Bioethics and the Law

Who has the legal right to challenge decisions by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration? And should the moral umbrage of a group of anti-abortion...

President Joe Biden promised during his State of the Union address on March 7, 2024, that he would make the right to get an abortion a federal law.

“If...

Gradualism should have won out in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, exerting gravitational influence on the majority and dissenters alike. In general...

Hot Flash: How Understanding Menopause Can Improve Life and Law for Everyone dissolves the silence and stigma surrounding menopause. The book frames...

During times of crisis, governments often consider policies that may promote safety, but that would require overstepping constitutionally protected...

This essay explores the regulation of sperm donation from a reproductive justice perspective. It compares formal sperm donation, which involves...

The SEC mandates that public companies assess new information that changes the risks that they face and disclose these if there has been a “material”...

Anti-abortion groups are looking for new ways to wage their battle against abortion rights, eyeing the potential implications of a 150-year-old law...

In the aftermath of Dobbs, as barriers to accessing fertility care increase, one area of growing interest is informal (“DIY”) sperm donation, which...

The U.S. Supreme Court issued an emergency ruling on April 21, 2023, that allows continued access to the abortion pill mifepristone in states where...

Medication abortion now accounts for more than half of all abortions in the United States. Typically, patients take a two different pills: first...

Philosophers have debated whether the advance directives of Alzheimer’s patients should be enforced, even if patients seem content in their demented...

Now that the Supreme Court has revoked the constitutional right to reproductive autonomy, we must reckon with the risks that our surveillance economy...

In their intriguing article “Bioethics and the Moral Authority of Experience,” Nelson and colleagues (2023) provide important insight into an...

In August of 2021, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine published its most recent opinion on the financial compensation of oocyte (egg)...

In this Foreword, I lay out the case for intimate privacy—what it is, why it is in jeopardy, and how we can fight to get it back, if we try...

This Article explores how the rhetoric of parental rights has been deployed to override minors’ access to abortion, gender-affirming care, and...

The Article uncovers the hidden framework for the Supreme Court’s approach to public values, a framework that has shaped – and will continue to shape...