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Casey Mattox is Senior Counsel at the Alliance Defending Freedom. The most basic principles of law become controversial when abortion is at issue. Long before the creation of the Food and Drug Administration, the states exercised the authority to regulate the sale and use of prescription drugs to protect the health and welfare of their citizens.
Jennifer Blasdell, J.D., is the Senior Director for Government Affairs at Physicians for Reproductive Health. Nancy Stanwood, M.D., M.P.H., is the Board Chair, Physicians for Reproductive Health; Chief of Family Planning Section, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Yale School of Medicine.
Louise Melling is the Deputy Legal Director at the ACLU. To date, there has been surprisingly little buzz about the Court’s grant of certiorari in Cline v. Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice. That is likely because it is not a case where the fate of abortion is understood to be on the line.
Helen Alvare is a Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law.
Priscilla (Cilla) Smith is a Senior Fellow at the Information Society Project at the Yale Law School. Prior to joining the ISP, Smith was an attorney with the Center for Reproductive Rights for thirteen years, serving as the U.S. Legal Program Director from 2003-2007, and litigated cases nationwide, including Gonzales v. Carhart.
O. Carter Snead is the William P. and Hazel B. Director, Center for Ethics and Culture and a Professor of Law at University of Notre Dame. In one sense, Cline v. Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice promises to mark a new chapter in the U.S. Supreme Court’s now-forty-year-old project of regulating the practice of abortion in America.
This past June, the Court granted cert. in Cline v. Oklahoma Coalition of Reproductive Justice, in which it will consider the constitutionality of an Oklahoma law which prohibits the off-label use of abortion inducing drugs. (Lyle reported on the case shortly after it was granted.)