The 19th Explains: Texas’ new abortion law just took effect. Here’s what it does — and what you need to know.
Interim Dean Rebouche contributes to this explainer about Texas’s ban on abortions after six weeks. Read more at The 19th.
Author: Dean Rachel Rebouché
How Social Movements Have Facilitated Access to Abortion During the Pandemic
Interim Dean Rebouche illuminates the importance of social advocacy to protecting abortion access in this blog post on Bill of Health. Read more at Bill of Health.
How Social Movements Have Facilitated Access to Abortion During the Pandemic
Interim Dean Rebouche illuminates the importance of social advocacy to protecting abortion access in this blog post on Bill of Health.
Patent Agency Lets Women Shine in Court While Big Law Sends Men
Recent scholarship by Interim Dean Rachel Rebouche and Prof. Paul Gugliuzza looks into appellate opportunities for women at the patent bar. Read more at Bloomberg Law.
How the Supreme Court could decide to chip away at abortion access by KYW Newsradio In Depth
Professor Rachel Rebouché joins KYW Newsradio In Depth to discuss the origin and possible outcomes of a Supreme Court case that could fundamentally change access to abortion in the United States. Read more at KYW.
Online clinics show abortion access can survive state restrictions and Roe v. Wade threat
Assoc. Dean Rachel Rebouche and co-author Ushima Upadhyay discuss an emerging path to abortion access in this widely distributed op-ed for USA Today. Read more at USA Today
Congress Could Legislate ‘Roe v. Wade’ and Still Fail Women
With Roe under threat from a hostile Supreme Court, the Biden administration would like to see it codified in federal law. Assoc. Dean Rachel Rebouche makes the case for aiming higher with proposed laws based in reproductive justice. Read more at Boston Review
Amy Coney Barrett claims birth control is safe. Don’t take her word for it.
Could the addition of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court threaten access to birth control? Associate Dean Rachel Rebouché and co-author Mary Ziegler warn that this, and more, are possible in this op-ed at NBCNews.com. Read More at NBC News
Temple Law Reacts to the June Medical Services, LLC v. Russo SCOTUS Decision
On June 29, 2020, Supreme Court Justice Breyer delivered the 5-4 opinion in June Medical Services, LLC v. Russo, holding that Louisiana’s Unsafe Abortion Protection Act, requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital, is unconstitutional. Rachel Rebouché Associate Dean for Research Professor of Law Generally, this is a win for abortion supporters, and a decision many did not expect. Justice Breyer relied heavily on the factual record developed by the District Court and ruled that the law was the same in its effect and purpose as the Texas law struck down in 2016. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote a concurrence, ruling on grounds of stare decisis and providing the 5th vote needed to strike down the restriction. His concurrence is quite narrow, though, and it suggests that the Chief Justice interprets prior caselaw as giving far more deference to states than the Court’s 2016 ruling did. Adrienne R. Ghorashi, Esq. Program Manager Center for Public Health Law Research This SCOTUS decision reaffirms what was already established 4 years ago …
Abortion Exceptionalism
Professor Rachel Rebouche contributed to this piece for PodBean. Listen to the Full Episode
