Updates | The Week of April 3, 2017
Derek Reinbold // 4/9/17 //
Constitutional arguments against H.J. Res 43, the bill that would allow states to deny federal grants to women’s health care programs, are promising, writes Leah Litman for Take Care.
Vice President Michael Pence’s view of women as “mother/daughter saints or . . . temptresses” colors his views on reproductive justice, argues Leah Litman at Take Care.
If President Trump is able to fill a second Supreme Court vacancy and follows through on his promise to nominate judges who will overturn Roe v. Wade, we may see widespread criminal prosecutions of women, predicts Carole Joffe (Rewire).
The Trump Administration will eliminate funding for the United Nations Population Fund, citing allegations that the agency supports abortion and forced sterilization in China (WaPo).
- The agency “vigorously denied the charge” (Vox).
Carol Sanger’s new book on abortion and the law is a “model of what . . . conversations about abortion might be like,” writes David Pozen (Balkinization).