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Contraception
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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
SCOTUS Grants Cert On Religious Exemption to Healthcare Contraception Coverage Mandate
By Tracy Thomas
The Supreme Court grant cert today in Trump v. Pennsylvania and the related Little Sisters of the Poor regarding religious exemptions for the federal healthcare mandate that employers provide women…
Religion Clause
Suit Filed Against Pharmacies That Refused To Fill Emergency Contraceptive Prescription
A suit was filed earlier this week in a Minnesota state trial court against two pharmacies and an individual pharmacist by a woman who was turned down at both pharmacies…
Employee Benefits Blog
Third Circuit Upholds Decision Blocking Trump Administration’s Birth Control Rules
A Third Circuit appeals panel upheld the lower court ruling in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. President United States of America et al. No. 17-3752. This ruling grants a nationwide preliminary…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Effect of Contraception on Marriage During the 20th Century
By Tracy Thomas
"The Wife's Protector: The Effect of Contraception on Marriage during the 20th Century" JEREMY GREENWOOD, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Email: eag@jeremygreenwood.netNEZIH GUNER, Centre…
Religion Clause
Preliminary Injunction Denied In Challenge To Conscience Provisions In Insurance Law
In Cedar Park Assembly of God of Kirkland, Washington v. Kreidler, (WD WA, Aug. 2, 2019), a Washington federal district court denied a preliminary injunction against a group of Washington state…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Voluntary Motherhood: What Did 19th Century Feminists Think About Abortion and Birth Control
By Tracy Thomas
There is a lot of current interest in this 100th anniversary year of the 19th Amendment and the campaign for women's rights on whether the early feminists supported abortion.The Atlantic…
Employee Benefits Blog
SCOTUS Refuses to Review Ninth Circuit Ruling on ACA Birth Control Rules
By Judith Wethall, Ralph E. DeJong
The US Supreme Court declined to review a recent Ninth Circuit decision, blocking the interim rules that exempted employers with religious or moral objections from providing birth control coverage required…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Seeking Contraceptive Equity under the Affordable Care Act
By Tracy Thomas
Greer Donley, Contraceptive Equity: Curing the Sex Discrimination in the ACA's Mandate. 71 Alabama L. Rev. (forthcoming) Birth control is typically viewed as a woman’s problem despite the fact that men…
The Right Coast
Judge blocks Trump birth control rollback from taking effect in 13 states, DC
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's loosened birth control rules from going into effect in 13 states and the District of Columbia on Monday as scheduled. The Department…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Court Curbs Trump Administration’s Attempt to Gut Contraceptive Mandate
New York Times (January 14, 2019): Judge Blocks Trump's Attempt to Roll Back Birth Control Mandate, by Matt Stevens:Yesterday, a federal judge in Oakland issued a preliminary injunction preventing new…