Reproductive Rights Resource Page
As we celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Roe v. Wade, ACS has created this page as a resource for its members and other interested individuals that will allow for easy tracking of ACS's work on the lasting impact of Roe and the new threats to reproductive rights.
Issue Briefs | Panel Discussions and Featured Remarks (Video) | Guest Blogs
Suggested Readings | Recent ACSblog Coverage | Chapter Events
Issue Briefs
- “With Religious Liberty for All: A Defense of the Affordable Care Act’s Contraception Coverage Mandate,” by Frederick Mark Gedicks
- "A Progressive Agenda for Women's Reproductive Health and Liberty on Roe v. Wade's Thirty-Fifth Anniversary," by Dawn Johnsen
Panel Discussions and Featured Remarks (Video)
- On January 23, 2013, ACS, the National Women's Law Center, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America held a panel discussion on Reproductive Rights 40 Years After Roe
- ACS and the Center for Reproductive Rights presented Sandra Fluke with the Student Policy Advocacy Award at the 2012 ACS National Convention
- ACS 2012 Convention Panel - Conscience in the Public Square
- On February 28, 2012, ACS hosted a panel on African American women, law, and policy. The panel discussed the importance of reproductive rights in the context of the inequalities and challenges facing African American women
- ACS 2011 Convention Panel - Reframing and Reclaiming the High Ground for Reproductive Freedom
Guest Blogs
- Jacob Remes: In Celebration of Roe, Remembering the Importance of Young Progressive Lawyers
- Sarah Lipton-Lubet: On 40th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Why Talk about Birth Control
- Sarah Lipton-Lubet and Brigitte Amiri:
Court’s Ruling to Allow Employer to Discriminate Out of Step; Threatens Women’s Health
- Sarah Lipton-Lubet:
What the Supreme Court’s Obamacare Decision Means for Birth Control Litigation
- David H. Gans: Reflections on the Twentieth Anniversary of ‘Planned Parenthood v. Casey’
- Kate Michelman: Backsliding on Plan B and the Sad State of Reproductive Rights
- Joanna L. Grossman and Lawrence M. Friedman: The Castle Besieged: Family Law and Family Life in a Time of Social Change
- Emily M. Calhoun: Constitutional Stature, Who “Counts”, and the Legitimacy of Judicial Review
- Kathrine Jack and Robert R. Miller: Citizens United’s Personhood Debate and the Take Away For Reproductive Justice
Suggested Readings
- Linda Greenhouse and Reva B. Siegel: Before Roe v. Wade
- Daw Johnsen: "Constitutional Frameworks" at Roe's 40th Anniversary from Balkinization
- Linda Greenhouse and Reva B. Siegel: Backlash to the Future? from Balkinization
Recent ACSblog Coverage
- Reproductive Rights - 40 Years After Roe
- Charting the Course of Reproductive Rights, Forty Years On
- Roe Anniversary and Rethinking Strategies to Protect Reproductive Health and Liberty
- Religious Employers’ Legal Challenges to Health Care Law’s Coverage of Contraception on Wobbly Legal Ground, Says BYU Law Professor
- A World without Roe
- Judges Rely on Wobbly 'Science,' Helping Advance Attacks on Reproductive Rights
- Right-Wing Policy Makers Attack Health Care Reform, But Embrace Mandatory Ultrasounds for Women
- Idaho Appears Ready to Join Other State and National Lawmakers’ Intensifying Attacks on Women’s Rights
- Religious Groups Look to Federal Court to Topple Health Care Policy on Birth Control
- Fla. Lawmaker Blasts Administration Health Care Law, Contraception Rule Claiming President Defies Constitution
- Obama Announces Change to Contraception Coverage
- Federal Appeals Court Speeds up Enforcement of Texas’ Tough Anti-Abortion Law
- Religious Right Group Leading Effort to Push Radical Anti-Abortion Law
- The Health Care Mandates the Right Supports: Those That Hinder Access to Abortion
- Greenhouse, Siegel on Before Roe v. Wade
Chapter Events
- University of Richmond School of Law: The Viability of Abortion Regulation: What's Next for Roe v. Wade?
- The University of Chicago Law School: ACLU’s Lorie Chaiten on the Parental Notification Litigation in Illinois
- University of Kentucky College of Law: Professor Huberfeld and Reproductive Rights
- University of Michigan Law School: Defending the Affordable Care Act’s Contraception Coverage Mandate
- University of Michigan Law School: Roe at 40
- University of North Carolina School of Law: Roe v. Wade, 40 Years Later
- The University of Texas at Austin School of Law: Roe v. Wade at 40
- Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law: Equal Rights Amendment and Alice Paul's 128th Birthday