Mary Ziegler
@maryrziegler.bsky.social
Historian, Law Professor, Guggenheim Fellow, 7 books, including Personhood and Roe: The History of a National Obsession. Bylines in the NYT, Atlantic, CNN, MSNBC, and Slate.
Not presumptuous at all! Will look forward to reading. :)
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Not presumptuous at all! Will look forward to reading. :)
Courts in NY or CA were never going to enter antiabortion judgments. The goal? Win in federal court and force compliance. As far as that goes, there are strategic advantages to a civil wrongful death suit brought by a private citizen. Don't sleep on what this means for abortion-protective states.
July 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Courts in NY or CA were never going to enter antiabortion judgments. The goal? Win in federal court and force compliance. As far as that goes, there are strategic advantages to a civil wrongful death suit brought by a private citizen. Don't sleep on what this means for abortion-protective states.
The thrust: hospitals didn't know what to do because of Biden. The Trump Admin vows to enforce the law to prevent serious harm to "the health of a pregnant woman or her unborn child."
No guidance about how hospitals should, but a clear nod to the idea that the unborn child counts as a patient too.
No guidance about how hospitals should, but a clear nod to the idea that the unborn child counts as a patient too.
June 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The thrust: hospitals didn't know what to do because of Biden. The Trump Admin vows to enforce the law to prevent serious harm to "the health of a pregnant woman or her unborn child."
No guidance about how hospitals should, but a clear nod to the idea that the unborn child counts as a patient too.
No guidance about how hospitals should, but a clear nod to the idea that the unborn child counts as a patient too.
Do you have the PDF? When I try the links from the MO courts? I get this error message from the link
May 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Do you have the PDF? When I try the links from the MO courts? I get this error message from the link
Reposted by Mary Ziegler
To be clear, it’s not that there are five votes to *uphold* Trump’s patently unlawful and unconstitutional limits on birthright citizenship; it’s that there seem to be five votes to hold that district courts can grant relief only to plaintiffs—so the policy would go into effect against all others.
May 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
To be clear, it’s not that there are five votes to *uphold* Trump’s patently unlawful and unconstitutional limits on birthright citizenship; it’s that there seem to be five votes to hold that district courts can grant relief only to plaintiffs—so the policy would go into effect against all others.
Trump has seen stories like this: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202.... Why does abortion seem like less of an issue? Because the status quo hasn't changed. Abortion will become a major electoral issue the minute something major happens. Trump is trying to manage that without losing abortion foes.
Column | Three years after Dobbs leak, abortion no longer dominates politics
In Trump 2.0, reproductive rights is not the most central issue galvanizing voters, leaving Democrats searching for a winning message.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Trump has seen stories like this: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202.... Why does abortion seem like less of an issue? Because the status quo hasn't changed. Abortion will become a major electoral issue the minute something major happens. Trump is trying to manage that without losing abortion foes.