duffy IV, Dykema
The Supreme Court dismissed the consolidated cases Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States without reaching the merits of whether the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Report on Medicaid Coverage of Telehealth Abortion Services in Six States
By Jamie Abrams
The National Health Law Program has published a report on Medicaid Coverage of Telehealth Abortion Services in Six States (IL, MN, NM, NY, RI, WA). Here is a summary of…
Religion Clause
Arkansas Supreme Court Orders Initial Count of Signatures on Abortion Amendment Petitions
In Cowles v. Thurston, (AR Sup. Ct., July 23, 2024), the Arkansas Supreme Court ordered the state Secretary of State to perform an initial count of signatures submitted by volunteer canvassers…
The Right Coast
By The Way, Kamala Harris Is A Dangerous Authoritarian
It s true that Harris threw a lot of people in jail to bolster her political fortunes. Some of them likely innocent. And judging from her disposition, she would throw a lot…