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A pregnancy turns deadly in an anti-abortion state. What happens next?


Neel Dhanesha
Vox

“At what point do we say that danger has been triggered?” asked Carmel Shachar, executive director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Policy Law, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at…

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HIPAA won’t protect you if prosecutors want your reproductive health records


Eric Boodman, Tara Bannow, Bob Herman, and Casey Ross, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director) and Carmel Shachar (Executive Director)
STAT

Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s concurring opinion suggested that crossing state lines should not be prohibited. “He believes there is a constitutional right to interstate travel for abortion,”…

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“This is not about protecting life”: Supreme Court overturn of Roe v. Wade threatens lives of cancer patients, doctors


By Alice Tracey and Alexandria Carolan, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Cancer Letter

“If your state prohibits abortion, can they also prohibit you to travel out of the state? No state, as far as I know, has passed a law to that…

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Roe v. Wade’s fall is a ‘turning point’ for Chief Justice John Roberts’ control over the Supreme Court, court watchers say


Oma Seddiq, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Business Insider

"[Roberts]'s moved from being a necessary vote for the conservative bloc to being basically not necessary," I. Glenn Cohen, a professor at Harvard Law School, told Insider. …

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‘A seismic moment in Constitutional history’: Experts in law and medicine examine the Supreme Court’s decision overturning the right to abortion


Brett Milano, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Harvard Law Today

According to Harvard Law School Professor I. Glenn Cohen ’03, the ruling represented “a seismic moment in Constitutional history, indeed in American history … I can’t think…

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What the Supreme Court’s abortion reversal means for in vitro fertilization


I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director), Judith Daar, and Eli Y. Adashi
Boston Globe

The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization will upend the lives of pregnant persons across the United States seeking abortions who live…

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How the Supreme Court Ruling Clouds Future for IVF Treatments


Carey Goldberg, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Bloomberg

The main concern is not that state lawmakers will target IVF, says I. Glenn Cohen, a Harvard Law School professor who specializes in bioethics, but that “the language they…

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The 50-year history of abortion and oncology in The Cancer Letter archives


The Cancer History Project, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Cancer Letter

“This research has been a political football over the course of the last 30 years, with different administrations of the federal government taking different positions on it,” I. Glenn…

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Harvard Law’s I. Glenn Cohen: To provide good care, doctors will run afoul of criminal law in some states as Roe v. Wade ends


Matthew Bin Han Ong, featuring I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Cancer Letter

Physicians and pregnant women alike have no choice but to navigate the labyrinthine complexities generated by the Dobbs v. Jackson decision—including the risk of being accused of committing…

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Murky Legal Landscape for Docs Advising Patients on Self-Managed Abortions: "No one can take away their right to dispense medical information"


Amanda D'Ambrosio quoting Carmel Shachar (Executive Director)
Medpage Today

As new abortion restrictions take effect across the U.S. in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, obtaining an abortion…