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By Dave Andrusko There is likely only two weeks left in the current term of the Supreme Court. So, albeit to a lesser extent, this Monday, as in previous Mondays, there are stories speculating about what the justices will do about the outstanding “controversial...
By Dave Andrusko Referring to one of the two requirements of Texas’ HB 2, Rebecca Terrell, the executive director of a Tennessee clinic called CHOICES: Memphis Center For Reproductive Health, told Lisette Mejia of about the mandate that abortionists have admitting...
By Dave Andrusko Just to be clear, no one except the eight Supreme Court justices and (to a lesser extent) their clerks know exactly when the High Court will rule on a host of controversial cases, some of which raise new issues, others of which will finesse previous...
By Randall K. O'Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research Editor’s note. Parts One through Three can be read at here; here; and here. One of the central concerns for particular members of the Supreme Court in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt was that...
Part 3: Did the law result in later abortions and fewer chemical abortions? By Randall K. O'Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research We discussed earlier how those challenging the new Texas abortion law at the Supreme Court tried to blame that law for...
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research Editor’s note. In last Wednesday’s oral arguments before the Supreme Court in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, litigants made several key contentions they say demonstrate that HB 2 resulted in...
By Dave Andrusko Especially attentive readers may remember that Amy Hagstrom Miller is founder and CEO of Whole Woman’s Health, the abortion clinic group that sued to overturn portions of HB 2, Texas’ 2013 pro-life law. Leading up to and out of Wednesday’s oral...
By Dave Andrusko Following up on Wednesday’s initial story, today, Friday, and Monday we will running a series of posts about Wednesday’s oral arguments in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt. Today’s will be both general--there was a lot of atmospherics about the...
By Dave Andrusko How’s this for breaking news? “Supreme Court Appears Sharply Divided as It Hears Texas Abortion Case.” That’s the lead from the New York Times but it was typical of all the first stories coming out of this morning’s oral arguments in Whole Woman’s...
By Dave Andrusko We’ve written twice and probably should have posted at least one more story about the friend of the court brief submitted by 113 female lawyers who’d had abortions. Their message to the Supreme Court considering portions of Texas’s 2013 law? “To the...