#abortion-access

#abortion-access

Ed. Note: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman's How Appealing blog, the Web's first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing. "A Senators-Only Right to Sue in Shutdown Deal; In their legislation reopening the government, senators awarded themselves a legal power to sue the government that should be universal": Anya Bidwell and Patrick Jaicomo have this essay online at The Wall Street Journal. "Judging The Justice System In The Age Of Trump: Nancy Gertner." You can access the new episode of David Lat's "Original Jurisdiction" podcast via this link. "Gorsuch Joins Sotomayor as Supreme Court Children's Author": Justin Wise of Bloomberg Law has this report.

But the hospital started restricting certain birth control options and fertility treatments based on its affiliation with the Catholic church, she said. At the same time, her unit was becoming increasingly short-staffed as other obstetricians left and retired. At one point, Quinn said she was seeing up to 50 patients a day. "That is twice what a normal OB-GYN will see in a day," she said. "I knew I was going to miss something, because there's no way somebody can function at that level."

At the end of August, Texas and Florida's attorneys general asked to join GOP attorneys general from Missouri, Idaho, and Kansas in a yearslong lawsuit targeting mifepristone - breathing new life into the litigation attacking the most widely used method of abortion in the United States.

In California, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a major bill that allows apartment buildings near major transit stops. This has been a major goal of the state's housing reformers. Yet the new law is a complex animal with lots of staggered implementation dates and local flexibility built in. It'll be years before we have a real fix on how well it's working.

Since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, California politicians have attempted to position the state as a haven for people seeking an abortion - especially when, just months later that same year, voters successfully enshrined the right to an abortion in the state constitution. However, recent federal action and the anti-abortion movement's aggressive tactics have made palpable impacts in the state.