Thanks, @mayamanian.bsky.social !!

Terrific op-ed highlighting the perverse impacts of abortion bans

Red States Thought They Could Stop Abortions. They Ended Up Stopping Only the Lifesaving Ones. Abortion bans are failing.

Abortion rates in red states have not decreased, aside from medically necessary ones. Pregnancy has become much more dangerous. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Red States Thought They Could Stop Abortions. They Ended Up Stopping Only the Lifesaving Ones. Abortion bans are failing.

I have a new op-ed in @slate.com today w Yvette Lindgren! We argue that abortion bans are only chilling medically necessary abortions w/o effecting traditional abortion seekers, who have found other ways to access care. Bans do not work. Check it out! slate.com/news-and-pol...

If you are looking for a way to celebrate this win, buy tickets to our annual Pittsburgh fundraiser or just donate to Women's Law Project!! secure.qgiv.com/for/womensla...

We WON our challenge to Pennsylvania's ban on Medicaid coverage of abortion!

This is incredible!! So proud to be the chair of the board Women's Law Project, which has been litigating this case for nearly a decade!! This win took so much perseverance, resilience, and creativity. Congrats to @dsc250.bsky.social & @womenslawproject.bsky.social!!!

NEW: Western District of Louisiana stays case challenging mifepristone REMS while the FDA conducts its own review of the evidence. There some bad and poorly reasoned stuff in here (states have standing, etc) but I'll take the temporary win! www.aclu.org/documents/lo...

Opinion | Is It Legal to Bully the Supreme Court?

“Sauer started by offering, not statutory text or court precedents — you know, law — but instead a 1921 law review article. In response, Evan Bernick, a law professor, posted excerpts from that article to show that the solicitor general got it wrong.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/o...

So well said! 👇

GOP's Own LOGIC COLLAPSES as Arguments BACKFIRE YouTube video by Legal AF

Chip Carter & I went on the video series "Legal AF" with Court Accountability to talk about our new draft, "An Originalist Critique of Fetal Personhood." We weigh in on the debate of whether we should be engaging in originalism to combat these off-the-wall arguments. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD9v...

Such a great book and so fun to get to write a response with @rebouche.bsky.social! Check it out!

I haven't been following the birthright citizenship case, but after spending the last year writing about fetal personhood, it strikes me that the right is trying to read birth out of the 14A in both directions. Immigrants born here shouldn't get rights but fetuses not yet born should.

Folks in DE/PA/NJ/etc, if you're looking for a great conversation on human dignity in current times, come to Delaware Law School's Dignity Law Symposium - The Role of the State in Protecting Human Dignity - on Friday April 10!

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Thanks, @coreyryung.bsky.social !!!

We conclude that abortion bans are failing at both their *purported* aims of saving fetal life and protecting maternal health. Since Dobbs, more fetuses are dying every month through abortion and maternal health is plummeting. Given this, one might call bans irrational, unworkable, or arbitrary.

OTOH, patients stuck in ban-state hospitals are often at the mercy of others. Their self-help recourse is limited by their medical emergency & the hospital's surveillance. This post-Dobbs reality is the opposite of pre-Roe, where hospital abortions were safe but outside them were often dangerous.

We dig into the data showing that if you account for abortion travel, shipped medication abortion, and in-state care, abortion rates have seemed to increase in every state with an abortion ban but two. The average abortion patient is finding ways to navigate around bans and access care.

Yvette Lindgren & I have a new essay recently accepted by Southern California Law Review! "The Post-Dobbs Abortion Irony" explores how abortion bans only seem to be chilling medically necessary abortions while everyday abortions are increasing everywhere. 1/4 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Wow! Thank you so much, @whatlawfoxsays.bsky.social!! I'm so touched by the comprehensive thread and real engagement with our paper. Thank you for promoting it!

I finally had a chance to sit down with this article. As others have noted, it is really, really good. It is hard to see how anyone can make a scholarly originalist case for fetal personhood after this. Def recommend reading it - some of my favorite parts are... 1/

I can't wait to read this!

Thanks so much, @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social!!

Thanks so much, @coreyryung.bsky.social!!! I really appreciate it!!

Thanks, @lauraportuondo.bsky.social !!

Thanks, @susanrinkunas.com! And so good to finally meet you in person last week!!

Thanks, @teneille.bsky.social!!!

Thanks, @alexnunn.bsky.social!!

Amazing!!! So glad you liked it, @jacquelinefox.bsky.social!

How's that happen? @greerdonley.bsky.social and I have it all here in our article from late last year: From Medical Exceptions to Reproductive Freedom.