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Abortion
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Drug & Device Law
Partial Update On Medical Abortion Litigation
Lawyers really like to be right. This dive into the latest on reproductive rights in the context of challenges to FDA’s regulation of a prescription medication is an instance where…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Siegel and Ziegler on SCOTUS, Mifepristone, and the 19th Century Comstock Act
By Tracy Thomas
Reva Siegel & Mary Ziegler, Our Victorian Supreme Court, SlateThe fate of mifepristone, a drug used in more than half of abortions in the United States, will now be decided…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Challenging Dobbs’ Faulty Originalist History
By Tracy Thomas
Miranda McGowan, The Democratic Deficit of Dobbs, Loyola U. Chicago L.J. (forthcoming 2023). Overturning the fifty-year old constitutional right to abortion, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization wrapped itself in the…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Danco Laboratories Seeks Stay of Preliminary Injunction from U.S. Supreme Court
By Jamie Abrams
Danco Laboratories filed its "Emergency Application for Stay of Preliminary Injunction Pending Appeal" in the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine case. The Fifth Circuit’s unprecedented order has created regulatory chaos across the country. The…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
JAMA Study on Mental Distress Among Females of Reproductive Age After Dobbs
By Jamie Abrams
The Journal of the American Medical Association has published an article on Mental Distress Among Female Individuals of Reproductive Age and Reported Barriers to Legal Abortion Following the U.S. Supreme Court…
Religion Clause
WAPO Says Judge Hid His Authorship of Anti-Abortion, Anti-LGBT Law Review Article
Washington Post reported today that Texas federal district court judge Matthew Kacsmaryk who issued last week's controversial opinion finding the FDA's approval of the abortion medication mifepristone invalid removed his name…
Religion Clause
Supreme Court Asked to Stay Abortion Pill Rulings
Today both the FDA and the manufacturer of the abortion drug mifepristone filed with the U.S. Supreme Court applications for a stay of the Texas federal district court's Order invalidating…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
How the History and Tradition Test of Dobbs Perpetuates Inequality
By Tracy Thomas
Reva Siegel, How "History and Tradition" Perpetuates Inequality: Dobbs on Abortion's Nineteenth-Century Criminalization, 60 Houston L. Rev. (2023)In this Commentary, I show how the tradition-entrenching methods the Court employed to…
Health Law Prof Blog
The Political Language of Parental Rights: Abortion, Gender-Affirming Care, and Critical Race Theory
Naomi Cahn (University of Virginia), The Political Language of Parental Rights: Abortion, Gender-Affirming Care, and Critical Race Theory, Seton Hall L. Rev. (Forthcoming):This Article explores how the rhetoric of parental…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Deploying the Rhetoric of Parental Rights to Override Minors’ Access to Abortion, Gender-Affirming Care and Education
By Tracy Thomas
Naomi Cahn, The Political Language of Parental Rights: Abortion, Gender-Affirming Care, and Critical Race Theory, Seton Hall L. Rev. (forthcoming) This Article explores how the rhetoric of parental rights has been…