
Publications in Journals,
Law Reviews, and Books
When the Right to Abortion is Banned, Can Pregnant Patients Count on Having Any Rights?, American Journal of Bioethics 24 (2):28-31 (2024).
Beyond Abortion: The Consequences of Overturning Roe, (co-authored with Lisa H. Harris, MD & Mary Faith Marshall PhD) American Journal of Bioethics (June 2, 2022).
How Should We Respond to Pregnancy and Substance Use (with lead author Martin Guggenheim, JD) American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, Special Section: Contested Issues 31 APSAC Advisor 18 (2019).
Roe v. Wade and the New Jane Crow: Reproductive Rights in the Age of Mass Incarceration, 103 American Journal of Public Health 17-21(2013). (Republished September 2022, Vol 112, No. 9 AJPH 113-1317).
Arrests of and Forced Interventions on Pregnant Women in the United States, 1973– 2005: Implications for Women’s Legal Status and Public Health, (with Jeanne Flavin PHD) 38 Journal of Health Policy, Politics, and Law 299 (2013).
Is it Ethical to Suggest That Some Women Need Incentives to Use Contraception or to be Sterilized? 107 Addiction 1047, (2012).
Missed Opportunities in McCorvey v. Hill: The Limits of Pro-Choice Lawyering, 35 New York University Journal of Law and Social Change 194 (2011).
Pregnant Women, Junk Science, & Zealous Defense, (with Kathrine D. Jack JD) The Champion (2010).
Punishing Pregnant Drug-Using Women: Defying Law, Medicine, and Common Sense, (with lead author Jeanne Flavin) 29 Journal of Addictive Diseases 2 (2010) and Chapter in Women, Children, and Addiction, Routledge (2011)
Obstetricians and the Rights of Pregnant Women (with lead author Howard Minkoff, MD) 3 Women’s Health 315 (2007).
The Rights of “Unborn Children” and the Value of Pregnant Women, (with lead author Howard Minkoff, MD) The Hastings Center Report (March-April 2006).
Abortion Issue Divides, Distracts Us from Common Threats and Threads, American Bar Association, Perspectives, 3:13 (Winter 2005).
Governmental Responses to Pregnant Women Who Use Alcohol or Other Drugs, 8 DePaul J. Health Care L. 461 (2005).
Melissa Rowland and the Rights of Pregnant Women, (with lead author Howard Minkoff, MD) 104 Journal of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 1234 (2004).
Why Caring Communities Must Oppose C.R.A.C .K./Project Prevention: How C.R.A.C.K. Promotes Dangerous Propaganda and Undermines the Health and Wellbeing of Children and Families, 5 Wayne State University Law School Journal of Law and Society, 11 (Fall 2003).
Perinatal Substance Abuse and Human Subjects Research: Are Privacy Protections Adequate?, (coauthored with Mary Faith Marshall, and Jerry Menikoff) 9 Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews 54-59 (2003).
The Status of Pregnant Women and Fetuses in US Criminal Law, (with lead author Lisa H. Harris, MD) 289 MS- JAMA 1697 (2003).
The War on Drugs and the War on Abortion: Some Initial thoughts on the Connections, Intersections and the Effects, 28 Southern University Law Review 201 (2001).
Prosecution and Prejudice: Judging Drug Using Pregnant Women, in Mother Troubles, Julia Hanigsberg and Sara Ruddick, eds. (1999).
Punishing Women for Their Behavior During Pregnancy: An Approach That Undermines the Health of Women and Children, in National Institute on Drug Abuse, Drug Addiction Research and the Health of Women, Cora Lee Wetherington and Adele B. Roman, eds. (1998).
Winning Strategies: Defending the Rights of Pregnant Addicts, XVII The Champion (1993).
Perspective of a Reproductive Rights Attorney, Vol. 1 Princeton University, The Future of Children, Drug Exposed Infants 85 (1991).
When Becoming Pregnant is a Crime, IX Criminal Justice Ethics, 1 (Winter/Spring 1990).
Women, Abortion and Civil Disobedience, 13 Nova Law Review. 471 (1989).
NARAL Supreme Court amicus brief in Thornburgh v. ACOG and Diamond v. Charles, 8 Women's Rights Law Reporter, (1986).