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2018 Trends in Reproductive Rights Law
Produced on March 08, 2018
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Course Description
In 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down two Texas statutes that restricted access to abortion, articulating a robust, evidence-based legal standard that courts are obliged to apply to such laws moving forward. Since then, courts have nearly unanimously struck down restrictions on abortion access similar to the unconstitutional Texas laws, in addition to newer types of medically unjustified restrictions. Aside from developments in the courts on these cases in 2018, state legislatures will consider hundreds of pieces of legislation that will affect access to reproductive health services across the country. Lawmakers are expected to introduce not only restrictions on access to abortion, but legislation that will improve access to affordable birth control and abortion care in 2018.
Laws restricting access to reproductive health services are often challenged in state and federal courts using a variety of legal claims, and 2018 will see litigation developments on a variety of issues related to reproductive health in a number of forums, including at the appellate level in the federal courts. There will also be developments in a number of challenges to the Trump administration's rollback of the Affordable Care Act's birth control benefit that gave access to copay-free contraception to hundreds of thousands of women.
This course, presented by Amanda Allen of the Lawyering Project, will review the legislative activity from the year thus far, as well as major litigation developments regarding access to reproductive health services and an overview of what to expect for the remainder of 2018.
Learning Objectives:
- Review major trends and themes in legislation affecting reproductive health and rights
- Identify common legal claims made in challenging reproductive health restrictions and recent jurisprudential trends, particularly the application of Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt to statutes restricting abortion access
- Discuss next steps for major court cases, particularly at the appellate level and around the birth control benefit, and looking ahead to the rest of 2018
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Faculty
Amanda Allen
The Lawyering Project
Amanda Allen has spent her legal career advocating for meaningful access to reproductive health services. She is currently Senior Counsel & Managing Director at the Lawyering Project, a new initiative that aims to eliminate laws that undermine access to reproductive health services. At the Lawyering Project, Amanda cultivates and manages the organization's relationships with partners and allies, directs the organization's technical assistance portfolio, and oversees the organization's management and operations. Before joining the Lawyering Project, she held several positions at the Center for Reproductive Rights, including most recently Senior State Policy and Advocacy Counsel, where she oversaw the Center's state and local policy and advocacy initiatives in the United States. Amanda has also served as Policy Counsel at the National Institute for Reproductive Health and held post-graduate fellowships at the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum as a Georgetown Women's Law and Public Policy Fellow and If/When/How (formerly Law Students for Reproductive Justice). Amanda has appeared on MSNBC's The Melissa Harris-Perry show and Huffington Post Live, and in outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Nation, and The Guardian.
Amanda is a 2008 graduate of CUNY School of Law and holds a B.A. from the University of Minnesota.
Reviews
I really appreciated how the presenter went through the materials calmly and point by point. The materials presented were clear without having to continuously check the slides.
Interesting program!! I learned a lot!
I am nearing retirement and have been selecting courses outside of my practice area. I would rate this course and instructor as outstanding.
Good Lecture!
great presentation
Excellent overview! Very informative and well presented!
Very clearly presented.
Excellent content and materials.
Great
EXTREMELY INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE.
One of the best.
Really engaging and informative!
Thx!!
good topic
Well done.
Great program. Super clear and informative.
Excellent. More like this. Speaker was very informed clear and engaging.
The program was very good because it was chronological and it taught me from Roe v. Wade theough the Pennsylvania case and to the more modern Texas case. So, thank you!
thank you for offering this course!
Thank you for the work you do.
Very clear and fluent speaker.
One of the best lectures I have heard
One of the best CLE's available for an update on the jurisprudence of women's reproductive rights.
great program. good luck with your new org.
This program was excellent!!!
Nice presentation!!
Splendid
Lots of great information, I don’t practice in this area but l learned a lot.
Fantastic
Very informative and upbeat presentation.
good program helpful to my practice
Eyeopening...
Outsranding overview; keep it coming
Excellent presentation. -- well-organized, well-delivered. Remarkably, in a talk on a controversial subject by a presenter who is a proponent of one view, the presentation stuck to the law as it is and not as to the law as the speaker would like it to be. As a result, this is a presentation that would be equally well-worth listening to by pro-life and pro-choice partisans.
Excellent Presenter and Presentation!
Such a great course! Lawline - please offer more courses like this!
Really very well done. Thank you.
excellent Discussion
Good course
Lots of interesting and helpful information in a short amount of time.
Very good and thorough program.
Great! Informative class!
The speaker was most knowledgable about the field of women's reproductive rights in the land.
Loved this one, so informative. This knowledge is going to be useful as more threats arise to our reproductive Rights. Thank you for offering this.
The presentation was professional and very well done. The current law and pending legal developments were clearly and completely summarized.
Excellent Speaker!
Well versed speaker
very up-to-date and current
An outstanding recap. Highly recommend this.
The lecturer was very capable and nonemotional about very controversial subject
Excellent--hard to believe the presenter covered so much ground in an hour!
Excellent presentation, which showed how states use multiple tactics ofther than health concerns to limit or impede abortions.
Excellent program
She was great. She was articulate, well-paced, interesting and chock full of data.
Excellent presentation, one of the best I have heard.
Excellent presentation
Very interesting program.
good program
The instructor was excellent and she organized the material in a clear and practical way.
terrific
Good speaker.
I am very satisfied.
Presentation provided a good introduction on reproctive law topic and current trends. Enjoyed lecturer
wonderful use of case law
I loved how she gave an overview of the constitutional law and then went into recent legislative trends. Awesome!
Good overview of respective field, especially future trends.
Excellent.
Good content. I now feel as though I have a comprehensive understanding of the constitutional challenges facing reproductive rights.
Excellent overview of the area.
Very interesting and informative.
excellent presenter
The presenter was engaging and managed to fit in a large amount of information within the hour, all boiled down and presented in a manner that any attorney, whatever their specialty, could understand. Thank you!
Presenter provided a wonderful overview of a critical area of law. Highly recommend!
Easy to follow and understand presenter.
Interesting
Thank You!
This was my first program with Lawline and I am very impressed!
VERY important topic and very sobering updates. We must remain vigilant. Excellent presentation.
This was an interesting overview of an area of law that is not familiar to me.
Thank you.
organized and excellent presenter
Very good summary of laws affecting women's reproductive rights
Very comprehensive lecture regarding reproductive rights.
Highly Recommended if you are looking for an overview of current state of law especially if the last case you studied was Casey
Great speaker!!
This is a crucial topic in today's political climate and recent SCOTUS changes.. I hope you do a yearly update.
Excellent speaker. She was articulate and interesting
very important program
Learned a great deal from this presenter. Excellent job.
Good course.
Good review
I think the speaker was excellent. She managed to be dispassionate about this important and, to some, controversial issue.
Terrific course, very well presented.
Very interesting
Great program. Very informative.
This was an excellent CLE! Thank you for doing this important work!
Interesting
very clear discussion.
Exceptionally important topic. Thank you for including it.
Thank you
Excellent presentation!
Excellent.
Thank you!
Very comprehensive overview. Thanks.
very knowledgeable
Thank you.
I thought the presenter did an excellent job!
Thanks
It is good to see increased state efforts to protect the rights of the unborn.
Awesome and clear presentation of the issues and trends. Thank you for this. we need more of this.
Thank you.
Excellent
Informative and succinct
very good overview of history and current state of law
Solid overview of a large topic. I felt the instructor presented the material in an unbiased manner, which I appreciate!
Excellent presentation!
Extremely excellent course. Would highly recommend this.
I have enjoyed all the Lawline classes I have taken so far, but this is definitely one of the beset! Very good speaker and very well organized presentation.
Presenter did a good job presenting the topic.
I do prefer panels or group discussions to this kind of talking head webinar, but the speaker here is well-informed and well-spoken, so I recommend this webinar!
timely and thorough - well done .