Showing posts with label abortion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abortion. Show all posts
Friday, August 29, 2025

The science and politics (and lawfare) of abortion pills with other uses in reproductive healthcare

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Two recent articles shed some light on how the market for reproductive healthcare is evolving.  Dr. Jessica Chen writes "I dispensed mi...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Thinking about the ethical, legal and political relationships between IVF and abortion (in JAMA)

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Some people support both IVF and abortion (women's right to choose) and some people oppose both (embryos are people), but many oppose ab...
Monday, April 14, 2025

“Schrödinger’s persons". The indeterminate legal status of embryos.

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 Courts are increasingly called on to decide who should get custody of frozen embryos. Their decisions will touch on both abortion and IVF. ...
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Abortion bans have increased both births and infant mortality (JAMA)

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 Not unexpectedly: US Abortion Bans and Infant Mortality , by Alison Gemmill, PhD1; Alexander M. Franks, PhD2; Selena Anjur-Dietrich, PhD1; ...
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

States' fights over abortions: New York moves to shield doctors from prosecution in states with abortion bans

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  Not all politics is Federal, even in these unprecedented times. The NYT has the story: N.Y. Moves to Shield Doctors Who Send Abortion Pill...
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

The labor market for Ob-Gyn docs, in states that criminalize abortion

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 States that criminalize abortion (and hence also care for miscarriages) are losing obstetricians... The New Yorker has the story: The Texas...
Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Abortion on the ballot

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 And in other news, we're in new territory for the American experiment.  This will surely have effects on controversial markets (among o...
Friday, June 14, 2024

Repugnance doesn't establish standing in court: Supreme Court reverses Kacsmaryk on medical abortion

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  Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that (for the time being at least) the medical abortion pill  mifepristone should remain le...
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Vatican statement on gender-affirming surgery and human dignity

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 A new statement from the Vatican has been widely covered in the press. Here's the story from the National Catholic Reporter: Vatican co...
Wednesday, March 6, 2024

France amends its constitution to protect access to abortion

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  The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v.Wade and end a constitutional right to abortion in the U.S. prompted France to am...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Frozen embryos are children: Alabama Supreme Court ruling

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  The Washington Post has the story, which emphasizes the implications this ruling could have on in-vitro fertilization (IVF).  That would a...
Friday, February 16, 2024

Abortion bans in some states lead to late stage abortions in others

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Obstacles to abortions in some states mean that some people seeking to end a pregnancy will have a late stage abortion where it's legal-...
Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Brain death for organ donation, and its relation to controversy about abortion

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 Here's a summary of the current discussion of brain death (and its possible connection to the debate on whether a fetus is a living per...
Friday, May 19, 2023

The Comstock Act returns from the dead, post Roe

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 While there's no agreement about whether life begins at conception, it appears that the Comstock Act has risen from the dead to play a ...
Monday, April 10, 2023

Comstockery and abortifacients, on the way to the Supreme Court

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 The Comstock Act of 1873 made it a Federal crime to distribute information or medicines for contraception or abortion, and more generally o...
Monday, February 27, 2023

Judge shopping for abortion rulings

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  Justice (like politics, sausage and econometrics) is constructed in complex ways. The Washington Post has a story on the case against an a...
Thursday, February 2, 2023

Legal Frontiers for Safeguarding Reproductive Freedoms, in JAMA

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  We can expect long legal battles to follow the repeal of Roe v. Wade.  Here's a survey of the battlefield in JAMA. New Legal Frontiers...
Saturday, January 21, 2023

Post Roe (post Dobbs) legal efforts to secure rights established in previous Court decisions

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 Since the Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs that overturned Roe and said that abortion was subject to regulation by each State, and not an ind...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Biden Signs Bill to Protect Same-Sex Marriage Rights

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 With little delay after the Senate passage of the bill , the House followed, and now President Biden has signed into law a bill protecting ...