Criminalizing a woman for suffering a miscarriage seems unfathomable and even barbaric. But that is exactly what happened earlier this month in a Lawton, Okla., courtroom. When […]
Tag: abortion
Here’s how your rights will change
by Erwin Chemerinsky This Supreme Court term, which began Monday, is the culmination of five decades of efforts by conservatives to seize control of the court. It […]
Can SCOTUS be moved by real stories?
by Robin Abcarian In November 2017, a third-year Texas law student named Brittany Fowler, who was in a monogamous relationship and on oral contraceptives, discovered she was […]
Schemes monetize extremism. They must be stopped
The Justice Department’s lawsuit last week against the state of Texas over its extreme new anti-abortion rights law isn’t just about abortion. Also at issue is the […]
How does Texas’ anti-abortion law actually work?
If you’ve consulted any medium of news recently, you’ve likely heard about Texas’ new abortion ban, SB 8, and the Supreme Court’s decision not to stop it […]
A far-fetched dystopia has come to pass
by Jackie Calmes On this, Donald Trump didn’t lie. As a presidential candidate in 2016, he said he’d name as many as three anti-abortion justices to the […]
Is SCOTUS ready to overturn Roe?
by Noah Feldman A day after the Constitution-flouting Texas anti-abortion law went into effect, a divided Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that it won’t block the law before […]
Abortion brief dynamites standing law
by Harry Litman The new Supreme Court conservative supermajority has already radically changed notions of law in some pockets of America. For proof, look no further than […]
June 6 letters to the editor
Medical care unevenly distributed in town Recently, after I cut a couple of fingers on a hedge trimmer, I needed to get to urgent care. I live […]
Mississippi yearning: SCOTUS to hear abortion case this fall
The Supreme Court this fall will hear a case from Mississippi that bans most abortions after 15 weeks, except in cases of rape where the crime has […]
