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Bioethics Forum Essay
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Theocracy Is Closer Than It Appears

On a cloudy April afternoon, in my home in western Pennsylvania, a headline catches my eye: A federal judge in Texas suspended FDA approval of mifepristone. This abortion-inducing drug has been on the market for more than 20 years. Although the decision is presented with a secular and legal façade, like other recent antiabortion court rulings and legislation, a solid religious motive is at play.
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Requests for Sterilization, Abortion Bans, and Reproductive Justice

In the nearly three months since the United States Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion, doctors have reported increased in...
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Dusting Off Double Effect for the Post-Dobbs Era

What constitutes a medical emergency for a pregnant patient? ER clinicians in states with abortion bans need to know.
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Abortion Law—Lessons from Medical Aid-in-Dying?

Health care and society will strive to find ways to undercut crude bans inconsistent with perceived medical need and professional duty.
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Bioethics Forum Essay
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After Roe, What’s Next for End-of-Life Care?

The reversal of Roe may be the beginning of an onslaught on our freedoms. I want to add one more worry to the list and point to self-determination at life's end. Here we have Justice Neil Gorsuch to worry about.
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The End of Roe v. Wade Will Be a Nightmare for Disabled Americans

The end of federal abortion rights is a disability justice issue—but not in the way you might think.
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Bioethics Without Roe

The Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade has played a subtle but critical role in the history of bioethics in America. Would American bioethics discourse be changed with the end of a constitutionally protected right to abortion?
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Leaked Supreme Court Opinion, Structural Sexism, and Our Moral Imagination

The leaked draft of the Supreme Court’s  majority opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade has sent shockwaves throughout the world. Over the last decade, during which we came into adulthood,...
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