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Posts tagged Abortion

Mifepristone Lawsuit Highlights Medicine and Law’s Complex Relationship

By Colten Maertens-Pizzo

In episode 112 of Bioethics on Air, “Chemical Abortion and the Courts,” Joe Zalot interviews Elizabeth Kirk on the complexity of the April 2023 federal court cases dealing with the chemical abortion drug mifepristone. Kirk serves as the director of the Center for Law and the Human Person at the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America, and she is an associate scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, a research organization that advises the pro-life movement. As an attorney and scholar, she is highly qualified to explain the complexities of Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, the strikingly convoluted case challenging the legality of mifepristone’s initial approval by the US Food and Drug Administration.

Colten Maertens-PizzoOctober 2, 2023Abortion

Texas Defends Life and Sovereignty Post Dobbs

In the moments following the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision this past summer, a whole host of state laws that had lain dormant since Roe v. Wade (1973) stirred awake. The next several months saw a number of these old legislative documents gain the force of law in their respective states once more. Many organizations—political, medical, and otherwise—felt similarly called to revisit their long-standing policies in the wake of Dobbs. One such organization was the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Vivian TorkDecember 5, 2022Abortion, beginning-of-life issues, conscience & civil lberties