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On Brief: Iowa's Appellate Blog
Closely divided Iowa Supreme Court finds challenges to abortion restrictions under Iowa constitution subject to rational-basis review, reverses injunction against “fetal heartbeat” law
In a 4-3 decision, the Iowa Supreme Court held that rational basis review is the applicable standard in addressing challenges to abortion restrictions under the Iowa constitution. The Court then…
Hall Benefits Law Blog
States Sue EEOC Over Abortion Provisions in Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Rule
By Anne Hall
In response to the final rule that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), seventeen state attorneys general have filed suit to…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
How the Texas Title IX Case is About a National Abortion Ban
By Jamie Abrams
Jessica Waters has published an important column on how "Texas's Title IX case is about a national abortion ban, not student attendance" with The Hill. The column flags an important…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Boone and McMichael on “Reproductive Objectification”
By Jamie Abrams
Meghan Boone and Benjamin McMichael have published Reproductive Objectification in Volume 108 of the Minnesota Law Review. Here is the abstract: The American system of rights is individualized—premised on the concept of singular,…
Family Law Prof Blog
Iowa can enforce six-week abortion ban, US state’s top court rules
By Family Law
From Reuters:Iowa can enforce a ban on most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, the state's highest court ruled on Friday, reversing a lower court order that had blocked…
Religion Clause
Iowa Supreme Court Allows 6-Week Abortion Ban to Go into Effect
In Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, Inc. v. Reynolds, (IA Sup.Ct., June 28, 2024), the Iowa Supreme Court in a 4-3 decision reversed the grant of a temporary injunction against…
The Right Coast
Supreme Court Allows Emergency Abortions in Idaho
An Idaho federal district court judge placed a preliminary injunction on part of Idaho's law in August 2022. "It's not about the bygone constitutional right to an abortion," Judge B.…
PrawfsBlawg
Oops (Updated and Moved to Top)
Main Thursday, June 27, 2024Oops (Updated and Moved to Top)Final Update: The Court released the opinion Thursday.SCOTUS [on Wednesday] inadvertently posted the opinion in the EMTALA case, dismissing the writ…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Comstockery: How Government Censorship Gave Birth to the Law of Sexual and Reproductive Freedom
By Tracy Thomas
Reva Siegel & Mary Ziegler, Comstockery: How Government Censorship Gave Birth to the Law of Sexual and Reproductive Freedom, and May Again Threaten It, Yale L. J. (forthcoming)In the aftermath…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Comstock Act’s Equal Protection Problem
By Tracy Thomas
Danny Li, The Comstock Act's Equal Protection ProblemFollowing its victory in Dobbs, the antiabortion movement has set its sights on a national abortion ban. Intense popular backlash to abortion-restrictive legislation,…