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  1. Gender and the Law Prof Blog

    Pink’s New Women’s Rights Protest Anthem, “Girls Just Wanna Have Rights, so Why Do We Have to Fight?”

    By Tracy Thomas

    My new work out song:Pink's New Protest Anthem, "Irrelevant"When the Supreme Court released its opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson on June 24, overturning Roe v. Wade, shock waves were felt across the U.S.—including from…

  2. Hall Benefits Law Blog

    Employee Benefit Plans Feel the Impact of Supreme Court Abortion Ruling

    By Anne Hall

    In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org., the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Mississippi’s Gestational Age Act, which prohibits abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, with limited exceptions.…

  3. The Right Coast

    How Idaho became ground zero in the federal-state abortion fight | The Hill

    By Thomas A. Smith

    DOJ claims the Idaho law conflicts with, and is preempted by, a federal law called the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), which requires hospitals receiving Medicare funding to provide…

  4. Health Law Prof Blog

    Reproductive Rights are Human Rights: The Critical Role of International Human Rights Law in Decriminalizing Abortion in Argentina and Mexico

    By Katharine Van Tassel

    Melissa Padilla (University of San Diego), Reproductive Rights are Human Rights: The Critical Role of International Human Rights Law in Decriminalizing Abortion in Argentina and Mexico, SSRN (2022):Access to legal…

  5. Religion Clause

    Michigan County Prosecutors Temporarily Enjoined From Enforcing Pre-Roe Abortion Ban

    By Howard Friedman

    As reported by Bridge Michigan, a Michigan state trial court judge yesterday issued a preliminary injunction barring county prosecutors from enforcing a 1931 statute banning abortion. The injunction prevents enforcement…

  6. Health Law Prof Blog

    The Indian Country Abortion Safe Harbor Fallacy

    By Katharine Van Tassel

    Lauren van Schilfgaarde (University of California, Los Angeles), Aila Hoss (Indiana University), Sarah Deer (University of Kansas), Ann E. Tweedy (University of South Dakota), Stacy Leeds (Arizona State University), The…

  7. PrawfsBlawg

    Bad lawsuits from the left

    By prawfsblawg@gmail.com

    Main Thursday, August 18, 2022Bad lawsuits from the leftFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis suspended Hillsborough County (Fla--includes Tampa) state's attorney Andrew Warren from office, pursuant to his constitutional power to suspend…

  8. Mike McBride Online

    Linked: Facebook Cooperated With Law Enforcement in an Abortion Case. Did it Have a Choice?

    By Mike McBride

    However, the article below goes on to note that Meta has options. It could create hurdles, it could delay and fight it. Neither of those would likely make much difference…

  9. Religion Clause

    Preliminary Relief Denied In Challenge To Georgia Anti-Abortion Law

    By Howard Friedman

    In Sistersong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective v. State of Georgia, (GA Super. Ct., Aug. 15, 2022), a Georgia state trial court refused to grant a preliminary injunction to…

  10. All Things HR

    Reproductive Healthcare Issues for Employers Series, Part 5: Collective Bargaining Implications of the U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Dobbs

    By Jordan Schreier

    On June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court released Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade. In our Reproductive Healthcare Issues for Employers series, we…