Former Petrie-Flom Fellow-in-Residence Elizabeth Chloe Romanis recently published her latest book, Biotechnology, Gestation, and the Law, with Oxford University Press. Here, we catch up with Chloe to ask her about the book and its key themes.
Photo credit: @wambuigichobi | SMA A Masai woman raises her fist as other women leaders look on at COP 27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt during one of the debriefs by the Women and Gender Constituency. by Faith Lumonya, Esther Wambui, and Eunice Musiime As global temperatures rise and the frequency of extreme weather events…
By Abeer Malik Imagine: Overjoyed at your pregnancy, you eagerly track every milestone, logging daily habits and symptoms into a pregnancy app. Then tragedy strikes—a miscarriage. Amidst your grief, authorities knock at your door. They’ve been monitoring your digital data and now question your behavior during pregnancy, possibly building a case against you using your…
by Rachel Rebouché Two years after deciding the case that overturned a constitutional right to abortion, the Supreme Court heard two cases on abortion law this term. The first involved a challenge to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval and regulation of mifepristone, the first drug in a medication abortion. The second concerned the…
By Hannah Rahim In January 2024, Pope Francis called for a universal ban on surrogacy as a threat to global peace and human dignity, claiming that the practice is a “grave violation” of the mother and child’s dignity and based on the “exploitation of situations of the mother’s material needs.” Surrogacy raises complex ethical and…
The film Preconceived shines a bright light on anti-abortion “Crisis Pregnancy Centers” (CPCs), including their disturbing take on HIPAA.
This article will examine the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision in LePage v. Mobile Infirmary Clinic and its consequences for Americans using fertility services.
Targeted restrictions on IVF Provision – or TRIP laws – stand to rob patients of their ability to build their families by compelling physicians to provide less effective, more expensive care.
If you give a law student a baby, a few things are inevitable: they are going to look for legal risk, analyze policy, and want a class on MILK.
This #MaternalHealthAwarenessDay, insist on comprehensive Medicaid coverage for moms.
