Mary Ziegler

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

Cool to retweeted by @Martina--thanks for following what is happening in this critically important area.

Martina Navratilova @Martina

Yikes…it just keeps getting worse

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

Curious about the next chapter of struggle over abortion or even IVF? Print galleys are coming soon for my new book Personhood, which is out in April and available for preorder. Let me know if you'd like a copy for review! https://t.co/eLGnlGcdM5 https://t.co/khgR0sBRuA

Fascinating--and still hard to know what Trump will do. Would this kind of investigation be slow-walking--essentially to get abortion opponents off his back--or the prelude to an argument that telehealth mifepristone is unsafe, or that mifepristone should be off the market?

The Recount @therecount

RFK Jr. says he would direct the NIH and FDA to review the safety of mifepristone, a drug that's been used during medical abortions for decades: "Trump has made it clear to me that...he is not taking a position yet on mifepristone...[but] he wants me to look at safety issues." https://t.co/50JR7CgJsU

There will be major pressure on the Trump Administration to make Comstock an abortion ban--and rebrand it a "national abortion trafficking law." Trump has shown signs of catering to movement demands so far. Now, we'll see how far he goes...

Julianne McShane @JulianneMcShane

NEW: 30 major anti-abortion leaders on Wednesday wrote to the DOJ formally asking them to enforce the Comstock Act banning the mailing of abortion pills This appears to be the first step towards a threat legal scholars have been warning about https://t.co/OSi8C7HCAt