Law@theMargins’ Associate Editor Morgan Moone takes a close look at the wave of anti-choice legislation that is sweeping various states accross the nation in 2019. She focuses on several key states, finding out from local reproductive justice activists what the impact of these bills are to communities of color and explores with them possible steps forward.
Law@theMargins' caps off its look at state legislative efforts to limit women's reproductive rights with an online discussion featuring representatives from the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF)) and In Our Own Voice: National...
In Missouri, these introduced and accepted legislation hold serious consequences for access to medicine, voting rights, bodily autonomy and relief from trauma.
In Georgia, the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act radically revises personhood rights by allowing fetuses to be considered legal residents of the state, as well as dependent minors for taxation purposes.
Louisiana has several pieces of passed and introduced anti-choice legislation, including one law that, barring a successful court challenge, would prohibit abortions when a fetal heartbeat is detected.
This spring, Ohio passed legislation that would charge a fifth degree felony to any doctor who knowingly induces or performs an abortion before determining if there is a fetal heartbeat. On the horizon, there are more restrictive efforts, including...
Alabama legislators have managed to use arguably the nation's most inciteful, emotionally charged language to craft an ant-choice law that is additionally laden with scientific and medical inaccuracies.
Chaumtoli Huq
Morgan Moone