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Health Law Prof Blog
Trans Sex Equality Rights After Dobbs
Marc Spindelman (Ohio State University), Trans Sex Equality Rights After Dobbs, 172 U. Pa. L. Rev. (2023):In L.W. v. Skrmetti, a divided Sixth Circuit panel gave Tennessee the green light…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Dobbs Impact on the Constitutional Rights of Family Privacy
By Tracy Thomas
Rona Kaufman Kitchen, Privacy: Pre- and Post-Dobbs, 61 Duquesne L. Rev. (2023) The United States Supreme Court has interpreted the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to include a fundamental…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Ohio Constitutional Amendment to Protect Choice of Abortion Triggering Significant Misinformation
By Tracy Thomas
An update on the Ohio abortion amendment on the ballot this fall, including some of my thoughts.ABCNews, Julie Carr Smyth & Christine Fernando, An Ohio Ballot Measure Seeks to Protect…
PrawfsBlawg
Fugitive abortion seekers
Main Saturday, September 02, 2023Fugitive abortion seekersThe Washington Post reports on the latest exclusive-private-enforcement efforts from Mark Lee Dickson and Jonathan Mitchell--county and city ordinances prohibiting the use of local…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Fetal Personhood Movement as Eradicating the Legal Personhood of Women
By Tracy Thomas
Meghan Boone & Benjamin McMichael, Reproductive Objectification, Minnesota L. Rev. (forthcoming) The American system of rights is individualized – premised on the concept of singular, physically separate, and autonomous people. The…
Religion Clause
West Virginia’s Ban on Prescribing Mifepristone By Telemedicine Is Pre-Empted By FDA Rules
In GenBioPro, Inc. v. Sorsaia,, (D WV, Aug. 24, 2023), a West Virginia federal district court dismissed a challenge to West Virginia abortion restrictions that are no longer in effect. The…
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Fifth Circuit Questions FDA Abortion Drug Dispensing Rule
Employers that sponsor group health plans continue to grapple with the fallout of last year’s decision in Dobbs that overturned Roe v. Wade... This includes litigation involving mifepristone, an abortion…
Compensation & Benefits Blog
Fifth Circuit Supports Restrictions on Medication Abortion, But No Immediate Impact on Health Plans (For Now)
By Jennifer Rigterink, Roberta Chevlowe, Jesse T. Foley
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed in part and vacated in part a Texas federal district court order revoking the U.S. Food and Drug…
PrawfsBlawg
Fifth Circuit takes injury where Fletcher and Newsom would not
Main Saturday, August 19, 2023Fifth Circuit takes injury where Fletcher and Newsom would notThe Fifth Circuit found the 2016 and 2021 FDA expansions of Mifepristone use unlawful under the APA;…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Eight States Could Amend Constitutions in 2024 to Protect Abortion Rights
By Tracy Thomas
Carrie Baker, Ms., AZ Ballot Measure in 2024 Elections Could Protect AbortionThe proposed Arizona amendment was announced the same day Ohio voters resoundingly rejected Issue 1, which would have made it…