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Health Law Prof Blog
Forced to Bear, Denied to Rear: The Cruelty of Dobbs for Disabled People
Robyn Powell (University of Oklahoma), Forced to Bear, Denied to Rear: The Cruelty of Dobbs for Disabled People, Geo. L.J. (forthcoming 2023):The history of the United States is marred by…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Abortion Law as Protection Narrative
By Jamie Abrams
Lolita Buckner Inniss has published Abortion Law as Protection Narrative in volume 101 of the Oregon Law Review (2023). Here is the abstract: Is there value in exploring centuries-old legal historical accounts in…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Center for Reproductive Rights Files Three Suits on Behalf of Pregnant Women Denied Abortion Care
By Jamie Abrams
The Center for Reproductive Rights filed three more suits last week on behalf of patients denied abortions while facing grave medical conditions. Here are the CRR's summaries of the cases…
The Faculty Lounge
Taboo Trades Podcast: My Body, My Choice with Ilya Somin
On this episode, George Mason Law's Ilya Somin joins me and UVA Law students Joseph Camano ('24) and Dennis Ting ('24) to discuss the full implications of "My Body, My…
Sixth Circuit Appellate Blog
Academic focus on a pending Sixth Circuit appeal
The Sixth Circuit recently heard argument in L.W. v. Skrmetti, involving Tennessee’s law prohibiting healthcare providers from performing gender-affirming surgeries and administering hormones or puberty blockers to transgender minors. The…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Supreme Court’s Rhetoric of Motherhood
By Tracy Thomas
Lucy Williams, Making a Mother: The Supreme Court and the Constitutive Rhetoric of Motherhood, 102 N.C. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024) Many scholars study Supreme Court decisions, but few are attentive to…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Biden Administration Asks the Supreme Court to Intervene in Mifepristone Litigation
By Jamie Abrams
The Department of Justice petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in the Fifth Circuit's decision in U.S. Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. Here are key…
Family Law Prof Blog
Mexico Decriminalizes Abortion
By Family Law
From AP:Mexico’s Supreme Court threw out all federal criminal penalties for abortion Wednesday, ruling that national laws prohibiting the procedure are unconstitutional and violate women’s rights in a sweeping decision…
PrawfsBlawg
Maybe it is the Handmaid’s Tale
Main Friday, September 08, 2023Maybe it is the Handmaid's TaleMary Ziegler (UC-Davis, having deliberately escaped Florida) writes in Slate about the impossibility of enforcing the new Texas ordinances against using…
Drug & Device Law
District Court Misapplies Implied Preemption In Medication Abortion Case
Since before the Dobbs decision reversed decades of precedent on reproductive rights, we have been looking at the implications for drug and device manufacturers. See here and here. Our posts…