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Glenn Cohen
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Will ruling on abortion pill mifepristone access limit FDA’s authority on all drugs?
August 23, 2023
By interfering with the Food and Drug Administration’s authority to regulate an abortion drug, the courts have undermined its authority over all medications, legal and…
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How the court ruling on mifepristone will impact Massachusetts
August 18, 2023
The Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the abortion pill mifepristone should remain legal but with significant limits on patients’ ability to…
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A new lawsuit alleges that Cigna uses artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to inappropriately deny “hundreds or thousands” of claims at a time, bypassing legal requirements…
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Advocates who counsel and aid Idaho teenagers seeking abortion care filed suit Tuesday against Republican Attorney General Raúl Labrador in a bid to overturn the…
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Idaho AG sued over state’s teen abortion travel ban
July 13, 2023
Advocates who counsel and aid Idaho teenagers seeking abortion care filed suit Tuesday against Republican Attorney General Raúl Labrador in a bid to overturn the…
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Inquiring Mind
June 27, 2023
I. Glenn Cohen ’03 has always been fascinated with how things and people work, and with parsing thorny ethical dilemmas. He loves science and the law, and he’s been blending those passions for years as a legal scholar focused on bioethics.
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Susannah Baruch, an expert in health law policy and ethics, joins Petrie-Flom Center as executive director
June 20, 2023
Susannah Baruch has joined the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School as executive director.
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A federal appeals court will hear arguments Wednesday afternoon in a closely watched lawsuit that seeks to pull the abortion pill mifepristone from the U.S.
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Supreme Court blocks enactment of abortion pill restrictions
April 24, 2023
The Supreme Court on Friday maintained access to a drug used to terminate pregnancies, blocking restrictions for now that would have been put in place…
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Scientists are getting closer to the possibility of making a new person from skin or blood cells, without the need for sex. This approach goes…
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As a federal appeals court ruling late Wednesday raised new uncertainties about the availability of medication abortion, state leaders on Thursday emphasized their commitment to…
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Key court ruling does not restrict abortion pill access in 17 states, federal judge says
April 14, 2023
A U.S. district judge in Washington state on Thursday said access to the abortion pill mifepristone is not affected by a federal appeals court ruling…
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As medical and scientific judgment calls go, the decision to approve the abortion drug mifepristone was a relatively straightforward one for the US Food and…
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Texas abortion pill ruling poses threat to other drugs
April 13, 2023
Last Friday, a judge in Texas revoked the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, the first of two drugs used for medication abortions. Legal…
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The Biden administration, seeking to reassure abortion rights activists without provoking the courts, is privately promising an array of liberal groups that it will wage…
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Healey, in bid to ‘ride out’ legal challenge, moves to stockpile 15,000 mifepristone doses in Massachusetts
April 11, 2023
Governor Maura Healey revealed Monday that the state took preemptive steps to bolster its mifepristone stockpile, putting in an order last week for 15,000 doses…
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Access to abortion pill in limbo after competing rulings
April 10, 2023
Access to the most commonly used method of abortion in the U.S. plunged into uncertainty Friday following conflicting court rulings over the legality of the…
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A federal judge’s ruling to revoke the Food and Drug Administration’s longstanding approval of the abortion pill mifepristone poses threats to the U.S. government’s regulatory…