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Kimberly Mutcherson

@professormutch.bsky.social
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Law Professor focused on reproductive justice. Recovering Law Dean. Avid consumer of pop culture.

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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Many of us have been talking about the intersection of abortion and assisted reproduction for a couple of decades now, so I was glad to have a chance to talk about the issue on the Critically Speaking podcast!
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This Juneteenth at NJPAC, you can be present for the release and discussion of the New Jersey Reparations Council’s groundbreaking report, For Such a Time as This: The Nowness of Reparations for Black People in New Jersey. Register here: www.njpac.org/event/the-no...
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the nowness of reparations for black people in new jersey: a timely conversation
Buy tickets to at NJPAC. Located in Newark, NJPAC is New Jersey's leading performing arts center.
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Rutgers Law School @law.rutgers.edu · 06/06/2025
“It’s always a mistake to invite law enforcement into your reproductive life." #RutgersLaw Professor @professormutch.bsky.social weighs in on the new warning from a West Virginia prosecutor that women who have miscarriages could get in trouble with the law: www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/h... #lawsky
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A West Virginia prosecutor is warning women that a miscarriage could lead to criminal charges | CNN
Amid a constantly changing reproductive landscape, one West Virginia prosecutor is warning people who have miscarriages in his state that they could get in trouble with the law.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Pro tip: do not call the cops to tell them that you’ve had a miscarriage in a state that bans almost all abortions. Glad to be quoted here along with greats like @drkbrandi.bsky.social!!
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Deborah Archer @deborahnarcher.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Is Brooklyn in the house?! I hope so. Join James Forman Jr. and me for a conversation about transportation injustice, systemic racism, and how we can move forward to build back better for everyone. June 9th at 6:30 pm - www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cbh...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/05/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Over the last four months, the legal world — and the country — has been plunged into chaos, and the Supreme Court bears a heavy dose of responsibility,” writes Kate Shaw in a guest essay.
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Opinion | Why Is This Supreme Court Handing Trump More and More Power?
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
My guest essay for @nytimes.com about Adriana Smith. This situation is a tragedy from top to bottom, and there is so much complexity that can't be teased out in so few words. May she and the family left behind find peace soon. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/o...
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Opinion | A Brain-Dead Woman Is Being Kept on Machines to Gestate a Fetus. It Was Inevitable.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
On today’s agenda at LSA: New Books in The Field, featuring great books by @dsc250.bsky.social, @jillwieberlens.bsky.social, and @jrabrams.bsky.social among others. I’ll link to some of them below!
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Update on Adriana Smith in GA. The AG has made clear that the state’s abortion law does NOT require that Ms. Smith remain on life support.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
This is unconscionable and unethical and the claim that it is required under the state’s abortion law is cowardice at its finest. Claiming to be acting in the interest of a fetus that is gestating in a dead body is unbelievably awful and cruel. www.npr.org/2025/05/16/n...
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Hospital tells family brain-dead Georgia woman must carry fetus due to abortion ban
Georgia's law that restricts abortion once cardiac activity is detected doesn't allow relatives to have a say in whether a pregnant woman is kept on life support.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This fucking administration.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Glass half empty: Currently stuck on an Amtrak train somewhere between Baltimore and DC, while something mysterious takes place that involved calling in the police and the coroner! This is not good. Glass half full: This train has some of the best non-Acela WiFi I’ve ever experienced.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Got to spend some time strategizing and smiling with some of my favorite people not so long ago. Grateful for their friendship and mentorship over many years!
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Starting this morning listening to one of my favorite people and an incredible scholar, Khiara Bridges, deliver the keynote at Northeastern Law’s conference: 3 Years after Dobbs- The Reproductive Justice Landscape.
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Jessie Hill @bjessiehill.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Very excited to share this symposium now available on Balkinization! And very proud to be a part of it: balkin.blogspot.com/2025/04/balk...
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Balkinization: Balkinization Symposium on Legal Pathways Beyond Dobbs-- Collected Posts
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The party of life.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Weird move for the self-proclaimed “father of IVF.” 🙄
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Yes, please.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Excited to spend some time in DC tomorrow to talk about my latest work in progress!
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
The vibe here is very: Elon was friends with his Black servants.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Happy International Women’s Day to all of the fabulous women out there who’ve dedicated themselves to fighting the fuckery in ways big and small!!
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The hits keep coming (as they should).
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
ESSENTIAL: DO not take "buy out." Litigation underway: www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action...
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CREW, Democracy Forward sue to block Trump's illegal plan to fire government workers - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
President Trump’s executive order paving the way to convert merit-based civil servants to at-will employees, enabling political appointees to fire and replace them with loyalists, is unlawful and exce...
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Say what you will about lawyers (and I've heard it all), but they are stepping the fuck up in this moment and doing so quickly: www.wired.com/story/federa...
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Federal Workers Sue to Disconnect DOGE Server
Two federal workers, citing reports that Elon Musk’s associates are operating an illegally connected email server at OPM, seek a restraining order.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
One aspect of the abortion wars that always fires me up is the claim that faith is only relevant to people who oppose abortion access. Glad to see the Lawyering Project making clear that people of faith need abortion, support abortion, and provide abortions. lawyeringproject.org/our-work/202...
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Five Physicians Challenge South Carolina’s Abortion Ban as a Violation of Their Religious Freedom - The Lawyering Project
The Lawyering Project uses the law to improve abortion access and uphold the rights and dignity of people seeking and providing reproductive health care.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
"What happened last night is the most direct assault on the authority of Congress, I believe, in the history of the United States. It is blatantly unconstitutional," Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) says of Trump's OMB halting all federal grants. "If this stands, then Congress may as well adjourn."
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
If only the impact of the policies the FAFO crowd voted for would solely be felt by the people who deserve to reap what they sow. The carnage has started but will only get worse as the grifters, incompetents, and charlatans really start to flex their completely undeserved and unearned power.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Apparently a culture of life means more women and infants dying. It’s possible that prolife doesn’t mean what the antis claim it means. 😡
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Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D. @profblmkelley.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
So I’ve had my 1st Black History Month event cancellation because of “DEI concerns,” citing a fear of frivolous suits. Funny thing is, I don’t do DEI, I’m a historian of the Black American experience. A reminder that DEI is just a dog whistle about suppressing history, if you need a reminder.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Here's the thing, when a company makes it hard to cancel a subscription/membership etc., it only fuels my determination to cancel and never give them another dime.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I spoke with Soledad O'Brien about the escalating abortion wars under Trump 2.0 and his Project 2025 lackeys the other day. As always, lots of good stuff got cut for time, but here's what was left: youtu.be/FZIsxD62k8Y?...
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What’s Next for Abortion Law?
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Since we’ve been talking about snitches lately, can we talk about medical providers who turn in their pregnant or newly postpartum patients? www.themarshallproject.org/2024/12/11/p...
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Hospitals Gave Them Meds During Childbirth. Why Did Patients Get In Trouble?
Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
One thing I’m going to do when I’m in NYC is get off the subway and walk in exactly the wrong direction. It’s less embarrassing now than it was when I actually lived here.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
NEW: Twenty-one former federal judges, including multiple former appeals court judges, urge President Biden to clear the federal death row. They include David Tatel (D.C. Cir.) and Diane Wood (7th Cir.), both of whom left the bench earlier this year. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
December 11, 2024
President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear President Biden:
We are former federal judges who are deeply committed to the rule of law.
While we may have different views on various issues related to the death penalty, we are united in our view that it is appropriate and important for you to commute all federal death sentences to life in prison without parole. Based on our experience and understanding, the administration of the federal death penalty has been rife with fundamental problems, including race discrimination in trial and sentencing, intellectual disability of defendants, and appallingly poor legal representation. Accordingly, federal executions should not proceed. We urge you to use your constitutional commutation power.
We greatly appreciate your attention to this issue.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
One of the things that I do at the end of my Bioethics, Babies & Babymaking class is reserve a class session just to talk about the topics/stories/readings that really resonated with the students over the course of the semester. It's always a great class!
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This was longer than lots of interviews that I get asked to do, and there was still so much that I didn't get to say! Hopefully worth a listen anyway! legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/law...
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Abortion Rights & Challenges Ahead - Legal Talk Network
Back in 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned 50 years of precedent, overruling Roe v. Wade.  Leading up to the presidential election, abortion was a Discover insightful episodes on Legal Talk Netwo...
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
What an absolute delight to hear the brilliant @lizchiarello.bsky.social in conversation with the always fabulous Dorothy Robert’s about her new book, Policing Patients! Buy it! Read it! Cite it! Learn from it!!
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Imagine if the amount of energy and political will focused on attacking abortion access was instead focused on improving access to maternity care for people who actually want to be pregnant! It won’t happen, but imagine how revolutionary and transformative it would be if it did.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Started off this week by making a donation to @propublica.org! Their kind of journalism is going to be even more important as we enter the wilds of Trump 2.0.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Me: People are the worst. Also me: Initiating a 15 minute conversation with a stranger at the deli counter about her post-retirement life.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I really like writing for non-legal audiences, but I really hate using non-legal citation systems! The Bluebook is a nightmare, but it’s MY nightmare.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
So strange that the only people who have identities worthy of critiquing as identity politics are POC, queer folks, and other marginalized people. Do people truly think that Trump wasn’t pandering to people with a very specific identity??? Come the f on!!
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Okay, one of the things Twitter was really good for was sounding the alarm & driving calls to Congress when terrible legislation came up for a vote. Bluesky, IT'S TIME. H.R. 9495 would allow Trump to shut down any nonprofit by claiming they're "terrorists" www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-o...
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The hotel that I just checked into offers a glass of wine/beer at check-in. Doubletree can keep their cookies.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I was very pleasantly reminded today of the 6 degrees of separation of Black folks. I’m wearing my ACLU of NJ shirt and a Black woman at the airport stopped me to let me know that she went to kindergarten with @deborahnarcher.bsky.social, ACLU President extraordinaire. Super random and delightful!
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Me excitedly following everyone in the repro law profs starter pack that @dsc250.bsky.social created!
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Delighted to see where things go on here as more and more folks flee the bad place!
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/07/2024
The latest cover of the New Yorker:
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