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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 · 25/05/2025
Unfortunately, it’s not clear that they will not be held responsible.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Wish I could tell you who is going to end up footing that bill. Right now, it seems to be on the family.
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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
And rounding out the collection: www.ucpress.edu/books/social...
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Social Movements and the Law by Lolita Inniss, Bridget Crawford - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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Integrating Doctrine and Diversity: Beyond the First Year
Integrating Doctrine and Diversity: Beyond the First Year (9781531024505). Authors: Nicole P. Dyszlewski. Carolina Academic Press
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The awards for the book with most provocative title of the panel goes to . . . nyupress.org/978147982274...
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The Politics of Perverts
Reveals the underexplored politics and activism of non-traditional sexual minoritiesOver the past four decades, there has been significant research focused o...
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
And another one. . . www.ucpress.edu/books/inclus...
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Inclusive Socratic Teaching by Jamie Abrams - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Just met Professor Sonia Gomez today, but I'm excited to read her award winning book, Picture Bride, War Bride! nyupress.org/978147980307...
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Picture Bride, War Bride
Examines the role marriage played in the lives of Japanese women during periods of racial exclusion in the United StatesIn 1908 the United States and Japan a...
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
All good!!
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
So I think that you and I are basically saying the same thing in terms of the awfulness of qualified immunity but it’s worth describing the phenomenon accurately.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
There’s a ton that can and should be done to keep qualified immunity from protecting awful governmental actors and some of that work happens in courtrooms because of lawsuits.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Not defending qualified immunity to be clear! But to say that it’s illegal to sue government actors like ICE agents, cops, judges, child welfare workers etc. is misleading. If qualified immunity applies, you won’t win a lawsuit, but its applicability gets decided because you sue!
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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Stillbirth and the Law by Jill Lens - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
www.beacon.org/After-Dobbs-...
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Beacon Press: After Dobbs
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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 · 23/05/2025
Qualified immunity doesn’t mean that you can’t sue but it makes it very, very hard, but not impossible, to win.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
You were such an amazing part of the discussion. I’m so grateful for you, the work that you do, and your ability to speak in a way that resonates deeply!
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Thank you so much for sharing your brilliance with us!!!
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Who knows what’s happening behind the scenes, but it would be difficult for the AG to walk this back now having made such a public statement. And from media reports it seems like keeping her in this state of limbo until August is what the family now wants so that really ties the hospital’s hands.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Totally! I’ve found university lawyers to be super risk averse so a lawyer for a hospital system attached to a university might be even more risk averse. Doesn’t help to be in a conservative state. And these lawyers are put into untenable positions by shitty abortion laws that should not exist.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
And even if she had a living will that stated that she did not want to be maintained by artificial means if brain dead (and I’ve seen no mention of a living will in press coverage) GA law, like law in most states, would invalidate that living will for a pregnant person.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Unless something changes, her mother appears to be onboard with keeping her on life support until August (!) hoping for a c-section birth. All of this is just awful.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This interpretation of the law should’ve been clear from the start. Oh to have been a fly on the wall on during the conversations between the hospital folks alone and then between the hospital folks and the family! Sounds like multiple things may have gone awry here.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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‘We’re just hoping he makes it’: Family shares update on unborn baby of Georgia mom who is brain dead, on life support
“He has his toes, arms, limbs — everything is forming,” Adriana Smith's mother said. “We're just hoping he makes it.”
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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 · 07/05/2025
That sounds so deeply horrific for everyone involved. 😢
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
WE ARE MOVING!!
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I’ve told multiple people that at least we’re not trapped at Newark airport or risking our lives by taking off or landing at National in DC! Glass half full.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Perfect!!
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Half full- a nice woman gave me an apple to eat and so I’ve got some time before resorting to cannibalism. I don’t know how much time, but definitely an hour or two.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Half empty- They promised another train to train transfer. They actually had the MARC train stop next to us and people started grabbing their stuff and lining up in the aisles. Twenty minutes later they said the Amtrak equipment wasn’t compatible with the MARC equipment and we were all crushed.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
My new home.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Messages from conductor and updates we’re receiving on our phones are contradicting each other. Power is off again. Looks like they’re going to keep cycling it. I’m trying to figure out who we’re going to eat first.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
We’re now 2.5 hours in. Toilets are not flushing. They promised a train to train transfer then said no transfer then said transfer again and just rescinded it. They also turned off the power for a bit which almost sparked a riot. My choice to wait to have lunch until after I got to DC was poor one.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I also appreciate that no passengers that I’ve seen have lost their shit and/or started screaming at Amtrak employees. Keeping it together under unforeseen circumstances is a low bar, I know, but we all know that lots of people can’t clear it.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Ah, thanks for the info and safe travels!
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The only situation in which I support the total breakdown of quiet in the quiet car is when we’ve been stuck on the tracks for almost two hours and we’re waiting for a train to train transfer.
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
We’re still here! They’re now saying that they’re going to try the train to train transfer again so we’re waiting for a MARC train to come pick us up. 🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
They initially said they were anticipating a train to train transfer so that’ll be an adventure. I had to do that once decades ago when an Amtrak train had an equipment issue. Let’s see how this goes!
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Got that also, but we’re still sitting here with no relief in sight. Of course, we could be trying to fly out of or into Newark airport so that’s a plus!
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Kimberly Mutcherson @professormutch.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I also hate Zoom.
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