Mary Ziegler
Professor at the UC Davis School of Law
Mary Ziegler is a law professor at the University of California, Davis, School of Law and the author of “Roe: The History of a National Obsession.”
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Florida is suing Planned Parenthood for racketeering. It’s part of a bigger plan.
Public opposition to limiting mifepristone keeps the White House and Congress in check. So, abortion opponents have a new strategy.
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A new era in abortion services may be over before it ever really began
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe, progressive states began passing shield laws to protect their residents from civil or criminal consequences under state bans. Now that’s under threat.
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The Supreme Court’s Dobbs bombshell shaped this week’s blow to trans rights
To a striking degree, the Skrmetti majority’s analysis relied on cases that restricted the right to choose abortion.
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The most worrying words in Trump’s move on emergency abortions
The rescinding of a Biden-era guidance could further restrict how doctors address emergencies, regardless of states’ abortion laws.
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What a Georgia woman’s plight reveals about anti-abortion forces’ endgame
Adriana Smith’s mother says doctors told the family that their hands were tied by Georgia’s abortion laws.
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Anti-abortion groups claim they don’t want to punish women. New lawsuits say otherwise.
Lawsuits by multiple red states push to allow employers to penalize women who take time off to seek an abortion or deal with related medical complications.
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There’s a hidden agenda in Trump’s anti-trans executive order
The executive order’s references to fetal personhood help anti-abortion activists’ master plan.
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Texas AG Ken Paxton just broke a fragile abortion truce between states
The lawsuit against a New York doctor is the first to challenge “shield laws.”
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Trump is borrowing an old GOP tactic on abortion — with one key difference
Trump is not the first Republican to try to walk this line. But he may be the first GOP presidential candidate to try to totally redefine “reproductive rights.”
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Trump just dodged a major Supreme Court ruling — for now
The presumptive Republican nominee no doubt welcomed the justices’ ruling in a mifepristone case.