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Abortion
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Religion Clause
Oklahoma Supreme Court Temporarily Enjoins 3 Laws Restricting Abortions
In Oklahoma Call for Reproductive Justice v. Drummond, (OK Sup. Ct, Nov. 14, 2023), the Oklahoma Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision directed the trial court to issue a temporary injunction…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Where Things Stand on Opposition to Implementation of Ohio’s New Reproductive Freedom Constitutional Amendment
By Tracy Thomas
Julie Carr Smyth & Christine Fernando, AP, Voters Back Abortion Rights, but Opponents Won't Relent.As voters in state after state affirm their support for abortion rights, opponents are acting with escalating…
Health Law Prof Blog
The Economics of Abortion Policy
Damian Clarke (University of Oxford), The Economics of Abortion Policy (IZA Discussion Paper No. 16395) (2023):This article provides a review of the economics of abortion policy. In particular, it focuses…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Analysis: Ohio Legislature Threatens Jurisdiction Stripping to Prevent Enforcement of New Constitutional Right to Reproductive Freedom
By Tracy Thomas
In November, people in Ohio passed an initiative for Reproductive Freedom of abortion, contraception, and reproductive rights by 57%. The initiative was proposed by a public petition process, where pro-choice…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The History of the Politics of the Legal Standard of History and Tradition
By Tracy Thomas
Mary Ziegler, The History of Neutrality: Dobbs and the Social-Movement Politics of History and Tradition, Yale L. J. (2023)To hear the Supreme Court tell it, the end of abortion rights…
Religion Clause
Anti-Abortion Legislators in Ohio Will Seek to Remove Jurisdiction of Courts to Interpret New Constitutional Amendment
As previously reported, abortion opponents in Ohio have taken several approaches in their unsuccessful attempt to prevent the adoption of a reproductive rights amendment to the Ohio Constitution. First they…
Health Law Prof Blog
Free Exercise of Abortion
Elizabeth Sepper (University of Texas), Free Exercise of Abortion, 49 BYU L. Rev. (2023):For too long, religion has been assumed to be in opposition to abortion. Abortions consistent with, motivated…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Reproductive Freedom Wins in Ohio, but That’s Not the End of the Story
By Tracy Thomas
Ohio's Reproductive Freedom Amendment enshrining in the state constitution the protection of an individual's choice of abortion and contraception won at the polls yesterday 56% to 43%. See Ohio Votes…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
French President Moves to Enshrine Right to Abortion in Constitution
By Tracy Thomas
Macron Moves to Add Abortion to France's Constitution, Reacting to US, Wash. PostPresident Emmanuel Macron on Friday submitted language for an amendment that would make France the first country to…
The Right Coast
Can Glenn Youngkin Pull Off Another Magic Trick in Virginia? – WSJ
The crux of the strategy is Youngkin s drive to unify the party around an abortion position that he hopes can solve one of the GOP s most vexing political…