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Little Sisters Of The Poor V. Pennsylvania: The Not So Little Effect Of Interfering With The Aca's Contraceptive Mandate, Sabrina Rubis
Little Sisters Of The Poor V. Pennsylvania: The Not So Little Effect Of Interfering With The Aca's Contraceptive Mandate, Sabrina Rubis
Women, Leadership & Equality
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Mandatory Ultrasound Statutes And The First Amendment, Shifting The Constitutional Perspective, Cheri D. Smith
Mandatory Ultrasound Statutes And The First Amendment, Shifting The Constitutional Perspective, Cheri D. Smith
Women, Leadership & Equality
The jurisprudence of abortion law is replete with instances in which the concerns of the woman seeking the procedure have taken a back seat. The newest battleground in abortion regulation involves mandatory ultrasound statutes touted as informed consent regulations. The analysis of courts confronting these statutes has turned on whether the mandatory disclosures violate the physician’s First Amendment right to be free from compelled speech. The particular breed of statute at issue in this paper requires a physician not only to perform an ultrasound, but also to make the images visible to the woman, to make audible the heartbeat, and …