Lawsuit Filed Against Ohio Abortion Ban After Roe v. Wade Ruling Just days after the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in a historic decision, multiple groups have come together to file a lawsuit in the Ohio Supreme…
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The Theory of Constitutional Memory and its Silencing of Women's Voices and Citizenship
By Tracy Thomas
Reva Siegel, The Politics of Constitutional Memory, 20 Georgetown J. Law & Public Policy 19 (2022) Those who sought votes for women made claims for liberty and equality in the family on which constitutional law might now draw—but there is…
Historians Weigh in on All That is Wrong with the Legal History of the SCT's Abortion Decision
By Tracy Thomas
Reva Siegel, The Trump Court Limited Women’s Rights Using 19th-century Standards But Dobbs is plainly a political project. Reversing Roe has been the animating goal of the conservative legal movement since it mobilized under the banner of originalism during the…
Ohio Statutory Framework of Abortion Laws After Dobbs
By Tracy Thomas
Download Summary: Ohio Statutory Framework for Abortion Laws After Dobbs (as of 6-27-2022) OHIO ABORTION STATUTORY FRAMEWORK POST-DOBBS I. Ohio Laws on the Books That Have Been Enjoined or Not Enforced Under Roe Telemedicine & Medical Abortions: Only a physician…
Texas District and County Attorneys' Explanation of Current State Abortion Law After Dobbs
By Tracy Thomas
Texas District & County Attorneys Association, Interim Summary: Abortion-Related Crimes After Dobbs New criminal offense under HB 1280 The gist of new Chapter 170A is §170A.002 (Prohibited Abortion; Exceptions), which prohibits knowingly performing, inducing, or attempting an abortion at any…
What's Next, Now that the Choice of Abortion is no Longer a Federal Constitutional Right
By Tracy Thomas
It’s an all-out effort–legally, politically, and practically–as the country grapples with the legal and social effect of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization holding there is no fundamental federal constitutional right to an abortion or…
The SCOTUS Joint Dissent in Abortion Case Calls Out Women's Loss of Citizenship
By Tracy Thomas
A joint dissent by Justices Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is expressive in its attack on the philosophical and physical harms to women from the Court’s reversal of the fifty-year right of women to…
US Supreme Court Overrules Constitutional Right to Choose an Abortion
By Tracy Thomas
The US Supreme Court expressly overruled the 50-year old constitutional right for women to choose an abortion. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The vote is 5-4 to overturn Roe/Casey, with the majority opinion by J. Alito, joined by Thomas,…
President Biden's Proposes New Administrative Rules on Title IX for Campus Sexual Assault and LGBTQ Protections
By Tracy Thomas
Chronicle, Here’s How Title IX Could Change Under Biden’s Proposed Rule The U.S. Education Department on Thursday released its proposed Title IX regulations, which would reverse many Trump-era policies and restore the pro-victim approach championed by the Obama administration. Specifically,…
Scottish Bill Would Pardon Thousands of Women Convicted and Executed as Witches
By Tracy Thomas
Thousands of Witches Could be Posthumously Pardoned in Scotland Thousands of people were convicted of practicing witchcraft in Scotland in a hunt that spanned nearly two centuries — and the majority of those sentenced to death and executed were women….