As Director of Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law Center for Law, Policy & Social Action (CLPSA), I am elated to host nationally renowned family law & children’s rights scholar-advocate, Professor Jessica Dixon Weaver Jessica Dixon Weaver (@SMULawSchool), as CLPSA’s Spring 2024 Scholar in Residence!🌟

Professor Seema Mohapatra discusses the Florida Supreme Court’s decision regarding the abortion ballot amendment tonight on Political Connections at 7 p.m. mynews13.com/fl/orlando/pol…

So in the short term, the right to abortion in FL is gone. The 6 week ban will go into effect in 30 days. Then voters will decide whether to restore reproductive rights. But that won't be the end.

Honored to have played a role in helping to protect children and their families in Michigan.

Michigan will soon have up-to-date and inclusive parentage rules for children born through IVF and other forms through assisted reproduction.
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ABORTION WILL BE ON THE BALLOT IN FLORIDA!

NEW: The Florida Supreme Court simultaneously UPHOLDS the state's 15-week abortion ban (which lets the six-week ban take effect, too)—but also APPROVES a ballot initiative that would amend the FL constitution to protect abortion.

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Excellent new piece from a junior scholar to watch. Check out Alice Abrokwa’s Too Stubborn to Care for: The Impacts of Discrimination on Patient Noncompliance in ⁦Vanderbilt Law Review⁩. vanderbiltlawreview.org/lawreview/2024…

A few thoughts in Ms. Magazine msmagazine.com/2024/03/26/sup… Boston University School of Law

It's not every day that the Supreme Court considers the U.S. FDA's authority, particularly in a high-profile case like this. I was part of a group of FDA scholars to file amicus briefs at the district, circuit, and SCOTUS levels. So here to share some thoughts about oral args. 1/

Thanks to Lindsay Wiley Kelly K. Dineen Gillespie & Danielle Pelfrey Duryea for discussing Feminist Judgments: Health Law Rewritten (@CambridgeUP) at Solomon Center @ YLS Yale Law School today!

Many thanks to Lawrence Solum for the “Highly Recommended” for Christine Hurt and my article “The Contractarian Joint Venture.” lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/20… SMU Dedman School of Law

Terrific piece by Dara Purvis on who will really feel the burden of the Alabama frozen embryo ruling: msmagazine.com/2024/03/05/mis…

Spoke to Zoe Sottile CNN on the Alabama Supreme Court opinion allowing the state's wrongful death of a minor law to apply to embryos cnn.com/2024/02/26/us/…

Note the dangerous history of policing reproduction in Alabama. This is not the beginning... and will not be the end. Thank you, Alicia Menendez Michael Steele Symone D. Sanders Townsend The Weekend on MSNBC
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Spoke to WFAA this morning about the Texas implications of the Alabama embryo case fox26houston.com/video/1416848

“This is the logical end to the legal personhood movement, which we knew was going to be the next frontier after Roe v. Wade was overruled.' -Seema Mohapatra (profmohapatra on Threads) in STAT

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It is *so* taxing. We've been doing this for over three years now. I've done eight egg retrieval cycles. I've done two separate embryo transfers. I have now probably injected myself with fertility meds hundreds and hundreds of times.

Before egg retrieval cycles I'd start 1/x

This is the fix dems wrote?? This sounds like a Republican fix: save IVF at the expense of all other pregnant people. I know it's Alabama, but come on...

Such a great op-ed Mary Ziegler Sonia Suter Naomi Cahn ! It's a false choice: 'it seems perverse to choose between a punitive vision of fetal rights and restitution for those grieving the loss of potential parenthood. There are remedies that don’t go all the way to personhood.'

SMU Dedman School of Law has the most amazing #corporate and #commercial #law line-up. Smart, kind, student-oriented. Glad to be working on these issues with all of you.

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