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  • Health Law Policy

    Fetal Burial Is Dead (for now)

    By John A. Robertson The Supreme Court’s 2016 decision in Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerstedt (WWH) struck down a Texas law targeting abortion providers by allowing judges to balance the health benefits of the regulation…

    Fetal Burial Is Dead (for now)

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  • Abortion

    Whole Woman’s Health and the Future of Abortion Regulation

    By John A. Robertson Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt (WWH) is the most important abortion case since Casey in 1992, and a major setback for the anti-choice movement.  By allowing courts to weigh the importance…

    Whole Woman’s Health and the Future of Abortion Regulation

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  • Bioethics

    Uterus Transplants: Challenges and Potential

    [Cross posted at the OUPBlog] By John A. Robertson The birth of a healthy child in Sweden in October, 2014 after a uterus transplant from a living donor marked the advent of a new technique to…

    Uterus Transplants: Challenges and Potential

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  • Bioethics

    Surrogacy Contracts Directly Enforcible in Pennsylvania

    By John A. Robertson Surrogacy is legal in many states.  Some, like California, directly enforce gestational carrier contracts.  Others, like Texas, Illinois, and Virginia, enforce only those contracts that are entered into by a married…

    Surrogacy Contracts Directly Enforcible in Pennsylvania

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  • Abortion

    Fetal Personhood and the Constitution

    By John A. Robertson The Rubio-Huckabee claim that actual and legal personhood start at conception has drawn trenchant responses from Art Caplan on the medical uncertainty of such a claim and David Orentlicher, drawing on…

    Fetal Personhood and the Constitution

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  • Abortion

    The Undue Burden Test in Texas Abortion Clinic Regulation

    By John A. Robertson [also published on Balkinization] The Fifth Circuit decision in Whole Women’s Health v. Cole upholding Texas’ law requiring all abortions, including medication abortions, to be performed in a licensed ambulatory surgical…

    The Undue Burden Test in Texas Abortion Clinic Regulation

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  • Health Law Policy

    Marriage Equality, Health, and Life Extension

    By John A. Robertson Health care analysts have long studied the effects of relationships on health, e.g., married men live longer than unmarried.   Professor Debra Umberson, a sociologist at the University of Texas Sociology Department…

    Marriage Equality, Health, and Life Extension

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  • Bioethics

    Surrogacy, Israel, and the Nepal Earthquake

    By John A. Robertson The Nepal earthquake has shocked with the devastation and suffering inflicted on a long suffering people.  Foreigners in Nepal were also affected, but most of them will be able to leave and…

    Surrogacy, Israel, and the Nepal Earthquake

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  • Abortion

    Limiting D&E Abortions:  The Kansas Maneuver

    By John A. Robertson Anti-abortion groups have found another way to limit previously legal abortions.  Building on the analysis in Gonzales v. Carhart, the 2007 case upholding the federal partial birth abortion law, Kansas has…

    Limiting D&E Abortions:  The Kansas Maneuver

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  • Abortion

    Is Nonmedical Sex Selection Always Sexist?

    By John A. Robertson Nonmedical sex selection is a thorny topic. Usually used to favor males, it has harmed women and resulted in sex ratio disparities in India, China, and other nations where son preference…

    Is Nonmedical Sex Selection Always Sexist?

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