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. .
Legal contraception for single people has been a fight for over 40 years, and the latest challenges suggest the fight isn’t ending soon.
Child-care agencies that contract with the state will now have to ensure that children are not pressured into participating in religious worship or instruction.
Another federal court rules that conservatives can’t defund Planned Parenthood because it provides abortion care.
The Steubenville, Ohio, rape trial highlights the complicated role we ask our juvenile courts to play.
Last week brought a mixed bag of decisions for reproductive justice advocates.
A federal court blocked the Obama administration’s birth control benefit from applying to a for-profit company, further blurring the lines between the secular and religious when it comes to constitutional rights.
Trial starts in the case charging two high school football players with rape, and not surprisingly, the defense is arguing consent.
A federal court strikes a bunch of abortion restrictions in Idaho, while another for-profit company tries and fight the birth control benefit.
A sweeping decision hands reproductive rights activists one of their strongest victories yet.
The chances of U.S. Supreme Court intervention are so slim that something else has to be behind the petition for review.
