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. .
A law designed to help catch serial rapists may have unintended consequences for pregnant women.
U.S. District Judge Neil Wake gave women’s health advocates a significant victory in the fight over family planning funding, overturning a 2012 Arizona law that targets Planned Parenthood.
The latest legal news on the contraception challenges and fight for reproductive justice in the states.
A legal challenge to the state’s restrictions on medication abortion may be close to resolution. But is that a good thing for the women in Wisconsin?
The Obama administration may be trying to stop the flood of litigation around the contraception benefit, but proposed changes to the religious exemption will likely do very little to do so.
Another appellate court weighs in on the birth control benefit, and in doing so makes clearer the issues the Supreme Court will be asked to resolve. But a powerful dissenting opinion underscores the real issues.
The federal government may be moving forward with the birth control benefit, but the real action in reproductive rights remains in the states.
Public health officials tell the court women will still find abortion care should the state’s only clinic close but can’t identify anyone who can provide that care.
A new law would give employers a tax break for ignoring federal law.
Lawyers for the Department of Justice are still working on putting together the pieces of a network of domestic terrorists targeting Witchita, Kansas.
