Jessica Mason Pieklo is a writer and adjunct law professor in Minneapolis/St. Paul Minnesota. She is the former Assistant Director of the Health Law Clinic at Hamline Law School with a background is in constitutional law, corporate governance and health law. .
This week, the right tried to drum up support for personhood and fetal rights via criminal prosecutions.
According to a complaint filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center and others, doctors and officials from the state of South Carolina performed unnecessary sex assignment surgery on an infant in their care.
A series of appellate court decisions in the coming months could determine how and when the Supreme Court reviews the birth control benefit in the Affordable Care Act.
U.S. District Judge Susan Webber ruled from the bench and temporarily blocked the state’s extreme law from taking effect while a legal challenge to it proceeds.
A federal judge rejected arguments by the state of Arkansas that a lawsuit challenging its 12-week abortion ban should be dismissed.
Reproductive rights activists filed a lawsuit Wednesday to try and keep the state’s only abortion clinic open.
In exchange for dropping all appeals, Dr. Kermit Gosnell was spared death row.
Democrats introduced a bill designed to remedy pregnancy discrimination in the workplace. Will any Republicans support it?
This week, a federal judge blasted the Obama administration on emergency contraception, and the battle over Arkansas’ 12-week abortion ban heated up.
After ten days of deliberation, a jury has found Dr. Kermit Gosnell guilty of first-degree murder.
