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Jill Wieber Lens
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Lawprof at Univ Iowa. Research stillbirth and pregnancy loss from legal perspective, to honor my Caleb. My work: http://ssrn.com/author=1292641
Stillbirth & the Law coming from UCPress spring 2025: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/stillbirth-and-the-law/pape
Yes, but the state can be immune to an extent… Funny thing how states get to set their tort liability.
November 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Me too! So excited!
November 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Thanks, Ally!!
October 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Can't wait to see you, Maya!
October 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Great phrase to also inflict a little trauma for some people who have experienced pregnancy loss…
October 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Anger at the calls to ban "late" abortion b/c of fetal pain, yet no concern for the 10K+ stillbirths after 28 weeks that actually could involve fetal pain.

The hypocrisies are thick and hurtful -- and should undermine the state's ability to ban abortion in the name of protecting fetal life. /end
October 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This has been in my head since my son's stillbirth. Anger that I've never seen a yard sign asking for prayers to end preventable stillbirth. Anger at the TX legis doing everything it can to prevent abortion at 6 weeks, but nothing to prevent stillbirth at 37 weeks. 4/
October 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The hypocrisies aren't resolvable. Some stillbirths are preventable, and the choice to not attempt to prevent those stillbirths is intentional. I argue that the hypocrisies should be used to challenge abortion bans -- the type of creative arguments needed post Dobbs. 3/
October 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The piece seeks to undermine the antiabortion interest in protecting fetal life -- because antis care not at all about non-abortion fetal death. States like MS, AL, and AR quickly banned abortion to protect fetal life. Yet they consistently have the highest stillbirth rates in the US. 2/
October 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I meant to ask how you were doing after that not great Philly sports night...
October 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM