Colorado Supreme Court Hears Important Case Re Constitutional Issues on...
By I. Glenn Cohen On Tuesday, January 9th, the Colorado Supreme Court heard oral argument in In Re Marriage of Rooks. (Kudos to them for live streaming and archiving!) This is the latest of a series of...
View ArticleIllness, Disability, and Dignity
By Yusuf Lenfest Medicine is meant to heal our ailments and treat our illnesses. Our deep knowledge of the body and the numerous mechanisms that contribute or correlate to good health is considered a...
View ArticleOrcas, Dolphins, and Whales: non-human persons and animal rights
With few exceptions, most cultures put homo sapiens at the center or the apex of creation. Humans, it is generally believed, are distinguished from other animals by our self-awareness and our ability...
View ArticleWhat can an 11th century Islamic philosopher teach us about 21st century...
There is a lot of fascinating research about the brain coming out of Stanford University, with some exciting, cutting-edge work being done there. Early last month I reported on the findings made by...
View ArticleShould courts treat destroyed embryos as “lost property” or “wrongful death”?
Bill of Health contributors Glenn Cohen and Dov Fox were featured in this week’s news coverage of novel claims related to recent freezer malfunctions at two major fertility clinics. A class-action suit...
View ArticleElder abuse is not substantiated
Philip C. Marshal is an elder justice advocate and founder of Beyond Brooke. The remarks below were prepared for Our Aging Brains: Decision-making, Fraud, and Undue Influence, part of the Project on...
View ArticleA Lawsuit Involving an Alabama Man and a Fetus Is Particularly Threatening to...
Last week Alabama passed the most restrictive abortion law in the country, criminalizing abortion of “any woman known to be pregnant,” with very limited exceptions that do not include rape or incest....
View ArticleThe Legal Limbo of Lost Embryos
Last summer, a group of cancer survivors and others struggling to have children held a memorial service for their “hopes and dreams lost.” That’s the message they had engraved on a bench in the Ohio...
View ArticleOpioid Claims for Fetal Opioid Exposure Alarm Pregnancy Advocates
By Alexa Richardson Lawyers calling themselves the “Opioid Justice Team” are pushing forward in their mission to certify babies exposed to opioids in utero, as well as “all women in the United States...
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Exploring Elder Care Robotics: Emotional Companion Robots
By Adriana Krasniansky This article is the first post in a four-part series looking at robots being developed for aging care, as well as their ethical implications. In this first article, we explore...
View ArticleAbortion and the Law in America: Video Preview with Mary Ziegler
The Health Law Policy, Bioethics, and Biotechnology Workshop provides a forum for discussion of new scholarship in these fields from the world’s leading experts. The workshop is led by Professor I....
View ArticleThe COVID-19 Pandemic Reveals the Stakes of the Campaign Against Abortion
By Mary Ziegler Once again, we’re talking about whether abortion counts as health care. The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked new efforts to limit access, from the government’s unwillingness to lift...
View ArticleBook Review: Mary Ziegler’s ‘Abortion and the Law in America’
By James Toomey If you want to understand America, you must understand our politics of abortion. And if you want to understand our politics of abortion, you must read Mary Ziegler’s recent legal...
View ArticleSeniors’ Perspectives on Dementia and Decision-Making
By James Toomey In order to make a decision recognized in law — to enter into or enforce a contract, buy or sell property, or get married or divorced — an individual must have the mental capacity the...
View ArticleReflecting on the Struggle for Disability Rights a Year into the Pandemic
By Amalia Sweet On March 9, the Petrie-Flom Center and Harvard Law School Project on Disability gathered a panel to discuss the extent to which the pandemic has set back progress toward ensuring the...
View ArticleA Medical Student Reflects on the Value of Time During the COVID-19 Pandemic
By Jess Ma He passed away on the 107th day. After I got home in the evening, I wrote down everything I could remember about him in my journal. For many days after his death, I often dreamed I was...
View ArticleCOVID-19 and the New Reproductive Justice Movement
By Mary Ziegler The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed advocacy for reproductive rights and reproductive justice in what previously had been called an endless, unchanging, and intractable abortion...
View ArticleBlurring the Line Between Public Health and Public Safety
By Jocelyn Simonson Collective movement struggles during the twin crises of COVID-19 and the 2020 uprisings have helped blur the concepts of public safety and public health. These movements have shown...
View ArticlePolicing Public Health: Carceral-Logic Lessons from a Mid-Size City
By Zain Lakhani, Alice Miller, Kayla Thomas, with Anna Wherry When it comes to public health intervention in a contagion, policing remains a primary enforcement tool. And where a health state is...
View ArticleHow Social Movements Have Facilitated Access to Abortion During the Pandemic
By Rachel Rebouché Before the end of 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will reconsider its restrictions on medication abortion. The FDA’s decision could make a critical difference to...
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