Author: Mindy Roseman

Mindy Jane Roseman is an international human rights lawyer; she directs the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights at Yale Law School. She writes and teaches about gender, sexuality, reproduction, and human rights.

Leaked SCOTUS Opinion Relies on Misinformation and Tropes of the Anti-Abortion Movement

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In the leaked opinion, Justice Alito’s use of the language “abortion-on-demand” is intentionally stigmatizing—it forwards the idea that pregnant people make capricious, immoral decisions to terminate their pregnancies. But abortion access is not the free-for-all that Alito intimates.

In fact, abortion law, in the U.S. or across the world, has not been a story of long criminalization with the blip of Roe over the last 50 years. Rather, the trend, on the whole, has been support for abortion rights and laws that reflect it.

“Equal Rights May Ring Hollow”: The Precarious State of Abortion Rights

“Equal Rights May Ring Hollow”: The Precarious State of Abortion Rights

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As the Supreme Court prepares to hear a case concerning a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks of gestation, federal abortion rights enter a precarious state. States around the country have also set up “trigger laws”—abortion bans—that are ready to go into effect the moment Roe gets overturned. As attacks on abortion rights escalate, federal legislation guaranteeing reproductive rights is needed more than ever.

What the Public Gets Wrong About "Reason-Based" Abortion Bans

What the Public Gets Wrong About “Reason-Based” Abortion Bans

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Whether or not people feel equipped to raise and the meet the needs of children is something only they can discern.

Drawing the line for abortion restrictions at viability always has been a constitutional compromise; one that protected early abortion in exchange for recognizing that states could limit patients’ decision-making at some point in a pregnancy.