Chapter 6.B.3: Abortion

For more on the state of the law post-Dobbs see Mary Ziegler, Personhood: The New War over Reproduction in America (2025); Reva B. Siegal & Mary Ziegler, Comstockery: How Government Censorship Gave Birth to the Law of Sexual and Reproductive Freedom, And May Yet Threaten It, 134 Yale Law Journal 1068 (2025); David S. Cohen, Greer Donley, Rachel Rebouché, Abortion Pills, 76 Stan. L. Rev. 317 (2024) ; Rebecca S. Feinberg, Michael S. Sinha, I. Glenn Cohen, The Alabama Embryo Decision-The Politics and Reality of Recognizing "Extrauterine Children," 331 JAMA 1083 (2024). 

For more on the ethics of using genetic testing to select embryos for implantation, see Susannah Baruch et al., Genetic Testing of Embryos: Practices and Perspectives of U.S. IVF Clinics, 89 Fertility & Sterility 1053 (2008); John F. Muller, Disability, Ambivalence, and the Law, 37 Am. J. L. & Med. 469 (2011); Erik Parens & Adrienne Asch, the Disability Rights Critique of Prenatal Genetic Testing, 29 Hastings Center Rep. 40 (Sept.–Oct. 1999) (special supp.); Stanford Symposium on Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis, 85 Fertility & Sterility 1631-1660 (2006); Greer Conley et al., Prenatal Whole Genome Sequencing: Just Because We Can, Should We?, 42(4) Hastings Center Rep. 28 (July–Aug. 2012); Owen D. Jones, Reproductive Autonomy and Evolutionary Biology: A Regulatory Framework for Trait-Selection Technologies, 19 Am. J. L. & Med. 187 (1993); Maxwell J. Mehlman, The Law of Above Averages: Leveling the New Genetic Enhancement Playing Field, 85 Iowa L. Rev. 517 (2000); John A. Robertson, Genetic Selection of Offspring Characteristics, 76 B. U. L. Rev. 421 (1996).