After Justice Scalia died, the justices held private negotiations about locking away their papers. We may not see the ultimate record of the Roberts court for decades.

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Last week the Supreme Court temporarily ended the latest crisis around mifepristone. Don't be fooled.

In rejecting the sex-discrimination claims of transgender claimants in <i>United States v. Skrmetti</i> (2025), the Supreme Court introduced a new ter

<p>In last summer’s earth-shaking opinion in Mahmoud v. Taylor, the Supreme Court held that the Free Exercise Clause protects parents’ freedom to opt their chil

The current “North Star” in the antiabortion movement is fetal personhood: a declaration by judicial fiat that conception marks the beginning of constitutional

This Article examines an originalist argument for prenatal personhood—that life from conception is included within the original public meaning of the “person” t

Ballot measures continue to be a tool in the fight over abortion rights, with some states attempting to expand rights and others looking to shore up restrictions.

A U.S. Department of Justice employee faces charges including capital murder after investigators say he forced an abortion by sneaking medication into a woman’s coffee.

Minnesota has some of the most accommodating laws granting access to abortion. A lawsuit filed late last week seeks to upend them.

The Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) are rescinding July 2022 guidance from CMS with the subject “Reinforcement of EMTALA Obligations specif...

Abstract As part of the substantial public discourse surrounding the distribution and use of mifepristone, which is used with misoprostol to facilitate drug-induced abortions, claims comparing the saf...

The House narrowly passed a budget reconciliation bill, including billions of dollars in tax cuts for the wealthy along with billions of dollars in cuts to health program spending. But the Senate is e...

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The case of a pregnant woman in Georgia who was declared brain dead and has been on life support for three months has given rise to complicated questions about abortion law and whether a fetus is a pe...

Mary Ziegler is a law professor at UC Davis and a leading scholar on the abortion debate. In her new book Personhood, she argues that the anti-abortion movement's ultimate goal is fetal personhood, wh...

In Trump 2.0, reproductive rights is not the most central issue galvanizing voters, leaving Democrats searching for a winning message.

After Dobbs, fetal personhood has become the anti-abortion movement’s new objective.

The fetal personhood movement already succeeded in eliminating what many viewed as a fundamental right. Its continued effects could be even further-reaching.

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, that was only the beginning for some anti-abortion activists.

The New Civil War Over Reproduction

If history teaches us anything, it is that Dobbs is just the beginning.

Stephen Miller isn’t actually a lawyer, he just plays one on TV.

After Dobbs, fetal personhood has become the anti-abortion movement’s new objective.

Historic lawsuit exposes government collusion with the abortion industry, fights to end forced and uninformed abortions, and demands justice to restore mothers’ constitutional rights.

The showdown catapults the interstate abortion wars to a new level.

Dov Fox (University of San Diego: School of Law) & Mary Ziegler (University of California, Davis - School of Law) have posted The New Abortion (Columbia Law Review, Vol. 126 (forthcoming 2025)) on SSR...