September 3, 2021
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How Roe v. Wade Stopped Being the Law of the Land in Texas

     

The knell of clocks striking midnight in Texas on Wednesday marked a grave turn in the fight for (and preservation of) women's rights and access to healthcare in the state and the country.

This week, the Supreme Court of the United States chose not to rule on an emergency application of the courts which was brought before them in an effort to challenge the Texas legislation (known dryly as Senate Bill 8 or SB 8) banning abortion at 6 weeks, effectively permitting the law to go into effect on Wednesday. What this legislation, which would ban approximately 85% of abortions in the state, means for the future of abortion and Roe v. Wade in the US is still unclear, but it has been a huge cause for concern among women's rights and health advocacy groups across the nation.

Senior Associate Alex Berke's latest piece for the Daily Beast teases out some of the implications and details of this Texas law and how it doesn't bode well for abortion rights in the future. You can find the article here, and read an excerpt below:

"By empowering any American to file a lawsuit against abortion clinics, as well as the individuals—including receptionists and volunteers—who work in them or supposedly aid and abet them, SB 8 creates unsustainable legal and financial risk for abortion clinics to continue functioning in Texas.”

The Berke-Weiss Law Weekly Round Up

June 5, 2020
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This week we’re looking at the opportunity coronavirus has provided to rethink care structures in the US, the disproportionate impact lockdowns have had on black communities, and ballooning unemployment numbers for women over 55.

Center for American Progress Report Warns Childcare Crisis Will Have Strong Negative Effects on American Women’s Workforce Participation

June 4, 2020
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This week, the Center for American Progress released a new report titled “Valuing Women’s Caregiving During and After the Coronavirus Crisis” which highlights the need to support caregivers during the crisis, but also to think about medium- and long-term strategies to ensure that this does not result in a long-term crisis within childcare.

A Generation of Working Mothers Face Employment Disparities

June 4, 2020
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This week, the New York Times reports that the temporary setbacks to gender parity in the workplace are in danger of being close to permanent, leaving a whole generation of women behind their male cohort in the workplace. There has been a decade of fragile progress since the Great Recession, and in February, women represented a majority of civilian, non-farm workers employed in the country.
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