Professor Katherine Kraschel, an expert on the intersection of reproduction, gender, bioethics and health policy, with a particular concentration on fertility care and reproductive technologies, holds an interdisciplinary appointment with the School of Law and Bouvé College of Health Sciences. Professor Kraschel is frequently quoted in national media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME and National Public Radio. She is also chair of the board of Planned Parenthood of Southern New England.
Professor Kraschel’s research has appeared in prominent journals including the Journal of the American Medical Association; Harvard Journal of Law and Gender; American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology; and the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics. She is the author of multiple book chapters on issues related to fertility care and assisted reproduction and is a co-editor (with Glenn Cohen, Abbe Gluck and Carmel Shachar) of COVID-19 and the Law: Disruption, Impact, and Legacy (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
- “Alabama Gov. Defies Anti-Abortion Groups to Sign IVF Bill, But IVF’s Future Remains Murky,” Jezebel (March 7, 2024).
- “Mifepristone Abortion Pills to Be Carried at CVS, Walgreens. Here’s What Could Happen Next,” USA Today (March 6, 2024).
- “Why Hospitals With Legal Abortion May Refuse to Perform Them,” The Washington Post (March 5, 2024).
- “Committee Debates Expansion of Infertility Treatment Coverage,” CT News Junkie (March 5, 2024).
- “The Fight Over I.V.F. is Only Beginning,” The New Yorker (March 2, 2024).
- “Walgreens, CVS to Begin Selling Abortion Pill Mifepristone in Some States,” The Washington Post (March 1, 2024).
- “What Does Alabama's IVF Ruling Mean for Massachusetts?,” GBH News (February 29, 2024).
- “‘I’m Living Proof of Why IVF Is So Necessary.’ Bills Aiming To Protect IVF Treatment Move Forward in Alabama Legislature,” CNN (February 29, 2024).
- “The 19th Explains: Will States Follow Alabama in Ending IVF Access,” The 19th (February 29, 2024).
- “Alabama Supreme Court Ruling on Embryos Creates Possibility of Legislators Limiting Fertility Treatments, Experts Say,” Northeastern Global News (February 22, 2024).
- “Alabama Says Embryos in a Lab Are Children. What Are the Implications?,” The New York Times (February 21, 2024).
- “The Beginning of a Bad TRIP – Alabama’s Embryonic Personhood Decision and Targeted Restrictions on IVF Provision,” Petrie-Flom Bill of Health Blog (February 21, 2024).