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By Meg Leta Jones and Amanda Levendowski, co-editors of Feminist CyberlawAfter the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, many feared that America was returning to a time before Roe v. Wade. They were wrong. As Feminist Cyberlaw contributor Cynthia Conti-Cook cau

By Grace Howard, author of The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting PersonhoodWhen I say that the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses are legal persons, many people may assume I’m talking about the recent opinion that stated embryos created in the cour

What is it like to publish a book open-access with our Luminos program? Adrienne Strong, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida and author of Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania, discusses her award-winning book and her experience publis

By Jennifer Hendricks, author of Essentially a Mother: A Feminist Approach to the Law of Pregnancy and MotherhoodWhen the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and abolished the right to abortion, the court trivialized pregnancy and its impact on women’s lives. Nowhere in its opinion did the