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Liz Kukura

@lizkukura.bsky.social
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feminist law professor @DrexelKline | studies health law, gender, repro justice, maternal health equity, bioethics | passionate about midwifery, birth justice, music, and cheese | she/her

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Liz Kukura @lizkukura.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Excited to host Professor Brian Soucek @brsoucek.bsky.social for a talk on his new book, The Opinionated University, this Thurs 4/16, 12-1:15pm at @drexelklinelaw.bsky.social. Join us, Philly folks! Further details and free registration available here: secure.touchnet.com/C20688_ustor...
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Liz Kukura @lizkukura.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Such an honor to have my article Normalizing Maternal Ambivalence featured in a Jotwell review by the incomparable Sarah Lorr @shlorr.bsky.social!
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How Should a Mother Feel? - Family Law
Elizabeth Kukura, Normalizing Maternal Ambivalence, 57 Ariz. St. L. J. 557 (2025).Sarah LorrWhat makes a good mother? This question, once answered simply by staying alive, has become more complicated ...
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Liz Kukura @lizkukura.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Excited to be part of tomorrow’s Fordham Law symposium on my amazing colleague @dsc250.bsky.social’s important new book with the wonderful Carole Joffe about how abortion providers have navigated the challenges of the post-Dobbs landscape. Join us! fordham.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Liz Kukura @lizkukura.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Honored to testify before the Philly City Council today about new legislation to prohibit menopause discrimination! Grateful for the leadership of @ninaahmadphl.bsky.social and the commitment of her colleagues on the Public Health Committee to normalizing menstruation + peri/menopause
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Liz Kukura @lizkukura.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Excited to host the authors of Hot Flash at the next Vital Signs webinar tmrw (Tues 10/7) at 12pm. It’s not too late to join us! #VitalSigns @drexelklinelaw.bsky.social @profbcrawford.bsky.social @naomicahn.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/drexel...
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Half the population experiences menopause, yet bias and silence around it persist. Join Vital Signs for Menopause and the Law: A Conversation with the Authors of "Hot Flash: How the Law Ignores… ...
Half the population experiences menopause, yet bias and silence around it persist. Join Vital Signs for Menopause and the Law: A Conversation with the Authors of "Hot Flash: How the Law Ignores Menopa...
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Liz Kukura @lizkukura.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Today's the day! Excited to welcome an amazing set of scholars, advocates, and practitioners to the Drexel Kline School of Law for the Law Review's 2025 symposium on hair, health, law & policy. An honor to collaborate with the amazing @wendygreene.bsky.social! @drexelklinelaw.bsky.social
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Liz Kukura @lizkukura.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Thrilled to share my latest article, Normalizing Maternal Ambivalence, is out! With gratitude to the many scholars and advocates who have engaged me on this topic and helped me think more deeply about the stigmatization of women's conflicted feelings about motherhood. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Normalizing Maternal Ambivalence
<p><span>Certain themes are common when identifying good mothers: becoming a mother is an overwhelmingly happy experience; good mothers love their children imme
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Liz Kukura @lizkukura.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Thrilled to host this amazing group at Drexel for another wonderful Family Law Scholars & Teachers Conference! Most grateful for the generous feedback, new ideas, and supportive community #FLSTC @drexelklinelaw.bsky.social
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Liz Kukura @lizkukura.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Amazing to learn from powerhouse discussion group on private law and harms from AB bans #HLP2025 - thanks to @nnsawicki.bsky.social @jrabrams.bsky.social Yvette Lindgren, Michelle Oberman, Erika Sabbath, Jamille Fields Allsbrook
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Liz Kukura @lizkukura.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Thrilled to listen to an amazing New Books panel, including the fantastic @dsc250.bsky.social (After Dobbs), @jillwieberlens.bsky.social (Stillbirth & the Law), and @jrabrams.bsky.social (Inclusive Socratic Teaching). Read these books! #LSA2025 #FeministLegalTheory #DrexelKlineLaw
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Liz Kukura @lizkukura.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Excited to discuss Hot Flash - a critically important new book on menopause + law by @profbcrawford.bsky.social @naomicahn.bsky.social & Emily Waldman - on Thurs 5/8 at 1pm ET with AALS Section on Aging. Join us! (reg link below) www.sup.org/books/law/ho...
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Hot Flash | Stanford University Press
More than half the population will experience menopause; it is time for the law to acknowledge it.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
On the abortion 'complication' claim: Paxton says in his press release that abortion pills "caused serious harm to this patient." This appears to be a lie—one that is being repeated by mainstream outlets
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Liz Kukura @lizkukura.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Yes! Specifically, acts already committed that could be prosecuted in the future under the federal Comstock Act
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Liz Kukura @lizkukura.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The GA maternal mortality review committee's findings "are not supposed to be shared with the public — not even with hospitals or with family members of women who died." Helps explain the recent decision to fire the whole committee...
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Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths
In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...
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Liz Kukura @lizkukura.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
"Doctors say the feeling among would-be moms is fear." For some women, the fear of death, trauma, or other harm due to obstetric violence + obstetric racism has long been part of giving birth. Not that this reality makes such reporting any easier to digest... www.nbcnews.com/health/women...
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A dramatic rise in pregnant women dying in Texas after abortion ban
Exclusive analysis finds the rate of maternal deaths in Texas increased 56% from 2019 to 2022, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time period.
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Liz Kukura @lizkukura.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Lots of important takeaways here, not least of which is the dignity of *all abortion storytelling,* not just the most tragic stories. Otherwise, we risk losing even when we win. rewirenewsgroup.com/2024/11/21/a...
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Analysis: The Limits of a Tragic Story
Savita Halappanavar's death is widely seen as a catalyst for Ireland's abortion reform, but the truth is more nuanced—and offers important lessons for the U.S.
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The vote-tallying is now almost complete, and it's abundantly clear just how much abortion, on its own, is a winner electorally. There have been 18 ballot initiatives post-Dobbs, and the pro-choice side has garnered 60.4% of the 56.6M votes cast. In today's politics, that's a landslide.
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Jennifer Hendricks @jenniferhendricks.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The law of pregnancy is overrun by a sexist ideology that masquerades as sex equality while denigrating gestation and other caretaking. Feminists must work to overthrow this skewed value system that subordinates women, devalues caretaking, and impoverishes the law of our fundamental rights.
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Essentially a Mother: A Feminist Approach to the Law of Pregnancy and Motherhood a book by Jennifer Hendricks
Essentially a Mother argues that the law of pregnancy and motherhood has been overrun by sexist ideology. Courts have held that a pregnant woman's nine months of gestation hardly count in her claim to...
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Liz Kukura @lizkukura.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Amidst relentless news of violence + loss across the world, this detailed, intimate reporting about the destruction of a Kyiv maternity clinic in July hits hard -- among the more than 1,900 medical facilities damaged or destroyed since Russia’s full-scale invasion.
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They Cared for New Life. Then Death Came to Their Clinic.
It was one horrific day of the war in Ukraine when a missile fell on the Adonis clinic in Kyiv.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20/11/2024
Messages of hate like this are fully pouring out of the Republican caucus today. I don’t think anyone who hasn’t watched anti-trans legislation the last several years knows exactly how rabid Republicans become on this issue when a trans person is in the room as their equal.
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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 20/11/2024
"According to a report from the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform, more than half of Alabama’s 52 rural hospitals are at risk of closure, with 23 facing an immediate threat." Everything's fine... www.alreporter.com/2024/11/19/n...
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New billboard urges Medicaid expansion to save Alabama hospitals
More than half of Alabama’s 52 rural hospitals are at risk of closure,
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Liz Kukura @lizkukura.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Several interesting findings in this (small) study in which AI outperformed doctors at diagnostic tasks... www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/h...
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A.I. Chatbots Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness
A small study found ChatGPT outdid human physicians when assessing medical case histories, even when those doctors were using a chatbot.
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