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Kamala Harris (Photo by NOAH BERGER/AFP/Getty Images)
[This] engagement is a continuation of the Vice President’s work convening a broad coalition to protect the health, safety, and wellbeing of women.
— a White House official, commenting on Vice President Kamala Harris’s meeting today with law professors specializing in constitutional law, privacy, and technology from New York University, Harvard, and Michigan University to discuss the legal implications involved should Roe v. Wade be overturned by the Supreme Court, including in areas such as privacy, contraception, and in vitro fertilization. A leaked draft of the opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, written by Justice Samuel Alito, indicated that the high court would be setting nearly 50 years of precedent aside to turn back the clock on the right to abortion in the U.S.
Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.
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