NEWS: today U.S. EEOC finalized a policy implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act’s additional protections for pregnant workers.

This follows our work with Leah Litman, Melissa Murray (@ProfMMurray on Threads 🧵), Kate Shaw, Greer Donley, David S. Cohen, and Rachel Rebouche to affirm EEOC's authority to do so.

latest Pew Research Center data:

six-in-ten U.S. Catholics say abortion should be legal.

This includes 39 percent who say it should be legal in most cases, and 22 percent who say it should be legal in all cases.

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Ohio’s 24-hour waiting period for abortions violates new Issue 1 constitutional requirements cleveland.com/letters/2024/0…

Check out Ms. Magazine’s article on post-Dobbs advocacy, featuring Pitt Law Professor and abortion rights expert Greer Donley #WomenAlsoKnowLaw
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🧵Very excited for this The Yale Law Journal Collection on 'Doing History After Dobbs: Applications, Implications, and Critiques of Dobbs's Historical Methodology'!
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Join out team members Drs. Dara D. Mendez, PhD, MPH, Sonya Borrero, Mehret Birru Talabi, and Greer Donley as they speak at the Let’s Talk about Reproductive Justice happening next week, April 17th.
More details can be found here: lnkd.in/eTBr9jYd

This is a must read from Caroline Kitchener, who writes about this issue with such nuance and care.

“Comstock gaslighting era”. Absolutely. Glad I was able to comment on this great story 👇🏼.

And just to be clear, I strongly disagree with the broadest interpretation of Comstock, but consider it a serious risk.

“They want to have it both ways,” said Greer Donley. “They want to both say in the popular press, ‘Don’t worry, pro-lifers, we have a secret plan for a national abortion ban’ and then also say, ‘Where did you get that idea, you crazy left?’”
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When I tell women who have never given birth what I do for a living and how busy we all are, they are SHOCKED that an entire field of medicine had to emerge because of how enormous the demand for birth injury repairs is

Abortion Disorientation: Greer Donley & Caroline Kelly track how #legislatures have responded to the tragedies of their own making by changing the definition of #abortion to exclude certain types of care.

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Nationwide injunctions, man. They're bad!

Thanks so much for covering our brief, Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie!!

I.e., even if the 1864 law banned 'procuring a miscarriage,' in practice, women could not end a pregnancy until they knew it existed. People regularly bought herbs to induce a late period, and no one cared. Read more in Jill Wieber Lens & Evan's paper here. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Join out team members Dara D. Mendez, PhD, MPH, Sonya Borrero, Mehret Birru Talabi, + Greer Donley as they speak at Let’s Talk about Reproductive Justice happening April 17th.

More details can be found here:
provost.pitt.edu/pacwc/events