A Legal History of Abortion in the US, Before and After Roe v. Wade
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined GBH’s Morning Edition to take a closer look at the history of Roe v. Wade and abortion law.
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined GBH’s Morning Edition to take a closer look at the history of Roe v. Wade and abortion law.
“Massachusetts already has one of the most highly utilized involuntary commitment systems in the entire country,” Professor Leo Beletsky tells WBUR. “Thousands of people are involuntarily committed every year and those people by and large are worse off when they come out than when they went in.”
“If there is no legalized way of abortion in these cases, many women are going to face very significant health problems and be desperate,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells The Washington Post. “And doctors are going to be put in untenable and unethical situations.”
Professor Daniel Medwed tells The New York Times that the introduction of more conservative crime control elements could result in renewed pressure on prosecutors to win convictions and “that’s all the more reason for there to be greater transparency and greater accountability.” Medwed is one of a group of six law professors who have tried to strengthen the disciplinary process for prosecuting attorneys by making complaints public.
“This decision ties the CDC’s hands at a time when we still do not know what the next few months will bring in terms of the pandemic and new strains,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells The Financial Times. “It is really important the administration pushes back.”
“I really believe that clemency is so important and plays such an important role in our system,” says Mia Teitelbaum ’15, a partner at Shapiro and Teitelbaum and attorney for Ramadan Shabaz, who is petitioning the Parole Board to reduce his charge from first-degree murder to second-degree murder.
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined GBH's Morning Edition earlier this week to discuss a peculiar property dispute nd the legal issues at stake.
Betty Francisco ’98, Mass. AG. Maura Healey ’98 and U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins ’97 have been named to Boston Magazine's 2022 Most Influential People in Boston list.
"Drug-induced homicide cases are counterproductive to Good Samaritan laws, which protect people who seek medical assistance during an overdose," Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Northeastern Law's Health in Justice Action Lab, tells VICE.