There are many outdated laws that states keep on the books, even if they aren’t used. If the Supreme Court overturns legal precedents on rights like same-sex and interracial marriage, that can change.
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Two legal scholars who study abortion-related laws explain what happened at the Supreme Court in a case that could make it harder to get an abortion.
As France enshrines abortion rights in its constitution, the country’s ban on wearing religious symbols in schools turns 20 years old.
Women in Texas and in other states with abortion bans are suing, asking for clarification on when medical exceptions could actually be granted.
Abortion has a long and varied history and remains central to our culture, our lives and even our art.
The US is one of just four countries that have rolled back women’s abortion rights in recent years.
Scientists can create viable eggs from two male mice. In the wake of CRISPR controversies and restrictive abortion laws, two experts start a dialogue on ethical research in reproductive biology.
Abortion bans and restrictions have numerous downstream effects on health care. For instance, medical students in states where those laws exist will not receive training for some standard procedures.
In the past eight years, police in England and Wales have investigated at least 17 people for procuring their own abortion outside the law.
As the government’s oldest consumer protection agency, the FDA has long butted up against drugmakers, activists and politicians. But undermining its work could be harmful to patient health and safety.
Mifepristone’s safety in medication abortions has been well established over more than two decades, but legal wrangling leaves the future of the drug hanging in the balance.
Many people wonder how courts can rule in contradictory ways. But it happens relatively frequently.
The increase in abortion restrictions may also lead to a decline in access to emergency contraceptives.
A rash of pending lawsuits raises questions about the FDA’s approval of mifepristone two decades ago, whether the drug can be legally mailed and the constitutional right to interstate commerce.
The FDA’s allowance for pharmacies to dispense mifepristone will broaden access to the two-pill mifepristone-misoprostol regimen of medication abortion, which is 95% to 98% effective.
Crowdfunding campaigns are well-intentioned and have done a great deal of good on the abortion rights front, but there are less compromised venues for support available.
Abortion rights were on the ballot in five states during the midterm elections – all broke in favor of abortion-rights advocates.
In the context of Nigeria’s restrictive abortion laws, promoting access to medication abortion drugs is a life saver.
States taking the strictest stands against abortion tend to have among the worst statistics in the nation on child and family well-being.
Human embryos are far more likely to die than come to term, an evolutionary trait seen across species. Laws granting personhood at conception ignore built-in embryo loss, with potentially grave consequences.
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Professor of Law, University of Virginia
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Professor of Law, George Washington University
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Liverpool
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Social Work, University of Tennessee
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Senior research fellow, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington
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Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Francisco
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Professor of Law, Boston University
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Senior lecturer in law, Deputy Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University
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Professor of Global Legal Studies, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, The Ohio State University
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law and research group leader in gender and sexuality, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University
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Dean of Economics, Politics & History, The University of Austin
