If/When/How Executive Director Jill E. Adams, J.D., in her former capacity as Executive Director, Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice, Berkeley Law — along with other leading constitutional law scholars — coauthored this brief in Mabel Wadsworth v. Hamilton arguing that the Maine Supreme Court should not rely on wrongly decided Harris v. McRae to uphold a ban on public funding for abortion care in the state.
Amicus Brief
Amicus Brief: Mabel Wadsworth v. Hamilton
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In Ms. magazine on the 2015 anniversary of Roe v. Wade, If/When/How Executive Director Jill E. Adams and co-author Jessica Arons revisit the perhaps lesser known Harris v. McRae, the 1980 Supreme Court case that upheld the Hyde Amendment, which outlaws federal funding for abortion care for those enrolled in Medicaid... Read more
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In the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, Jill E. Adams, J.D., and Melissa Mikesell, J.D., examine the ways in which the State coerces or impedes the reproductive freedom of those experiencing poverty and review relevant caselaw on the intersection of economic and reproductive justice and rights, with an eye toward improving the legal and economic circumstances of pregnant people... Read more
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