Repo(sess) Repro(ductive) Justice


"Look for posts here about everything from women in prison to midwifery and doulas to Supreme Court decisions to transgender rights."

Author: Staff and interns at the Oakland, Calif.-based Law Students for Reproductive Justice contribute to this blawg along with guest student and attorney bloggers.

Blawg Related Categories: Careers • Women in the Law • Civil Rights • Health Law • Law Student

Recent Posts from Repo(sess) Repro(ductive) Justice


  • More thoughts on Stupak…

    Because most participants in the insurance exchange would receive some federal subsidy (the New York Times reports that “anyone earning less than $88,000 for a family of four — four times the poverty level —…

  • Let’s Make a Deal: Women’s Health, for Your Vote

    A Congressional staffer recently reprimanded me for suggesting that Democrats might be in the business of compromise despite their solid majority in the House. “Show me,” she demanded, “how have we compromised?” Well, for starters,…

  • Hate Crimes are Finally Hate Crimes

    In my undergraduate years I lived in Las Vegas, and I often guest spoke to classes and groups about transgender issues.  One of the things I would often discuss was hate crimes.  I had statistics…

  • ART, Expense, and Infant Health

    A recent NY Times pair of articles focuses on the human, medical, and social costs of implanting multiple embryos via IVF and IUI, resulting in a spike in both multiple births and a litany of…

  • When Did Our Right Become a Disease?

    st1\:* While in office, former president Clinton declared that “Abortion should be safe, legal and rare.” Last week, the Boston Globe reported that support for legalized abortion among Democratic White men has [...]

  • Baby-Avoidance Carbon Credits: “A Modest Proposal” and Affront to Women’s Autonomy

    I can’t help but recall Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” when I read the internet buzz around the recent U.N. data analyzed in a “FEWER EMITTERS, LOWER EMISSIONS, LESS COST,” a report from the London…

  • The “ENDA” Discrimination?

    The beginning of my second year of law school also marks the beginning of my search for a job for the summer after my second year of law school. Because of the uncertainty of the…

  • Help Me Help You

    The reproductive rights movement was founded by women and originally fought for issues men ignored, like a woman’s right to determine the timing and spacing of her children.  Reproductive justice, however, has a greatly expanded…

  • And Then There’s Maude

    At Comic Con this year, “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane revealed that Fox would not be airing an episode of the new season focused on abortion.  As previous references to abortion on the show have…

  • A Woman’s Right to Choose…How Much?

    My support of the right of women to obtain abortions has always sprung from my belief that women (and people in general) should have the utmost control over what happens to their bodies. This belief…