Challenging First Trimester Abortion Regulations
SSRN contains a new law review article by Professor Tracey Thomas, Back to the Future of Regulating Abortion in the First Term. Professor Thomas evidences her commitment to abortion rights both in the argument she makes and the sources she cites. Her history of abortion regulation in the United States is drawn exclusively from James […]
Video of GOP candidates on abortion and constitutional change
If readers want to view each of the GOP presidential candidates respond to Professor Robert George’s question regarding abortion at the Palmetto Freedom Forum, you can find those exchanges on YouTube. Bachmann-George exchange at 5:27-8:18. Cain-George exchange at 6:28-8:56. Gingrich-George exchange at 7:46-9:15 very short answer then discussion of judicial role in Constitution. Paul-George exchange […]
Personhood and the Presidential Debates
UFL Member Michael New has a short post, Abortion and the 14th Amendment, over at NRO. He describes GOP presidential candidates’ responses to the question of whether they would support legislation, under Section Five of the 14th Amendment that would restore legal protection for unborn children. Professor New notes that only Mitt Romney failed to […]
An article on the “personhood movement”
Here is a link to an article in The New Republic entitled–“A Radical New Ploy to Destroy Roe v. Wade–Which Just Might Work.” It is the article that occasioned the blog debate on personhood that Teresa addressed in her earlier post on this blog. The article focuses on the “personhood movement” with particular attention to a personhood […]
Law blog post on fetal personhood
Today seems to be the day to consider the legal status of the unborn – first the Nebraska law suit and now this post over on Prawfsblawg, Why Does it Matter if a Fetus is a Person? I think Professor Horwitz’s analysis is rather simplistic in his claims that fetal personhood decides the question of […]
Work, Women and Babies
There have been several news stories this week about a decision by a New York federal district court judge in EEOC v. Bloomberg. The case involved claims by the EEOC on behalf of 78 women that Bloomberg LP (the international news organization) engaged in illegal sex and pregnancy discrimination. In ruling in favor of the […]
Doctor’s Conscience Rights in 14th Amendment
The Supreme Court has made it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to argue that health care workers have a Free Exercise right under the First Amendment to refuse to participate in abortions. With growing governmental powers over health care, many are concerned that legislative conscience protections for health care workers may not be sufficient to […]
Returning the question of abortion to the people
Ed Whelan has posted a short article, Defend our Laws: Justice Matters as part of the ten-part series on Liberty, Justice and the Common Good at Public Discourse. He presents a strong prolife agenda for the next president. Whelan writes: “They should educate the public that Roe imposes a radical regime of unrestricted abortion, for […]
United States of America v. Richard Retta
Yesterday’s Lifesite News carried an opinion piece by Brad Mattes criticizing the increase in federal prosecutions for violations of the Free Access to Clinic Entrance Act (FACE) by the current Department of Justice. He used the case of Richard Retta as an example of the harassing nature of the new complaints by DOJ. You can […]
ACLU attacks KS law protecting consumers from forced insurance coverage of abortion
The ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri has sued Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger to stop implementation of a new law (KS House Bill 2075) that prohibits insurance coverage for elective abortions, unless coverage is limited to abortions procedures “necessary to save the life of the mother.” Individuals who wish to have abortion included in […]