Kimberly Mutcherson

Many of us have been talking about the intersection of abortion and assisted reproduction for a couple of decades now, so I was glad to have a chance to talk about the issue on the Critically Speaking podcast!

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This Juneteenth at NJPAC, you can be present for the release and discussion of the New Jersey Reparations Council’s groundbreaking report, For Such a Time as This: The Nowness of Reparations for Black People in New Jersey.
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A West Virginia prosecutor is warning women that a miscarriage could lead to criminal charges | CNN Amid a constantly changing reproductive landscape, one West Virginia prosecutor is warning people who have miscarriages in his state that they could get in trouble with the law.

“It’s always a mistake to invite law enforcement into your reproductive life."

#RutgersLaw Professor @professormutch.bsky.social weighs in on the new warning from a West Virginia prosecutor that women who have miscarriages could get in trouble with the law: www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/h...
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Pro tip: do not call the cops to tell them that you’ve had a miscarriage in a state that bans almost all abortions.

Glad to be quoted here along with greats like @drkbrandi.bsky.social!!

Is Brooklyn in the house?! I hope so. Join James Forman Jr. and me for a conversation about transportation injustice, systemic racism, and how we can move forward to build back better for everyone. June 9th at 6:30 pm - www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cbh...

Opinion | Why Is This Supreme Court Handing Trump More and More Power?

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Over the last four months, the legal world — and the country — has been plunged into chaos, and the Supreme Court bears a heavy dose of responsibility,” writes Kate Shaw in a guest essay.

Unfortunately, it’s not clear that they will not be held responsible.

Wish I could tell you who is going to end up footing that bill. Right now, it seems to be on the family.

Opinion | A Brain-Dead Woman Is Being Kept on Machines to Gestate a Fetus. It Was Inevitable.

My guest essay for @nytimes.com about Adriana Smith. This situation is a tragedy from top to bottom, and there is so much complexity that can't be teased out in so few words. May she and the family left behind find peace soon.

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Social Movements and the Law by Lolita Inniss, Bridget Crawford - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

And rounding out the collection:

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The Politics of Perverts Reveals the underexplored politics and activism of non-traditional sexual minoritiesOver the past four decades, there has been significant research focused o...

The awards for the book with most provocative title of the panel goes to . . .

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Inclusive Socratic Teaching by Jamie Abrams - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

And another one. . .
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Picture Bride, War Bride Examines the role marriage played in the lives of Japanese women during periods of racial exclusion in the United StatesIn 1908 the United States and Japan a...

Just met Professor Sonia Gomez today, but I'm excited to read her award winning book, Picture Bride, War Bride!

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All good!!

So I think that you and I are basically saying the same thing in terms of the awfulness of qualified immunity but it’s worth describing the phenomenon accurately.

There’s a ton that can and should be done to keep qualified immunity from protecting awful governmental actors and some of that work happens in courtrooms because of lawsuits.

Not defending qualified immunity to be clear! But to say that it’s illegal to sue government actors like ICE agents, cops, judges, child welfare workers etc. is misleading. If qualified immunity applies, you won’t win a lawsuit, but its applicability gets decided because you sue!

Stillbirth and the Law by Jill Lens - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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On today’s agenda at LSA: New Books in The Field, featuring great books by @dsc250.bsky.social, @jillwieberlens.bsky.social, and @jrabrams.bsky.social among others. I’ll link to some of them below!

Qualified immunity doesn’t mean that you can’t sue but it makes it very, very hard, but not impossible, to win.

You were such an amazing part of the discussion. I’m so grateful for you, the work that you do, and your ability to speak in a way that resonates deeply!

Thank you so much for sharing your brilliance with us!!!

Who knows what’s happening behind the scenes, but it would be difficult for the AG to walk this back now having made such a public statement. And from media reports it seems like keeping her in this state of limbo until August is what the family now wants so that really ties the hospital’s hands.

Totally! I’ve found university lawyers to be super risk averse so a lawyer for a hospital system attached to a university might be even more risk averse. Doesn’t help to be in a conservative state. And these lawyers are put into untenable positions by shitty abortion laws that should not exist.

And even if she had a living will that stated that she did not want to be maintained by artificial means if brain dead (and I’ve seen no mention of a living will in press coverage) GA law, like law in most states, would invalidate that living will for a pregnant person.

Unless something changes, her mother appears to be onboard with keeping her on life support until August (!) hoping for a c-section birth. All of this is just awful.

This interpretation of the law should’ve been clear from the start. Oh to have been a fly on the wall on during the conversations between the hospital folks alone and then between the hospital folks and the family! Sounds like multiple things may have gone awry here.