Interim Dean Rachel Rebouché joins KYW’s InDepth podcast to discuss what’s next for America now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned. Listen here.

Interim Dean Rachel Rebouché discussed the immediate aftermath of today’s ruling overturning Roe and its potential impact on other cases grounded in substantive due process with CBS3’s Ukee Washington. Read more.

Abortion advocates are exploring whether the anonymity of cryptocurrency could shield providers and patients from litigation. Interim Dean Rachel Rebouché says it won’t help circumvent abortion bans. Read more.

If the leaked Dobbs opinion becomes final, abortion would be banned immediately in states with so-called “trigger laws.” But what that means will vary widely from state to state, says interim Dean Rachel Rebouché, who predicts “an era of interstate conflict and perplexity.” Read more.

If Roe falls as expected this summer, interim Dean Rachel Rebouché predicts that states will try to exercise control over abortion access beyond their borders – an issue with great significance for PA, which sits between states seeking to both ban and protect the procedure. Read more.

As Senate Democrats and the White House consider tactics for protecting abortion access if Roe falls, interim Dean Rachel Rebouché says that while none of their options are immune from challenge, it’s worth exploring what’s possible despite the likelihood of a hostile federal judiciary.  Read more.

Among the tactics under discussion by abortion rights advocates should Roe fall is a claim that FDA policy trumps state law, thereby requiring states to allow access to medication abortion. Interim Dean Rachel Rebouché says the argument, called federal preemption, has some merit. Read more.

As the nation awaits a final ruling from SCOTUS in Dobbs, the Biden-Harris administration is talking with advocates about measures to protect access to abortion. Interim Dean Rachel Rebouché cautions that the Supreme Court is unlikely to support anything that expands federal power. Read more.

In addition to interstate conflict, interim Dean Rachel Rebouché says that a post-Roe world will bring inconsistencies within states as well.  Read more.

States’ right to regulate medication abortion in a post-Roe America will depend on whether courts prioritize federal preemption doctrine or state authority over the practice of medicine, says interim Dean Rachel Rebouché. Read more.