So excited for this panel today! It will also be live on zoom. Details below!

Looking forward to Thursday’s HLPP event on preventing stillbirth—bringing together law, policy, and public health perspectives. Join us in person or online! Thursday November 13th 12-1:30pm ET #ASLME #AHLA @auwcl.bsky.social

One of my flights cancelled Wednesday. Wait time to talk to someone at United is over an hour. #funafternoon

Okay, a thread. (thanks to @mjsdc.bsky.social for posting on this case). The Court is lying through its teeth (precedent) - subtly changing its quote extractions to rewrite animus law and produce essential a new pro-animus "equal protection" doctrine. Here's how...1/

Super excited to fly next week!

Feels like a good time to hype up @jillwieberlens.bsky.social’s book, Stillbirth and the Law (along with her other phenomenal scholarship on stillbirth)

CALLOUT: I'm working on a piece about pregnant people or those with newborns/infants who rely on SNAP/WIC, and I'd like to add personal stories to it. If you or someone you know is experiencing this right now or has relied on this program in the past with children, can you send me a DM? Thanks!

Gift link: New study using data between 2016 and 2022 shows stillbirth occurs 1 in every 147 births, a higher rate than the roughly one in every 175 births reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. wapo.st/3WlRKx3 #stillbirth

Last flu season, only 38% of pregnant women received the flu vaccine. Share with your patients that ACOG recommends that people who are pregnant or planning a pregnancy get their flu shot to protect themself and their newborn. Learn more: https://bit.ly/47bJh4s #FluFactFriday #VaccinesWork

Join AUWCL’s Health Law & Policy Program for Preventing Stillbirth: Legal, Policy, and Public Health Perspectives on Thurs, Nov 13 from 12–1:30 PM ET (Hybrid). Experts explore stillbirth prevention, legal frameworks, and reproductive justice. Register (Free): tinyurl.com/4xvm6s6b

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

Excited to share my latest, an article I've had in my head for years, Fetal Life Hypocrisies. A brief thread -- papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Excited to share my latest, an article I've had in my head for years, Fetal Life Hypocrisies. A brief thread -- papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

We invented graduated drivers licenses for teens. They worked. But we leave 80-year-olds to “see how it goes.” Every family suffers on their own. But this is a shared social problem, not a personal one. We need conditional licenses for older drivers. Daylight. Local. Annual medical check-ins.

It’s hot but still a beautiful day for homecoming (and my 20 year law school reunion, whew).

This is EXTRAORDINARY impact, driven by the Pulitzer Prize-finalist journalism of @deldeib.bsky.social. At a time when so much is being dismantled, it is incredible to see something like this launching to improve health outcomes for moms and babies: www.propublica.org/article/nih-...

The focus on "naturalness" of pregnancy and motherhood also only fortifies the failure women feel when they can't get pregnant or don't produce a living baby.

So…Aaron Glenn’s sideline celebration is 🔥🔥🔥 with Earth, Wind & Fire attached to it.

But this also assumes access to the vaccines. It’s incredibly difficult to find a pharmacy or a pediatrician office that stocks pediatric Covid doses for kids 5-11 (and I assume even worse for 6 months-4) outside of major cities. Willing pediatricians alone can’t solve this.

I hope Illinois knows how much I appreciate it. (From someone living in an adjacent state.)

Anyone out there know of what Illinois pharmacies are doing with kiddo (5-11) covid vaccines? Requiring Dr prescriptions?

Yet we're not gathering any data on covid infections and stillbirths.

@jillwieberlens.bsky.social and I wrote a much longer piece that gets into the nuts and bolts of this nonsense. The admin hasn't shown much interest in assigning constitutional rights to embryos/fetuses, but that could change tomorrow. Therefore this essay. repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol122/i...

BREAKING: The Texas Legislature just officially passed HB7, the new “bounty hunter” ban on abortion medication. #txlege State Sen. Molly Cook said, “It is my honor to fight for the rest of my life to repeal these bills.” thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/01/t...

When we pretend that stillbirth (and pregnancy loss) is nonexistent, the natural urge after is to blame. This is a very sad story of an intended parent blaming the surrogate -- even though IVF doubles if not triples the risk of stillbirth.

Tonight, the Texas Senate is debating the latest version of the bill meant to ban mailing abortion pills into Texas. If the Senate OKs the bill, it heads to Abbott’s desk. Some abortion opponents call it a model to stop telehealth abortions, which have helped thousands get around state bans.

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...

This is so sad.

If the fetus is not a person under the constitution, what else might it be? I attempt to answer that question in my newest article, "A Non-Personhood Theory of Fetus," which is now forthcoming in Boston College Law Review. It's by far the hardest thing I've ever written. Hope to get it online soon!

A short piece from me about baby bonuses and child tax credits -- and what they mean for stillbirth parents like me.

A short piece from me about baby bonuses and child tax credits -- and what they mean for stillbirth parents like me.

Don’t know when I got old enough that, instead of weddings as the reason to see old friends, it’s funerals.

I wrote a little piece about our (maddening) lack of routine autopsies to actually figure out what causes stillbirth, but our routinization of those autopsies when the goal is to arrest a (marginalized) woman.

Lake Michigan is my happy place.

I wrote a little piece about our (maddening) lack of routine autopsies to actually figure out what causes stillbirth, but our routinization of those autopsies when the goal is to arrest a (marginalized) woman.

Autopsies are rare when the goal is general medical insight about the causes of stillbirth and pregnancy loss more generally, but they are seemingly routine when criminal consequences are possible, according to legal scholar. buff.ly/qw83y3E @jillwieberlens.bsky.social, University of Iowa

Perhaps there is something special about Iowa soil. #somuchpesto

This is an absolutely beautiful essay by Poppy Noor. So much of it resonates with too many of us. Thank you to @theguardian.com for running it.

NEW TODAY: Ken Paxton has filed a writ of mandamus in NY state court seeking to enforce the Texas court order against NY's abortion shield doctor.

My night’s bounty.

Anyone have a copy of the lawsuit? www.courthousenews.com/texas-man-su...

Yes, let's be clear that there's no rational universe in which the 14th Amendment bans abortion from fertilization. 19th-century abortion bans were only applicable after quickening. Alito got Dobbs totally wrong newrepublic.com/article/1896... see @evanbernick.bsky.social @jillwieberlens.bsky.social

In a new Milbank blog post, @lclindquist.bsky.social of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University discusses the impact of the loss of Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) data for participating states, localities, and territories.

i follow and am developing relationships with a lot of pregnancy loss/miscarriage orgs and there is something to be said about how every time there’s a criminalization case against a person who has had a miscarriage, there is almost always radio silence from these orgs

Dobbs-driven expansion of perinatal palliative care: a scoping review of the evidence and its limits @awilpers.bsky.social, Kathie Kobler, Robyn Schafer, Melissa Wilpers, Molly Zeme, Janene Batten, Lucinda Canty, Scott Lorch academic.oup.com/healthaffair...

Big news this morning - following my amendment and years of campaigning from orgs and individuals, the government has confirmed that miscarriage bereavement leave will be in the Employment Rights Bill.

Finished reading 'Stillbirth & the Law' by @jillwieberlens.bsky.social today 💜🐢 A must-read for health professionals, policymakers, researchers, coroners, advocates +... across many areas/disciplines #Pathology #Coroners #Legislation #PregnancyLoss #Abortion #ReproductiveJustice #StillBirthJustice

Hey abortion friends, consider submitting a proposal for my edited collection 'Abortion Within and Beyond Medico-Legal Frameworks' 👇 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/... #repro #abortion

Great piece! I wrote here about how a crucially important part of combatting criminalization is rewriting the dominant cultural scripts surrounding pregnancy loss (i.e. the assumed rarity, the expected grief and sadness) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....