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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Leading Historian Explains What Alito Gets Wrong About the History of Abortion in America
By Tracy Thomas
One of the leading historians, Leslie Regan, who literally wrote the book on the topic, see When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973.com/When-Abortion-Was-Crime-1867-1973…
The Faculty Lounge
Tribal Lands Not Likely to Become Islands of Abortion Rights in Red States
Since the Dobbs leak, questions have been raised by non-Natives about whether tribal lands could become safe havens for non-Native women seeking access to abortion in states that have outlawed…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The 19th Century History of Abortion Medicines and Advertisements for “Relief for Ladies”
By Tracy Thomas
Forget "Abortion": Bring Back "Relief for Ladies."Supporters of the right to abortion often stumble over the word itself, choosing “choice” as a more acceptable thing to be “pro.” Only recently…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Radical Consequences of Uprooting Roe in Restoring Rules of Gender Difference
By Tracy Thomas
Jessie Hill & Mae Kuykendall, Uprooting Roe, 12 Houston L. Rev. Online 50 (2022)It’s official—the U.S. Supreme Court is likely poised to overturn Roe v. Wade in a matter of…
Health Industry Washington Watch
Supreme Court overturn of Roe v. Wade could impact drug and device makers
Last month’s leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft majority opinion from Justice Alito in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that would overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey…
The Right Coast
The Left s Intellectual Inconsistency on Life : American Greatness
The Supreme Court is expected to hand down its decision soon in Dobbs v. Jackson Women s Health Organization, which will likely result in five justices overturning Roe v. Wade. With Roe…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Path Almost Taken Toward Abortion Rights in the NY Abramowicz Case Rather than Roe
By Tracy Thomas
Emily Bazelon, America Almost Took a Different Path Toward Abortion RightsFor three days in January 1970, they filled the 13th floor of the federal courthouse in Manhattan, women of all…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Using Constitutional Courts to Advance Abortion Rights in Latin America
By Tracy Thomas
Alba Ruibal, Using Constitutional Courts to Advance Abortion Rights in Latin America,International Feminist Journal of Politics 2021Over the past two decades, the abortion rights controversy has become the most prominent…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Proposed PA Legislation Would Require Impregnators to Pay Half of Pregnancy Costs
By Tracy Thomas
Making "Impregnators" Pay Their Fair ShareLong before a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion revealed that by summer Roe v. Wade will likely be overturned, only pregnant people bore the burden of pregnancy—not just…
The Right Coast
The Conservative Legal Movement at the Edge of Schism – Public Discourse
Last month in Public Discourse, Josh Craddock called the question : if Roe v. Wade is overturned, or seriously scaled back by the Supreme Court in June, are we prepared…