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Paul Ehrlich Helped Create Roe v. Wade
4+ hour, 27+ min ago (316+ words) Josh Blackman | 3.17.2026 9:34 PM Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. There is a sentence in Justice Blackmun's majority opinion that is edited out of most ConLaw casebooks, but that Randy and I include: In addition, population growth, pollution, poverty, and racial overtones…...
Josh Hawley moves to ban abortion pills
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (1323+ words) A new bill introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley (R'Mo.) would ban medication abortion across the country. To support this plan, Hawley is relying on an ideologically motivated and highly deceptive report that purportedly shows abortion-inducing drugs are unsafe. You are…...
Federal Court Recognizes Constitutional Right to Abortion to Prevent Serious Harm to Woman's Health
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (393+ words) The court also draws an interesting analogy to self-defense rights. Eugene Volokh | 2.11.2026 5:50 PM From a decision Monday by Judge Lynn Winmill (D. Idaho) in Seyb v. Members of Idaho Bd. of Medicine: At issue [in this case] is not the general right…...
‘Pregnant? Don't want to be?’ ads at South Dakota gas stations spark First Amendment battle
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (864+ words) Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 1.12.2026 11:46 AM In the pre-Roe days, nearly 20 states had some sort of law against abortion advertising or publishing information about abortion. In 1975, the U.S. Supreme Court said these were unconstitutional. Now First Amendment battles over abortion are back. In…...
Another Libel Suit by Doctor Who Had Been Accused of Performing Unnecessary Gynecological Procedures on Immigration Detainees
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (239+ words) Eugene Volokh | 12.23.2025 8:33 AM From the Complaint in Amin v. Spiegel & Grau LLC (S.D.N.Y.), the passage from the essay in the book: I look at detainees whose children were ripped from them, some of whose wombs were ripped out of their bodies. Yes,…...
'Catch kits' for fetal remains are Republicans' latest dystopian plan to punish abortions
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (1009+ words) Are abortions poisoning us all? That's the latest line of attack from Republicans in Wisconsin and elsewhere, with lawmakers arguing that women who take abortion pills must prevent their'blood and fetal tissue from contaminating the water supply. You are reading…...
Abortion rates keep rising after ‘Dobbs’
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (1155+ words) Three years ago this week, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade and conservative states rushed to pass strict new abortion bans or revive old ones still on the books but unenforceable under Roe. And for a short while, things…...
Debating the science and ethics of IVF: Emma Waters vs. Ruxandra Teslo
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (89+ words) Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe | 6.6.2025 4:29 PM How should the government treat in vitro fertilization (IVF)? Should they regulate it more? Should they subsidize it? Just asking questions." The above are all questions that the Trump administration is actively considering in…...