Gavel Drop: Conservatives Try New Tactic to Discredit Fetal Tissue Research
Imani Gandy, Jessica Mason Pieklo & Gavel Drop: Conservatives Try New Tactic to Discredit Fetal Tissue Research
But what they need to do is give up their fight against it.
Welcome to Gavel Drop, our roundup of legal news, headlines, and head-shaking moments in the courts.
Republicans absolutely refuse to give up on their campaign to discredit fetal tissue research.
Attorneys in Florida are challenging portions of a new anti-abortion law that tries to block Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, mandate additional inspections of abortion clinics, and change the definitions of pregnancy trimesters.
So Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial is moving forward. At least for now.
Meanwhile, some states are reconsidering statutes of limitations in rape cases.
This look at the costs to children and states when a parent is incarcerated is just devastating.
A federal judge ruled Portland, Maine can’t use its noise ordinance to restrict clinic protesters’ access to a local Planned Parenthood.
In other news about clinic protests, a federal appeals court revived a challenge to a Pittsburgh buffer zone ordinance.
Broadly explores how Texas clinic closures are affecting women who are undocumented.
Colorado State University was not illegally using tax dollars to subsidize abortions, ruled a Colorado judge.
Turns out that even the women on the Supreme Court get interrupted more than their male colleagues during oral arguments.
The U.S. women’s soccer team continues to fight for equal playing conditions, this time arguing they have the right to strike if concerns about poor playing conditions and equal pay are not addressed.
Speaking of pushing equality forward, this transgender veteran sued the barber who refused to do their hair.
Justice Stephen Breyer may be driving the Supreme Court’s compromise efforts in Zubik v. Burwell, not Justice Anthony Kennedy as Linda Greenhouse of the New York Times previously thought.