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Category Archives: Reproductive Rights
“Roe-bots” at SCOTUS, Courtesy of Aid Access
The organization Aid Access is behind the “Roe-bots” dispensing mifepristone outside the Supreme Court today. Here’s an excerpt from the Aid Access press release: Aid Access, a telemedical abortion service providing abortion pills in all 50 states, in collaboration with … Continue reading
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Make No Mistake About the Extensive Anti-Abortion Agenda
The anti-abortion agenda is aiming for nothing less than full legal personhood from the moment of conception, as laid out in this essay in the National Review.
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The Time Students for Life America Got Punk’d by Two Yale Undergrads
A few weeks ago, two Yale undergrads, Zoe Larkin and Ella Attell, interviewed Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life America, Borat-style. Their spoof video (embedded above) is a funny-not-funny commentary on the absurd rhetoric deployed by anti-abortionist activists (Hawkins … Continue reading
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A Houston Clinic Responds to the Overturn of Roe v. Wade
Read the perspectives of the staff at a Houston abortion clinic after the Supreme Court ruled to end the constitutional right to abortion in The New Yorker writer Stephania Taladrid’s article, “Roe’s Final Hours in One of America’s Largest Abortion … Continue reading
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Reproductive Violence in America & the Justice the Relf Sisters are Due
Read journalist Linda Villarosa’s New York Times piece, “The Long Shadow of Eugenics in America” (June 8, 2022) to learn the story of the forced sterilization of the Welf sisters, as well as thousands of other victims of the deep-rooted … Continue reading
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How Safe are “Safe Haven States” in a Post-Roe Medical World?
Amid a post-Roe political and healthcare landscape, University of Connecticut School of Law Professor Carleen Zubrzycki’s is considering the repercussions of misleadingly naming states abortion “safe havens” without addressing the presence of pre-existing inter-state medical records in her recently published … Continue reading
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“Bigotry is a Close Cousin of Prudence:” the Overlapping Racial Ramifications of Prohibition and Abortion Restrictions
Read New York Times opinion columnist Charles M. Blow’s comparison of the racial manifestations of both abortion and prohibition in the U.S in his piece, “Abortion, Like Prohibition, Has a Clear Racial Dimension,” (July 3, 2022). Read excerpts from Blow’s … Continue reading
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A Dark Day for Women in America
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HBO’s “The Janes:” A Past and Future Vision for Collective & Compassionate Care
HBO’s newly-released documentary “The Janes” (on air as of June 8, 2022) covers the story of the Jane Collective, an underground abortion network in Chicago that despite legal barriers “helped women obtain safe, affordable abortions in the late ’60s and … Continue reading
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Period Tracking and Privacy in the Post-Roe Age
Just as many of our calendars have become digitized in the last decade, millions use apps like Flo and Clue to track their menstrual cycles. Yet in light of the leaked draft of the Supreme Court opinion on Roe v. … Continue reading
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President of Chile Publicly Apologizes to Woman who was Sterilized Without Her Consent
On May 26, the President of Chile Gabriel Boric publicly apologized to Francisca, a Chilean woman with HIV who was sterilized without her consent in 2002 while giving birth. Soon after becoming pregnant, Francisca had tested positive for HIV, then … Continue reading
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Spanish Menstrual Leave Legislation Tucked Into Abortion Law
Last month, draft legislation was introduced in Spain that would provide for three days of sick leave every month for painful menstruation. This was an attention-getting part of a larger bill that contains greater restrictions on surrogacy but the loosening … Continue reading
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Kalantry on Reason-Based Abortion Bans and Eugenics
In an essay just published by the Cornell Law Review Online, Professor Sital Kalantry explains how U.S. Supreme Court justices and U.S. Federal Court of Appeals judges misconstrue eugenics and make false analogies to foreign data to cast doubt on … Continue reading
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Louisiana Will No Longer Add Tax To Sales of Feminine Hygiene Products
Beginning July 1st, 2022, Louisiana will no longer add sales tax to purchases of feminine hygiene products of diapers. The Legislature passed and the Governor signed legislation that eliminated the tax on these products in May. Here’s the link to … Continue reading
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Call for Book Chapter Proposals: Reproductive Health Rights, Tourism and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Africa
About the Book Following a global sharp decline in inter country adoption which has drawn a lot of attention to Africa, reproductive tourism with the use of assisted technologies is gradually on the increase and attention is gradually shifting to … Continue reading
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Spindelman on “The Constitutionality of Reason-Based Abortion Bans”
Marc Spindelman (Ohio State) has published with the Georgetown Law Review Online his essay Embracing Casey: June Medical Services LLC v. Russo and the Constitutionality of Reason-Based Abortion Bans. Here is the abstract: June Medical Services L.L.C. v. Russo has … Continue reading
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Two New Feminist Judgments Books – Reproductive Justice Rewritten & Family Law Opinions Rewritten
The U.S. Feminist Judgments Project is pleased to announce the publication of two new volumes in the Cambridge University Press series. Feminist Judgments: Family Law Opinions Rewritten (Rachel Rebouché ed. 2020) This book provides new, feminist perspectives on famous family … Continue reading
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Symposium on New Book by @MicheleBGoodwin: “Policing the Womb” Sponsored by the @GenderSexLaw Program @ColumbiaLaw
Today I attended an online symposium celebrating Professor Michele Goodwin’s fantastic new book, Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood (Cambridge University Press 2020). The Center for Gender & Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School sponsored the … Continue reading
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New Book Announcement: David S. Cohen & Carole Joffee, “Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America:
The University of California Press has published a new book, Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America, by David S. Cohen (Drexel) and Carole Joffe (Sociology, UCSF). Here is the publisher’s description: It seems unthinkable that … Continue reading
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Embryos are Property, Not Persons, at Least in Ohio
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports on the case here. An excerpt: An appellate court Thursday ruled against a couple seeking a legal declaration that their embryos lost in a freezer malfunction last year were living persons and should have been … Continue reading
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SMU Series on “Excavate, Energize, Equalize: Propelling American Women in Thought and Deed”
Some of you may be interested in the event linked here that I am helping to organize, along with colleagues in the SMU departments of Theology, History and English. This third event in our SMU Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute cluster … Continue reading
Pratt on Tax Deductions for IVF, Egg Donation, and Surrogacy
Over at the TaxProf Blog, Professor Katherine Pratt (Loyola-L.A.) has an op-ed, Morrissey Creates New Uncertainty Regarding Tax Deductions for IVF, Egg Donation, and Surrogacy. Commenting on the Tax Court’s decision in Morrissey v. United States (11th Cir. Sept. 25, 2017), Pratt … Continue reading
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History of Forced Sterilizations in California: No Justice Yet
Over at governing.com, writer Chris Kardish writes about how different states have approached forced sterilization and compensation for its victims: Forced sterilization by the government sounds like a ghastly practice that ought to be safely locked away in the distant … Continue reading
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Israeli Supreme Court Cites Feminist Law Profs in Opinion on Surrogacy
The Israel Supreme Court has cited three feminist law profs in an important decision (here — in Hebrew) regarding the constitutional right to enter into surrogacy agreements under Israeli law. The scholars cited (in English) are: Gaia Bernstein (Seton Hall), … Continue reading
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Neil Gorsuch, Hobby Lobby, and the Question of Complicity
Neil Gorsuch may be a soft-spoken and gentlemanly Harvard-educated lawyer’s lawyer. But his decision in the Hobby Lobby case, 723 F.3d 1114 (10th Cir. 2013), apparently overlooked by most commentators, demonstrates just how much American women have to fear if … Continue reading
Speaker Needed for FIU Symposium on Race and Reproductive Rights
From colleagues at FIU, who are looking for a speaker to round out an upcoming symposium, due to a last-minute cancellation by a previously-scheduled speaker: Florida International University College of Law will be holding a symposium on reproductive rights, “New … Continue reading
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Because We Want to Think Gamete Providers are Being Generous, Not Making Money
Over at Role Reboot, there is a sweet essay by writer Allison Barrett Carter, “To the Donor Who Made Me an Aunt.” The essay is written in the form of a letter to the man who provided the sperm necessary … Continue reading
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Egg Freezing in Three Easy Steps?
The folks at motherboard.com report here on a London pop-up shop called “Timeless.” It looks like a beauty-product store but is designed to inspire conversations about female fertility and egg freezing. Here’s how the article describes the shop: The Timeless … Continue reading
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Are You a Lawyer Who Has Had an Abortion? Your Story Needed
From the FLP mailbox, this request from the Center for Reproductive Rights: As you may know, the Center for Reproductive Rights has two cases that are being conferenced by SCOTUS this month involving challenges to restrictive abortion laws in Texas and Mississippi. We are … Continue reading
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Report on AALS Midyear Meeting Workshop on “Next Generation Issues of Sex, Gender, and the Law”
The AALS’s 2015 Midyear Meeting Workshop on “Next Generation Issues of Sex, Gender, and the Law” concluded Friday in Orlando. It was one of the best substantive programs I have attended in many years. The quality of the speakers was … Continue reading
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Cohen and Connon, “Living in the Crosshairs: The Untold Stories of Anti-Abortion Terrorism”
David S. Cohen (Drexel) and Krysten Connon (J.D. 2012, Drexel University School of Law) have published Living in the Crosshairs: The Untold Stories of Anti-Abortion Terrorism (Oxford University Press 2015). Here is the publisher’s description: Abortion is a legal, common, … Continue reading
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Student Opportunity: Sarah Weddington Writing Prize for New Student Scholarship in Reproductive Rights
From the FLP mailbox, this notice of a student writing competition: Law Students for Reproductive Justice (LSRJ) in collaboration with the Center for Reproductive Rights, is pleased to announce the Call for Submission for the tenth annual Sarah Weddington Writing Prize for New Student Scholarship … Continue reading
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Drummond and Cohen: Enforcement and Prosecutorial Restraint in the Transnational Trade in Human Eggs
Susan G. Drummond (Osgoode Yall) and Sara R. Cohen (D2 Law LLP) have published Eloquent (In)action: Enforcement and Prosecutorial Restraint in the Transnational Trade in Human Eggs As Deep Ambivalence about the Law, 26 Can. J. of Women & the … Continue reading
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Who Can Consent to Use of Dead Teenager’s Frozen Sperm?
I have so many basic factual questions about this story concerning the frozen sperm of an Auckland, New Zealand teenager: Promising young film-maker Cameron Duncan banked sperm at age 15 before starting chemotherapy in 2002 for bone cancer in his … Continue reading
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Int’l J. of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Issue on “Transnational Reproductive Travel”
The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics has a new issue devoted to “Transnational Reproductive Travel”. Here is the TOC (links require JSTOR or other log in — check with your University librarian; sorry no known open source): Introduction … Continue reading
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A Swedish Perspective on Surrogacy and Commerce in Women’s Bodies
The Swedish Women’s Lobby makes its views on surrogacy known in Surrogacy: A Global Trade in Women’s Bodies, over at mercatonet.com. Here is an excerpt: The Swedish Women’s Lobby strongly opposes surrogate motherhood. Our position is that surrogacy is a … Continue reading
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Contraception: A Prescription for Women’s Equality
By Kara Loewentheil, Director of the Public Rights / Private Conscience Project in the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School. This blog was originally posted as part of a set of pieces about contraception and the … Continue reading
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Krause, “Some Thoughts from a Health Lawyer on Hobby Lobby”
Over at Hamilton and Griffin on Rights, Joan Krause (UNC) has posted “Some Thoughts from a Health Lawyer on Hobby Lobby.” Here is an excerpt: As a health law professor who teaches a course on women’s health care issues, I … Continue reading
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Guttmacher Institute on Hobby Lobby Case: “After Supreme Court Ruling, Focus Shifts to How Obama Administration and Congress Will Ensure Contraceptive Coverage for Affected Employees”
The Guttmacher Institute has issued a statement on the Hobby Lobby case. Here is an excerpt: [D]espite its potentially limited impact, the decision is very troubling for multiple reasons. Chief among them is the fact that five Supreme Court justices … Continue reading
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Vasectomy as Part of Plea Agreement
A 27-year old Virginia man has agreed to a vasectomy as part of a plea deal in Virginia. “It’s a condition of his probation, and I’m sure he’ll have to provide documentation to his probation officer,” [prosecutor Ilonia L.] White … Continue reading
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Is Womb-in-a-Box Next? Attempted Pregnancy of Women with Uterine Transplants
Four Swedish women who received uterine transplants have been implanted with embryos in an attempt to carry their own biological child to term. Read the AP story here. As my mind attempts to grasp this medical leap, I couldn’t help … Continue reading
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Mini Symposium on Paid Egg “Donation”
For those of you who haven’t seen it, I wanted to point out the mini-symposium organized by Kim Krawiec (Duke) over at the Faculty Lounge on the Perez v. Commissioner case. The case involves the tax treatment of amounts received … Continue reading
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Amicus Brief of Guttmacher Institute in Hobby Lobby
The Guttmacher Institute and Professor Sara Rosenbaum (GWU), as amici curiae in support of the government, have filed a brief in the Hobby Lobby case. Lead attorneys for the amici are Walter Dellinger and colleagues at O’Melveny & Meyers LLP, … Continue reading
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Corbin on “Abortion Distortions”
Caroline Mala Corbin (Miami) has posted to SSRN her article Abortion Distortions (Washington & Lee Law Rev., forthcoming). Here is the abstract: Two types of distortions often arise in abortion jurisprudence. The first is distortion of scientific fact. Too often … Continue reading
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Converge! Re-Imagining the Movement to End Gender Violence
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS – SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL TO converge@law.miami.edu DUE DATE: Friday, October 18, 2013 (may be extended) For more conference information see http://www.law.miami.edu/academics/converge/ CONVERGE! Re-imagining the Movement to End Gender Violence, will bring together survivors, activists, and … Continue reading
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Women in the Texas Legislature: Lessons in Individual Actions that Serve to Empower Movements
Thank you to Senator Wendy R. Davis and to Senator Leticia Van de Putte for, among other things, standing up for equality. It may have only been a battle and not a war, but Senator Davis’ filibuster of the Texas … Continue reading
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Corbin on “Compelled Disclosures”
Carolina Mala Corbin (Miami) has posted to SSRN her article Compelled Disclosures, Ala. L. Rev. (forthcoming). Here is the abstract: Courts have faced a wave of compelled disclosure cases recently. By government mandate, tobacco manufacturers must include graphic warnings on their … Continue reading
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What Continues to Motivate the Anti-Abortion-Rights Movement 40 Years After Roe?
The Washington Post (op-ed): Why pro-lifers keep fighting abortion, by Helen Alvaré & Meg T. McDonnell: Pro-choice Americans must wonder from time to time what keeps pro-lifers going. Why don’t we lay down our signs, cease our marching and admit … Continue reading
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CFP: Beyond Roe: Reproductive Justice in a Changing World
Beyond Roe: Reproductive Justice in a Changing World Throughout 2013, five law schools in the Delaware Valley will hold events exploring various aspects of reproductive justice in the 40 years post-Roe v. Wade. The final event in this series is … Continue reading
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Manian on “Abortion Restrictions and Side Effects on Women’s Health”
Maya Manian (USF) has posted to SSRN her article Lessons from Personhood’s Defeat: Abortion Restrictions and Side Effects on Women’s Health, Ohio State L.J. (forthcoming). Here is the abstract: State personhood laws pose a puzzle. These laws would establish fertilized … Continue reading
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