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The Difference a Whole Woman Makes: Protection for the Abortion Right After Whole Woman’s Health

As the case that became Whole Woman’s Health worked its way to the Supreme Court, few were confident about how the Court would respond to a law, enacted in the name of protecting women’s health, that would predictably shut most of a state’s abortion clinics. All agreed that the governing standard wa…

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Casey and the Clinic Closings: When “Protecting Health” Obstructs Choice

We offer a fresh understanding of how the Supreme Court’s abortion jurisprudence addresses laws that invoke not potential life, but women’s health as a reason to single out abortion for burdensome regulation that has the effect of closing clinics. The current wave of hea…

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Before (and After) Roe v. Wade: New Questions About Backlash

120 Yale L.J. 2028 (2011). 

Today, many Americans blame polarizing conflict over abortion on the Supreme Court. If only the Court had stayed its hand or decided Roe v. Wade on narrower grounds, they argue, the nation would have reached a political settlement and avoided backlash. We question this c…

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Before (and After) Roe v. Wade: New Questions About Backlash

120 Yale L.J. 2028 (2011). 

Today, many Americans blame polarizing conflict over abortion on the Supreme Court. If only the Court had stayed its hand or decided Roe v. Wade on narrower grounds, they argue, the nation would have reached a political settlement and avoided backlash. We question this c…