Despite Historic Indictment, Doctors Will Keep Mailing Abortion Pills Across State Lines Dean Rachel Rebouché and collaborators David Cohen and Greer Donley helped to craft so-called shield laws that protect abortion care providers in safe states from prosecution in ban states. Efforts by Louisiana to prosecute a New York doctor “probably put New York and Louisiana in real conflict, potentially a conflict that the Supreme Court is going to have to decide,” she says.

Texas legislators have moved a step closer to passing legislation that would allow civil lawsuits to proceed against out-of-state abortion care providers. Dean Rachel Rebouché says the bill is similar to a pre-Dobbs statute that banned abortion at six weeks: “This is Texas legislators trying the same strategy to try to circumvent a federal constitutional challenge.”

Abortion advocates in states with so-called shield laws are finding ways to get mifepristone to pregnant people in states with abortion bans, which in turn are seeking ways to extradite and prosecute medication providers. As the stakes continue to rise, Dean Rebouché notes that “This is a conflict we might have expected to find ourselves in, because the abortion rate is higher now than before the Supreme Court overturned Roe.”

Dean Rebouché explains the evolution of the abortion abolitionist movement on WGMRadio’s Legal Face -Off.

Emboldened Anti-Abortion Faction Wants Women Who Have Abortions To Face Criminal Charges A fringe group calling for women who have abortions to be prosecuted is gaining influence. “With the reversal of Roe v. Wade, now states can pass the most severe abortion bans, which has galvanized the anti-abortion movement as a whole, including this part of it,” said Dean Rachel Rebouche. “Certainly the fall of Roe has brought abortion abolitionists one step closer to what they want – banning abortion nationwide.”

This Supreme Court Case Is About More Than “Defunding” Planned The Supreme Court recently heard arguments about whether Medicaid beneficiaries can sue South Carolina over the state’s decision to exclude Planned Parenthood from coverage for political reasons. Dean Rebouche explains what’s at stake for The Nation.

The Supreme Court Case That Could Gut Planned Parenthood The Supreme Court recently heard arguments about whether Medicaid beneficiaries can sue South Carolina over the state’s decision to exclude Planned Parenthood from coverage for political reasons. Dean Rebouche explains what’s at stake for The Nation.

After historic indictment, doctors will keep mailing abortion pills over state lines New York and Louisiana are engaged in an escalating legal battle over “shield laws” intended to protect abortion care providers. Dean Rebouché, who helped draft the first such law, explains their purpose and why the interstate dispute could end up before the Supreme Court.

Key court hearing as Alabama threatens prosecutions over abortion support. Alabama’s attorney general has threatened to prosecute groups that help pregnant people travel to other states for abortion care. Dean Rebouché sees the threats as “a real encroachment on what we take for granted about how states treat each other – but also within the state, that the state will turn its law enforcement power against somebody who has done something that is not illegal.”

What Are Abortion Shield Laws? Abortion shield laws are in the spotlight as New York protects a doctor from charges in Louisiana and Texas. Dean Rebouché, who helped draft the first such bill in 2022, tells Time Magazine the cases “point to what we can expect moving forward for intense interstate conflict … given that Dobbs returned abortion to the states and a third of the country prohibits abortion from the earliest moments of pregnancy or before six weeks, just as many states have codified abortion rights in their constitutions and their state laws.”