Mary Ziegler

Investigation has been a defining policy on abortion. At first, this was to buy time, given that the issue hurts the GOP. Now it looks like political cover. Trump's past talk of state's rights will be portrayed as sincere; he will say that new data have changed his mind.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar

Hawley uses his questioning time to push RFK Jr to look into further restricting mifepristone https://t.co/jIGkAgJhRP

Thanks to @NPR for naming Personhood the book of the day. https://t.co/rtGL746jiJ You can pick up a copy here or at your bookstore: .org/2025/05/08/1249919764/nprs-book-of-the-day-mary-ziegler-personhood

Thanks @nytimes.com for featuring Personhood in the list of new books to watch in today's print edition. "Ziegler, a leading historian of abortion, looks beyond Roe v. Wade to the future battleground for reproductive rights." You can pre-order here: https://t.co/ZUMMqIEYg2

My new book, Personhood, is out a week from tomorrow. Thanks to Margaret Talbot for this generous @newyorker.com review. Hope you enjoy the book! https://t.co/pUBEfkdQHw

Thanks, @lsolum for recommending my latest with Dov Fox, which is forthcoming in @ColumLRev. We're not just editing it but also working on a book-length legal history of IVF, and so welcome comments.

Lawrence Solum @lsolum

Fox & Ziegler on In Vitro Fertilization after Dobbs, https://t.co/aO4yNB2AYr - Dov Fox (University of San Diego: School of Law) & Mary Ziegler (University of California, Davis - School of Law) have posted The New Abortion (Columbia Law Review, Vol. 126 (forthcoming 2025)) on

This is in line with what the admin has done so far: investigating, a la RFK. It was hard to tell if this was just slow-walking, but increasingly, I think review will mean new restrictions. The q for me is whether the Trump DOJ will treat the Comstock Act as a ban.

Chris “Law Dork” Geidner @chrisgeidner

NEWS: DOJ announces that the Trump administration is reviewing "mifepristone-related" cases. https://t.co/Jv21H3QGwA

What's surprising is how long this took. I expect we'll see more of the same in the months to come: the Trump Administration slowly and without fanfare adopting the positions abortion opponents want, even on issues, like this, that won't play well politically.

Alice Miranda Ollstein @AliceOllstein

BREAKING: Trump is dropping the EMTALA case it inherited from Biden — a battle with Idaho over patients' right to have an abortion in a medical emergency. An Idaho hospital warns women in crisis will once again be airlifted out of the state if courts don't act soon. Link below. https://t.co/6unSE2qHxo

Excited to be part of this excellent volume of the @YaleLJournal, and thanks to everyone who commented on or helped to edit Comstockery.

The Yale Law Journal @YaleLJournal

In their Article, Reva B. Siegel & @maryrziegler offer the first legal history of the Comstock Act from enactment to its post-Dobbs reinvention. They argue that this history uncovers roots of free-speech and sexual- and reproductive-liberties law lost to constitutional memory. https://t.co/CTYyjy2GPn

By some strange coincidence, Reva Siegel and I were together yesterday when Comstockery published. Thanks to everyone at the Yale Law Journal for their help, and for everyone who read and commented on the paper! https://t.co/EpcFlykC6G

Honored to be among the historians writing a first cut on Biden for @princetonucpress (edited by @julianzelizer). @jennyschuessler does a great job of capturing the strange task we face in writing about Biden in what she aptly calls the Age of Trump: https://t.co/k0yYMKkC4t

Happy to announce my latest co-authored piece with @NaomiCahn and Maxine Eichner, For Their Benefit: The Lost History of Parental Consent and Minors' Rights, will be published in the @CalifLRev. We haven't posted on SSRN yet but will soon!

A mother allegedly ordered pills from a NY doctor and then pressured her daughter to take them; the grand jury indicted both the mother and doctor. Can NY refuse to extradite the doctor? I think there is a strong argument. https://t.co/BXHUoeTlkG

The grand jury in Baton Rouge, L.A., indicted her on felony charges--a test test of NY's shield law, which addresses everything from extradition to investigations. Lots of legal questions here, about everything from which state's law applies to the Full Faith and Credit Clause.

Mary Ziegler @maryrziegler

Another major cross-border conflict about abortion on the way: a grand jury in LA just indicted NY doctor Margaret Carpenter for violating state law by mailing pills into the state: https://t.co/Pyc9bJ1YHw