Marcia Zug
marciazug.bsky.social
Marcia Zug
@marciazug.bsky.social
Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law with a focus on family law and federal Indian law. All views are my own.
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Looking forward to this conference and to participating in the Reproductive Rights Update panel later today, with @lauralanesteele.bsky.social @marciazug.bsky.social @vickiringer.bsky.social, and @drshannacombs.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Concerning that Silicon Valley’s proposed solution to rouge AI is eugenics!

www.wsj.com/us-news/sili...
Inside Silicon Valley’s Growing Obsession With Having Smarter Babies
Tech execs are paying tens of thousands to find brilliant dates or select high-IQ embryos. “They want to raise high-performing children.”
www.wsj.com
August 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The unmarried have long faced discrimination, now in Tennessee that can include no prenatal care. wellsrachelm.substack.com/p/pregnant-w...
Exclusive: Pregnant Woman in Tennessee Denied Care for Being Unmarried (Updated)
The 2025 Medical Ethics Defense Act allows physicians to deny care to patients whose "lifestyles" they disagree with
wellsrachelm.substack.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
It’s like we really want to make pregnancy as unappealing as possible. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Is the FDA about to keep pregnant women from taking antidepressants?
A panel of experts repeated what one women's health expert called "MAHA talking points."
www.motherjones.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I’ve written about many transactional relationships but I always love hearing about new ones.
Should New Yorkers date someone this summer just because they have AC at their apartment? City officials said you shouldn’t NOT do that
City officials encouraged New Yorkers to seek out cool, air-conditioned spaces — including their apartments, their friends’ apartments, and libraries and museums — to stay out of danger as the heat takes hold this week.
June 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
It’s unclear how much monetary incentives can increase #fertilityrates but the fertility effects of making women poorer seem pretty clear.
Birth rates were below replacement most of the 30s, i.e. the last time we massively crashed our economy.
April 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Conclusions regarding why women decide to have or not have children are far from clear, but taking away career opportunities seems to a very bad “solution” to declining #fertility rates
Heritage: "reducing federal higher education subsidies and loan cancellation that place the federal thumb on the scale in favor of spending years in postsecondary work of questionable value will help young Americans to start and expand their families." www.heritage.org/education/re...
Education Policy Reforms Are Key Strategies for Increasing the Married Birth Rate
The fertility rate in the United States has dropped to 1.6,
www.heritage.org
March 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Who had “bring back coverture” on their 2025 Bingo card? apple.news/AhoYJDLI0QQa...
Married women could be stopped from voting under SAVE Act — Newsweek
The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act could prevent many married women from being able to register to vote.
apple.news
February 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
New Hampshire proposes child #marriage ban with exception for military members. www.newsweek.com/republicans-...
Republicans want child marriage ban exemption for military members
New Hampshire lawmakers are considering an exception to a child marriage ban for 17-year-olds to military members.
www.newsweek.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
#Marriage has long come with many benefits now apparently better transportation options will be one of them .https://apple.news/AnxCSOI0NR6Ss-a8nR2JsYg
Trump Admin Trashes DEI...Then Orders DEI For Trad Wives — The Daily Beast
A Transportation Department memo reveals a plan to “give preference... to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average.”
apple.news
January 31, 2025 at 1:16 AM
So true. In South Carolina it is tradition to name your kid the mother’s maiden name regardless of gender. Hopefully my kids don’t follow it ( wouldn’t wish that on my future grandkids) but every year my classes are full of Lawsons, Smiths, Harpers etc.
Indeed.

While a small issue in the grand scheme, this part of the memo reveals how everyone has something to lose when the government decides to enforce trait-based classifications to silo people according to a state mandated stereotype.

This is just the end of a longer thread they’re pulling.
Plus some people have names from other cultures that I don’t immediately recognize as identifiably male or female. Like Texas.

But Trumpists want to solve that problem too, I am sure.
January 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Great explanation of the birthright/indian exception debate.
I love Evan’s thread.

I am nowhere an expert in Indian Law, but I do teach some early cases through the prism of sovereignty: what does sovereignty mean? Who are we as a people? Many of these questions popped up saliently during the Jacksonian period with answers Radical Reconstruction rejected.
I really didn’t want to get back into this, but this is confusing and reflects a misunderstanding of the historical context. The answer to both questions is yes, but that does absolutely nothing to undermine birthright citizenship for the children of non-Indian non-citizens. Quick thread. 1.
January 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM